Thanks for the kind comments, Chaps. I've just about finished the two Austin armoured cars this evening.
Just as a reminder of how they started....
Then a heavy wet brush of dark green (Vallejo Russian Green mixed with Vallejo Black) to serve as a base coat.
Then several coats of dry-brushing with a mix of Vallejo Russian Green with Vallejo German Camo Orange Ochre, adding progresively more of the ochre to try and bring out the contours and texture. It's at this point that I realised that the resin casting of the cars was a little.....errrr......bumpy!!
Then a heavily thinned (with white spirit) mix of burnt umber oil paint mixed with rust coloured weathering pigment flicked onto the cars with an old brush. And yes, the mix and technique is straight out of the Forgeworld “Imperial Armour Masterclass Volume 1" book
OK, so it looks a bit like this after the oil colour weathering….
Then I washed a heavily thinned black oil colour into the various corners, rivets, shelves, bolts and armour plates on the cars. I usually do this a couple of times, sometimes adding more, sometimes less thinners, trying to get the effect of shading onto the base paint.
Then I added a little more dry-brushing to simulate some mud, mixing a Plaka Yellow-Brown (Gelb-braun) dry-brush with some weathering pigments for texture and a little colour.
I added the details last, which on these Austin armoured cars were really just the unit numbers and some dark-rust weathering pigment fixed in place with an artists matt varnish on the tow chains.
Well, that’s about it for the command group and the armoured cars. They just need varnishing and the bases finishing off with some static grass, barbed wire and a couple of other touches and then on to the tanks later this week and next weekend!
25 November 2010, 09:53:52 PM
