Got this kit at the Scot/Nats the other weekend started it as a break from my usual floaty thing builds. A couple of hours building time and now ready for some paint

Fun kit!

Big Red Tractor! want one.

Well it will start off as big red tractor but not sure what colour to go with as yet as only one left in a Russian museum and that looks grey all over but not sure that was the field colour
Cheers for looking in keith

Considering when it was made and the fact that it never left the test site grey would be a safe bet.

When you do the steering chains on the back make sure they are fairly tight. A lot of people model these with sag in them because of the photos floating around on line. That's not correct. Most of those pictures were taken after the Russian's found it wrecked and stripped out. The chains were basically just tied up, out of the way. When it was all intact, the chains needed to be tight in order to steer it, otherwise the back wheel would have just bounced around.

Hi Bob thanks for that Info might even consider the wrecked look for it with a well weathered look to the grey paint

Cheers Keith

OK BIG red tractor primed now for the colour Fifty shades of grey or go for one of the box offerings and do fifty shades of sand yellow


Or even do a mix of both in a work shop scene

Decided to go for the work shop prototype out on trials with a fifty shades of red oxide and a splash of rust



PRE shaded using dark grey for the join lines and light grey for the inner pannels



And the rusted panels are a mix of red oxide and dark yellow

Keith

Some more work done on the beast gone for grey hatches and turret also some of the smaller fittings a matt varnish coating and then an all over wash of thinned raw umber.

Good start on the paint process.

More work done on the wheels I have painted the track pads face with MR colour metal coat Iron with these paints you can get a shine on the painted area just by rubbing over your finger when the paint is dry the one on the right has been polished and the left just the painted look

Next up was the aplication of the rust on the wheel sides using Mip pigments and ground up chalk pastels to get a dirty rust colour this was fixed in place with matt varnish

The track pads face area was then brushed down to take away the exsess and show through the polished areas on the faces

Now for the washes using white and yellow ochre for some rain steaks

OK calling this done turret and chains added and final oil washes





Found this to be a great little build trying out some new paint techniques will now try and create a base maybe out side a factory scene

Keith

Nicely done, looks dry and rusty, almost hear it squeaking and clanking from here.