Here is my 105mm Sherman I finished today. I build and painted it OD months ago but never got around to doing anything with it. Since my area just got dumped with a foot fo snow I thought it was be appropriate to whitewash it. I put an Olive Drab Sherman next to it for comparision

looks good ! there are even brush strokes on the side! what happend when they didnt need winter camo anymore?? just repaint OD?

I'll have to try a white wash some day.yours does look good.

The 'official' paint used was water soluble - hence the patchy look that appeared very quickly on vehicles. It either faded away or got washed off. I don't think thay'd have repainted every vehicle once the thaw arrived!

This is a hard finish to get right Alan, but you've made a darned good job of it.

Alan, you have done a wonderful Job on the white wash......One of the best I have seen.

Great looking Sherman Alan That white wash looks great Please give us your secret for doing it (++)

Nice job.

As a tank crew I believe they would have loved the proposition of surviving the winter to have to worry about repainting.

Just for Treadhead... again from the deckrail in the fricken freezing dead middle of winter cold!!!

Thanks for all the positive comments.

This was my first attempt at whitewashing. Of course the basic OD tank was built and painted. Next I painted a bunch of short 1/2 inch 45 degree solid white diagonals going one direction. After it dried I criss crossed X them with 1/2 inch 45 degree strokes the other direction. To be honest I thought this was all I needed to do but it looked like crap.

Next I took a thin diluted white in very short strokes and "filled in" the OD in between the criss cross X previously done. This gives it the "whitewash" look with brush marks

After letting that dry I tried various wash techniques on the bottom of the hull for practice. I could not get one that I liked. So after numerous tries I selected a drybrush of black. This was a lot harder than drybrushing with sand because if you have too much paint you get black streaks on white so be careful drybrushing with black!

Next I hit it with a dry brush of rust and dirt. After the drying I hit it with some of that dirty thinner and sediment at the bottom of my paintbrush cleaning jar, concentrating on flat spots where the crew would walk.

As the final touch I used a piece of stretched sprue with a little tip as thin as an antennae that I bent the tip 90 degrees, dipped in silver paint and ran it along a number of edges of the tank and the V pattern in the steel chevron tread.

With so many different washes and drybrushes I sprayed dullcoat over the entire tank. After the first dullcoat dried I hit it with a second spray of dullcoat.

Alan
Thanks for the whitewash tips The tank does look better on the snow covered rail :-) How cold is it up there in Michigan? :-)

For the last week we've been single digits before windchill.

looks even better with the snow on the rail as your backdrop!