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Originally posted by mshagg View PostMy first tank, so by definition, my first attempt at weathering. I've not worked with oil paints before, very different beasts to acrylic but I can see why they're loved so much in terms of the subtle effects they can create.
That said nothing beats an airbrush for really getting the grime laid on lol.
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Originally posted by GetSmart View PostHowdy all. I bought my first tank, a Heng Long Sherman earlier this year, and I've had a lot of fun working on it. I chose the Sherman because it's the classic US WW2 tank and I'd recently started re-reading about the D-Day landings, as an alternative to reading about politics. And the reason I started reading about WW2 is that I watched the movie T-34 on Amazon Prime. If you haven't seen it, check it out, it's easily one of the best tank movies I've seen, and that includes Fury. But I digress...
In order to customize this particular Sherman, I had to come up with a back-story. This M4A3 armed with a 150 mm howitzer would have been, in my imagination, the command tank with the headquarters company that saw action with Patton's Third Army in Normandy. This accounts for the mud (Vallejo earth texture) which I applied liberally. I slathered it on the metal tracks and since this stuff sets up like rock, I just kept the motor going with the tank held stationary, which also scraped off the excess mud on the bottom of the tracks, revealing the steel tread. I had to do some research on this because apparently some tanks had rubber treads. I love the effect of the bare steel showing through the mud.
Tank crews lived with their tanks, as indicated by the sleeping rolls, tarps, tent poles and groundsheets, along with supplies and spares that festoon the rear deck. Note too the orange identification sheet, used to warn off Allied fighters hunting for targets. In an effort to survive against the better armed Panther and Tiger tanks, crews would weld steel plates to the side of the hull to protect the crew. (I made these out of simple polystyrene sheet 2 mm thick). For the same reason, crews would paint over the 5-pointed star: they felt it gave the Germans too good a target to aim at from a long distance.
I have no direct experience of any of this of course. But I read a lot of books and looked at a lot of photos. I hope you enjoy mine.
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Originally posted by Merry Boozer RC View PostHere is our Panzer IV that we custom painted for winter. How we did it here in the link. https://youtu.be/ak4kDdKFRs8
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Originally posted by Merry Boozer RC View PostAbsolutely love my panzer spent a little over a week painting it. Started out buy washing the model with soap and water then began the weather process. I started by stealing my wife’s hairspray and doing two coats of hairspray on the model. After they had dryer for around 10 minutes I did splotchy white paint from my airbrush all over the tank. Let that dry for about 5 minutes then got out my toothbrush and a cup of water and won’t to town chipping off the white paint. After it was at a level I enjoyed I sealed it in with testers dull coat. I also won’t in with oils and washes but let’s talk about that later
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Originally posted by tank_me View PostCool truck. Looks like the running gear from a WPL E1. I found ZIL-153 Prototype that was similar in design.
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