Greetings guys.
Here is my first attempt at winterwash and chipping. I used Vallejo chipping medium. First coat of it was straight from the bottle and it was kinda thick, produced some sort of liquid blobs. Then I oversprayed it with a dilluted coat of chipping medium and it was better. After an hour of drying I sprayed white.
When it was dry (another hour or so) I started chipping the white. I had some problems finding the right amount of wettnes for the brush. Too wet and the paint peeled right of looking kinda made of rubber. Brush too dry, almost nothing went off.
I need your comments and opinions before I seal this step with varnish and proceed with white oils for color difference, filters, washes and other stuff. Does this look realistic at all or is it just pure disaster?

Nice job, looks great.

Looks good, Sasa. You know you've done something right when the closeup pics look better than the regular ones.

That'll make a great starting point for the rest of your weathering.

Thaks for comments guys. Frankly, my first idea was to go for more washed off white, but I'm scared to go for that effect since I have that strange "rubberlike" peeling of paint...

Looks great right off the bat! No worries there. If you are concerned about realism then your best bet is period photos, followed by a little imagination, meaning ask where whitewash is most likely to be worn off. For example, rubbing against trees and bushes, crew stepping on the vehicle, entering hatches etc.

Oh and keep all the roughness! That really adds to the overall used look.

Very nice....but actually a SU-152.

Yeah, my bad, it's late SU-152

Really effective looking whitewash on this monster. I especially like the numbers. Are they decals or painted on?

Hi guys,
here's the second attempt at whitewash on my SU-152. I wasn't very happy with the look of the first one, so the model went under warm shower. Almost all the white paint went off, except some chunks of white here and there but I left them. Gave the model another coat of Vallejo Chipping medium (this time diluted with Airbrush thinner) and after a day of drying another diluted coat of white. Chipping was little bit better this time, but still not very satisfying. White was still going off too easily even without pre-wetting the surface.
When done I gave it a coat of satin varnish and then started playing with white oil paint (some spots and drybrushing over the flat areas).
Still a lot of work ahead but I think this looks better. Or does it? I need your very helpful comments and critics. Thanks

Hi Jack,
numbers are decals from the box. You get two sets of numbers 0-9 and few stars (red and whites). They went on really well.

I think the second version is a clear improvement, Sasa. The chipping medium still seems a bit clunky, but maybe that is just the pictures.

A really nice model and when you are done weathering it will look great.

The work continues...
Some washes and mud in progress. I am going for a baked mud and some fresher mud spots look...still lot of work ahead of me.
I need your comments and critics as usual. Thanks!

Slowly, this build is close to be finished. I had a bad luck with Vallejo matt coat, it turned to be sort of "milky", especially on the mud parts. I gave it another pass of 50:50% mixture of Vallejo matt and satin coat, but I think I will have to try to make it look better with some brown washes mixed with gloss coat to give it a wet appearance here and there. Drybrushing the tracks has to be done, as well as another layer of gloss fuel stains and spills.
Critics and comments are more than welcome as always.

You know, I like it the way it is. That milky matte look.

It looks cold. Not fun cold, not holidays cold, or 'Christmas with your family' cold. Real cold. That hard, dry, severe cold. The cold of winter in the steppes.

Impressive.

Grtz,

Marc

Thanks for your kind comment, I am glad you like it.
Now, if only I had a knowledge to make some sort of base for it...