Love how your Abrams turned out. Especially the areas where the dust has been "disturbed". That is a simple and very effective technique. Have wanted to do something similar but was never sure how to pull it off in a convincing fashion. Now I know. This is by far one of the best Abrams I have ever seen. Thanks for sharing it with us.

Can't say enough about the dust job. Beautiful.

Bob

very nice..dust on the camou is perfect. did you drilled the holes on the track's connectors? that's tedious..but nice. thanks for sharing.

Hey Tim. I noticed you added the battery cable (I believe that's what it is) wrapped around the smoke discharger. What did you use to replicate this?

Also, those pictures turned out great. It ain't easy taking real good photos of your models and these are wonderful.

Three cheers.

No, you did not overdue your weathering technique.

The process you took to achieve the effect surprised me. I.e. applying the overall dust layer via a wash - then scrubbing with a drybrush. I'll need to try this with my FT-17.

I also enjoy the multi color camo. The model looks busy, "complete", realistic and original.

Kudos on not doing the usual high contrast effect using heavy washing & drybrushing.

I do believe that the approach to the disturbed areas of dust needs to be altered. Next time I think more painterly strokes need to be applied. The strokes look a bit timid - but DONT get me wrong. They look fantastic otherwise.

thanks everyone for the compliments...
Ed, your right, I did drill out the connector holes... it was tedious, but with a tiny bit in the dremel it didnt take too long. I had the tracks assembled before doing it, so they went pretty quick.
Paul, one other thing about the dust removal..on areas like the engine deck...I used my finger to remove most of the dust..sometimes that works better than the brush..it removes some of the harshness of the dust. but yet still leaves a fine layer... as for the "painterly strokes", not sure what you mean by that. The truck I drive for work stays dusty most often, and we're always writting funny stuff, or pictures in the dust with our fingers.. not to mention the regular contact with the truck., so basically I used that as a sorta reference .

Matthew, Im not sure what they are either..they looked like jumper cables. I used phone wire.. one phone wire can have about 4 smaller wires inside..I used 2 and glued them together to make the cable..then painted them black. it was a pain in the butt to get it wrapped around the smoke discharger though...a small solder wire would work better, I just didnt have any.