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I really like your style! So many modellers seems to be using other modellers models as prototypes, but your work is refreshingly original.

You dont need me to tell you this, but the quality of your work is staggering.

All the input is much appreciated!

Volker, I have concidered using an airbrush instead of a wash, but I think the wash collects more in th right areas, all the nooks and crannies and in between all the gears and stuff. I fear that the airrbrushing will affect the higer spots, and end up in places that rather should be higlighted instead of darkened. 

NK, you are more spot on than you possible could realize! They actually did have some severe leakages around the skylights. It seems like they never fixed those leaks, because in my reference pictures from the late thirties they have been roofed over. It is no big surprise that the skylights leaked, the design was rather primitive.

Unfortunately, it seems that my crane was not affected by the leaks, I think it was installed at  later date.
But some curren images shows that it indeed has collected a fair amount of dust. The images are taken by me a couple of years back, so it it is possble not entirely prototypical to have them sp dirty in a scene from nearly 100 years ago. But it is a good reference, nevertheless.

Artistically compact, Kim, both the diorama and travel boxes.

Modular building on a scale of 1/32 to 1/32.
As always, wishing you all the very best of health,
My minimum space display, known as Sandy Hollow or Hollow, keeps on going; basically, it is a display unit that can be moved around with the minimum of fuss,
The working train part is on the top, while the combination of the travel boxes offers the opportunity for a singular display diorama
Think of the transformer toys as an example.
Individual lighting options; nothing is wasted,
New signage and photo backdrops are taken care of by fellow forum member Volker Gerisch.I love working with Volker he always knows what I want and has options,
Cheers,

look at that plane...wow.

To me the beam reads as if it was there a long time and collcted dust. The roof leaked and now you have tidelines from the water. I think it looks credible. A solvent dampened No 0 watercolour brush can reduce the severity of some lines if you do some judicious work with the pointy tip of the brush.

Hauk,
I have heard the "centrical blobby/dark edges" that Volker referred to as being called "tide marks" and one way I often (but not always) have success eliminating them is to observe the wash as it begins to dry. It usually starts drying around the outer edge. When that happens I dampen a very fine brush and very gently run it around the drying edge. That often allows the fringe of color to continue to spread out a bit farther and that usually prevents the tide line from appearing.

However sometimes the line only becomes visible when all of the wash completely dries. If a line appears then, I wet a fine brush and VERY gently scrub along the line. That almost always gets rid of any remaining line without affecting the layers underneath it.

I think the truss beam looks good. Sometimes there are "tide marks" / "centrical blobby/dark edges" in real life too.

p.s. I also noticed the mising rivet, but wondered if it was done deliberately.

I don't think your approach is bad. Personally, I wouldn't do any more than that to ensure the crane fits in with the interior of the workshop.

Bernhard

Hauk,

I think you're weathering efforts are quite good. This part of the speech is called 'captatio benevolentiae'. And now to criticism: you're facing a well known problem which drove me crazy for years. Whenever one applies rather thin/wet colors or washes, they tend to dry around uprisings in a not scaleable manner, creating some kind of centrical blobby/dark edges around those spots. It helps to take away all fluid 'laying' on top of the surface and to use a rather dry soft brush to move the remaining color to where it is meant to be, but in the end an airbrush and several thin layers of thinned color may do the job better. Aside of that I'm with Russ that adding some pigments will blend everything together.
I'm quite sure that those details won't be visible later on, but I noticed that all the axles of the trolley seem to have been shortened with a wading-safe side cutter. According to all the other breathtaking detailing milled axle ends with center holes would add a lot to the model.
Last but not least there's a rivet missing. If I find it I'll keep it  .

Honestly: Always a pleasure to see and follow your work. This shadowbox is going to be a cathedral of work.

Volker