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Modeller Build Logs
Willys Jeep |
| By James Tainton | | Started: | Mar 17, 2004 | | Updated: | May 4, 2004 |
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Earlier this past summer ('03) I ventured away from my usual arena of absorption. Researching and building WW II German panzers and such is how I spend most of my valuable "hobby" time here on earth. However, sometimes just for a change of pace I will wander off into the Allied side of things. Well one of these roamings is to be the subject of this blog. A first attempt at building the newer Tamiya release of the venerable Willys Jeep of W.W. II. I have not used any photo-etch in the 1/35th scale replica but I have added a few scratch built tweaks and some stowage to add interest. For reference I searched the internet and a used an articles from Tamiya Modelling Magazine #65. |
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| Chapter 8 - Drab Day | Apr 18, 2004 |
| Here in these unfortunetly under lit pics one can see the drab applied to the appropriate surfaces. The hub areas of the wheels where painted onto the flat black free hand while the tyres will be picked out later with Pollyscale grimy black. The paint is applied to the cental area of panels and parts to give it some visual intrest rather than a straight application of colour which tends to make a model look like a toy. I believe I have done a bit of extra work in highlighting some area with a centralized application of a lighter version of OD (Humbrol?). I can't rightly remember as I am writting this a few months after the actual build, this is something I do often with my paint jobs. Never the less this adds another layer of visual intrest and depth. |
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