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Looks excellent Graham

Wonderful build Graham,it looks the dingo's bollocks. Love the weathering,the chipping is spot on too. Criticism? I can't see anyrhing wrong with it! Maybe something's the wrong colour LOL!
Cheers
Steve

What a little gem of a scout car. You made a fine job of that Graham.
If I may say one thing though, I think some of the division markings are a bit clean compared to the surrounding areas. Either you forgot them or you put the decals on after you weathered it. When I do that, I tend to just give them a swab "flypast" so it looks like they have been wiped over to get the worst of the muck off.
Other than that its perfect!
Ian M

Very nice metalic effects there Graham. I like the differences between rusted finish and bare metal surface. Lovely wash and pigment effects as well. This turned out into a lovely model and, as you say, deserves a diorama.

Thanks for the great comments guys. I personally think the pigments look wrong. As I said, I have used Mig pigments instead of my usual Promodellers. They don't work the same for me but that is just me.

Steve and Ian, so astute. Yes Steve, something is the wrong colour lol but I am not saying what (all of it to be truthful as I wasn't really sure what colour it should be. The instructions said "Dark Green" so I did then lightened it a bit.)

Ian, I didn't put the decals on until after the main weathering you are right. I didn't forget though honest. I am not so sure that markings would be allowed to get too bad, they do, after all, tell who the vehicle is with and although I don't think they were all pristine, I try not to mess them up too much so they were dusted after just to hit them a little bit. I do agree though, maybe they are still a bit too bright. When it goes on the dio, I can play with that as it will have to be matched into the groundwork anyway. Unless someone knows of a place in Normandy that has orange soil, it will have to change.

Bobby. The chip marks are so simple. I am not very clever at these things so I have to take the simple route. All I did was get a small piece of sponge ripped from a new sponge backed scouring pads. This I lightly dipped in un thinned Vallejo Dark Rubber from their Panzer Aces range. I then tapped this against a piece of card until it was giving me dots rather than splodges. I then dabbed it randomly along edges, high spots etc to get the effect. This was then toned down a bit when the oil filter went on. First time I have done it so quite pleased with the effect.

Cracking build of a very interesting kit.
Very well painted and extremely well chipped!
I agree with Ian about the markings and your own observations re. the 'Orange', but both easily rectified.

Both very minor details on what is another very nice model. Well done Graham.

Ron