My First Serious Attempt at Weathering a WWII Tank
Painting the Camo
I repainted the weathered panel and then blue tacked the two side skirts in place. I then mixed a little Ivory with Iraqi Sand and zenithally highlighted the tank. Once dry I matt varnished the whole thing to protect it from the upcoming masking.
The tank and Pak 40 were then masked with a mix of Silly Putty and Cling Film.
Everything was given a solid coat of VMC 70.894 Cam. Olive Green
Once dry, the mask was removed. As you can see the mask has left a residue and a stain behind that I cannot remove. I've used this putty many times before and it has not done this previously. No idea why its done that. Does Silly Putty go off over time? Is this a consequence of too much paint being mixed in to it? Is this a result of heat, humidity and layers perhaps not being as dry as I would think?I decided to try protecting it with gloss varnish this time in the hopes the putty would peel off cleaner, however at this point my airbrush refused to spray anything. It was blowing but not even water would pass through it. It took me 7 hours to get it to work again and I was ready for bed by this stage so I applied the gloss quickly, cleaned up and went to bed and finished off Agents of Shield (I enjoyed the show once it got going, but the final season definitely had its problems. Its a shame they couldn’t find a way to definitely tie it back in to the main MCU events).
Next day I masked up and applied VMC 70.826 German Cam. Med, Brown. The putty seemed to leave less of a residue this time, but that might be chance.
I whipped out my hairy brush and the three base colours and cleaned up the residue by hand. A coat of gloss varnish was applied over it all, just to be safe
Leave a Reply