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Viktor von Domm wrote:i sometimes cringe a bit at the fact of how much work is ruined once you aply the mud...but there is only one way to weather down a tank... you have to firstly make him shiny and then destroy the paintjob^^

Ah yes, but the final results speak for themselves, machines that have the look of actual campaigning or actual live training to them.

Speaking of, a double treat as both Lancers are together for the next round to show the dirty wash effects
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Still not as dirty as the first one.
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And there we go, just have one more OC to dirty up and that is the pristine looking Claymore.

if i got that right, the second wash helped bring along a mile the muddy look! after the claymore there might be the need for a new armyshot? at "least" the motorized part^^

Viktor von Domm wrote:if i got that right, the second wash helped bring along a mile the muddy look! after the claymore there might be the need for a new armyshot? at "least" the motorized part^^

Hmmm, the OC models all together, interesting, I am about out of the mud color I use, so I may be stalled on the Claymore until I can get more. I could also pose the fully dirty Chimera and Perun with them, and the "Mazurka"

well i had the complete family shot in mind... blst no muddy paint anymore...? that is a blow...

Hmm, I've been following the progress of this lot for a while, and I love seeing all the Old Crow vehicles you've done.

However, in this case, I think you may have gone a bit overboard with the mud paint on the sides. It appears that the mud is more of a paint than a muddyness . Perhaps for future vehicles, consider buiding up the mud slowly with washes or drybrushes and letting a bit more of the vehicle show through . Lastly, a bit of texture via sand, silt, or whatever can add some muddiness to the look.

Here's an example of a less extreme muddying.
http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/181952-basilisk.html?m=2
The grit on the treads is just "sheetrock" brand paint texture. It's really cheap. You just glue some on, paint it the color you want, and then drybrush it for contrast.

These are only minor quibbles. Keep up the good work.

Viktor von Domm wrote:well i had the complete family shot in mind... blst no muddy paint anymore...? that is a blow...

Well, I have just enough to get a start on it.

Eilif wrote:Hmm, I've been following the progress of this lot for a while, and I love seeing all the Old Crow vehicles you've done.

However, in this case, I think you may have gone a bit overboard with the mud paint on the sides. It appears that the mud is more of a paint than a muddyness . Perhaps for future vehicles, consider buiding up the mud slowly with washes or drybrushes and letting a bit more of the vehicle show through . Lastly, a bit of texture via sand, silt, or whatever can add some muddiness to the look.

Here's an example of a less extreme muddying.
http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/181952-basilisk.html?m=2
The grit on the treads is just "sheetrock" brand paint texture. It's really cheap. You just glue some on, paint it the color you want, and then drybrush it for contrast.

These are only minor quibbles. Keep up the good work.

Oh no worries, as Vik will tell you, I do respond to feedback, the look I went for here is similar to what can happen to vehicles if they hit certain kinds of sticky-gooey, yet watered down clay like mud like I found in Germany and even had some pics posted from such a muddying. it winds up looking as if the vehicles got a new coat of paint all over some of them and since it came from a river or stream that got churned up, the stuff had little grit to it, very smooth stuff

Now my Perun is a true earthen mud mover as I used salt crystals in my paint to smulate pebbles and small stones of more "No mans' Land" mud.
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long missed friend the perun^^ yep she is a mudracker^^

Viktor von Domm wrote:long missed friend the perun^^ yep she is a mudracker^^

Yep, she is the plow in the making.

lol... seen the update of your waaaagh storyline... will read that one in the morning... to go with some flakes^^

in the meanwhile i have made some pics and uploaded them so that you see that i wasn´t lazy^^

Cool! On my way over now!

Hey Shazo , just catching up with your wonderful odd ball tank collection. The group shots of the the tanks on the previous pages are nice , its good to see them all together , its sometimes hard to make out the sizes of them individually .
I noticed several new editions since the last time i checked in . The claymores and those low profile tanks above all looking suitably dirty as is the the Perun matey. keep it up fella! its always good to see what else you have added to your armored legion. Oh and the potential new commissar is a must!

gosh that must have been a talk a long time ago was that the nick fury one? the one with the cigar and the british greatcoat uniform?

Nah we speak of the fremale Kommissar for Zhvezdedova

Folks just need to stay tuned to what happens next.

Claymore got the mud afterall, I had just enough left!


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well that sure was fast, now hop hop up to the washing!^^

That is the mud and wash

aye? looked from the top a bit fresher than i thought as postwashed...hmmm must have been a trick of the eye....

Yeah that older Claymore got the plain devlan mud wash, the second one got a wash of a mix a friend made, he gave me 2 washes, one that shows really dirty, and a weaker one for more subtle stuff.

ah ok, how did he make them? i tried myslf once and made a marmelade glass worth of some homebrewed stuff...cheap acrylic paint for wallpaint but i think the effect wasn´t that good...

Not sure, I would have to track him down and ask what he mixed and how much of each part of the liquids. He put them in squeeze bottles and added a bit of scrap sprue to help agitate the stuff when I shake the bottle as it does separate out when left standing.

sprue as a shakerhelper? now that is a nice idea... never thought about that... i use currently some bitz you use normally for cubboards to hold the boards inside on level...they are made of metal and in my white pot it corroded even... thought at first this wont happen... epic fail...but this idea i will try out^^

mixture would be nice, but then again if there are any exoitc liquids involved i probably wont have them at hand...

hey shasolenzabi, just a thought, add some sand or some basing grit to some glue and add that to your tanks on the undercarriage and throughout the brown paint. it will add some texture to your paint job.

just a thought, I like where you are going, I think that might help add some depth to it.

only constructive criticism, I mean no disrespect.

Rimmy wrote:hey shasolenzabi, just a thought, add some sand or some basing grit to some glue and add that to your tanks on the undercarriage and throughout the brown paint. it will add some texture to your paint job.

just a thought, I like where you are going, I think that might help add some depth to it.

only constructive criticism, I mean no disrespect.

Hi Rimmy, I have found salt works well for that idea.Mixed directly to the paint and it attaches to the model and the paint holds it on.

I have seen that trick before as well,the only problem with using salt, is it will start to break down in the water, and it will rub off very quickly.

sand is also WAY cheaper I get 40 lbs of sand for $5 at the local hardware store.

I mixed it directly into pure paint, and then painted that mix over the Large superheavy tank above the posts here.

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/VT1_(Panzer) How about this bad boy?

No luck finding a model for it though :-/

-Adam

definatlysome tank with a bit of dakka to it^^

Ah, the dual panzer Kannone, another experiment that did not go past prototype stage as unlike the 40k universe, ours is one of budget constraints.

argh budget always ruins the fun in everything^^

Viktor von Domm wrote:argh budget always ruins the fun in everything^^

A real mood killer is that!


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i am sure this beast would be the reason for many wetted pants...and no this wasn´t a mean pun^^