Gaz's Spring Clean Hobby Challenge 2020

Hey guys, so I spent yesterday and today working on a Panzer I tank for Bolt Action. This is my first mini for a Bolt Action force and was lovely little mini to work on.

I keep the colour palette pretty limited in this one and thinned every layer I added to the armour to help it have the colours shifts and shadows in a way that looked right. Did everything with a brush as I still haven’t unpacked my airbrush yet.

I was surprised that the mini didn’t come with decals so kept the markings very basic after I screwed up the numbers on the turret and spent 30 minutes trying to repair the area to look like the rest.

So the process for this one was:

Armour

Basilicanum Grey (C) 50:50 Contrast Medium, I have found when painting flat area you need contrasts thinned to get good coverage. Keep the brush strokes going in one direction and only make one pass. If you go back you kinda ruin it.

Nuln Oil (S) 50:50 Lahmian Medium I kept this around the overhangs, panels and plates of the tank. Basically black lining it and creating shadows too.

Dawnstone (L) 50:50 water with this I took away a lot of the excess on the brush and used to act as the light point against the already established shadows.

Tracks

Ammo Mig rust effect

Nuln Oil (S)

Ironbreaker (L) Drybrush

Wheels

Same as the Armour but with Black Templar (C) used around the wheel sections for the outer rim.

German Marking

Dawnstone (L) to get a rough shape to work from.

White Scar (L) to do the final marking.

Thinned down Nuln Oil (S) just over the white to take the cleaness away.

Having finished the mini looked really nice but had a factory fresh feel I couldn’t shake. After all these had been in production since the 1930’s so I grabbed some bits to do some weathering.

A quick dab of a sponge with the Ammo Mig chipping on it used similar to drybrushing having got most of it off with some tissue and I had some nice surface pitting but not so much it looked like it had been abandoned.

After that I grabbed my Ammo Mig North Africa Dust pigment and gave it a coating here and there before applying thinners to reinforce it. I did find I had put on too much and ended up using more thinners and earbud to remove a lot of it but happy with the final results.

Happy hobbying everyone