Ron Goins (biffa) provides a step-by-step illustrated walk-through of his techniques for painting, weathering, and finishing a 3-tone German WW2 scheme using the Jagdpanzer IV A-O as a subject vehicle.



Weathering German Armor

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Thanks!

Very nice simply laid out SBS Ron, I'm always interested in how others pull off little tricks with their models finishing and try them out to see if they can improve my own work.
Once again thanks for doing this Ron and thanks also to Bill for highlighting the feature here in the forums.

Nice SBS Ron. Simple and well explained

Thanks for sharing

Thanks for sharing Ron. Have saved this and will try out on my next build.

Good article, Ron. Look forward to using these techniques on upcoming projects

Excellent material Ron...

Very nice feature. I will try this on my next project and go "by the book"

Thanks for your time and effort

Ron, nice article.
Thanks for taking the time to write it.

To echo the above, thanks for compling the article. I found it very useful and I mostly appreciate how you show the effects of each step.

Thanks again!

- Frank

Another happy reader!
Interesting to see the techniques used and how each affects the model. Very thourough without being long-winded, an excellent article.

Cheers for sharing,

James

P.S. where's the chipping stage!

Hey thanks guys glad you like it and hope maybe it can help someone somewhere even if only to warn them what not to do
Thanks Bill nice job with the layout and editing it reads just right.

Ron.

James had to cut back on my chips lol maybe next time.

My pleasure Ron, always look forward to seeing what rolls out of your tank factory next.

Great and useful article!
Thanks for sharing your techniques!

Ron, as always a very nice job. I have a King Tiger ready for paint I'm going to try this on.

great paper. On step 8 you mention a "pin wash". What does it mean?

Thanks for taking the time to comment guys i hope the article can be of use to you.
Sam, for my washes i usually cover most of the vehicle so it also adds a layer of grime to all the sufaces but when i do a "pin wash" i use a finer brush and just do the nuts and bolts or panels etc without covering the whole thing.

Ron.

Very motivating article.

If I may ask a perhaps silly question, I've been out of the hobby for a while and this term "filter" is new to me. What is that about? Brushing extreemly watered down paint over the entire vehicle?

Hi James, thats the method i used in this article but there are other ways to do it, basically to me its anyway you chose to apply a colour that alters the tone of the base colour or adds tints to it. Filters are not always nessesary its really up to the builder some people dont use them at all others use them everytime its just one of those things thats up to you.

Ron.

Heres a link to another article i did for this one i used the dot method for applying the filter.

https://armorama.kitmaker.net//features/1458&page=2

Tremendous article, Ron! I'll be using this on my first German armor project, Dragon's Ardennes KT.

I think that of all the articles here on Armorama, your's are among the best. You describe everything so well, have plenty of SBS pics, and use products that are readily availiable! Keep 'em coming!