Italeri US water tank trailers

[Big-John]

This is just something that I have been playing around with. I have a couple of the Italeri water tank trailers on the bench that I work on from time to time. The purpose of this thread is 2 fold.

#1 is a test to compare different brands of Olive Drab paint and to compare the effects the weathering will have on the overall color.

#2 is to show the custom wheels I had made. The italeri kits have the wrong wheels and just don’t look right. I commissioned Charlie Pritchett to master a new wheel and Celticwerks to cast the wheels.


Trailer #1

The first picture shows a base coat of Model Masters enamel # 1711 Olive Drab.



Notice the comparison between the old wheel and new wheel.





Trailer #2

This trailer will be painted with Tamiya XF 62

 

[Chris S]

Nice work John ,Looking forward to more of this . Those wheels are impressive ! gonna really pop with some paint & muck

Chris.

 

[Big-John]

Thank you CS ;D

 

[Big-John]

Trailer #2 update.

I tried to do a little painting today, but with the rain we’ve had for the last week, my airbrush started spitting a little water. I did manage to get the primer on. I have a few small seams to touch up, then get some paint on after it dries up a bit.

 

[Chris S]

Looking sharp mate

 

[spud]

awesome stuff John, the old wheel looks ok but the new one is class

 

[Big-John]

Thank you CS and Spuddy!

 

[geegad]

tiny tastick

 

[Big-John]

Waiting for paint to cure on my Sherman, I paid some attention to the water tank trailers today.

For trailer #1 I mixed some paint and painted the tires. Mix is 2 drops black to 1 drop dark tire.



I then base coated trailer #2 with Tamiya XF62.



This is my first go with Tamiya Olive Drab and found it way to dark for my taste. I added some XF60 to it and gave it another coat.

 

[bdr65]

Tires look span-kingly good in color

 

[Big-John]

While I was busy today with decal work, I decided to mark the trailers as well. The kit decals were very old and frail, they fell apart immediately and was unable to use them. I dug into my spare decal stash and came up with some markings that would work.

I just realized that I made up the same registration number on both trailers, LOL Oh well, they wont be used together, only in this paint comparison.

 

[Junkie]

Great little project. I'm no OD expert by any means but that drab looks good once you added some '60. Weathering will tone it down again. Great tip.

 

[Big-John]

Hey Scott, thanks for stoping in. Thanks for the comments man! The dark trailer should lighten back up again after the flat coat gets applied. I can't wait to see what it's going to look like my self!

 

[adampolo13]

Nice work so far dude!

 

[JohnSimmons]

Lovely stuff as usual mate, I've only just started using OD on four or so kits and it really is a funny colour to work with, its too easy to end up with a dark green blob lol. I'm taking notes

 

[dogfish7]

They're looking good. Bought me a set of the correct wheels fo mine also. Thanks! 8)

 

[Big-John]

Trying my hand at weathering with pigments and pigment fixer.

All comments and critiques welcome.

 

[spud]

it looks fantastic John. did you use a pigment fixer or Tamiya X20? i use the X20 and its perfect, you also get a lot more in the bottle for about the same price give or take

 

[JohnSimmons]

Yeah really nice. I'm still learning with pigments....well we're always learning but you know what I mean lol.

 

[the doog]

Looks good as is, but I kinda want to see some water drips-run somewhere on it. At least the tracks of something like that? ???