Hello all,
This was inspired by Al's rather tidy job of his Somua.I wish mine turned out half as good as his I would have been well chuffed.
The tracks , which are normally the bane of my life decided to behave them self and worked very well.I manged to weld them together and keep them joined for a change.
Then came the painting of this beast.I started off with a base coat of Vallejo sand with a Russian green blotches.It started to look quite good at this point.........
Then I thought I would be a clever sod and do black lining around the green blotches.I decided to try a black pen with a really fine point, so off to the local shop and spent £3.99 on a set of 4 pens.
I then spent a bloody long time drawing round each green blotch very carefully indeed.
I now decided to give it a wash of brown all over the tank and that's when it all went tits up.
I had not left enough time for the ink to dry and I washed the bloody lot off.
Well that's not strictly true it left a nasty black colour all over the tank.
I should have repainted the tank but I thought I could weather my way out of this one, how wrong I was!
I weathered an weathered this tank till it looked like it had been dug up.I am not sure it has worked, so I have dressed it up a half descent base and a figure to distract from the shoddy paint job.It is a nice little kit to build and is one of my favourite era's which is the early part of world war two.If I can lay my hands on another one I will snap it up.This is on the Nemesis list of kits, a bit like my Gazelle helicopter that I have cocked up for the SECOND time!
PLEASE CLICK ON IMAGES FOR A LARGER VIEW AND ANY COMMENTS MORE THAN WELCOME!
Cheers for looking Rich.
3 comments:
It is still a very nice job Rich. I think you got the blotches 'spot-on':) I too used Vallejo Russian green, but went for the slightly darker canvas as the base. Still, a good model and nice to have in the collection
Yep Rich I am with Al on this one, it does not look too bad. The setting looks great.
Good work...Did you say Gazelle!
Same base different tank :)
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