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Miniatures Adventure => The Second World War => Topic started by: chema1986 on July 05, 2018, 04:00:21 PM
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Hi there mates,
Maybe it's because we are in July, and close to the anniversary of "Operation Husky", but I am in a World War 2 mood, so I finished a while ago 2 panzers for Bolt Action. They are plastic kits in 28mm or 1/56... Panzer III ausf. M is from Warlord Games, and Panzer IV ausf. G is Rubicon's. Both kits are great, not perfect, but quite good. I wanted to try both companies in order to test their quality. And both have advantages and disadvantages, I think Panzer III from Warlord is better than its Rubicon counterpart... because of the Schurzen or Schutzen (sorry I am not a German speaker) and their tracks... However, I found Rubicon's Panzer IV a better and cheaper kit than Warlords. Just personal preference.
I painted them with Tamiya paints, trying to modulate the light with the airbrush, then a coat o satin varnish and the decals. The decals are 1/48 Bison decals, for panzers in Sicily in 1943, very well researched, and of great quality.
After the decals were applied, I started the "wet" weathering with some filters, oil fading, pin washes, and streaking grime. then chipping with 2 colours, and dusting with washes and pigments.
It is time consuming, but the result is very pleasing for me. I am proud of this two little tanks. I would like to expand my german force for Sicily, with a 2cm flak, and a squad of Fallschirmjager in summer uniform from the old Artizan "Ramcke Brigade", I was lucky enough to buy them second hand just after its out of production. Already have Wehrmacht infantry, Pak 40, mortar and MG42 in feldgrau uniform, eventually I'll post them here.
I hope you like the kits!
more info on my blog:
http://spanishleadpainting.blogspot.com/2018/07/ww2-mood-panzers-in-sicily-43.html
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Cheers!
Chema
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Wow! Those are things of beauty!
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Lovely work on those :-* :-* :-* :-* :-* :-*
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Perfect painting and weathering! Well worth the time it took you! :-*
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Many thanks guys :)
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They look great :-* Superb job.
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Lovely work on your panzers.
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Whoa!!! :o :o :o
I prefer Pz. III but both tanks are great... They belong in a glass cabinet and not on gaming table. ;)
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Simply stunning!
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Inspirational
Superb
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Fantastic work.
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Stunning, wish I could paint like that
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Hopeless :-* :-* :-* send them to me and start again, I will then undertake a review for you....it may take a while though
Absolutely stunning :-* :-* :-* :-* 8) ;D
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Thanks all for the kind comments! I started doing model kits but... I could not play with them, so I switched sides and became a wargamer lol
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Those look fantastic.
I love the weathered, but not worn out look.
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Well worth the time and effort. Might fine sir.
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Great looking tanks!
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Great work there, those look splendid 8) 8) 8)
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Well done. I like the fact that you have got that useful stage, somewhere between
'restoration neat' and 'my god, it still moves'
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Excellent paintwork, I look forward to seeing more of your work :)
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Wow, fantastic weathering work!
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very nice stuff indeed. I must try the warlord panzer III eventually...except without the Hover technology that kit has... lol
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quite superb
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Thanks all for the kind words :)
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Sort of hate you and respect you in equal measure ;)
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Lovely work,
not a fan of weathering and paint chipping. The technique is awesome and its execution, but I think the excessive chipping as become a modeler common wisdom... (and it has become more and more popular after the Spanish painters school popularized it!).
In period pictures (or in pictures of current tanks on exercise) you saw much less chipping and much more dust covering (okay I just cleaned the car lol). In Robinson book on the AMX 30 there were several pticures of French Army AMX 30B2 in 3 tone NATO camo in exercise in France. They were covered in dust so much you did not see the three colors at all!
Chipping is seen often in non operational tanks. One thing that had made me thinking was a picture of an M1A1 in rebuilding stage on Oliver Newsome's book on that tank. The tank as been factory stripped of paint before the rebuild and quickly become covered in rust. This is a relatively controlled environments. This is the reason why chips are repainted even on the field. Rust is a constant danger. These kind of work is another reason why maintenance units are always busy. just my thought at seeing these wonder...
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thanks for the comment! And yes Arrigo, you are right, there is excess chipping in most models out there, but the look nice to me, Indeed, chipping has substituted the old drybrushing stage in military models, now people (from what I have seen) "highlight" the raised parts with chips in a lighter colour. Apart from that, I think chipping is very effective in tanks without camouflage, like this 2 panzers in dark yellow. Without chips, they would be very monotone and boring Imho.
Cheers!
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I am still a believer in drybrush :D does this mean I am old and obsolete? lol
Jokes aside I understand what you are saying. I just did not got into chipping that much. Except on specific setting, like when a tank has two coats of paint and the most recent one is very thin or made with washable material, like some early DAK panzer simply covered with a thinned down yellowish color and then showing the dark panzer gray.
To be honest I saw chipping often in conjunction with modulation. and often from Spanish painters. I think it is a very specific style. I also think that the fact different schools are developing it is a sign the hobby is going strong.
As an aside even monochrome tanks are never boring! Tanks cannot be boring!
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Simply beautiful; as to the argument for or against the “Spanish school” of weathering, I can say that even our shoddy Iltis recce cars were painted as soon as when back to garrison - but in the field, they absolutely had “that look”.
I have a photo of a new Canadian Leo from the Stampede parade and it has significant field wear.
So in summation: I support the “Spanish school” lol
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People forget that soldiers spend a lot of their time painting things, polishing things and generally maintaining them, even on active service. The turn over rate either KOed or returned to workshops, where they would be refurbished and usually repainted was quite high, and usually corresponded to the tempo of operations.
That said, the El Greco school’s aestheics are appealing and these aren’t weathered to the more egregious end of the scale. Very nice work in fact.
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Superb work.