Gaz's Spring Clean Hobby Challenge 2020
Bolt Action Panzer I Tank, super cool little vehicle
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
Aw, @noyjatat , she’s so cu-u-uute! Great choice for a historical vehicle, easily making up a third, sometimes almost half, of the 1939-40 Panzer Divisions (depending on which division – but always a lot). Persisted well in 1941, unfortunately for their crews. Can you imagine coming up against a Barbarossa-era T-34/B in this thing? Great job on the markings.
@oriskany cheers buddy. I thought it was wrongly scaled to begin with when put next to the minis. Then I did some research into it and found some pics of them next to troops. Great little mini 🙂