popeye the sailor

hey there Andy........your diorama is coming along nicely     reading your ideas with the figures,  I had the thought about just embedding the bases in the foam.  but after seeing how rough the foam was after sculpting out the mud holes,  I see now it would be a terrible idea.  look'in forward in seeing this all come together    great job thus far!

hey there Andy........your diorama is coming along nicely     reading your ideas with the figures,  I had the thought about just embedding the bases in the foam.  but after seeing how rough the foam was after sculpting out the mud holes,  I see now it would be a terrible idea.  look'in forward in seeing this all come together    great job thus far!

hey there Andy........your diorama is coming along nicely     reading your ideas with the figures,  I had the thought about just embedding the bases in the foam.  but after seeing how rough the foam was after sculpting out the mud holes,  I see now it would be a terrible idea.  look'in forward in seeing this all come together    great job thus far!

hey there Andy........your diorama is coming along nicely     reading your ideas with the figures,  I had the thought about just embedding the bases in the foam.  but after seeing how rough the foam was after sculpting out the mud holes,  I see now it would be a terrible idea.  look'in forward in seeing this all come together    great job thus far!

Hi all bit more rusting done.
 

I have a story for that, a wealthy banker stored it in a barn at the start of ww11 so the Germans didn't get hold of it and maybe died or went abroad and forgot about it.

Romantic view or wish: the treasure sleeping in a barn, ready to be restored! I doubt that you will ever find a Bugatti in a barn, especially the 35B type. It is not the kind of car countrymen usually buy.
 
Yves

Started dirtying up the chassis, got so many ideas about staging this wreck, I really want to show the chassis and engine separate from the bodywork, thinking in a barn with body parts piled up somewhere, so many ideas.

Love the dirty, oily finish! I can almost smell it.....

So I'm getting less and less impressed with this kit, the instructions would have you in stages 1 and 2 glue parts 32c and 33c in then in stage 8 would have you attach the silver wire with the vinyl tube the chain is very fragile and the tube is a very tight fit, thus its an impossible task (at least without risking breaking the chain, also you have to add the silver wire to a slot in the back of parts 32c and33c which is on the inside and so can't be seen. I had to carefully remove the parts to attatch the wires then glue the parts back in with the wires already attached. They would have been better saying to attach the wires at stage 1 before you glue the parts in place, doing that would not interfere with any assy after that and would make life so much easier.

Hi all more done to this, did the exhaust with a combination of pastels and paint, quite pleased with how it's coming along, doing the corrosion on the water pipe with a combo of talc and pastels ground up (need to get more texture on it yet, may use a bit of salt)

More work on this 

Hi all bit more done to the engine.
 

I know it's the hard way round but I've decided to do it as a barn find first then do it as a full restoration.
So far I've used these two items for the start of the weathering 
And made a start weathering the engine.
And added some body colour to the chassis.
 
 

hey there Andy........your diorama is coming along nicely     reading your ideas with the figures,  I had the thought about just embedding the bases in the foam.  but after seeing how rough the foam was after sculpting out the mud holes,  I see now it would be a terrible idea.  look'in forward in seeing this all come together    great job thus far!

Hi all sorry I've not posted progress on this for a while, since I stopped building I put all my modelling stuff in the shed  ( we have the grandchildren in the spare room when we have them and don't want to take risks with the dangers of model supplies and our precious grand children) I have favorite products for painting engines and can't find any of them in the places I thought I put them in the shed.
I've filled and primed the engine but done nothing else to it so not really anything worth posting, I will find the paints I'm looking for, this is really just to say I've not stopped again.

Made a start on the bugatti I've been reliably informed that only the factory cars had the machine polishing so I don't need to replicate it as I'm depicting as a race car. 
Anyway I've made a start
I've read on another forum where someone said what a joy this was to build "the fit is sublime and the detail is exquisite " sorry I don't agree, this is a totally new mould, I think the detail is soft and I've barely started and the engine block needs a lot of fettling the sump front end sits too high if you use the locating areas it sits 1/2 a mill too high which when you add it to the engine leaves a gap at one end, I cut the locating area off which fixed that.
The 2 half's of the block when joined together have a molded pipe which is thicker on one half than the other, small details but they take time to fix so 7 bits glued together and 1 1/2 hours down, no paint yet (waiting for it to come) I will admit not building it in the order of the instructions (because I don't have the paint yet) they have you start with the chassis I have briefly checked the body molds and they do look OK but I'm not impressed at what I've seen so far, there is a lot for filling needed between the sump and the block already. I was so looking forward to this kit, now I'm dreading it.
Not a great start back into modelling. Paint won't be here till. Saturday so can't get much more done.
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Are you trying to not spoil the finish?

Hi all well I want to start this but first problem is the bulkhead and parts of the engine are machine polished and is quite a big part of the car but it's not indicated it the model in any way, I can't think of a way to portray it

Wow, this is looking really great Andy!  Fantastic job!

Thanks Alan!

I think it depends on the depth of water you’re trying to convey, or whether it’s still or moving (wind, waves or currents). 
WS products can produce some amazing “water” in the right hands.
 
Andy

The mud looks great. I think wet mud is hard to make convincing- sometimes it just looks like gloss brown but you’ve got it this time.
i do wonder about some of the “water” products and how they compare to gloss medium etc. I was browsing for my next project and found someone is selling Atlantic water, pacific water and many other varieties. I think I’ll be sticking with the gloss medium this time 
alan

Not to worry, those obnoxious bases will be removed in due course. I plan on using a short length of fine wire to hold them in place (I have some nice 0.015” stainless kicking around).
I will be adding some static grass next, so everything is just temporarily in place for now. I’m just waiting for the hobby shop to restock what I need.
 
Andy

I like it  Andy the only thing I would fix and it may be in your thoughts already get rid of platforms on the figures and use metal nails?

Mud, mud glorious mud....
 
I think I've managed to create a reasonably convincing miniature mud puddle! No small feat considering there's nothing even remotely close to dirt or water even involved....
 
I first painted on a couple of coats of acrylic paint. I think it's important to stipulate, that I've had this paint for a while, and it has thickened up noticeably in the bottle. Which is good for what I'm going after here.
 

 
The paint was dabbed and stippled on in the "muddy" area, and in areas where vehicle wheels would have shed any mud they picked up as they drove through. I applied a couple layers of this thickened brown paint until I had something of a desired texture.


 
When the brown paint had dried, I then added a coat of clear acrylic gloss to the muddy area, in order to convey wetness. This was spread out in most places to the edge of the "grass", but in a couple small places I left it back a bit in order to hint of a slight amount of drying. For the final (?) layer, I made a mixture of about 6 parts gloss to 1 part brown paint. This was dribbled into the lowest areas of the puddle to simulate a bit of standing, muddy water. I was looking at the options the WS provides to make water and they're all a little pricey for the amount I need (~$40CAD for a bottle of "water", plus another ~$15 for colour tint). I think my budget "water" works perfectly well!
 

 
How that Tilly made it through that sloppy mess, I'll never know! Anyone else for a bit of mudding?
 
 
Andy