Just though I’d post some recent efforts. I’m still playing around with different washes and finishes and some work better than others. I’m finding that there are some great tips in magazines and on-line on finishing armour in 1/35th but they dont always scale down to 1/72nd very well.
Dragon 1/72 M4A1 Sherman
Dragon 1/72 StuG IV Late
UM 1/72 SU-100
Hasegawa 1/72 Jagpanzer IV
Any comments or suggestions welcome
John
Those a really nice. What kind of paint and weathering techniques did you use?
These are superb, John! They’re so well painted, and weathered. I like 'em a lot, especially the SU-100!
One thing that is great about this scale, is that these little beauties can be used in wargamin’. 1/72 is roughly 15mm, huh?!
24 or 25mm. useful for some gaming, perhaps.
Nice buildups! I really like the Jagdpanzer’s ambush scheme, not to mention the SU-100’s weathering. Fine job.
Hi John,
1/72nd, eh? Very impressive. The only thing that I saw that could use a bit of attention are the tracks on your Jagdpanzer. I’d go [tup][tup][tup][tup].
Joe [:D] [:D]
Yes, perhaps too much sag, but it’s probably those rubber band tracks are too big. You could take some links out.
Those are some of the nicest Braille scale I’ve seen… really great job!
And Fingers, 15mm is 1/100 scale… 1/72 is pretty large compared. There are whole lines out of 1/100 stuff… Flames of War is the main game, and makes simply inredible little resin vehicles…
I’m just venturing down to 1/48 and I concur with you about weathering and painting differences versus the “traditional” 1/35 methods. I’m having to learn a lot!
One thing you might want to avoid are the silvery metallic tools. Tankers couldn’t risk any light reflection so kept their tools either painted or otherwise muted in color and sheen. HTH
RC
Cheers for the feedback, in answer to the questions:
The Stug and Su-100 were ‘weathered’ using various airbrushed shades of the base colour. They were then pin-washed with burn umber, all over a black base coat which i use on all my models.
The Sherman was additionally attacked with some pastels of various green shades to break up the uniform colour and more mig pastels used to make it a bit dusty.
The Jagpanzer was sprayed in the splinter scheme then washed using the Mig tan filter then weathered using a mix of oil pastels blended in.
The tracks are too long on the Jagpanzer, I may get round to trying to shorten them.
The tools are more muted in real-life than on the photos though in the future I’ll try a darker more cast iron colour. What do folks recommed here?
Great results for 1/72 scale. They look 1/35 to me.
Nicely done.