Latest update. The Ontos is 95% finished. I'll add some small touches and a little more pigment. As you can see I've went with the reddish earth. First, I did a little chipping, nothing traumatic. I made a mixture of Tamiya enamel flat brown with raw umber artist oil and applied using a split toothpick and brush. After, I did a little silvering using a 2B pencil. Then I sprayed a very dilute coat of red earth made by mixing some Tamiya orange with red brown mainly focusing on the lower hull. This was very close in colour to MIG's Vietnam Earth pigment. I applied the pigment mixing it with lighter fluid since this doesn't leave tidal marks and from a safety point of view you don't breathe in the pigment dust (I always use a dust mask). I painted the tracks with the same diluted red earth colour followed with some drybrushing with Gunze Lacquer Iron then pigment. One more thing before I forget, I tied down the track at the back between the third and fourth wheel to make it sit more naturally.

Well that's it for now. Next step is to paint the figures and make some small diorama
Sorry about the quality of the photos. When it is all finished, I'll take the time to set up proper lighting.

I do have a question... it's about the guy hoisting the round. Shouldn't there be some breech open to receive it, or maybe the back doors and ammo bin? I confess to seeing it as a bit of a "non-sequetor", a guy hoisting what has to be a pretty heavy round and having no obvious place for it to go! Just MHO, of course. (Yeah, when I was in, I didn't see many guys just jumping up and hoisting such at every passing tank as if in salute! )