This is the Tamiya kit of the Marder II Sd.kfz. Tank Destroyer. Its a fairly cheap kit being a remake of their panzer II kit. I made this one for a quick build to start the year out and to practice camo patterns with my airbrush. As you can see I still need a little practice at it.
The Tank is a base of Model Master Dunklegelb (dark yellow) with a Red / brown camo using MM Rust. a black wash made from Artist water colors was used along with pastel powders for weathering.
thanks and as for the camo lines I just airbrushed them freehand with my Badger 360 in gravity feed mode at about 14 psi… and paint a bit thinner than normal.
Nothing to feel bad about, the only way to learn is to try new things and constantly improve! I’ve no experience with the Badger line of ABs so can’t be much help there. If your AB is double-action, try practicing the lines by making multiple thin passes instead of spraying the lines in one go, might help get them thinner and offer more control if that’s what you are after. Lastly, I’d recommend toning down the blackening on the muzzle brake as some discoloration would be normal, but a solid black muzzle brake would only be the result of very heavy and sustained firing and even then wouldn’t likely be solid black.
The weathering effect you produced with the pastels and the wash are a definite plus to the overall finish on the running gear. The rest of the superstructure looks a bit too clean in relation to the rest of the vehicle but that may just be the lighting.
Overall a nice job on a lesser known subject, keep up the good work and thanks for sharing! [tup]
You did a good job on it. The camo is fine. We always expect camo to be without overspray or with clean lines and beautiful design but I bit the real ones did have overspray and had some random patterns like yours.
Nice build. Hey, don’t hit yourself over that camo–that was the first thing that made the model stand out for me! The way I look at it, stuff like camouflage was apt to be done all sorts of ways, and in a lot less structured fashion than we might imagine from the well-oiled Wehrmacht. I like to see a modeler do something just a little different with paint schemes…
Looks great to me, Delbert. I really like the way the wooden crates look. I wish I could get a nice woody look like that. How did you achieve that? Thanks for showing it to us.
I think your Marder looks great! If I haven’t learned anything else since belonging to the forums, it’s that the “Germans” had no standard for camo, and worked with whatever they had availible in paint, and materials. Thanks for sharing a job well done. Semper Fi, mike
then I brush painted it with burnt Sinenia brushing it thin enough that the base coat kinda showed through a bit.
Then I gave it a wash with thinned Artist Water colors (the kind that come in a tube) in a Dark Grey…(what i had made up for the uniforms wash)… i added just a tiny tiny bit of dish soap so that the wash would flow better over the recesses…
After the wash had dried a bit I went back over with a wet brush and/or cue tip removing the excess watercolors where it got to dark (one reason I like these better than artist oils.)
After I had it about where I wanted it the final step was to dust it with a very very thinned down Tamiya Buff color… It seems to mute the redish color and make it blend in with the yellowish base making it seem more realistic to me.
The hardware (hinges and strap) are Tamiya Metelic grey.
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