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i have to say there is a nasty twist in all that eager helpfullness around dakka...sometimes when providing new and helpfull and revealing links to friends it is a bit like spreading ones own misery....that

http://www.blackarmyproductions.com/black_army_007.htm

A list of lists: http://hephsforge.blogspot.com/2010/06/lesser-known-miniature-ranges-and.html

will take me ages to look through... all that drooling that i will be having and then realising that a bank robbery might be needed doing for getting me that stuff....oh the suffering....

Here is some ideas of how it can be that the mudline can be so "cut off"
http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?134375-Private-Military-Vehicles-Germany



Of course some vehicles seem to get sloppier than others!

No comments on those cool images?

to tell you the truth i made a comment on my wifes laptop but then the IE kicked me outa dakka and i didn´t want to do it again...darn... now i have to^^

so here it goes:

i remember driving with a fellow recruit and our monster of a sarge in one of these MAN 5t trucks through a fiering range... the terrain mostly very unneven and even with hills... on our platform there were another bunch of 5+ recruits holing on for their dear lives...and our sarge laughing like a mad igor from fraankenstein movie...it was all i could do to not wet my pants then... i bet the guys on the platform had grown a bunch of grey hairs too....

and to make the thing even worse ater the supposedly "fun" time having driving like a crazed monkey through rough terrain... guess who had to clean up the mess afterwards...yeah hell don´t even think about saying the sarge...

Viktor von Domm wrote:to tell you the truth i made a comment on my wifes laptop but then the IE kicked me outa dakka and i didn´t want to do it again...darn... now i have to^^

so here it goes:

i remember driving with a fellow recruit and our monster of a sarge in one of these MAN 5t trucks through a fiering range... the terrain mostly very unneven and even with hills... on our platform there were another bunch of 5+ recruits holing on for their dear lives...and our sarge laughing like a mad igor from fraankenstein movie...it was all i could do to not wet my pants then... i bet the guys on the platform had grown a bunch of grey hairs too....

and to make the thing even worse ater the supposedly "fun" time having driving like a crazed monkey through rough terrain... guess who had to clean up the mess afterwards...yeah hell don´t even think about saying the sarge...

Ah, either the ole bucket and brush, or pressure washer eh? So, it is a bit to make the tanks look "dirty" I can how the one approach I used is close to the one with the Leopard chassis, i may look into doing one like the MAN truck below it, especially the smaller ones If I can get them like the gecko and goanna!

if you must know i served in the bundeswehr.... a highly advanced military unit that provided a brush for every soldier...and we got every time reminded to take good care of our brushes...cuase a new recruit would be easy to order.... new brushes don´t grow on trees...you know...?

on a serious note...that leo chassis is your current modus operandi when it comes to muddying up vehicles...would be cool to see the geckos and goanna done up in the MAN fashion...the windowpanes specially...argueing that those way smaller vehicles tend to be very fast under way and thus have more time to collect lots of more dirt^^ (i know theory is flawed but well... kill me^^)

Viktor von Domm wrote:if you must know i served in the bundeswehr.... a highly advanced military unit that provided a brush for every soldier...and we got every time reminded to take good care of our brushes...cuase a new recruit would be easy to order.... new brushes don´t grow on trees...you know...?

on a serious note...that leo chassis is your current modus operandi when it comes to muddying up vehicles...would be cool to see the geckos and goanna done up in the MAN fashion...the windowpanes specially...argueing that those way smaller vehicles tend to be very fast under way and thus have more time to collect lots of more dirt^^ (i know theory is flawed but well... kill me^^)

LOL! I know about the Bundeswehr, we were always kind of jealous s we saw your guys with full hair while we had to get haircuts every time it went past 3"!

Yeah, makes sense for the big girls to go and be lass muddied than the little ones as the little ones are small enough to get a good coating! shorter, and speeding makes for some plumes of muck to splash all over!

The Geckos and Goannas will be more like the MAN trucks as they are not even 5ton trucks and are all terrain types, and those always get a good dose of mud!


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Then of course making the windshield wiper effect as well will be interesting!


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I lost a rubber overboot to German mud, the greenish gray mud.

Stuff is looking good man.

Looks like you are using a brush to apply your "mud". Try a sponge sometime and see if you like the effect better.

Mad4Minis wrote:Stuff is looking good man.

Looks like you are using a brush to apply your "mud". Try a sponge sometime and see if you like the effect better.

