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RSO Radschlepper Ost - Having a Break


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31 minutes ago, Bomber_County said:

Priceless, probably not acceptable for public show or competition......:lol:

No problem here, I live on my tiny island and show my kits only to a very broad minded flock, namely YOU :D. No shows, no competitions except competing with myself sometimes. If a kit is finished I loose interest in them and many of them are given away.
BTW: In Germany showing that guy wouldn't have been a problem I guess.

Cheers Rob

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Oh boy, my eyes are hurting :icon_eek: and I feel satisfied to have done the step of figure painting for my dio. Not everything went great, but in the end the guys will be good enough.

Everything started out badly when I airbrushed the black base tone for the uniforms. Scale 75 Colour and Mr. Leveling Thinner lead to an enhanced cleaning process of the airbrush underlined by heavy swearing. Until now only one of my acrylics worked with that stuff and I'm about to bin the thinner.

I used mainly Colours of the Scale 75 range which are not easy to handle, because they disintegrate a lot in the bottle and it is almost impossible to shake them alive, even with ball bearings in. On the other hand they dry fast and dead flat and are great for any kind of fabric or texture, leather and wood. Problems though occurred with layering techniques in the face, where the chalky appearance of the Colours hinder smooth blending. It's not the first time I notice and therefore I will shop for another skin tone set to hopefully improve my mediocre face painting skills. 
For boots and belts I used flat base Colour and enhanced the worn leather effect with Scale 75 'Inktensity' tones of different browns. These are a little shiny and translucent and give depth.

Next winter I promised myself to do a lot of exercising in figure and face painting in different scales. I like adding figures, because it adds some live to the kit, but are always afraid of the painting stage.

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Thanks Phil, never too late to add a commandant to your Tiger and if you put him in the cupola you only have to paint the half.
Honestly, figures add to a build and give some live. On the other hand figure painting is daunting and I feel I mastered the second level of umpteen :D.

Cheers Rob 

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Summer can be cruel for modelling, but today it was so hot, that I managed to progress a little with the RSO and hid myself in my cool and dark mancave.

I weathered the Behemoth to a dry and dusty worn look. everything has to dry now and after building my little scenery, I decide if further weathering steps are necessary. Some of you Sherlocks out there will notice that the treads are not weathered. That will be made after embedding the RSO into the dio.

For the actual stages of weathering I used AK' weathering pencils in two different ways. A little bit more pronounced with a wet tip and on a pre dampened surface with blending with a wet brush afterwards. The dust effects where made with European Dust pigments from MIG.

Cheers Rob

 

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3 hours ago, Bomber_County said:

Absolutely stunning Rob, love the restrained weathering. Less is more IMHO......

Thanks Phil, but if that is your idea of restrained, I'd really like to see something seriously weathered :D. When I put the RSO into the dio, I will decide, if I will go further. By further I mean using very light pigments to enhance the impression of a sun baked vehicle.

Cheers Rob

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Thanks Gaz, figure painting is not my strong side, but with these great Bravo 6 figures it's fun. The cast quality is outstanding and the poses are different from other producers like some of the boring 'stay erect but loose' types say from Alpine. It's so much more fun painting funny figures :D.

Cheers Rob

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  • 3 weeks later...

It's not like I already feel the GB-deadline, but days and what's left of the year is getting shorter, so it's about time to go ahead with the RSO. 

Today I cut some flower foam to proportion, which will later be 'converted' in some little dunes in the May of 44 near Caen or wherever in Normandy. Then I arranged the RSO and the figures. The upright guy will get a fence to do whatever he is doing there and the other guy got a bucket of water for his shave. I robbed another kit for some blankets and a tanker jacket. These will be added with some beer bottles and cigarette buds.
Finally I cut and glued together a simple wooden frame for the foam.

Cheers Rob

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Thanks Graham, the holes in the wheel were on the prototypes, as far as I know. The kit wheels represent the production batch. Being an engineer in my former live, I can't believe that cast iron was used for wheels, but I will check with the reference I have. Cast iron is very brittle and I think the wheels were made of rolled iron sheets, with welded traverses, because of that fact.

Cheers Rob

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Hola Senhores,

here is a sneak peek at my sandy dio attempt. I want to have the RSO off the bench and continue with the Arado Nachtigall.
I added a wooden fence, some beer bottles and a checkered towel, made out of tin foil and some small grass flecks. The sand was designed by using AK-Beach Sand paste, which is nice to work with. It dries matte and has a little texture in it. I put on the paste in varying thickness and gave it texture by using brushes of different size and dampness. I left some areas like they were walked on and some untouched. I added some random Sand pigments and blended them in for a little depth.
I will check the effects, when everything is dried.

Cheers Rob

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Yee-haw, I can see the finish line for the RSO dio. I added the figures and some pigments to the RSO, to give it a little bit more sun baked appearance. I added some blankets, a bucket, a bag and some thrown away bottles.
When everything is dried, there will be a last make over, specially on the wheels pressuring the sand and then voila to the GB-ready-folder with some better pics.

Cheers Rob

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