Here are the secodn set of In Progress shots of my Leo 2A6. Kit is tamiya, paints are Tamiya, tracks are AFV club. I have darkend the brown from the last time I posted. Have done the washes, dry brushing and lightened each individual color to give some texture. Have lightly spryed buff and put in some dirt streaks with it. I may hit each color again with lightened streaks on the flat surfaces as well as some more dry brushing. After words I will mud it up and put on the final touches such as lights and the MG. I look forward to your opinions.

Thanks,

Sean

Looking good. Did you use acrylic or enamel paints? I'm assuming it's the Tamiya NATO colors.

What reference did you use to put on your welds

Paul

I used Tamiya NATO Green and Black, but used TAMIYA Flat brown highlighted with Tamiya Nato brown. I find the NATO brown too Oragen for my taste. The brown was originally mixed too pink by me with NATO brown and Tamiya flat earth, so that was painted over with the brown. Some of the welds are built in with the kit, some are put in by me. All colors were lightend individually and sprayed over in the main panel areas.

The references come from the panzermodelbau website walk around pcitures. The are a few spot I couldn't put them in with out destroying the other existing detail.

Thanks,

Sean

Hey Sean

Looks really good to me. I like uour colours very much. How did you do the dust look? Mix a bit of earth colour with the base colour or how??

I just would redo the wood on the shovels etc. The look to light if you know what I mean.

Did you just give it a wash in black?

Cheers Roel

Roel, I know the wood looks light, but the colors are visually to me somewhat darker than pictures that I based the color off of. Also, I wanted them to be lightly colored just to add variation of color to the tank. IF you you go to the following you will see what I mean
http://www.panzer-modell.de/referenz/in_detail/leo2a6/Bild_017.jpg
The dust is just very diluted Tamiya Buff misted on and the streaks are the same just sprayed in narrow paths over and over. Also the fading of the individual base colors may also add to the dust look, which was done by adding either yellow-green to the NATO green or buff to the brown and light grey to the black.

The intial wash was a general wash of humborl brown mixed with balck~50/50. the deep wash was pin washed into the panels and mostly black with a bit of burnt umber.

Thanks,

Sean

what kind of air brush do you use im looking for a good brush that can piant camo

I am using the Iwata HP-B. It gives a nice tight pattern. Iwould recommend that or the HP-C. the B is limited in resevior size so refills are needed fairly often if you doing a whole model in one color.

I bought mine from Dixie art supply. Pretty good prices and free shipping in the States. I have also seen good deals on e-bay.

Also, what kind of air compressor are you using? that can be just as important as the air brush


Sean

Hi Sean,

Your 3 tone Nato camo is good....
I have a hard time using Tamiya paint as my paint job turn out too glossy....

Did you have this problem ?

Can't wait to see more your picture....

I haven't noticed any glossy issues using their flat paints(their XF line of colors) and air brush. I thin the paint with the Tamiya thinner at about 70% thinner to 30% paint for airbrushing. After word i spray Vallejo Semi gloss varnish to apply decals and do washes, then once that is done I spray Vallejo Matt varnish before continuing weathering.

come to think of it I have noticed some times a glossy effect with certain colors when brush painting. I suspect the more concentrated the pigment is maybe the more of a gloss effect you might get. Just a theory though.


Sean

Maybe some mid/dark grey on the non-skid panels as they seem to trap dirt/dust and stand out from the surrounding paintwork?

This 2A6 from Prime Portal has had some its non-skid panels replaced and not over-painted, even though the chipped paint nearby has been touched up.

Leopard

David

In person you can see the depth of the non slip pretty well with the wash I have done. However, I will go ahead and look at that again and darken it a bit more. Of course a large portion of the anti skids on my modelare covered in black, so it isn't very noticable.

thanks for the input,

sean

lovely looking tank, great camo work but please dont cover it in mud, maybe just a dusting around the the tracks and wheels with pigments and it would look great, cheers Bob.

Thanks Bob. I always debate how dirty to make my tanks. I ejoy seeing the details all the way around and hate to cover them up with mud. However, I got burned on this a bit at AMPS. Also have used the ice cleats on the tracks and intend to set this in an early winter setting with some snow and mud.

This is a bit of an experimental build for me as this is the first serious attempt at Cammo in a long time. The build is mostly OOB. I also wanted to try to dirty it up a bit using the MIG pigment mud set. my goal is to just dirty up the under carriage. My guide in what I want to accomplish is the Czech T-55 done in the Osprey modelling The T-55 book (its on the cover of that book) I hope to give it a dirty look with just burying it in mud and pigment.

Sean

Great looking paint job, can I just ask what colours highlights etc you used for the shovel handles ?.

Sparky, the shovel handels are painted as folllows. Base color
1:1:3
Vallejo Model color Iraqi Sand:Brown Sand :Model Air Dark yellow

Obviously if you wanted darker brown add more Brown sand

For the wood grain I applied a thin layer of Burnt Sienna Oil. Again adding more or less of this will change the appearance.

Thanks,

Sean