WIP - SA-2 Missile Transport

Steven Van Dyck
Impressive model. Will you use both rockets?

Przemek Przybulewski
Thank you. I'm not sure yet, but my first idea was to use both of them.

Bart Goesaert
nice one. Seems the quality of your rocket is a lot better than mine...

Przemek Przybulewski
Thank you Bart.
Added some more pictures about truck frame assembly.

Przemek Przybulewski
5 more pictures.

Michael Hickey
Nice work on this one, I've got the same two kits and am going to display them on a dio. I've only started my chassis though, I haven't touched the missiles yet.

Cortex
very impressive, i'm so in. I have this kit and I will learn much from your build : )

Bart Goesaert
nice progress, interesting preshade

Przemek Przybulewski
Thank you Cortex and Bart.
I tried to do something different with preshading. Result can be seen on last two photos where missiles were painted with base colors.

Eric RENOUX
Nice job !

Michael Hickey
I really like what I'm seeing so far can't wait for more.👍

Michael Hickey
Also I think I read somewhere that it is advisable to add a bit of weight near in the engine bay to counter act the trailers weight sitting on the turn table.

Cortex
Can you please edit caption on wheels pictures and add more info on how you weathered and highlighted them ? Thanks

Bart Goesaert
excellent painting...

Przemek Przybulewski
Thank you Eric, James, Michael and Bart.
Michael - I didn't knew about the counterweight 🙁 and now truck is almost ready. I will have to find out how it will behave with trailer and missile attached.
Cortex - I tried to include some more info under the mentioned pictures but there is a char limit so I will explain it here. Painting wheels by me 😉 Tires were painted with XF-85 Rubber Black and then drybrushed with XF-19 Sky Grey. Somethimes 2 or 3 times. Wheel rims where first painted with XF-1 Flat Black, then highlighted with XF-19 Sky Grey and finally with XF-2 Flat white to archive a light/shadow look. After this they were painted with very diluted base color with few layers, just to build up a color. When paint is still wet but almost dry I'm doing some scratches with wooden stick (small 3mm diameter) just to remove top layers of paint. it have to been done very gently but in case you do too strong marks just paint it with the same diluted color.
Hope it helps. 😉

Michael Hickey
WoW... that's going to be very impressive when the base is all done.👍

Przemek Przybulewski
Thank you Michael. I plan to finish it till end of September.

Michael Hickey
Cool, looking forward to seeing the end result.

Dirk Denker
Absolutely love your work so far !!

Przemek Przybulewski
Thank you Michael and Dirk. You are too kind.

Bart Goesaert
nice, will you make the launcher empty?

Przemek Przybulewski
Bart - no, rather no. At first I planned to build dio where missile are transported from trailer to launcher but now I change my mind so I will probably include two missiles.

Cortex
Thank you for posting tire painting info, will save them to my SA-2 project folder. Cheers : )

Soeren R.
Impressive work!

Przemek Przybulewski
Cortex - No probs, man.
Sören - Thank you very much.

Cortex
Can you please couple more side pics of the truck ?

Przemek Przybulewski
Cortex - I want to finish my SCUD model and then set up a small studio to take final pictures of Cougar HEV, SA-2 and SCUD. As soon as I will have them I will surely post them here. Sorry for inconvenience. If you wish I can take some quick photos with my phone and post them.
James - Thank you again. As for colors I used few of them. First I preshade with white, grey and black and this some spots with brown. And final colors were painted with Tamiyas Tan, Buff and Desert Yellow. All were very thinned so base color was build with a few mist layers.