Due to the high cost of an air spray system, i ve decided to go brush on the olive green









Its not completed yet, still have to get the decal on and finish with the weathering and gun metals

The ideas there,but you do need to buy an airbrush.
then you could give it a light spray with the base colour to tone down the camo.just buy a cheap one for now and practice on an old model.
cheers karl

Thanks for the advice

I have to agree that an airbrush would improve the appearance. Maybe you could save for one some day.

Having said that, it looks like a good, clean build. You may consider painting the handles of the pioneer tools a wood color if possible in addition to the items you mentioned that you still need to do.

I had fun building models even when I didn't have an airbrush. Keep up the good work and most importantly, Have Fun!!

I agree. You need to buy an airbrush.

Mine is an old Tamiya Sprayworks airbrush. It's a quite cheap, considering that it comes with its own compressor.

Angela

I agree an airbrush would be great, i have idea get yourself some heavy weight paper and the rattle can of your choice cut some not so neat rips and tears in the center of the paper and position it about a 1/2 inch away from your model and spray your camo color through that it works pretty good, first practice on some old scrap kit you don't want or on old piece of cardboard, i did this many times when i was a kid it works well and its cheap.

Is that yellow the kit's plastic color? It looks as if you have just painted green stripes on the kit, without a base coat. What scale is this, 1:48?

The beginning is there, but as you said, work is still needed. Contrary to what most people will tell you, you do not need an airbrush to do camo.. it helps, and gets the result easier, but it can be done with a brush. Pratice is the word. The first attempts may not be great, but you learn with every one of your models...

Your green strips are to diluted, if you want to paint camouflage with a brush, try a drybrush technique, drybrushing untill the layers are heavy enough.

So ,from here my advice would be,
Paint in overal base color of Matt Dark Yellow.
Brush the camo color and patern, thin but not diluted.
Paint the tracks and Mg..
Ohh, an the track needs to be straightend at the left front.

Cheers
Henk

Hi Erizemen,

Looks great! I agree with the other posters. An airbrush will make your model a lot nicer but it's not a "must have" if you are just starting out. Many of the WWII German AFV field applied camos are painted by hand anyway. Like RV said a spray can will do fine. I would use it for painting base colors. Try enhancing your basic modeling skills first...sanding the gun barrel seam, alignment (tracks)...master the tools you have now and work your way up on your own pace. Just my 2 pennies.

Cheers,
David

Thanks everyone for the advice. Let me tell you a bit about this model.
ITs not my first model, its my first german tank. What i did was spray OD GREEN 2 from TAMIYA as the base coat and then I use DArk YELLOW from Mr Color. Overall i use MR COLOR MATT CLEAR COAT. And the green stripes i use Testor OD GREEN

I use to make camou from OD green and Black it was a warrior MCV from Academy, you can view it at my gallery.

AS for air spray, I can afford it, but i am worried this hobby will stop one day and i am left with a pile of tools. I have been making models since i was 9, but maybe due to my current job, i have some problems adjusting to the new time table. From a Platoon Sergeant in the Army to a Civillian Fire Fighter...what a contrast..

Ciao eerie,
Everyone's advice is right on the mark. I really like what you have done, and I bet that you will stick with this hobby. You can go online and find some really inexpensive single action airbrushes. Go back through some old posts and look at the advice on airbrushes. I got one and love it.
Keep up the good work.
Ciao for now
Rob

Eerie,

I like the idea. As someone before me said, the cmao-stripes are a little too diluted. Second, they do not have smooth edges... Also, because of the whole tank being yellow, including tracks, looks might be a bit deceiving as well.

Good luck with finishin... now back to my tracks...

Harm