My First Serious Attempt at Weathering a WWII Tank
Golden Button! (Great for ego, not so great for camouflage)
This won me a Golden Button!
https://www.beastsofwar.com/featured/community-spotlight-weathering-tanks-heroquest-romano-british/
XLBS chat at 35:45: https://www.beastsofwar.com/featured/xlbs-environmental-effects/
My Feedback from the video:
The putty residue is both red and light green, the same colours as the putty. It is definitely not just the undercoat showing through. I know its not too clean in the pics. I did varnish both times before applying the putty. Before the first application I uses matt varnish. which apparently does nothing to protect anything. I used gloss for the second layer and this worked much better. lesson learned. Matt is purely for looks and is useless otherwise.
The chipping guide I was following was going to have me chip the base coat and each camo layer separately so you could see the layers through the chips of different depths.
I know I should have applied the decals sooner. That was my plan. They just slipped my mind when the moment came and I’ve been kicking myself ever since. I think its because I kept them out of sight to protect them. I’ve also painted up around 2500 minis and perhaps 40 of them have decals? It’s not part of my usual process.
My chipping medium was AK Interactive Chipping medium. I’d assume that’s a good reliable brand.
Thanks for the CommSpot!
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