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Took a small hiatus from 40k painting and modeling to go back a bit to my roots. Also helps to have a bit of inspiration from playing World of Tanks and such, but long before I was into wargaming I was a collector of model tanks. Those were the first models I ever did, but it stands to reason I wasn't super great at painting or modeling. This was also a bit of an experiment as well to test the skills I gained while painting 40k and then applying those to realistic historical miniatures. Anyway, hope you like it! Starting on a decimator seige engine next and then probably splurge on another historical miniature (still deciding between a chaffee, SU-152, or F-9 Cougar).

Looks great! I concur on WoT being inspiring to work on historical models.

Very nice, love the camo!

Very neatly done, I am really enjoying the camo on the tank. And its great to see a historical miniatyre for once too here on Dakka beside pikemen, musketers, and such

Thanks!

Absolutely Beautiful man!!

Can you realise a little tutorial about your painting scheme? Great work obviously!

Great work from a 35mm Military tank modeler.

 giovanz81 wrote:
Can you realise a little tutorial about your painting scheme? Great work obviously!

Glad you like it! As far as how I was able to manage the paint scheme. Here is basically the steps that went into it:

1. Primed Black
2. Sprayed base-coat of Tamiya German Grey.
3. Nuln wash in recesses
4. Drybrush of Adeptus Grey

5. Took some white layer pain with a brush without adding water, took some of the white off on a napkin and started brushing it on the tank (so kind of a dry brush, but not quite. Basically somewhere inbetween with a little more paint on your regular brush). Basically I was trying to simulate what it would look like if a 1/35th scale miniature had a hand brush and started slapping white paint on the tank himself.

6. Once that was dry, I took my worse looking medium drybrush I had (literally it doesn't even look like a dry brush any more, just a head with smashed down bristles). I took that and started scrubbing off the white paint in areas where I would expect wear and tear.

7. Earthshade wash around the rivets and other parts and then dragged it down to represent rust streaks.

The only way I feel this method works is if you use a strong acrylic spray as your base-coat. If you were to use the same scrub method with a painted on base-coat or with an airbrushed on base-coat you would risk scrubbing that off down to the primer.

Hope that helps give an idea of what I did!

I really like WW 2 armor. Nicely done.

Lovely model! I have always liked the Pz III. The snow camo is very well done.

There are some nice kits for the Chaffee and the SU-152 on the market. The Tamiya SU-152 from a couple of years ago got very good reviews.

 Kilkrazy wrote:
Lovely model! I have always liked the Pz III. The snow camo is very well done.

There are some nice kits for the Chaffee and the SU-152 on the market. The Tamiya SU-152 from a couple of years ago got very good reviews.

Thanks, I'll have to look into that one. I know my local hobby store has a really detailed looking chaffee by Dragon, as well as an ISU-152, but they don't currently have just the SU model (so that one I would have to order).

Great work!
And thanks for the advice!!!