Hanomag's Interior Painting

As I write this, my 5 and 7 years olds are running around the house because the Germans are attacking. Right now, they are "going to bed" because they have to be up at 6AM to be ready for the Italian attack at 7AM. Don't know where they got that, it's not like I talk about WWII a lot. The oldest one is "first top officer", and the other is "second top officer". Kids. On to the Hanomag. 

After cleaning out the model with some plastic prep, the first step was to put down the AK Interactive red primer. The primer went down nice and thin and didn't require any thinning for the airbrush. When I use it again, I will definitely need to be more careful with seams and sanded areas as it will definitely show up. I don't think I will ever go back to Tamiya's rattle can primer. This is my first time using a gravity feed airbrush, and I think I'm never going back to siphon feed. I now know that the pulsing problems I had while working on the Spitfire, were purely airbrush related.

Bah! Only after the airbrush is all cleaned up and I have the harsh revealing light of an LED that I saw all the spots I missed. Meh, I decided to move on regardless, especially since the most egregious spots are deep down near the front. I really noticed that the needle on the cheap Chinese airbrush is much narrower than my Badger. It was a bit more difficult to get broader even strokes, but it will be great once I need finer lines.

Top is primed.

This is where things didn't go as planned. After the primer cured, I sprayed some Future to protect the primer coat for the chipping process. once it dried a couple of hours, I sprayed the Mig Heavy Chipping Effects fluid and immediately sprayed the Model Master Panzer Schwarzgrau. I tried to activate the fluid with water but it was not working. Ugh....a little more water and a little more pressure.....a lot more pressure and.........I'm tearing it down to the bare plastic. 

At least I didn't do that too much. I added a bit of flat black to the inside of those "tears". I knew it could't be "perfect", I just had to move on. It was almost liberating.

The rear doors.

I added some black squiggles with flat black to the seats before painting them with leather color. Next was a clear gloss coat with Alclad lacquer.

This is the third attempt at weathering the interior. Maybe the weathering is a bit heavy, and I lightened it a little bit from this picture but I'll continue to learn that nuance as I progress in model building.

I used raw umber oil paint, Mig's Oil and Grease and winter streaking grime, wiped down with a wide oil brush with some Turpenoid.

I dry brushed steel on the floor and some other areas for a more worn effect. As you can see, I broke off the steering wheel and a little skinny lever. A project isn't complete unless you break something off.

That's all for now. Next will be the flat coat for the interior and continue building the exterior.