The road to Normandy (and beyond?)
Yay, paint!
So, still waiting on some paint to show up, but I’ve got enough to get started, so I’ve started with the German tanks. First up, the command section. I started off with a spray of Vallejo grey rattle can primer. It was my first time using this stuff, and I think I have a new favourite spray primer. After that, I painted an all-over coat of VMC Dark Yellow.
Serious props to the guy that convinced the German military that mustard yellow was a good basis for a camo patternStep 2 is a drybrush of VMC Buff over everything as a highlight. Nice, quick, & simple, and it looks good.
Still mustard yellow thoughNext up is some refractive green. For these 2, I started on the right hand side working to the left and back on the tank, and once those ‘lines’ were done, I connected them in places to break up the outline more, and make it look more random.
Baby Panzers Doo Doo Doo Doo DooLastly, I painted VMC Chocolate Brown on the hulls, in the opposite direction to the Refractive Green. Tried to use it to cover up some bits of the green that I wasn’t massively happy with.
So now I’m kinda at the point where I either need to wait for this crappy weather to break so I can spray the rest of these, or I need the next batch of paint I ordered to arrive, cause all I’m able to do now is work a bit more on the lines (wanna drybrush them to make them look sprayed on), and base the smaller details on the tanks. Or I can work on the Tiger hulls I guess, but I’d rather finish one platoon before moving onto the next.
Ok, now these are starting to really look legit.
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