Land Wasser Schlepper pleasure cruise

[spud]

wow awsome update

[Quaralane]

Looking really good

[Leighbo]

Hi Guys

I've been spending a lot of time finishing this one up.

Once I had painted the skin on the figures with oils and let it dry for 2 days I realised it looked too dark and had to put another layer of oils on!  Also there seemed to be 1001 things that needed detailing but finally here we are, all done!



























Its been a lot of fun building this one and I've learned some new techniques, can't ask more than that.

Thanks all for looking and for all your great comments.

[Chris S]

Great finish .....Fantastic stuff    ,the attention to those little details was well worth the effort put in . Looking forward to the Beetle coming together now 

Chris.

[Quaralane]

Excellent work all the way around on this

[merseajohn]

Fantastic! I've really enjoyed watching all this come together, thanks for shearing it!
MJ

[PANZERMAN]

Bravo, Leighbo, Bravo! You've done a terrific job on your schlepper dio. Alot of hard work, and
it shows. Modelers who like the challenge of building convincing looking dioramas take on
challenging projects...a Magnum Opus.....you have done this here with a great display. Congrats!
If you don't mind two minor suggestions......
1.The newspaper looks a tad oversized(unless Europeon papers were that large).
2.The rope bumper on the schlepper looks too white and pristine, needs some weathering.
I hope you don't take offense at my suggestions, they are offered in the spirit of good
fellowship...one modeler to another.
Thanks for sharing your work with us. Bill

[Leighbo]

Thanks for all the comments guys

Panzerman, I think you are correct in your 2 suggestions.  The newspaper is probably out of scale, I had some that were correct, but the arms of the resin figure holding it were really far apart so I had to improvise.

I didn't dare weather the bumper as I didn't want to ruin it!

I will store the suggestions away for the future, thanks for your feedback!

[multicam]

I just read through this whole thread for the first time and let me just say... outstanding work man! Wow! I like every aspect of this blog:) It came together really nice in the end:)