| 2. I did not buy the full kit. Instead I bought a cast-off from a Tamiya Me-262 sold on EBay. | 3. By March 2005 the major sub-assemblies have been put together and painted. This involved airbrushing first a black undercoat then the camouflage colour. Next the shadows and staining were added with chalk dust. | 4. The tracks involved a lot of detail hand-painting. | 5. After the chalk dust weathering is applied on the matt base then a coat of gloss is airbrushed on top. This seals in the chalk and provides a better base for an acrylic brown wash that goes over top. The wash runs into cracks and highlights detail. |
| 6. The acrylic wash would not run into the details if we used a matt base coat. Instead it would have just soaked into the matt coat. | 7. After the acrylic wash then the final assembly is performed and dry-brushing is performed. | 8. The finished model is a little gem and seen here photographed with the Bf109 E4 featured elsewhere on this web site. | 9. A final shot of the Kettengraftrad. Thanks EBay! |
