Collins Does Afghanistan 2013-2014
Mount Up!
White Dragon Miniatures have just released their new Mastiff 2 model and when I first saw it I promised myself one, or two, because lets face it, everything works in a minimum of a pair.
Above are a few stock pictures from a quick google search. You can see lots of footage of Mastiffs doing their thing on YouTube too.
So! To building and painting!
what you’ll need:
- knife
- superglue
- bowl of warm soapy water
- Primer (i used white)
- Zandri dust
- karak stone
- Screaming skull
- agrax earthshade
- nuln oil
- lahmium medium
- cadian fleshtone
- boltgun metal
- mechanicus standard grey
Right out of the box
WDM recommend that you wash their models before use due the use of mold release.
I used an electric toothbrush and warm soapy water. It wasn’t enough, my primer didn’t adhere as well as i would like, i had to do a repair to paintwork at the end, more on that later.
I thought i was being smart but i guess I should have used a cloth or something similar as well.
The other thing to note is that you cant build and then paint this model. It needs to be part built, then painted then the bar armour glued on and rear mounted cameras and the wing mirrors added on last.
Below I’ll go through the steps with the left vehicle being the current and the right being the previous. Quite convenient because you can see before/after images.
Prime with white and then spray Zandri Dust followed by an (optional) Agrax wash
Heavy dry brush of karak stone (left)
Medium dry brush of screaming skull (left)
Light dry brush of cadian fleshtone (left)
Weathering using lahmium medium and screaming skull. (Left) The most important step!
All glued together and finished!
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