Thanks chaps. Bit of a surprise as I'm not that happy with it myself. It does look better in the flesh though (I know we all say that). I have worked on it some more, and will wait until the return of daylight to finish it off. The Hecker and Goros figures arrived (white metal) and they look OK. I can't work out what the squatting chap is holding in his hands though - any suggestions? Looks like a bunch of rotten bananas to me.
John - After giving the various parts a basic coat of colour, the weathering was built up with dry-brushing and a series of washes. I started with a medium grey, then worked up to a light grey to pick up the detail and give a worn look to the panels. After a wash of thinned black, I gave it a rub over with powdered graphite (from a pencil), then continued dry-brushing with khaki, flat flesh and lastly white (all Vallejo
model colour). Some of the panel lines and other details were then delineated with thin black applied with a fine brush. Basically, it's a matter of going backwards and forwards with the washes and dry-brushing until you get the desired look. It's more or less Francois Verlinden's technique (thus very out-dated!).
, although I would have thought they were ammunition rounds, but colour is denying that?
