This is the early Tamiya kit. Builds simple enough. You know I just cant do it out of the box. Found some great reference photos on line. There were several versions. I debated wheather to add the machine gun ball or even zimmerit.At first I thought this vehicle was only used in Russia then found it in the streets of Italy. So you will see in the stowage a crate of wine bottles freshly corked.
As usual for me, I used Model Master Enamels to custom blend my color scheme through a Badger 150 airbrush. I applied several coats of the light tan color, then freehand airbrushed in the dark green. From there I dullcoated and proceeded to weather and stain with oil paints.
I preped the pinewood base with a coat of home supply spray paint so the wood did not absorb moisture from the sculpy / woodlands scenics mixture. I folded in tube artists acrylic dark brown paste, then folded in some dry foliage. I tighten the tank into the wet mud mixture with fine wire pulled through the base and twisted tight underneath.
Vince Barrale 7-10-11
1 comment:
once again your work is one of the best.....you should teach a class in your stile of finish your kits......if you bring this kit to the meeting then i will bring my little dog and see what parts go missing....i found out the my dog is a critic in kits if she don't like the work she would try to steal something if she likes the work the she don't mess with the kit.....funny right...any way keep building....latter
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