Layout is on it's feet again, testing for 3 upcoming shows..

So de van ist wieder gepackt, 10 uhr abfahrt nach Leipzig, komt vorbei und plaudert 'n bischen..

Hallo Martin,
ich hoffe mal du bist gut in Leipzig angekommen und der Aufbau ging reibungslos von statten.
Da wünsche ich dir viel Spaß in Leipzig, wir sehen uns dann am Samstag.

Gruß vom Baummetz
Jens

Hallo Martin,

konnte heute deine Anlage in Leipzig bewundern. In real ist sie noch viel schöner als auf den Bildern. Auf jedenfall eines der Highlight's auf der Messe.

Viele Grüße

Uli

Hallo Martin,
dem schließe ich mich an.
Es war toll deine außergewöhnliche und einfach geniale Anlage mal live zu sehen.
Im Original kommt sie noch besser rüber als auf den Bildern.
Dein Baustiel und die Alterungen und Farbgebungen an den Gebäuden sind schon was ganz Feines.
Unser längeres Gespräch und die Fachsimpelei waren ebenfalls top.
Ich wünsche dir viel Erfolg in Sedan. You will rock it! rost:

Viele Grüße vom Baummetz
Jens

Hallo Martin,

auch ich möchte mich dem Lob anschließen!
Einfach top, was Du da geschaffen hast.
Besonders haben es mir, wie Jens, die gealterten Gebäude angetan.
Und es ist einfach so, " live is live" ; Bilder können halt immer nur bedingt die Atmosphäre transportieren.
Es war sehr angenehm mit Dir zu plaudern.
Weiterhin viel Spaß mit Deiner Anlage und viele staunende Zuschauer, wünscht Dir

Norman

This is just an amazing piece of work!!!!

Keep up the good work!

Greetings,
Martin

Danke meine Herren, mit 3 ausstellungen in 3 wochen und arbeit in die zeit da zwischen war es etwas mangelhaft zu antworten..Jens, Nortim und Uli war toll euch kennen zu lernen

After last weekend I finished my 3 shows tour Valkenburg ZH in the Netherlands, Leipzig Germany and te last one RAMMA Sedan in France. Good opportunity to examine and buy a couple of MK-35 figures..although they look a bit French I think with paint I manage to give them a more US look..They are resin and need to be glued together

Last update on 15 october, been a while. Still building a lot of tuff but mainly on commision. For now I started working on weathering a couple of my cars. Rusty roofs with Ammo rust color paints dabbed on using the sponge technique, Vallejo washes to speed it up. Will follow with some more washes. When finished..oh yes this is only the undercoat I'll spray some layers of chipping fluid, add a red roof color..Maine 2 footers had tin plate roofs and red paint..and start chipping..additional followed with enamel dirt, rust and grime..

















more to come

Got alot of comments in various FB groups about metal roofwalks..changed the other boxcar to wood..

So I repainted the second cars roof and even worked a bit on faded red paint on the sides by simply adding a white wash from Vallejo..





just one of the many layers

Some heavy chipping on the roof, after I masked the wooden partsI applied a coat of Vallejo chipping medium followed bij a mixture of 3 modelair paint to get the faded redish tone of the Maine 2foot roofs..let it dry for a while and started chipping with a wet brush. Impatient as I am I noticed I should use much thinner layers of paint..One thing more I should coat with a clearcoat between the layers, removing the masking tape I took parts of the wood weathering off with the tape..







Finished with a satin clearcoat for the next enamel based steps

Yesterdays progress on one of the boxcars..acrylicpaint and a 4B pencil..

Discovered styrene as a for me new building material. Bit of practice with sheet styrene and Evergreen profiles..funnyy steel structure on the covered crane, sliding door and a new boxcab cover..weathering in progress..











hopefully more progress the next days, close the shop after tomorrow untill the 4th of januari...

A time ago I purchased the book Perfekt bis ins detail written by Emmanuel Nouaillier. Yes, I do read and write German to. Wondered how he used this tracing-paper adding his signs. Couldn't find a descriptin in the book so I started to figure it out a it. First of all I made a simple design using Illustrator and mirrored the image. Test run on the printer just using the outlines to test fit on the building for the right size. Taped a piece of tracing paper on the testrun with low tack masking tape and printed again. Printer on photo settings. Removed the tracing paper from the test sheet and put it on the building the right way with the ink down. Rubbed it with a soft lead pencil and voila theres the image..As I want the sign worn but not a completely faded ghost sign I added a bit of color with a Faber Castell polycromos pencil. This is an oil based pencil and with some odourless thinner you can fade it a bit again..Pretty happy with the result, now it's ready for more micro-painting and weathering..

