Get yer kits out.

T34(r):


Edit: Dragon, 1:35th

 

Just doing the Malta stonewall camo on me Matilda, just seen your T34 so might just give up and shoot it.

Adam, what make and scale T34 is that?

 

Cheers.
The streaked rust on the sides is dots of Tamiya's 'rust' weathering stuff thinned and smeared with a cotton bud, the other rust on the links, pipes etc. is rubbed on neat with the thingy provided in the weathering 'compact', useful stuff and dead easy.
Reassured you like the running gear mate, so did I. It seems to have gone ok because I just gave up. Sprayed the whole lot black then brown and covered it all over with Mig powder. Didn't even paint the tyres and it's come out better than ones I've put real effort into. It's something mentioned in a Steve Zaloga book and I reckon he's got a point.

 

Here's me Matilda in Malta stonewall camo.
I'll take some better ones in the sunshine tomorrow.
(Kev, I'm always hard on myself, things never come out how I want.)
Think I need to get back doing some figures.

 

If you can paint lines that precisely in 72nd I don't reckon you'll have any trouble at all going back to figures!

(Start with a new Lewis gun for Jock?)

 

So is it OK then?
Just felt lines were too thick and Matilda looked a bit dirty for Malta.
Not quite got the hang on the wash yet.
Like you said once, Adam, looks like it a victim of an oil-spill.

 

Looks OK to me, awaiting your daylight shots.
know what you mean about washes, I'm bothering less and less with them and drybrushing. Where I do use 'em I've finally taken all the advice and use barely any colour at all, building it up if needed, enamel wash over acrylic paint made the most difference though, much more controllable/subtle.

 

Popped outside before heading off to school, rearranged the spilt sand from the sandpit & some ornamental chippings to recreate Malta in my backgarden. Now I can post them.
As it's only my 3rd kit since becomming a "born-again modeller" I'm actually getting to like it.
I much prefered painting to making.
Think I need to look for some 54mm & 75mm metal figures.

 

Just wondering about rust.
I know AFVs were out in all weathers but did they actually last long enough to gather the amount of rust depicted by some modellers?

 

I reckon an awful lot of kits you see have been seriously overdone on the weathering, they look like they've been in the jungle for a couple of years rather than Western Europe. Very hard to get the balance right. Average combat life of many AFV's was very short indeed and I can't quite see them getting the depth of rust often illustrated, even in the incredibly harsh hands of the military. Sometimes wonder if people base their weathering on pictures of unrestored museum examples that have sat outside for 60 years.
Having said that I'm looking into LVT's for a kit at the moment and the rust on those after a short time in the briny looks pretty significant. I've also got a colour picture of an early ausf sdkfz 251 on the Eastern front in '45 and it looks like a lump of rust held together by small patches of paint. Got to try and visualise a vehicles history before painting to try and get a logical looking outcome.

 

Don't worry about it Kev, as long as you enjoyed yourself.
Why is the Hanomag taking so long?