Well I just completed the basic painting of the BTR this afternoon. I am very pleased with how things turned out so far. My first attempt, well like just say it was horrible. The results I was trying to achieve did not turn out the way I would have like them too. I was going for the traditional 3 ton scheme used on most Russian vehicles, either I rushed through the painting or what, I just couldn’t get the effect I wanted. I wanted to show a vehicle already in service with newer armor panels installed over already painted vehicle. Instead, it just looked like a big mess.
Therefore, I went back to the drawing board to rethink what I wanted to do.
After some researching the internet and looking through some of my modeling books, I came across a simple two-tone paint scheme used on some of the Kazakhstan vehicles. Therefore, after much needed sleep and some careful planning, I began to retackle the paint job and this time I achieved what I was going for!!!
Basic painting began with a base coat of model master acryl earth red as sort of primer before the next color was added. Next, I used Vallejo model air sand yellow over the base coat allowing some of the paint to show through around the edges some. After that, I went back to using model master acryl radome tan to highlight and fade the paint some to give it more of an aged look. Next up from there is used dark green also from model master to paint the green blotches in. Here I lightly painted the green to allow some of the tan to show through more or less fading the paint for further weathering. Now I just need to seal the paint with some gloss varnish prior to decaling and weathering can begin. Some thoughts and comments would be grateful as to how things are looking so far.
Chris
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