January 10, 2015

Painting the Tank Part 1

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Starting with a white prime on most of the vehicles will let me have a bit of a faded look to the vehicles also it lets me mask the white stars on them.

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I cut the stars from masking tape using some plastic decorative stars I bought ages ago.

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Placed on the Tank and the truck.

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I wanted to experiment this time with preshading by spraying Tamiya Olive Drab

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Then the vehicles were sprayed with thinned down Tamiya Nato Green. I went a bit lighter coverage on the truck compared to the tank which makes it look a bit sun faded.

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With the masks peeled and assembled they look good already. I still need to add washes and some drybrushing to finish them off.