Great job, Chris. I really like the diorama setting and the "beaten" look of the tank.

Thanks for sharing

Chris-- great work. Impressive model.
DJ

I have been thinking for a long time about trying my hand at a WWI tank your effort has pushed me over the edge (time to buy one or two),outstanding effort.

Love that MkA Whippet dio and I am guity of not reading through everything and assume its 1-35 and not 1-72 ? The lay-out is first class with the heavy tank (male) and obviously my fav the Whippet, if I could be harsh with you, then, while the model's look great, the ground is very clean, almost moulded and simply painted over, the male/whippet again, weathered and looking very crisp could use some dirt as the tracks are travelling through the mud but don't appear to have picked anything up, there would never be a worry about picking these up and placing them into a display case and everyone would agree they look great, but also very clean.

While you have painted the model very nicely, I must say, I don't think that it fits with the base. The model you have is, for a WW I tank, quite clean and, in this configuration, would look best on a roadside prior to entering battle. Maybe at a railhead just coming off a train. Once the tank is in the field (literally) it would almost immediately be covered in mud/dirt. The ground colours you have used indicate a moist soil (not dusty dry, not wet mud). In this case the vehicle's tracks would have picked up and thrown over the entire tank appreciable amounts of dirt clods & grass sod. There would be dirt on all the tracks and dirt jammed into the sprocket openings in the sponson sides. It just looks out of place being as clean as it is.

On a separate note, the use of browns for the track colour, unless indicateing fresh dirt or mod, really isn't right. Track in use had a dark burnished steel colour and, even when going though moist dirt or mud, all exposed track surfaces will be burnished quite bright metal colour. The rust colour you have on your tracks are more representative of a vehlce that has been sittingfor a while, maybe a couple weeks, so that the steel has gone trhoug the initial bright rust phase and then into the longer-term browner rust colour.

This is not meant to slag you or anything, but to help you compose your vehicle on their bases better.

Paul

HI,
I agree with the posts above with regards how muddy these Heavy Tanks should look
and you can see a lot of photo's on http://www.landships.freeservers.com/ .
Try using a mix of pastels/chalk with your ground colour paint to give you a "mud" to apply
around the hull top and on top of the sponsons etc.
And your heavy tank is a Mk V not a Mk IV
Nice models thoughPaul