Hitachi Zaxis

gorby
Nice job!

Martin Oostrom
The weathering is great, especially on the scoop. Well done 👍

Marek Swiderski
3D piece of art

Bryn Crandell
WOW!. At first glance when i saw the bucket I thought it was the real deal. You must tell us how you do that. Sheer genius.

David Funke
nice!

Ingo F
Looks amazing. 👍

Michael Hickey
Unbelievable weathering.👍👍👍

Roberto Rocat
Realistic weathering 👍

gorby
Even better now the photos are the right way up.
But it needs a building site to go with it.

Treehugger
Very nice! And inspirational. 🙂

ohcray
Beautiful! I've been wanting to get one of these kits, but I doubt I could achieve your level of realism. Great job!

Daniel Klink
Love it 👍 Fantastic weathering skills

Nathan Dempsey
Just beautiful.

Martin Brablec
Thank you guys ! On a scoop I used a metallic paste AGAMA, Brown metal, Gunmetal and Steel.
draco-model.cz/156-metalicke-pasty/

Tim Hofstetter
One suggestion: this appears to be a working excavator, so the inside & sides of the bucket, and the dozer blade front surface, should really be shiny steel color, instead of rust. Those surfaces get a lot of scrubbing from dirt, like a farm plowshare does, and so they should be shiny polished steel. What you really want is just short of chrome, but not white-silver like aluminum.

Maybe whatever you used for the hydraulic cylinder shafts. That's pretty close.

Dash Rendar
Very nice build, lovely weathering!