KV-1

[Soeren]

Thank you for your kind words.

[Soeren]

Thought I´d share the in betweens real quick for the exhausts, because I felts they looked real messy during the painting. Maybe those are usefull to some of you here.




Here you can see how great burnt umber is for a rusty appearance when painted on a light background


Just pigments and rust washes, all acrylics




Now working on one of the final parts, have an ABER oil canister incoming. This is now the saw and the holder. Fiddly stuff and a pity you dont see the saw really. What apity. Both stained already, need to paint the grips and the brass parts and then add the final two wingnuts.

[Exhibitedbrute]

Looking good

[jonh]

Wonderful painting and weathering - well done Sir.

[HERMAN BIX]

Magnificent job Mr Sorren , the touches of brilliance on the details are adding up to an Opus Requiem achievement.

[Soeren]

Thank you Exhibitedbrute, Jonh and Herman for following along and for your kind comments. That build sharing really adds to the hobby. Also I tried a few new tricks on this one and while this aged Tamiya KV1 started rather boring out of the box the canvas offered enough space for individual touches. It is an enjoyable process.

[Soeren]

Good afternoon, a bit more done. added some more dirt to the motor deck and around the turret and started blending more with the AK pencils. A lot more dirt and dust stains. When you blend these pencil colors they tend to wash out creating tonal differences. I like that.


Chipped and rusted the barrel cleaning pod and finished the saw and holder.


The final two wingnuts were a nightmare. They always broke on me, in the end I used the last too halves and tried to get them together.


Also got the lubricant tank with the last order for my new Tiger from Axels modellbau. Orderd the reference kit and the Schumo barrel and muzzle brake and the ABER cleaning rods.

That tank should add a nice touch to the otherwise rather plain fenders.


Thanks for watching

[Soeren]

Just a quick update about an observation while working with the AK weathering pencils. I used two pancils on this panel the majority is the Earth pencil a rich dark brown for the backs and the sides and the Streaking Dirt pencil for the front and blended into the Earth on at the corners.

I applied the pencils damp to wet. And this makes a big difference in the results. When damp to moderatly wet you get the solid color. When really wet it wants to seep out some of the pigments, which in the case of the Earth pencil is a rusty orange brown. So by applying damp to wet you get the dark brown with a rust effect around the features like bolts. etc. Cool thing that can be really usefull. When blending with a wet brush it exactly does the same seeping out the reddish and brownish colour on the corners leaving a thinner dusty appearance.


When applied really heavily you can darken the effect and this will result in an even darker wet looking effect. Well that is all done with one single pencil. You can also do streaking like on the front here.



For these properties I would rate those pencils highly, one pencil is about 1 € and it is a water based product, and reworkable unless covered by a varnish.

[Jimster]

Your weathering skills make it difficult to tell that it’s a model and not a real tank.

[Soeren]

Thank you Jim. But I don't take credit here as I just base my work on experience of others. Just the Pencils are a really interesting tool. I read a few reviews with different opinions. For what they are I would consider them very useful. And while they are compared to oil paints and enamel products, they still behave differently. Especially the wash out effect was unexpected, but it is quite useful when you like the look.