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A little heads up on what's been going on with my T-34 build lately. I decided to take it down a pretty extreme path in terms of weathering and dust n dirt. Think about a desperate battles between Smolensk and Moscow in the fall/early winter '41 kinda of vibe to go with it. Seas of mud, and intense fighting going on to try and stop the German advance on Moscow.

In a nutshell, I sprayed a good couple of coats of future to seal the basic green paint job as can be seen of previous pictures. Then I took out Revell aqua anthracite (black grey) and set out to make that the paintwork all raggedy and pretty much torn up. Again sealed the preliminary results of that that step in a goud couple of coats of future. Once that had dried a day or two I took out some brown oil paints, brushed a good bit onto the model (see first pic), let that sit for an hour or so and then began to 'clean it up' using a damp brush (in white spirit) and a nice big pile of cotton buds. Let it sit in the sun for a days or so and then again sealed it with a nice coat of future.

I stilll would like to try and add some more smaller subtle weathering and things and ofcourse there's still a load of mud and dust to add using pigments and things like that, but sofar I'm pretty happy with how my first AFV is coming along.
 

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Some more work on my T-34! Pigments and various other things (baking soda, water soluble paints, white glue and water) to create a thick kind of sludge to simulate mud on the wheels and tracks) used to dust and dirty this puppy up a little bit
 

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Thanks fella's. While I still think of my aviation models as being my 'core business' this sofar has been a very interesting and enjoyable trip into uncharted territory, and I'm pretty happy that I have some additional AFV models (two British Crusaders, a MK.II and MK.III, and mighty fine looking Panther A) on the stash.
 
The shiny finish was just precautionary measures through the use of future (not unlike a/c) Looking at all the techniques and tricks (the sludge, the oil paints, the pigments etc.) involved in dusting and dirtying the thing up and my inexperience with how these techniques might pan out on an AFV it just seemed to make sence to seal and protect the different steps I took when I was happy with them if at all possible, to be able to remove any of the steps without stripping the model down to the bare plastic again.
 
Two new smaller scale kits added to the stash. Both new-tool kits from airfix. The Hawk 81 has been out there for a few months I believe, but the 109 is out for maybe two weeks or so. Both kits again seem to be a nice advance over earlier new-tool kits. Panel lines do appear to get noticably crisper en finer, and as for the new 109, with some partially poseable control surfaces, canopy and engine it is yet another nice advance over earlier kits. And all still at a very affordable Airfix price.
 

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My bad....I wanted to put these in the 'recent purchases' section (although they just might go straigt to the workbench)
 

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