Mr. Bucky Sheftall was a New Yorker before he began studying linguistics at Int'l Studies (Modern Japanese History) at Waseda University. Today he lives in Hamamatsu-shi, Shizuoka, Japan. His favorite modeling topics cover a wide variety of subjects. Here he brings us his 4th WnW build, the kit #32024 Hannover CL.II

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Hi Bucky

Beautiful work! Thanks for submitting this.

All the best

Rowan

Hi,

Beautiful, realistic, weathered with sobriety.
I love your work!

Regards.

Very well done Bucky. Much admired your detailed work and paintwork.All beautifully done. Carmel.

Bucky; superb work! To be honest, when I saw the header photo I though 'Who restored a CL.II?' And looking at your in-progress photos, one could almost imaging they were shot at Silver Hill or Wairarapa.

Thanks for comments, all. JPTRR, the header photo is my first experiment with greenscreening on Photoshop.

Shot the model against the most honkingly radioactive lime green colored construction paper I could find at the stationery store. Then I Googled, literally, "open field" and this pic of a nice English moor (Marston, IIRC) came up as a hit in Wikipedia Commons.

Drew in the shadow on the grass with the Photoshop airbrush tool.

Very nice build and feature - it's a complex subject and I think you've represented it beautifully.

I'm starting a WnW Hannover CL.II myself and the info you are providing for the build ahead is very welcome and I'm studying it before I go any further... I'm building an early No.2 - scheme "A".

Only comments / suggestions I have is on the Photoshop work:

- when separating the model from the solid color background, turn off feathering / anti-alias feature on the tool you are using (magic wand, lasso etc). This will get rid of the halo effect - you want the pixels sharp on/off along your cut edge.

- Photoshop has tendency to lighten files it opens (so do a lot of view tools) by about 10%. Test your files by dropping them directly into a browser of your choice if your goal is internet publishing - this should give you a better idea of end result.

Simply magnificent work, this is one superb bit of modelling. Well done Sir!!
Cheers,
Lance

Stunning work! Its a major job to paint at this scale, I don't know how I'm going to do it on my little Airfix Hannover. Your build has given me a lot of inspiration to get that out. I may look for a simpler colour scheme though.

Bucky, what an outstanding build. I still can't believe you actually made your own five-color lozenges. It just amazes me. Thanks for sharing with us.
Joel

Hi:

REALLY FANTASTIC...!!!!

CONGRATS & BTW...!

Diego

Bucky,
A well deserved feature! Your attention to detail and level of work is better than ever!
RAGIII

Ditto to my Amigo above comments !