Along with my Latil TAR, I've built a 155GPF from Azimut and as I'm waiting for white ink to finish my Tiznaos, I've done some painting experiences on the gun.
The kit itself is really fine, parts are well finished and the model is easy to built except for the towing trolley
My idea about painting was to use different colors, just like the color drawings made by F Lecocq in the french Blindés et Matériels. I use acrylics Model color paints with handbrush.
First step : layers with the basic colors : Welcome to Fluo land!
Second step : I move the colors with two brown/black highly diluated filters, and I brush each zone to highliht the colors.
I hope it looks like the WW1 colors even if I would add more filters and some pigments to more fadded final effect.
What do you think about this experience? All comments welcome! Regards Gilles
this is some first rate modeling!!! I like the way you are painting the gun, but I didn't really get what you did in the first part of step 2 "moving the colors."
You're right! The pic was a mistake, I delete it! Regarding the kit I bought it directly from Azimut in Paris last September. I like the kit very much even if my own get some minor moulding probems, it is easy to built and nicely detailled. On the PE parts you can read the instruction "un canon bien entretenu en vaut deux"! Regards Gilles
You've selected an excellent paint scheme, Gilles. ( I have a kit of the same subject by DesKits, though I haven't built it. ) Have you previously posted photos of your Latil TAR ?
You've selected an excellent paint scheme, Gilles. ( I have a kit of the same subject by DesKits, though I haven't built it. ) Have you previously posted photos of your Latil TAR ?
Thank you very much! I allready post some pic of the Latil "in progress" but I'll try to update as soon as possible to show the model quite finished. Regards Gilles
The gun is now almost finished. I add some filters and weathering.
Most of the small details have to be added after the paintwork : brakes, seat... The cable where omitted by Azimut and should be added as should the rivets on the gun wheels.
The markings are very limited : only the serail number on both arms.
Quite finished now, pigments will be added when the prime mover would be finished to harmonize both.
Lovely model, and the comouflage is dazzling indeed. Do you paint with a brush, freehand? which brand of acrylics do you use? ANd finally, what is "Los Tiznaos" (the blackened??) Before I misread your name as "Lost-in-Laos"!
The gun has been painted with Model Color acrylics and handbrush... It would be too much work to mask all the surfaces! Regarding the name Lostiznaos, I take it from the armoured trucks of the spanish civil war, my first love in modelling AFVs! I post some pics of my last Tiznao in this forum some weeks ago! Regards Gilles
It really is a great work of handbrushing, and since I don't have an airbrush, I sure appreciate the delicate touch needed to get a complicated paitwork with no brushmarks and without obliterating details. If the name comes from a Spanish truck, it indeed means "The blackened"! D.