Bit of progress on the sign, added some micro painting with a 0/3 sable brush, Vallejo modelcolor and my wet palet made from a plastic container, somekinda cleaning sponge and baking paper..





Wish ya all a happy New Year !!

Well, bit more done after a coupple of days in the cold with a broken heater. Tried to add various rust patterns with various techniques. Painted rusttones with a piece of sponge, added rust washes and thinned acrylics with a brush. Finaly splattered thinned paint over a toothpick on the doors...









They are ready know for some chipping medium and some color..

WIP , three narrow gauge tankcars I worked on during the last 2 day show..





















Rusty tanks are done with Ammo by mig acrylic paint over a black and white primer base. Using airbrush, sponge and splatter techniques..

Decks with the Vallejo old and weathered wood set..IDF Israeli sand primer, model-air concrete followed by IDF israeli sand light with an index card. All with the airbrush. Followed by highlights with the same IDF color and a wash with 50/50 thinned modelcolor wash dark grey, highlighted with RAL 1001 modelair again..

Vallejo's old and weathered wood set is fun to work with. Working inbetween on a wooden fence, basswood but painted with acrylics..

Hi Martin

all you show us looks so great, that it is hard do say anything about it.
What else than "perfect" would describe your work ?
I like the marode charme and style.
It is so much more difficult to make things look old an used, than showing them new an clean.
You do it in a special way and I thank you for showing us, and of course for the brilliant tutorial.
Looking forward to every new picture

Greets
Harry

Danke Harry !!

So a bit of a tutorial.
I did try to take pictures from every step I did. Tried to achieve a bit worn but not entirely weathered boxes and crates..
The paints used :



The modelcolor is a dark grey wash. So after a good coat of surface primer IDF Israeli Sand Grey I started painting the crates, 4 of them with 71.027 light brown and the other 4 with 71.032 golden brown..





Let this dry for a couple of hour I did the first wash with the 517 dark grey but thinned it 1:3, 3 drops of water on every drop of wash.





It's just a light wash to darken the deeper part, sometimes a second wash is needed. With a couple of drops of 71.027light brown on a wet palette I started painting irregular along the woodgrain. Sometimes thin sometimes a bit thicker and completely random..and on all 8 crates.









Switching colors I added 71.032 golden brown in the same way. Completely random, trying to ovoid patterns.









Switching color again I added 71.075 sand(ivory) to the dry palette and started painting edges and highlight. Do want them quit hard thats why I didn't thin them..





Switching back to the very thin wash and a fine pointed brush I painted shadows on the deeper parts..





For the last step I added 2 drops of 71.077 wood into the remaining wash and thinned it with 8 drops of water. You should test if this wash is thin enough, it must be more like a filter to blend the colors together .





All these colors along with a manual are in the Vallejo Old and New Wood set. Bit from them bit from myself..I like it.

Bit more work done on the door in this facade. After rusting the bugger with airbrush, sponge, thinned paint and stippeling I added a layer of scratches medium followed by old white paint and started chipping. Finished it with a coat of satin clearcoat. After 24 hours drying I repeated the proces with a blue paint. Again 24 hours drying time and repeated wih chipping medium, a pale green and a quick dullcoat. Boy this Testors stuff smells..Some rusty accents added with various tones of pigments and sealed of with dullcoat again..Next step will be some chipping and scratches with a brush, highlights, streaks and grime..

As I mentioned, total chaos..back to the tankcars...

After spraypainting the trucks and wheels with Vallejo primers I just added a quick matte coat of varnish. after that a quick was with AK interactive brown earth deposit and after a good drying time a tiny bit of AMMO light rust wash. For the wheels I used various rust toned pigments with black finished with the light rust wash. Inside of the wheels is done today, so no pictures yet..







Not shure if I'm happy with the result, but once and a while I just step back and leave it for a while. So on with the underbody of the tank cars, painted with a light coat of Vallejo modelair .080 rust, a light drybrush with .075 sand and the stakepockets are done with Vallejo panzer aces dark rust..





Think I need to add a bit of color to the deck, not shure if I'm gonna use a enamel wash for wood or just paint it..

More dirt and other stuff, couple of Ammo enamel products on the trucks. Added some nature effects damp earth to the trucks and wheels, followed by fresh engine oil on the lower parts of the truck, the journal grease bearings and the wheel bearings. Last some streaking rust effects..