Adam Baker: Befehlsjager 38 Ausf.M (Update 1/13)
Been able to make some more progress over the last week or so.
I decided last week that I wasn't going to add any detail to the engine compartment. I think I got burnt out & overwhelmed w/ trying to add detail to the drivers compartment, and it just really bogged things down for me. So I decided to assemble the driver & engine compartments, and clear them so I could weather them some.
After a couple coats of future, I decided to try doing a pin wash w/ thinned Winsor & Newton black. Not 100% satisfied w/ how it came out, but it worked well enough so I went with it.
I then put down some Testors Dull coat to flatten it all out. I think I might have had some issues w/ the lacquer flat messing up the future, but I didn't really care. The one area I had problems isn't visible at all w/ the hull assembled, so I just moved on.
Tonight I dove into assembly work, and made some pretty nice progress, getting most of the exterior assembled.
I had wanted to add detail around the radio's, wiring & such, but I just don't feel like doing that anymore. I just want to make progress and get things moving along.
And here's what the transmission looks like w/ the hull assembled. Some nice detail showing, enough to make me happy.
Going to try to keep plugging away on this over the next few days. Work on cleaning up seams and anywhere I have issues, and then hopefully by next weekend I might be in a position to start laying down some color but we'll see. Things at work are really busy at the moment, so no idea how that might play into bench time.