Quar Royalist Tractor WIP Thread

[leadfool]

The photos on the last post did not show up.  I am glad you are showing your work. I am still stumped on how to paint mine.  Maybe I will VSF it up and add a smoke stack and a big dramatic flag.  Then wonder why tht Camoflage does not work?

Quar are very cool figures.  My own force is mostly the partisan types, with a few deserters to quar the crew served weapons.  Still WIP,  or more correctly W...............I.................P.

[zizi666]

I added another blue and the first muddy wash.  I think the only thing that looks any better is the rubber treads, though....

I think you're too hard on yourself (then again, aren't we all...)
That's a fine job on those tracks. Now that I look at it, I think that was one of the problems in the first pics, too much black.
with the addition of the blue-grey everything seems to fit.
I'm getting a real WW1 vibe from this one 

[ErikB]

The camera flash makes the dark paint look REALLY dark.  In normal lighting there is less contrast.  I used a brown, gray, and very little black for the wash.

And that rubber is less brown in person, too.  Photographing minis is truly its own art form.

Can you guys really see the second color blue?  I can barely discern it, myself.

[G2]

The actual paint job looks great. The camo has improved the tractor a great deal. But somehow I feel like it is missing something. I think adding some sort of detail, may help. Maybe adding an open hatch or a rolled up tarp on top, it just needs something other than painted armour and tank tracks.

[zizi666]

The actual paint job looks great. The camo has improved the tractor a great deal. But somehow I feel like it is missing something. I think adding some sort of detail, may help. Maybe adding an open hatch or a rolled up tarp on top, it just needs something other than painted armour and tank tracks.

Well, while that would add some character, the tarp on top seems nearly impossible seeing the size of the (only) hatch.
(I was actualy thinking in the line of an unditching beam as seen on WW1 Mk IV or V tanks)

the open hatch suggestion would be cool... and add extra conversion & paint work. 

[G2]

Yes, your right, the size of the model, does leave limited scope for customising. But it still needs something, it just looks looks "too oval", there is just something missing, some small eye-catching detail that would make it "pop", as they say.

[zizi666]

maybe an MG for the commander ?
Also, just now I noticed there's no exhaust pipe...

[ErikB]

I'm feeling a bit better about it after the highlighting.  Note to self - don't wash with this much cold/black next time....

[leadfool]

Now it really pops!  Looks very good.  What did you highlight with, just standard lighter versions of colors or something else?

[G2]

Whatever you did, it looks a lot nicer. I think I need a side by side (top on botttom) before and after photo to really see the difference. But from what I can tell, you did white/light drybrush over the whole thing (except the tracks). Am I right?

[zizi666]

Lovely !

1 suggestion : put some sooth on the end of the gun barrel to indicate it saw some action.

[ErikB]

Now it really pops!  Looks very good.  What did you highlight with, just standard lighter versions of colors or something else?

I used spacewolves gray for highlighting.  I did both edges and flat surfaces.  That's all.