It's been a while since my last posting. While waiting on kits, parts and stencils to continue my other builds I was experimenting with the Trumpeter KV-II.
I built the kit in one day, there's some lack in my building progress but I wanted to experiment with some painting techniques and gain some experience for my next builds. So please give some critiques about the painting...
First I painted the base coat and tried to give some highlights on the edges to give some artificial volume to the model. The higlights were very white so I put on a thin coat of clear green which had a great effect on unifying the paint. Then I picked out some hatches and details by brush.

Because of the very light base coat I put on around 5 to 7 filters with oil in darkbrown and dark green. After this I began the fading with the oil dots. I found this as one of the most difficult steps! The pin wash was done with oil colors but I'm not satisfied with this step (I have to buy a wash from MIG). As you can see on the turret edges I gave less attention and the oil wash collected too much there.

Now I'm WIP with the scratches and chipping. First with a green color, then with a dark brown chocolate tan color all with small brushes. I had in mind to use different greens for scratches and chips for some variation but it looked weird so I just used on color.


The turred is next with chipping and scratches...

Next will be dusting with the airbrush and the pigments.
Tell me what you think!