M2A1 Halftrack still in progress

[moon puppy]

Here's the link to the old site of the Halftrack/Lions Roar build

These were the last pictures posted back May of 09

That leads up to today. I had a really bad day of modeling. Everything I attempted went wrong. I went from Buffalo to Wildcat to GMC75, nothing grooved. I remembered reading the FSM article about SBS working with pigments so I thought I'd give it a shot in earnest this time. I have in the past worked with pigments but just as a dry shading. I have not worked with it wet. I mixed up several colors of mud, rust and even some white and used some acrylic medium as the wetting agent. I started caking on the mud up under the mud flaps and over the tracks, on the road wheel boogies. My first thought was OMG! what have I done!

I played around on the bottom side then thought, why bother?

I worked it back and forth some and washed it down with some water making a nice sludge, I even pulled out the airbrush to blow some air over it to speed up drying time, just to see what it looked like dry. I didn't try to cake it up any, just covering.

Whacha think? No really. Looking at the pictures all together I really can't tell much changed. Maybe more of a problem of not enough light on the subject.

 

[Kreighshoer]

hang tough bob! see it as a first step, followed by further pigments!

i myself consider pigments my nemesis since they never turn out like i want them to look so i can understand you very well!

in theory all you have to do is to mix pigments with water to a muddy consistency and apply that mud! then you can push them around where and how you like them!

in theory ...

telling from the pics i think i know what you wanted to acchieve and how it turned out! reminded me of my last panzer 38(t) i did where i wanted to have nice little accumulations of dirt and what i received was a brown vehicle! the only way to get a halfway desired result now is persistence!

maybe one of the pigment cracks can help you better?

 

[moon puppy]

Well there you go, I'm not sure what I really want to achieve here either. Do I want to have it caked up or just covered where the crew had cleared up the clumps. Having said that, I intend to use the figures we're painting to go with this on a base as if they are broke down, the reason the hood is open. If that's the case they should be caked up with mud some more I would think. I'll go back and work with some more and play with the colors to get some contrast between wet and dry mud.

I"m assuming that a rich dark soil is in Northern France?