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Building a Panzer IVJ - Part 1

I use a Testors Azteck 470 and Model Master II enamels-they have the German colors although I sometimes substitute depending on what kind of mood I’m in. The entire hull and turret are given a nice coat of Model Master II Dunkelgelb and set aside to dry. As long as I have the paint loaded I squirted the wheels, and running gear on the sprue — sometimes I take ‘em off first, sometimes I don’t. Set it all aside to dry for a bit and clean your brush out and go do something else.
Now it’s time to paint the camo pattern. I looked at the instructions and noted that the brown needed to go down first. To get a nice line thin your paint to the consistency of milk-runs down the inside of the jar well but not see through. Set your pressure to around 25psi and spray some test stripes on a sheet of cardboard of something till you get it how you want it. I loosely followed the pattern in the instructions taking care to watch the background for possible overspray problems and contorting my hands through all sorts of seemingly impossible positions ( I call this airbrush palsy) to wrap the pattern around the perimeter of first the hull, then the turret and finally the running gear. After running some thinner through the brush I repeated the process with the olive green camo done.

Now you have what looks like a painted tank model.