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[MrChef]

That's looking darned good Green Dan.

[Chris curran]

My Heng long Tanks Tiger 1 and Jagdpanther

Great Job on the Weathering.

[Chris curran]

Mostly factory painted Heng Long T90 with a little light weathering and grime added.

Awesome work here. The weathering is spot on.

[Chris curran]

That is a Bad ass Picture. Desert storm all over again.

[Chris curran]

My 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.

That looks fantastic.

[Chris curran]

Had a ton of fun this weekend weathering and detail the Pro versions of the Sherman and King Tiger! Paint those metal wheels and tracks makes them pop so much.

We airbrushed, dry brushed, washed, sponged and just had a blast bring out some more detail on these babies

Nice work James. You and the Boozer havin' a blast with the Air Brush.

[Chris curran]

Heng Long T34-85 with “painted” on and natural weathering mixing to give it that field used look.

That looks real.

[Chris curran]

Howdy 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.

That looks Fantastic. Dese Nutz.....

[Chris curran]

Here is our Panzer IV that we custom painted for winter. How we did it here in the link. https://youtu.be/ak4kDdKFRs8

Looks Great Boozer.

[Chris curran]

Got the KV85 “look alike” out for its first field trials. For more photos of the trials see my Instagram @fsttanks

Well done @Rubicon

[Chris curran]

Absolutely 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

Get yer own Hair Sprey Boozer. 😋😋

[DANOEL]

Cool truck. Looks like the running gear from a WPL E1. I found ZIL-153 Prototype that was similar in design.

Yes, I used a JJRC Q60 for the cab, front axle, transmission and frame rails. The tracked portion is based off a WPL E1 that I shortened by about 1-1/2" and removed a set of road wheels. The front axle is driven by a hobbywing esc and steered by a servo conversion. The rear tracks are driven by a second hobbywing esc and then they are mixed in my radio's dual esc mixing to adjust the front drive to match the tracks. I actually have it set to pull slightly, that along with the open front differential allow it to steer fairly well.

[Chris curran]

Ok. I bought the HL PZ.III. I decided to Upgrade it. Make it better. This was my first attempt at DAK weathering.

[Chris curran]

Once the PZ.III was done it was time for Number IV. I really enjoyed re-working these two.

[Chris curran]

Ok, Now For the panzer IV. This one was Just as fun as the PZ.III.

[quitcherbitchen]

Very Nice

[Chris curran]

Very Nice

Thanks man. Now to add the Light covers and call it good.

[Rubicon99]

1/16 "modern" US / NATO style .50 cal ammo cans. Just got some of the first run inventory available from RichJohnson Models N Stuff. Love these things they look so much better then using WW2 cans on modern tanks and equipment.

[Chris curran]

1/16 "modern" US / NATO style .50 cal ammo cans. Just got some of the first run inventory available from RichJohnson Models N Stuff. Love these things they look so much better then using WW2 cans on modern tanks and equipment.

Well done. they look real

[Chris curran]

Ok, Now For the panzer IV. This one was Just as fun as the PZ.III.

Added the Head Light Covers for My Head Light Laddies. 😋