crazyrichard

thnx guys and richard , yes i still need to make light fixtures , still thinking about the style and .. sometimes i need to waight and all of the sudden i see a part in the partbox or get an idea but they need to be made yes ! and mark , thnx !! actually at this point the weathering .. had become so easy for me .. i keep saying it painters tubes with oilpaint has been the find of 2013 for me .. that stuff is just awsome ... take the rack .. i wanted it to be yellow like the sign and also so i would have a new color incorporated .. so i painted it matt yellow with some enamel paint and a handbrush ...made the tyre on top matt black with enamel paint .. then it looks nice but for me very toy like ... so i just took a tube with dark brown oil paint and drybrushed it .. some cue tips to spread it and get the effect ... and done instant effect ... the rust at this point is also easy .. i just paint it matt with enamel paint kind of a certain brown tone and sprinkle some rust pigment powder on it ... of to get a different effect i use rust color oil paints ... byt in the end mark its just going for it .. i ounce tried to look up some weathering techniques / how to's .. to be hounest thats not for me .. i just try stuff out and see where it takes me .. btw one thing is cool i always try to mimick shade , like everything in real life has got shade when there is depth in a object .. in moddeling i try to mimmick that and enhance it by getting darker colors along raised lines and going lighter towards the open and flat surfaces .. if you look at my garage door above , the flat surface is actually plastic and on top real hardwood .. if you look close you see inside along the wood on the flat surface its darker on the sides then in the middle , this also creates a kind of dirtyer look ...thats just brown oil paint .. that same brown oil paint also makes eveything kind of look the same (wood and plastic) ... in the case of those double doors i just painted it with oil paints and rubbed of again leaving more dark paint in the cracks and along the raised earea's i tried that because i have been a virtual designer for years and had to quit that hobby for modelbuilding .. on a virtual rendering you also use highlights and shading to make stuff look more 3 dimensional .. so when i started weathering and dio's i wondered if that would work .. and it does .. like on my garage i actually put a lot of blak around objects .. you wont notice it right away but its there and i still try out new stuff and learn a lot .. on this dio i also found a few new tricks that i wish i did in te garage thnx again love your work also , always so detailed and clean !! ...

thats something else , looks great !

oooh whow

epic !!!

whow that came out awsome , what i really like it still looks serious .. like most santa themed cars look cheesy , fun but cheesy .. yours looks serious

now thats just mindblowing how real does it get ..lol now there are a few awsome pics in this thread ! but this one .. just whooooo0w

always checking your stuff out

great progress !! are you going to flatten the rear so you only have 2 doors at the front , or keep 4 doors ??

nice .. i ordered this kit last year .. after 2 weeks i emailed the store to find out they where out of stock ..i went for a nother kit because it would take so long to arrive so cool to see what the kit realy looks like looking good , did you build the trailer already ???

thats awsome , those wire wheels fit so nice ... !!! love the colors

made the logos , same as on the big sign , took 4 nice tyres , best quality on scale those soft rubber ones , awsome detailed thread and side ....

first drybrush with oilpaint , now i need to messure the space for logos and make some logos for the rack

a very rought start of a tyre rack / display .. used old sprue and some styrene plate .. kept it a bit rough .... the (half) tyre is from a opel blits kit 1/24 .. painted the rack a base yellow and the tyre matt black , later i will ad dunlop logos just like on the big pole and add a wash (mild) to bring it to life .. i just made a fantasy shape / rack .. a bit bulky but i wanted something to tie in with the bog pole .. like they would have that certain style of advertisement displays and signs ... (made up by me lol) also adds color in the dio .. the tyres are just for a idea .. i will put in some tyres that are more time period correct

ooh yes .. so nice .. just stunning !!

whell thats the best solution yes haha nice .. btw can you loosly moch up the body / chassis with the axle on the table , then put a wheel standing at the place it will sit on the front axle and take a pic from the side ?? curious on the wheelbase and looks

thnx arno and yes they do , when the sun shines it really pops on pictures , sadly its pretty grey outside and cool just lket me know

on the base of the pig pole i made some grass like it grew over the base plate , also added some grass over the edge of the lantern post .. i also want to do more gras along the sides of the wreck took some pics in the garden , colors pop more ... i see the pole is sideways lol i need to straighten it

cool !!!

yes i know , also when you do it for real you can make a nicer round shape in the cabine .. you can even add a round styrene edge on the sawed out earea and make it look like it was always so btw i updated the post with a nother cool option ^^

you could shorten them but this is the other option i mentioned yesterday , made a quick photoshop for you > or ... place the axle more towards the front ... usually that also looks really cool axle further forward >

nice !!!!

looking great !

whow awsome painting !!!

well decided after the last post to sit down and finish the chain gave the chain and poles a brown layer and sprinkeled the chain with some pigment powder , some mild drybrushing on the no parking sign , for me this really made such a difference and it ties in so nice i think with outdoors / daylight pics it will come acroos better on pictures that corner .. hmm finished then decided to shorten the pole of the tyre sign , i just got the idea it was to tall and i was right after shortning it just was so much more balanced with the rest

haha thnx , well credits for the mailbox go to dinky a fellow dutch builder (also a member here on the forum) , the chain was just one of those spontanious idea's btw the chain and poles are not done they need a wash