Xavier,

Interesting little critter, and I like the finish.

Bravo!

Pete

in Michigan

Looks great, I have 2 of these sitting on a shelf ready to be put together.

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Nice weathering on the critter, and I like your grill screen job! Are you going with the link & pin or Kadee couplers?

Here is a kit bash with engine added if you are interested; http://home.comcast.net/~brokenbusha...ilhustler.html

Thanks for your kind comments.

So, I think to keep link & pin.

Interesting kitbash in your link, Louis.

Xavier

The painting process is a little slow , but more or less as follows .....

All layers applied with airbrush.


- Clean the surface to be painted .

- Priming all model. Vallejo Primer light grey

- A layer of white -

- 2 layers of metallic color - Vallejo Oily Steel 70.865

- A layer of brown - Vallejo Chocolat Brown FS 30099

- 2 layers of metallic color - Vallejo Oily Steel 70.865

let dry completely between coats.

- With a brush dipped in water, apply a few drops in those parts who would like stripped

- On the water droplets put some grains of salt. Let the salt dry.

- 2 layers of white color - Vallejo Premium Acrylic Polyurethane color 62.001

With a brush, remove all the salt from the model, and so, we can see how has been the color contrast. White whith steel blurs.

With a very soft sandpaper, over 300, refine all the model.

Apply more pressure to the areas that we want to see the live metal.

We will see that the transition zones between white and steel, a brown color appears as a shadow, the effect is correct.

Then we can apply some gray and black glaze alternately.


I think that's all.

I hope you find it useful


Xavier