Hi all,
This model will be for the annual Almeria Association Contest ruffle, the model was assembly by Emilio Bonachera, and I will paint the vehicle and the small vignette, the figures will be another year of Total Miniatures War, and its will paint by Diego Jimenez.
As like this is for enjoy and have fun, I'll go posting step by step painting process, first some pictures of the assembly, as is usual in Tamiya, simple and accurate kit, only a bit tedious the excess of mould circles, it was filled and carefully sanded, some PE pieces to detail the tools, copper wire for the handles and this is all...




It's important to prepare the sub-assemblys to make easier the paint work:


I'll paint it in winter camouflage, it's a vehicle with three-color camouflage, winter comes and the crew applied a camouflage with brushes, but not completely cover the original camo.

I will divide the paint process in four main phases:
1 / Camouflage base.
2 / Basic weathering.
3 / Application of white paint camuflage.
4 / Final weathering and finish.

This post is about phase 1. As usual start applying the base color with airbrush:


I aplied three yellow degrees, a lighter yello for the upper surfaces, a mid yellow for the vertical planes, and a darker yellow for the bottoms of the vehicle:




In the interior, the yellow is darker than the exterior plates:


Outside - inside comparative plates:


I apply the same effects in the wheels, very soft and natural:


I continue painting the camouflage patches:




I finish with a subtle shading with black XF-1 and brown XF-10 very diluted, I insist in the bottom and inside the crew chamber:


For now this is all, in the next posts, decals and the basic weathering...

I hope you like it.

Best Regards.

It is good to see something straight out of the box. Nice paintings too!!

Nice work Joaquin I like your sub assemblys and camo

This is gonna be good! i am VERY excited to see more!

Thanks all by your comments.

Sure I will continue updating the Marder progress.

Best Regards All

Excellent step by step Joaquin. It will be very useful with the kfz385's paint. It has the same base and I have begun with the same effects.

Un abrazo. Pedro

Dear Friends,

Thanks a lot for your comments about the Marder, now it was finished, and I like to share with you the results and the step by step process:

Once the paint base was done with airbrush, I put the decals with Micro liquids, and I paint with Vallejo acrylics the details, tools, chains, seats, etc...:


I make the classic treatment with artistic oil paints, note that these are arranged in a cardboard, to absorb excess oil, and I can obtain a matt finish, I fix the cardboard in a box, which preserves the paint meantime I paint the vehicle:


Step finished:



In this picture you can see before and later:


Next step is finish the interior, is better paint before glued the lateral plates for do it easily, I start applying an intense chipping area, wich the crew works more intense, the better is do it with a sponge, with Cavalry Brown and Black acrylic:


For finnish the chipping work I use the brush, reviewing the previous work, and adding more subtle chippings, It's important DON'T do it for all the gun and plates, only in the appropiate zones, I paint with Citadel Chainmail, another one zones:


With a graphite pencil, I polish edges and pricking of the areas likely to be polished due to continuous friction, they must be very subtle:


Next step is for finish the gun, with dark oil colors, I outline the details and apply subtle spots for handling areas of the gunners, do it in several layers carefully until obtain a good results:



Same way work the inside plate details:




I place the barrel in its final position, and glue the side plates, the fit is perfect, Tamiya-san de very well its work

I put pigment on the floor with a brush:


and fix it with earth oils diluted in Humbrol Thinner:


...once dry, it looks great:


For finnish, some grease spots, with bitumen oil by Titan... and the combat camera is ready!:



For now this is all, next step, the whitewash, for now and appetizer:


I hope you like it, and understand correctly, my english is poor and maybe some words or phrases aren't so good..

I'll keep posting.

I hope you like it,

Love it.

and understand correctly, my english is poor and maybe some words or phrases aren't so good..

Followed every word just fine.

I'll keep posting.

Please do. Can't wait to see how the white weathers

Thanks for the weathering step by step. Very well done!

Excellent step by step Chimo.

Thanks for posting.

Regards. Pedro.

Incredible ... please keep posting more!!

Wow! Simply wonderful! Waiting to see more!

Thank you for sharing your technique and knowledge!

John

Lovely build Joaquin. The paint job and weathering are starting to look the part as well. Looking forward to more progress images.

Wow, keep going on that one! The build and painting so far is first-rate!

Excellent work, Joaquin! Can I ask what paint you used to paint the bare metal parts on the inside of the gun breech. It looks very convincing.

Thanks!

Rob

Amazing work, very well explained!

I can't wait for the next post!

Keep going, please!