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I had great fun with this little model from Dapol. The mouldings are around 50/60yrs old - and it shows! Nearly every piece had lots of 'dribbles' of excess plastic.
Strangely though, I enjoyed the build. Because I spent an age cleaning the parts up, I somehow felt I was putting my stamp on the thing, and not boringly sticking together perfect fit sections.
I brush painted it with Vallejo model Colour yellow and Model Air red. Because I brush primed it with white, the first coat of yellow covered well, so much so that I decided to stick the model together and then give it a rough second 'hit and miss' coat of yellow. This, as I hoped, produced a nice patchy yellow finish. The weathering is simply a well watered down coat of Vallejo Dk. Brown roughly applied and allowed to run and gather where it chose to. I then followed it with a slightly thicker coat, and this overcoat darkened where the original had dried (Mostly along bottom edges)
A third coat of brown produced the earthy look to the bucket and back hoe etc.
When dry, I attacked the model with a pencil to produce the worn metal surfaces.
To finish off the digger, I scratch made the cab glass, 2 rear view mirrors and the Hybolok pipes.
Any road up, here is the finished JCB 3
....and just for fun.
I hope you approve and thanks for looking.
Cheers,
Ron
Strangely though, I enjoyed the build. Because I spent an age cleaning the parts up, I somehow felt I was putting my stamp on the thing, and not boringly sticking together perfect fit sections.
I brush painted it with Vallejo model Colour yellow and Model Air red. Because I brush primed it with white, the first coat of yellow covered well, so much so that I decided to stick the model together and then give it a rough second 'hit and miss' coat of yellow. This, as I hoped, produced a nice patchy yellow finish. The weathering is simply a well watered down coat of Vallejo Dk. Brown roughly applied and allowed to run and gather where it chose to. I then followed it with a slightly thicker coat, and this overcoat darkened where the original had dried (Mostly along bottom edges)
A third coat of brown produced the earthy look to the bucket and back hoe etc.
When dry, I attacked the model with a pencil to produce the worn metal surfaces.
To finish off the digger, I scratch made the cab glass, 2 rear view mirrors and the Hybolok pipes.
Any road up, here is the finished JCB 3
....and just for fun.
I hope you approve and thanks for looking.
Cheers,
Ron