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Armorguy
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Hello friends, I like to begin with "Thank you for the warm welcome".
I finished this diorama recently but I'm pleased to share some progress photos with you.
In fact it's a pretty cliché subject but I just couldn't resist the idea of making a diorama with a captured German staff car with bullet holes, a couple of killed Germans and a bunch of US paratroopers in the neighbourhood of Ste-Mère-Eglise.
I hope you like the idea too, here we go...
The Opel Olympia staff car by Bronco.
Please don't mind the Dutch text in the images.
The colours I mixed for the body.
Door panels. I 'bumped' into one of them with a rounded blade.
I liked to add the fieldconversion jerrycan racks as these add interest to the small car.
More blue...
These are the colours I mixed for the chassis of the car.
This is how it came out.
The colours for the mixture of the leather seats.
The first layers on the seats. I like to work from dark to lighter shades.
A lighter shade was made to finish the leather seats.
I then applied a transparent mixture of blue on the body parts.
I kept the lower half of the door panels a tadd darker.
And of course there's also the wheels.
The paint I used for the camo.
Nothing too complicated...sorry for the bad pictures btw, they were made with my old camera.
Decals were applied with Set&Sol. I like to use a wet cotton swab to gently press them on.
More soon chaps.
I finished this diorama recently but I'm pleased to share some progress photos with you.
In fact it's a pretty cliché subject but I just couldn't resist the idea of making a diorama with a captured German staff car with bullet holes, a couple of killed Germans and a bunch of US paratroopers in the neighbourhood of Ste-Mère-Eglise.
I hope you like the idea too, here we go...
The Opel Olympia staff car by Bronco.
Please don't mind the Dutch text in the images.
The colours I mixed for the body.
Door panels. I 'bumped' into one of them with a rounded blade.
I liked to add the fieldconversion jerrycan racks as these add interest to the small car.
More blue...
These are the colours I mixed for the chassis of the car.
This is how it came out.
The colours for the mixture of the leather seats.
The first layers on the seats. I like to work from dark to lighter shades.
A lighter shade was made to finish the leather seats.
I then applied a transparent mixture of blue on the body parts.
I kept the lower half of the door panels a tadd darker.
And of course there's also the wheels.
The paint I used for the camo.
Nothing too complicated...sorry for the bad pictures btw, they were made with my old camera.
Decals were applied with Set&Sol. I like to use a wet cotton swab to gently press them on.
More soon chaps.
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