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[761st]

SoCal - you did an amazing job with the T-35, a KV-1 and an officer!

[SoCalBobS]

Hmm, I don't see the photo I attached to my previous post. Well, I'm always producing. Here's a really short clip that includes some stills and a clip for "proof it runs".

[SoCalBobS]

Two Zis's: The Zis-3 gun needs a tow vehicle. Enter a Zis-150. A while back I'd gotten the truck, by JJRC from Taigen Hobbies. It had been sitting in a cabinet, and I was taking it out for a project when I realized it already had a purpose in life!






I'll probably dirt & rust up the truck to match the gun.

A note here. Stay away from this kit! It uses a single 130 motor, incapable of any power. A pebble will cause the truck to stall rather than climb over. The supplied battery is also powerless. I rewired and cut the truck to accept a 2S 800mah battery. The stock steering is straight or full deflection. I rebuilt it completely with a servo for proportional movement. Finally, the controller or the receiver is unreliable.

But, like some girlfriends, it looks cool so we keep it around.

[SoCalBobS]

Another 3D Printed item; a Zis-3 M42 WW2 Russian 45mm anti tank gun.





Officer Dimitri Mishkin gets around a lot...

[Sappo]

Abrams on the prowl

[Rubicon99]

Not mine. An excellent conversation of the Tamiya Leopard 1A4 into an early model Leopard 1. I wish HL would make this version🤞🤞

[SoCalBobS]

A T-35, a KV-1 and an officer!

[SoCalBobS]

KV-1E in worn winter camo. My first foray into 'heavy chipping fluid".

[SoCalBobS]

T-35 Road Testing:

[Sappo]

Was a bit hot the other day so I took the kv1 for a bit of a paddle in the water

[RichJohnson]

My Marksman Sherman performed well for its first battle.

[quitcherbitchen]

I found this stuff for weathering from a guy on the RCTANKWARFARE website. He is a Californian. Magic Grime from Jnewboy $21 shipped. Comes in three different flavors.

[Rubicon99]

Very nice Paint! Do you pre-shade all your tanks with black or dark gray?

I can not speak for the two tanks on either side of the Centurion those belong to DavidN here on HS. DavidN does some really nice paint work.

I do not pre-shade my “battling” tanks with paint. I do dust on chalks and then rub it into the high points and panel joints. I typically only use three maybe four colors of chalks mostly bright rust, dark rust and black. Then some oil to simulate fuel spills or joint grease spread. After that I let natural weathering dirt, dust and mud do the rest. Usual it takes about a month of use for enough natural weathering builds up before I call a tank done. In the above Centurion photos it has almost no natural weathering and to me eye still has a long way to go to achieve the grimy field use I like on my “battling” tanks.

Now my display tanks are a totally different story. I use completely different methods to achieve a given look on them. Mostly done though paint with chalk hi lights.

[Hellcat 7]

Pre battle day photos. Tamiya Centurion parked between a Tiger and JagPanther.

Tamiya 1/16 Centurion tank.

Very nice Paint! Do you pre-shade all your tanks with black or dark gray?

[Rubicon99]

Pre battle day photos. Tamiya Centurion parked between a Tiger and JagPanther.

Tamiya 1/16 Centurion tank.

[Rubicon99]

Tamiya Centurion 1/16 RC tank in mid-late 1960s IDF theme.

[Vaseline]

So when im doing a wash with tanks that have the dunkelgelb for german armor, or tan tanks in general, I used a wash made by citadel called "Seraphim Sepia" you can reverse engineer it if you like but I find anything else too dark for a tan tank, although I do use a brown and black wash in strategic locations like where there would be grease or water would carry engine soot and such. Again I use Citadel products for those; Flat Nuln Oil which is black.(they make a gloss Nuln oil, and that works for spilled petrol) and Agrax Earth, which is a medium brown. They might not be everyones cup of tea as they are an acrylic wash and dont flow as nicely as an enamel based wash. that being said, I personally like them and what I use.

[DavidN]

I like very much the true opinions and advice from everyone. That's one of the reason we post our results. Thank you :-)

[Vaseline]

It just looks really wierd first being so dark, and then the zimmerit is all weathered, and the flats look factory pristine, If it where me Id give it a bit of diffusing with the tan basecoat to tone down the stripes, and decal. But hey, your tank man,I aint gunna tell you how to do your tank.

[DavidN]

I personally would have gone with a sepia or brown wash, the black is a bit too much contrast with the tan IMO, other than that good painting.

You are right. I did add about 1/3 of the brown in my mixture but the indoor light deceived my observation. I will fix it this weekend.