Engine bay getting shape

Some more washes, metalizer paints from Model Master and a few wire. Still lot to do but starts to look nice...

Some modelling happened during my holiday in August though the photos are published only now. Assembled and painted the engine (paint is ModelMaster metalizer steel, and some dry brushing with Model Color Oily steel)
Dry-fit in place, waiting for additional wiring (brass, as I plan) and weathering. I'd like to leave the engine hatches open so the engine should look cool...
The progress is very slow. However I enjoyed to play with relly tiny bits again. So built some parts from scratch - please note the white line in the background - that square is 1cmx1cm :)

Engine started

Though my modelling activity could be called inactivity instead it is still not completely hopeless. I have a nice inventory of partly done or untouched models and it is only thirty plus some years until I retire :)
But for now I continued the Gepard and glued the engine together. Surprisingly many parts and a quite impressing detailed result - however the Tristar engine seems to be more accurate I don't really mind. Dragon made also a good job and with some extra wiring, bits and pieces I will have to leave the hatch open to make the engine visible.

Inventory

Though no time for modelling, last weekend I started to infect my son with the hobby. As a first step we counted and checked the Vallejo paint stock and ordered them by color. None of them seemed to be dry, Norbert shook them all by one. Next time we try painting, I hope :)

New project, new phone

Half year pause and I'm right back. The no-time-problem worsened a bit with a not-too-serious Skyrim dependency (a cool fantasy game) but I still do some modelling sometimes. However the question of when to shoot and post photos has been solved with my new phone. Takes nice pictures and can publish post easily. Who said it's not a perfect world? :)
I started a new project the Flakpanzer 38(t). Though not too much will be seen of it, I upgrade the interior a bit mostly based on my imagination and a few reference photos found on the web. PE is Griffon.

Midsummer's winter

Miniart's diorama base is quite OK, lots of sanding and filling but hey, life ain't easy (... for a boy named Sue as Johnny Cash sang). But the door was definitely ugly so I decided to replace it with some DIY wood. The raw material was from the local McDonalds.

Glued with Superglue and sanded a little bit. Later some left-over PE material was also used...

The latch was soldered from brass rod (the only difficulty level of soldering I can cope with...) and starts to look like a real door...

Weathering was done with gouache paints (mostly browns and some black plus light greenish wash on the underside). The strap was "rusted" with Model Color paints.


As I plan a woman standing in the door what else could be more useful to put next to it than a broom? Made of toothpick and hair of painting brush.

And finally that's where the project stands now (some more snow applied with vegetation and slush on the roadside):

And for the next few spare hours...

The Magic-tracks were from the Panzerjäger I Ausf. B kit because the kit's original tracks (on sprue) took not less than 8 hours last time to cut & sand before gluing together. I'm not a time-millionaire...

Winter base

I give no sign of life. But still alive and definitely do some modelling - approximately half an hour in two weeks. Not much. But the Miniart base was primed (black...) and then painted and weathered. Not finished yet and in reality the colors are less bright. The snow was a mistery especially the wet, muddy snow on the roadside - it is not finished yet, I will do some more touches using pigments and acrylic resin, paints and glosses and of course sodium-bicarbonate. Also there will be some dried vegetation but not too much...