Bolt Action USMC 1000pts army

Never made a Rubicon kit before. This was quite a nice kit to assemble. As I said earlier in the project, after seeing some comparison pics I found online I am not worried about it scaling awkwardly with my other vehicles.

The only minus I can think of is that there’s no stowage. That’s not a massive issue and if that keeps the price down I am happy with that trade off. Obviously it would be lovely to have the parts to make the other variant of turret, but that’s really asking for too much and there are a fair number of changes to the hull of the Stuart variant compared to the Scott anyway.

I am unsure about the colour. I don’t think I want my tank to be as weathered and battered as the one colour image I found of the Scott, in the Pacific theatre, above. I think I may add some sandy dust style weathering and need to paint the head lamps, but otherwise this is done. Only Squad 3 to paint and I think I am all but done.

I added a few spots of green stuff, partly to fill a gap and partly for muddy sods and texture.

I used a Deathguard Green primer from above over a Humbrol acrylic olive drab from the sides. I used a watered down coat of Vallejo Brown Violet green to knock back the brightness of the Deathguard primer. I used Zandri Dust as a dry brush to help define the high areas again after the Brown Violet.

I started the weathering with some Oil Brown modelmates spray then some citadel cryptek armourshade on the tracks, road wheels and the machine gun. Then a dry brush of Leadbelcher around the tracks and machine gun and some chipping here and there. Bit of Nulin Oil and Agrax here and there for good measure, but I might try to get some more dust and sandy grime to make it more Pacific campaign friendly.