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28 Days Later: A T-34 Battalion - Part Five
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28 Days Later: Part Five
A T-34 Battalion
with Chris Townley
It has been another busy week on the brushes; this time applying decals and dry brushing on a few layers of paint to weather the vehicles. Thanks to a day of painting over the weekend with Wayne, Victor and Sean I managed to get the army finished.
Learn more about the Guards Tank Battalion here...
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Weathering
The tracks started off the week looking very shiny (and not shiny in the Firefly way!) after a drybrush of Cold Steel (FWP481).
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I wanted to tone down the effect of the Cold Steel (FWP481) whilst trying to make sure that some of the steel peeked through the mud. I gave the track a heavy dry brush of Battlefield Brown (FWP324), followed by a lighter dry brush of Battledress Brown (FWP325), paying attention not just to the tracks but also getting in and around the road wheels, and front and rear of the hull.
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Following this (and after applying the decals) I gave the entire tank a very light dry brush of Dry Dust (FWP364) just to help some of the details stand out. You can see the effect of the weathering on the front of the T-34/85 shown on the right. |
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Decals
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is not much to say here that Blake has not already covered off with his
video on how to apply decals. I decided to keep the tanks very clean
and just stick to putting two digit numbers on each turret. This way I
could run mixed tank companies with both 76mm and 85mm guns without any
of them looking out of place. |
Given that I was going to be putting
decals on forty two turrets in one hit I thought it might be prudent to
keep the number of decals manageable. |
With the decals finished and a quick dry brush of Dry Dust (FWP364) the army is done. Or at least the first part of it, now I just need to work out what will be next on my painting list! SU-100s, ISUs, ZSU.
So many things with an S and U in it!
~ Chris.
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