Thanks Mike.
Afternoon all
Apologies for the drop in build up-dates.
Obviously the SIG is over and the brilliant builds digested by the judges.
With the change of my jobs (left my old job of 17 years on Saturday 11th April, very moving and the presents and send off over the days proceeding left me quite speechless).
So back to this build.
A simple diorama.
I have gone for the standard picture frame (The Range £2.99).
Glass out, and a piece of MDF cut to fit the aperture, and off we go.
I bought some DAS (Terracotta coloured) clay to mould an earth road-side.
This was then sprayed with various colours (Vallejo Model Colour, 70.826 German Cam. Med. Brown, Tamiya XF-78, Wooden Deck Tan, Tamiya XF-57 Buff).
The whole of this mound was then washed with Vallejo, Game Colour Wash,73.200, Sepia Shade).
The front was then dressed with Model Scene, Late Summer, Vegetation Mat.
A few rocks from the DW garden were glued into situ.
I bought some Tamiya Cobbled mat, cut to fit.
This was then treated with Tamiya, Black.
The whole thing was then Dry-Brushed with Vallejo, Model Colour, 70.993, White Grey.
I treated it to Mig Productions, Light European Earth (P415), Gulf War Sand (P037) and Russian Earth (P034).
This is my little wooden box from
http://www.feildsofglory.co.uk. painted with Vallejo, Panzer Aces, 311, New Wood and 310, Old Wood. The whole thing was then washed with Burnt Umber Oil wash.
I'm going to leave this at the side of the road along with some Jerry-Cans and a Large Fuel Drum which I treated with the "Hair-Spray" Technique which is a first for me, and came off well.
The whole Fuel Drum was then treated to various washes, Dry-Brushed with Silver and rubbed all over the edges with a Graphite Stick.
I have finally finished my Panzer Tank Commander with Hornet Head.
He has been painted up, washed with oils.
Quite chuffed with the results.
The whole lower hull and around tracks and wheels was treated with a mix of Vallejo, Heavy Transparent Gel (Never used before but saw a brilliant vid on You Tube by Panzermeister36
using same stuff).
I got it this morning form
http://www.emeodels.co.uk.
I mixed it with Vallejo, Model Colour, 70.826, German, Cam. Med. Brown (again), some sand.
It was then liberally applied to all tracks and lower hull in nice fat globs.
I also used the old brush and AB trick to create splatter.
I wanted a nice muddy tank straight out of a wet, muddy bog driving up a road. So any mud at the rear of the vehicle has been imprinted with the tracks (actually imprinted with the spare front Tamiya supplied piece, now in Spares box
).
I wanted gobs of mud on road coming off unit. As its sat in its stop position, gobs of mud are dropping off onto the road.
I have a few bit of titillating work to go but nearly there
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Thanks for watching as always,
Love and Peace.
John
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(ask away) is a bottle of MIG doing in this rant. 
WTF.
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