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Doing this as an airbrush project. All that's left is to attach the guns to the Sentry Gun proper, do the campaign decals, add some static grass and flock outside the dugout, and some rust on the corrugated metal components.

With that in mind, what else can you lot think of that I need to do? Should I add some more detailing, like barbed wire and spent HB shells?

Camouflage the gun up to add some more color to a rather drab piece?

Thanks in advance for the help guys!

I think the biggest problem I've now learned:
I underestimated the strength of Burnt Umber as a color.

That "brown" effect?

It's Burnt Umber, as watered down as I could get it for airbrushing.
The sandbags originally started out as a white-grey, the ground itself was a light brown, the gun Olive Drab, etc.

I went back and just did touch-up work, bringing it all back up to the "Prebrownout" conditions.


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There's the "revised" shots. Not sure where to go from there though.

Do you think a brush wash on the sandbags would add more definition?
Or do you think I should go back and drybrush some defining lines on 'em?

@alarmingrick I'm thinking that the best way to add some more detail is some netting draped over the main body of the turret and the guns, or some rusted barbed wire strung up.

@Mewiththeface Yeah. I'm probably going to do the "chipping" after the model's all washed, varnished, etc using the tip of a pencil or Aged Iron weathering powders.

Washed the sandbags, did a very very light drybrush(none of my colors match perfectly to the Vallejo AB color, and I'm not too keen on drybrushing anyways) to the sandbags, and applied a very very light dusting of a "dust" wash I've cooked up to the recesses of the Tarantula body.
Think it's ready to be varnished and then weathered?


Finished! Might go back and do some more pencil weathering.

And there's the finished product. Hooray for hitting up my Osprey Masterclass book for the weathering tips!

Thanks, Ifurita!

Camo netting and pinning the guns to the turret so they could elevate, are the two biggest ones in my mind right now. I tried to do some camo netting but it just wasn't looking right so I scrapped it.

I do need to find a good sized piece of wire to do the antenna though. The spot is all drilled out to accept it, just need the piece.

alarmingrick wrote:i still say you need something to make it more lived in.
i'm not saying dump a trash can out, but a crate or some random small boxes.
give a more lived in feel. and don't get me wrong, it's a fantastic job. i'm loving it!

I'm still looking for some excess stuff I may use to fill in the space.

I don't want to go over board simply because it's not something "lived in". It's a dugout where they emplaced a sentry gun, and likely just left it sitting there.

question. what where you using for the camo netting? and if you don't mind me asking,
what Went wrong?

I have some gauze bandages that I ripped the gauze out of, and just leaving the mesh.
It wasn't taking paint properly like they usually do, and it just wasn't feeling "right" with the dugout.

I've tried security screens before, and they're just too rigid.