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Heres the 2 russes I have in my army currently, still need a bit more work, but more than ready for the tabe IMO. Tell me what yall think.

Overall they look good. I'd dull down the tracks a little. The one thing that doesn't look right is the barrel hanging off the side of the tank - if that's a 50-odd gallon drum it would weigh 200+ kilos and that would be a hell of a leather strap holding it in place. I'd remove it or place it like the other on the trackguard.

I like the panel-join rust on the sides.

Thanks a bunch. Yeah the tracks look a bit duller in person, the flash on my camera and metallic paints never seem to work well. Still, I've considered wattering down some vermin brown and washing the tracks with it, since thats my model's base colors.

I'll have to consider that drum idea, i'll probaly just say they have some sort of magnet on the tank (kinda silly i know).

Another suggestion is to add a frame/rack to the back of the Russ, like a little version of the Basalisk platform?

In addition, try adding scratched horizontal streaks to the rotating drum the sponson weapons are mounted to, to simulate the damage from debris being trapped & scraped.

Have you made any Chimeras? I'd like to see those if you have.

NO the only thing I have is a stenital and a valk so far. I'm not too impressed with them like the tanks but ill get pics soon if you like.

Tank crews put all sorts of crap on their rides.

Stowage is your friend here. Tanks tend to have bustles (like the bokes behind the Russ turret) but more usually an open basket

Move the barrel to the rear hull deck (or rear track guard area) like the other one.

brother_zach wrote:NO the only thing I have is a stenital and a valk so far. I'm not too impressed with them like the tanks but ill get pics soon if you like.

Call me dumb but I can't figure out what you mean by stenital??

He meant sentinel I assume.

nice tanks, real gritty feel to them.

The tanks are amazing. nice wear on them and look authentic.

My only concern is the green on the accessories clashes with your color scheme. They look too... clean as well.

Excellently done my friend.

What did you use for the base desert colour?

I was looking at the green as well, perhaps a black wash? or are we reffering to the light green on the stubber?


The tanks use a color of bleached bode as the main base for the tank. However, the 2 were painted with different base layers completely. Ol' Yeller was sprayed with black first, then I used some schorched brown equivilent spray to help the colors bulid up in layers. Next came a coat of vermin brown, then a very liberal drybrushing of vermin brown mixed with bleached bone (50:50). A pure bleached bone layer was applied later on. It then recieved a diluted wash of chestnut ink, followed by light drybrushings of bleached bone. The tank was highlighted with skull white and pure chestnut ink was painted in the armor joints.

War Pig was painted 2 years ago, originally as a very clean bleached bone tank. Fist I primed it white and then used my airbrush to spray the bleached bone on in layers. I didn't like this, so I had to give the tank a liberal wash of semi diluted chestnut ink to the model. Final drybrusnings of bleached bone soon followed, and once again the armor joints were washed with pure chestnut ink.

It is important to know that I simply do not let my washes sit on my tanks. Rather, I take a paper towel and wipe most of it off so that it gives it a smeared look. It uses tons of ink, but I just love the sand blown effect I achieve.

Yes, I did mean senital. Sorry about that guys, I was running a bit late to work

Thanks again for the input.