How to be an Armoured Farmer, building Hobart's Funnies in Glorious 15mm (and maybe 28mm if they arrive in time!)
Time to add some colour
With the base coat down I laid down a dark base colour. For this I selected Vallejo Russian Uniform 70.924 and chocolate Brown 70.872 this was a 5 to 1 mix and then 50/50 with Vallejo thinner and a drop, or two of flow enhancer. I mixed this in a disposable shot glass, so that any bits would settle to the bottom and could then watch it as it is poured into the brush.
As I wanted the black base coat to show through, I was very careful to do thin coats until I was happy I had the coverage I wanted but without obliterating to base coat. Normally I am terrible at judging this, but I recently decided that if my mind was telling me to do one more coat, that is the exact time to stop, as the highlight coat will do that and give better colour variation.
For the highlight coat I just applied straight Russian Uniform. Thinned exactly as before.
The paints for this step.
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