I got these kits last weekend at a contest and decided to jump right on it. These little guys are just beautiful. The T-34 just fell together and the SU-100 doesn’t seem to be to bad either. I am thinking about trying and giving both of them a White-Wash, but I am not sure how to go about. Any suggestions would be most welcome.
Joe
Cool beans, LeopardMan–I would do it the way it was done.
IN my experience, nothing beats painting up the tank in a base coat, then slopping on a diluted mixyure of white acrylic; washing it with raw umber oil, and the drybrushing and chipping in the base color. Here’s a link to my King Tiger build which I recently finished, and used these methods:
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Wow Doog, that Tiger is awesome. I guess I just try and see what happens. If I screw up I know whwre to get another kit…lol
I built a Dragon 1/72 T-34/76 in winter camo about a year ago:
I sprayed it with WW2 Soviet armour green, and then protected this with a couple of coats of Future. I allowed this to cure for a couple of days, then applied light coats of matt white enamel, spraying in a downward direction, and concentrating on the centres of panels. I stopped just before I thought I had done enough. I then rubbed some of the white enamel off in high-wear areas with a cotton bud dipped in isopropanol.
More Future, then the decals - mostly for the criss-cross camo - then matt varnish. Finally, I added muddy stains with dilute burned umber watercolour, and soot around the exhausts with very dark grey pastel dust.
I think it kinda worked. Thing is, there are probably as many ways of doing winter whitewash as there are armour modellers. Experiment on something cheap, and find what works for you.
Cheers,
Chris.
Looks good leopardman. And Chris is right, no shortage of whitewash techniques.
This was done using the hairspray method.
very nice models guys. I guess I just have to start and see what happens. If it doesn’t work I can always paint then green again.
Here is a little update on my progress. I painted both kits with a base coat of Tamiya Dark Green. The I did a light post shading with Tamiya Dark Green mixed with about 20% Tamiya Buff. I hope I have both kits done for our club meeting next Thursday.
Here is another update on my parallel build. After applying a coat of future I put on the decals. The pictures show the kits after I applied an oil wash of Black and burnt sienna. The decals went on very nice. Probably some of the best decals I seen sofar. next will some drybrushing and bragdon powders and a little touch-up and the I call it good.
Beautiful work in any scale, Leopardman. Coming from a newly returned 1/35 aholic, could you post a picture with a quarter or a ruler in it, just to complete the head explosion, as I am certain the fits I give myself would be fatal if I were doing these tasks in braille scale.
I’ve never even seen 1/72 armor except in the boxes at the LHS.
Nice work,
Bill
Making good progres on both these little guys Joachim, looking forward to seeing them “winterized”. [tup]
Thanks guys. These 2 are fun to build. I am really enjoying it.
Citadel: Here are some pics with a ruler. And for good measures I added The pz 38 Munitionschlepper from UM that I build for Internetmodeler 3 years back. Just to give you an idea.
wbill: I think I just do one in white wash to see how it turns out.
Very nice, Joe! Cant wait to see them in person!
So, here is my first attempt with a White Wash. On the T-34 I dabbed several layers with highly thinned acrylic paint. And I am thinkingjust to leave it as it is, throw some Bragdon Power on there and call it good.
Now to my problem. I tried Gouache on the SU-100 but since I didn’t like it, I washed it of under running water. Now that its dry, I have all this bleaching going on,and I have no Idea what caused it. The model was flat coated with MM FlatClear. Is there an easy way to fix this. Any help would be mostly welcome.
Thanks,
Joe
Nice work LeopardMan.
Man with the detail that these kits have now days its easy to be fooled into thinking that these are not as small as the appear.
Wish I could help you Joe on the bleaching problem but I don’t know what Gouache is. You may be able to blend it in with a wash of the base coat.
Thanks Rob and Panzerguy.
Gouache is a Waterbased Paint Iuse it at times for washes instead of oils. Usually very easy to remove with a cotton swab, even after weeks. But I think what might be the problem. I used my eye dropper that I use for my thinner to put some water in a mixing dish. I wonder if that might have caused the bleaching.
Looking pretty fine, LeopardMan–alas, I too, hove no idea what happpened there with the bleaching problem; in any case, it doesn’t look like an impossible problem to fix? A little bit of deft work with the paint brush should fix that?
Nice little builds… I had a go at that scale and ugh… My hats off to you (and everyone else) that can work wonders at that scale!
thanks Karl and JMart. 1/72 is a real space saver. 4 1/72 sclae kits use the place of one 1/35.
DONE. Days start to finish.
Summary: Both kits have great detail and go together easy. The PE in the kits I left off because on the T-35 the grill was to small and on the SU-100 it was slightly to big. NO flash or mold seems. The gluable rubbertracks have great detail on the running surface but in this scale its difficult for me to show the detail. Plus they are a very tight fit and I came close breaking off the idler wheels. Decals are excellent and after solva set and a flat coat they look like painted on. I really enjoyed these two little guys and will definitly be doing more. Any questions or suggestions, just drop a line.
PS: I am still learning my digi cam, so I ask forgiveness if the picture not 100%
Joe
They look cool, and 72nd great, cool work there. I’d do 72nd, if I could see it.
Terry.
They turned out great, Joe! It looks like you got that hazing problem figured out!
I agree with you about 1/72, too–I have a whole slew of them built up here! I always put them on their own litle dio base. Even just some dirt and grass powder looks great!
