T34's

Weathering Part 1.... probably jumped the gun a bit, but I've done it all about face so far..... After painstakingly painting the tracks so that where the wheels rubbed it was a lighter colour.......... I covered it in mud

T34's

Can't remember as a little kid doing modelling every building or painting a tank (probably out of my pocket money range)

So I bought a couple of cheap T34 tanks from a member of the Military Modelling forum, to have a go.

They build up very nicely, but could do with a lot of modification if you wanted accuracy, but as this was a painting exercise I wasn't bothered about that.

There are many ways to paint vehicles, the main (or popular at present) two methods are Colour Modulation and Preshading.

Colour Modulation is done by gradually lightening the areas of the tank.
Pre shading is done by painting the panel lines and joins and around the main areas prior to painting the main colour.

As I had two tanks and two methods of painting them, I decided to do one of each.

Anyway to stop boring you with loads of photos of the process I'll just show the end results (so far)

The one on the left is colour modulation and the one on the right pre shading.

They have had a filter applied (a thin layer of oil paint) and a pin wash (again a thin layer of oil paint, but just outlining the detail).

TO BE CONTINUED........

Who's that ? part 4

Not much done.
added some more personal equipment, change the head on Jerry and bulked his trigger finger out.

Who's That? Part 3

Did a bit of super detailing to the Jerrys equipment.

Who's that? Part 2

Realised I'd also done some work on the German MB rifle and Dragon Rifle, hhmm which one to use........ Hand is naff as well, but you can see my sprue extension. Not great detail in the hand as you can see, may play about making a hand, got an idea brewing in my head which I will experiment with. I had sharpened up the detail, replaced the epaulettes but had to open up his right arm to get everything to sit right, will have to finalise the position and putty in the gap.

Who's That?

Next up on the bench, is a couple of figures from the Masterbox "Who's That?" set.
The plan is to only do two of the figures on a small base with a wall in-between.

Box Art

And the first figure, one of the Russians.

Straps for forage bag removed from torso and replaced with.... can't remember, surgical tape I think. The top of the bag I also replaced as the original looked naff.
buttons and loops replaced on his jacket (see pic below). Hands removed and extended with sprue, cuffs drilled out to accommodate and rifle attached to hands. Just perching in the arms at the moment. Head decapitated, body drilled out, and baldy slapper Hornet head dropped in, you gotta love a bald guy. Cant decide wether or not to put a helmet on him, but it looks strange as hornet heads are very thin.

I didn't notice until it was too late that the original spacing of the button was off and the bottom button is in the wrong place.. oh well

All back to normal....nearly

Well after my Faux Pas, Ive managed to get the pics back online and the pages updated..

I've updated my "Winter in the Trenches" page with the latest pics.

Oops

Well it looks like I inadvertently deleted my photos from Google+ so will have to reload them again

Winter in the trenches

Added a dullcote varnish on him, just the rank stripes to sort out now....

Winter in the trenches

Almost done, at least he's stuck together now...