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Befehls Panther Ausf.G Späte (IR)

After long weeks of work over the upper hull and turret it was time to put some paint, dirt and dust on tracks and wheels. All tracks have been painted with the Vallejo Panzer Aces series paint "Track Primer". One should not believe this is a kind of metal primer or whatever similar to that colour. In fact it's a nice brown, muddy colour. Good base for a heavily dirtied tracks. After the paint dried I brushed in a large quantity the Dry Mud Mig pigment and sealed it with the Pigment fixer. The next day more darker pigments (Russian Earth, Track Brown and Industrial City Dirt) were brushed in small quantities here and there to vary the tracks colour. Parts of tracks that touch the ground where metalized with the very practical Tamiya aluminium enamel marker.

The method I used to weather the road wheels, sprockets and idler was somewhat similar to the one I used for the tracks. First off all wheels were washed with brown wash than I brushed on some Dry Mud pigment with few touches of Industrial City Dirt. The pigment fixer was used once again. When everything dried I used a very soft pencil (8B) to imitate the metal wore. At the end a mix of dark pigments and white glue was used to make very delicate splashes of mud.