I would like to shere with some photos of the 1/35 Dragon/CyberHobby Soviet Heavy Tank IS-2 which I was working on over last 3 months. Winter camouflage scheme is based on the undefined unit from Vitebsk (1944).
This was my first winter camouflage and the main idea was to make this tank dirty and wear with grime and rust flowing down the turet and hull. I used a 'hairspray' technique and then I did several layers of weathering mainly with AK and MIG stuff followed by oil paints.
The model is pretty much 'out of box' with some small modifications.

I hope you will like it. All comments, critique and questions are very welcome.

This is how it looks:

















and some details as well:

























Thank you for viewing it.

Wow! This beast looks like it just drove out of a swamp! That is a lot of weathering for a operational tank. The only thing that really stands out is the turret number. I would think it would be a little more faded and worn.

Holy Cow!! Fantastic job!!!

Very nice weathering!

Fantastic whitewash technique and weathering.The trcks look great also,are they kit or AM,cant tell,they look like Friuls.

Very nice work on the W / W and weathering. I like the dirty hull, looks great
Rob

That looks fantastic. The worn winter white is perfect but I really love the way you did the bare steel. The rust effect is very realistic. Can you share some of your techniques?

I would call that a"Seasoned Warrior" Great work,Jeff

Thanks!!!

There is nothing realy special about my technique. Basically, I did winter camo using known 'hairspray' technique in which the white acrylic pain (Revell) was sprayed over the Taft hairspray coat and scrathed out gently (with warm water and Smirnoff Vodka:) using old hard brush before acrylic paint completly dried out (let say 20 min aprox). Then, I used AK winter grime streaks solution to create washed dirt effect, and because AK mixture is green it also served as a filter to blend white colour. Next, the whole model was coated with thin layer of Klear to protect previous layer. Then I have placed all decals and I did wash with diluted oil paints (mainly Van dyke brown) followed by another thin coat of Klear. To highlight some parts I blend colours with white and green oil paints as well. The rust effect was done with AK rust effect solution and burnt siena oils. Paint chips - sponge and black/brown acrylic paint. Mud is mainly done with MIG pigments and dry pastels along with othek AK stuff. For metallic edges worn effect I used drybrush and 'dry finger' technique using silver paint from ordinary permanent silver marker. This pretty much what I did I hope this helps.
Thanks again for watching.