German Tanker in Summer (5)

For the last couple of nights, I have been working on the fuel tank and the ammo boxes.

It was quite a fun painting the wooden pattern over the ammo boxes. Academy only recreates the pattern over the top and the bottom of the boxes, but not the sides! So the bad thing is, I have to scratch the sides with knife to recreate the pattern. And the good thing is, the result turn out to be a lucky trial! The resulting pattern looks great!

Referring some reference pictures about WWII ammo boxes, I have get a better idea on how the boxes should be painted. And here it comes and I have finally get most of the things ready in this little diorama.

Please note the pictures were taken with my new cam~

German Tanker in Summer (4)

After a special occasion with a local figure painter master, I have a very strong feeling of painting and would like to go ahead for some new ideas. That's why I have speeded up this little diorama a bit.
The landscape is built and the fuel tank is painted ramdomly with Andrea colors.

German Tanker in Summer (3)

For the last couple of days, I have got the figure re-touched again.
The pants are darkened further with a cooler color tone while I have fixed some of the highlight area on the shoulders.
Both arms were fixed to the body now and the hands are painted roughly and would be re-touched soon.

Anyway, it is about time to think about how the figure is to be presented. I didn't want to hide the lower part of the figure into the cockpit of a turret. So I am trying to figure out a diorama around some piles of work stuffs. Hopefully I would have the setup ready with material on hand.

German Tanker in Summer (2)

After a month of time, I have finally returned to this figure. Some of the details on the uniform were painted previously and I have painted the trousers this time.

After the whole uniform is painted, I found that the up and down effect is not very good and I think I will have to retouch some of the area to integrate the up and the bottom parts of this figures.

I hope I will be working on this soon.
Thanks for reading.

German Tanker in Summer (1)

I have actually start this figure 2 months ago. After finishing the figure head, I have dropped it aside and today I picked it up again and started working on the body.