M3 Lee Lulubelle

[moon puppy]

It's time to separate the crews and git'er done.
Lulu Belle is committed to the sands.

I'm using some of the natural material @centaur567 Gary sent me a while back. Thank you again! I went on thick with this stuff, first the modeling clay then the sandy stuff. Hope this sticks to the base well enough. Going to give it an hour or so to see how it's setting up. I'm using a stiff 1in brush and water to take some of the sharp edges out. Also some tracks from one of the failed attempts to press into the mud to simulate tracks.

Wish me luck! The crew will be hanging out around the rear end.

 

[Rhino]

YOU CAN DO IT!
I never doubted you for a second.

 

[centaur567]

I think I used. a thick coat of white glue and then sprinkled the sand onto it and pressed it in. Gary S.
PS I don't remember crap as well as I used to. Father Time and Mother Nature, are cruel parents.

 

[moon puppy]

I'm using thinned PVA for the base then sprinkling the sand down. I'm just tring to get a better definition of where the tracks were.

 

[moon puppy]

Since I really don't know what I'm doing, I just plopped Lulu Belle down on the base and then started to try and fit the fellas. Then I realized this really isn't positioned well.

Eric suggested filling in some of the blank spaces with stuff, ok a rock. I took some of the foam board and just chipped it up a bit, didn't like that so then I got the acrylic modeling plaster and filled it in and around the foam. Took a wet brush and kinda worked some contours around, thinking wind blown instead of water worn.

Then some acrylic colors,

Next suggestion was maybe a dried out well. I got some rocks around.

 

[Jeeves]

I used this one on a recent build and it was pretty well done...no pun intended.

1/35 North African/Middle Eastern Well Reality In Scale 35159

Buy 1/35 North African/Middle Eastern Well by Reality In Scale (RIS-35159). Shop diorama & scenics (Type: Scale Model Kit) online at BNA Model World.

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[moon puppy]

Thanks Mike, I can cobble something together pretty quick.

 

[Brokeneagle]

Keep going MP , its looking good!