No real sponges, but left over bits of battlefoam for my minis may work that trick.

i´ve done weathering with said battlefoam and foam from blisters too... works quite good.

have you already ordered the goanna and geckos? i am now eager to see them in your hand^^

and when i was recruited some 16 years ago i even went with really long hair... figuring i got a free shave then by military^^ none such luck...instead my sarge... the one i mentioned before...he went wild on me, yelling and foaming how i could insult the good and decent bundeswehr with such a haircut or rather lack of...so he ordered me to go to the city then and have it cut on my own expenses... and guess what next day i had to go anew as he still didn´t liked it...what a jerk...but he was such a bulking animal of a guy you wouldn´t have dared speaking against him...

No money to get the geckos and goannas as yet.

Sounds like you had a real beast of a sgt.

yep he was around 2meters high and a hulk... and he had teeth like a boar... no kidding...and to make it even more funnier... he once told us when we were all geared up and true made soldiers (as true as you can be in peacetimes) that he had learned to be a beekeeper^^ but then decided to become a soldier...for the most part we were terrified... but after some months we knew his bark was worse than his bite and we could relax a bit... then one day in our hall for all our vehicles a key broke and he opened the big!! gate with a fireaxe!!! you have to imagine a halforc with a big axe and he is grinning as if he already ate some of us and he says the lines: "i was born for violence..." he must have enjoyed himself and the look on our faces immensly...

Viktor von Domm wrote:yep he was around 2meters high and a hulk... and he had teeth like a boar... no kidding...and to make it even more funnier... he once told us when we were all geared up and true made soldiers (as true as you can be in peacetimes) that he had learned to be a beekeeper^^ but then decided to become a soldier...for the most part we were terrified... but after some months we knew his bark was worse than his bite and we could relax a bit... then one day in our hall for all our vehicles a key broke and he opened the big!! gate with a fireaxe!!! you have to imagine a halforc with a big axe and he is grinning as if he already ate some of us and he says the lines: "i was born for violence..." he must have enjoyed himself and the look on our faces immensly...

He probably would have been happy back in WWI.

Now I am basically just painting the vehicle commanders and starting to catch up on the other sabre, dragoon, and a lancer!

hmmm so we can expect some nice pics soon^^ and about my ol sarge... guess he would be perfect in a trenchwar...and hopefully some other sod would have been better even^^

soon to be new nice pics as these vehicles will have different numbers applied before the dirt is splashed!

touching up the camo now, then I can go decal a mania

lol decalmania^^ that sabre is heading stright to decal city and no mistake^^

Also, new uniforms color for tanker crews, Adeptus Battlegray

a good choice for the jumpsuits

Yeah, a darker more simple uniform, with a lighter gray dry-brushed over it, one could say that command did not see the need for the camo patterns of the infantry being needed for the tank divisions, so, they get a more specialized uniform to denote their status.

totally makes sense for me!

So, the Dragoon all buttoned up is next.
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you make fluff for the decalmisstakes of yours^^ lol...i am intrigued now^^
by the way, the aquilla is a tad malformed on the back... intentional too?

Yes, the the halftrack known as the the "Shaky Eighty", infamous for the roughest of rides, even on smooth pavement! so in honor of it, the crews snuck in that bit on the left side. The Aquilla is damaged paint due to it being the exit ramp of the vehicle.

Now for more decal fun! The Lancer BMP-80
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rear power ramps, this way the squad can peel left and right.
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every time i read the name lancer BMP...i instantly read it as bump...

and nice fluff^^

Viktor von Domm wrote:every time i read the name lancer BMP...i instantly read it as bump...

and nice fluff^^

Thanks, and LOL! Now for the crowd favorite, the T-104 Sabre
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i think the jerrycans bounds need a touchup...there seems to be a tad green where your blueish grey should be...

other than that a very crisp tanky^^ and what had you done to the commander from OC of that sabre? the one sporting on the top is clearly a GW mini...or not? i see an aquilla on his chest...

Viktor von Domm wrote:i think the jerrycans bounds need a touchup...there seems to be a tad green where your blueish grey should be...

other than that a very crisp tanky^^ and what had you done to the commander from OC of that sabre? the one sporting on the top is clearly a GW mini...or not? i see an aquilla on his chest...

Well, still plenty to do before the mud and grime hits it!

Oh, I am saving hiom for a different tank, and I needed to show compatibility with the minis.

Well, still plenty to do before the mud and grime hits it!

Oh, I am saving hiom for a different tank, and I needed to show compatibility with the minis.

yup...probably^^

and good idea to switch the commanders to get a more uniform look throughout the army!