Dragon Bison I Diorama - FENCE IS WHITE

Since my neck-shoulder pain, a month and a half ago, put me out-of-action, I have been slowly doing this project.

It will be a diorama and I'm hoping to purchase 2 of those lovely Alpine figures and I'm going to try to make this a winner diorama. TO BE CLEAR: by Winner I mean one of my best ones not a gold winner at Euro or HIS!!

Box Art:


Nice interior detail




Assembly underway






Painting


Pre Shading


Base colour again to soften the contrast


As it stands now. I played around with a few more tones

NOEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEL YOUR PICS VANISHED

I agree with ray, I saw the pics yesterday but today they escaped

I exceeded the bandwidth of PHOTOBUCKET.


Now I subscribed to PRO!!

About Euro3 a month

Regards
Noel

Very nice work Noel

Noel Petroni wrote:I exceeded the bandwidth of PHOTOBUCKET.


Now I subscribed to PRO!!

About Euro3 a month

Regards
Noel

Noel you don't have to as you can upload on the forum direct from your PC. Also when I go to work (this is between us) I just edit my post on our forum, highlight the whole text + obviously the pics themselves, copy and paste the whole on ANY/ALL the other foras and voila.........MAGIC

And don't forget that I am a PC IGNORANT

Well, I had known that but you are breaking the law.

At some point in time Microsoft will get to know that you are not hosted on a photo server and you are going to be in trouble man!

Uploading directly from your PC not only violates the law of "Photo sharing" but increases the risk of virus.

Light chippings are being added first

Amazing work Noel, do you put in all the scratches with the brush or do you use a sponge where you want the large number of small scratches?

As always weathering makes a huge difference

Prosit Noel, looking real good!

Great weathering effect Noel, and I have the same question as Brian please

I can never manage to get such good looking chips with the brush. i need to study your work.

try making multiple small dots...where the small dots merge you get larger chips...practice on scrap obviously...

Dottore

Will do, thanks for the tip.

The scratches are made with a fine pointed brush. I just lightly touch the surface of the model to make them. Many of them are individually shaped because at the first stroke all you get is a straight line.

In some areas I used the sponge..... very delicately and with care

Regards
Noel

Today I started dusting the Bison. I want a somewhat heavy dusted vehicle so most of the panzer grey paint will not show!!!!

This is how it started looking with a fine spray mist of a dust colour and an oil wash


I started adding the pigments in layers........ but I'm dreading this step!






I also started layering the rut colours for the exhaust

Great Work Noel, love the way this is turning out.

Great work there Noel! Keep it up!

Noel

Very interesting progress but may I suggest to retouch the front chassis especially the rain marks, they look too artificial, very precise and monotone. Working with other colours or better still working with oils then creating dusting with MIG pigments might add a better texture and control ... by the way I love the panzergrey tone.

Ivan

After a big mess with the weathering, I had to clean it up and start again!!

Hope it's good!

Noel,

How did you clean up the weathering?

I seems to like both versions!

Great work non the less, keep it up Noel!

/Tiny

Much better Noel ... very realistic effects!

Ivan

Thanks guys!

I would like an honest opinion as to how it looks cos I had a hard time weathering it.

I want a dusty effect. Like a tank that has been rumbling through dry dusty roads for days.

This picture, for example, shows the grey colour has faded and changed completely except for the top edge where the crew hold and rub off the dust.