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Brummbär

the finishing touch

The last step was an application of both pastels to the upper hull in several shades of rust where needed, and an application of MIG weathering powders on the lower hull. This was done with a combination of both Dried Mud and Europe Dust, which were applied with a medium sized brush after first wetting the entire lower hull with a quick pass of a thinner-soaked brush. I let them dry, and then brushed off what I didn’t want with a stiff brush, leaving a nice dusty residue on the wheels and tracks.

A guitar string antenna was added, and a pail with “ice” inside to convey the feeling of a late-war vehicle in fall/winter of 1944. The “ice” is just cyanoacrolate glue “frozen” with accelerator.

The commander figure was from MiniArt’s recent “German Tank Crew, Winter”, and was painted with acrylics. I added DML headphones, cocked off one ear as was common to allow the TC to hear both the crew and ambient noise. I added brown thread wires and painted the uniform in the appropriate Wehrmacht camo with acrylics.

I am pretty happy to have accurately modelled this imposing beast, and I hope you feel I have done it justice! Thanks to the staff here at Armorama for help in assembling this feature, and I hope that you have enjoyed reading it as much as I have enjoyed documenting it and writing it for you!