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Revell's 1/72 scale M60 with M9 bulldozer (kit 03175) was the first model I started in over 10 years, now at least a year and a half ago. I got sidetracked into other projects a dozen times already and it kept feeling incomplete until I finally finished it this week.
The barbed wire was placed on the base, I did some final dusting with pigments on the upper surfaces and a heavy application of MIG's pigment fixer on the layers of mud on the lower side. It is now close to how I imagined it and time to call this project finished.
Price : €6
Number of parts : 211
Time spent : 21.5 hours
Project completion time : 19 months (embarassingly long, I know)
Paint : (Vallejo)
- Black and grey primer
- Tank dark yellow (71.081) - Base colour
- Tank green (71.011) - Green camo
- Black - Camo
- White (71.001) - Camo
- Silver and red for head- and taillights
Other :
- Alclad II clear kote flat
- Hard plaster for the base (and mixed with pigments for the mud)
- Insect screen (mesh) for the barbed wire
- AK 023 - Dark mud (wash)
- AK 041 North Africa dust (pigment)
- AK 042 European earth (pigment)
- AK 081 Dark earth (pigment)
- Vallejo water effects for the puddles (just an experiment)
And more pictures :
Lovely work Joroen, everything just looks so good.
ReplyDeleteJoroen,
ReplyDeletefine finish (? finally finished?) -whatever- LOL.
Outstanding work; The base,The mud on and off the tank, is great; The colours are subtle and show very well a "working tank".
Your barb wire "how to" and use on the base is brilliant.
The experiment with the Vallejo water effects is a good start. Might I suggest that next time the water in such a place as shown, might be more brown/mud colored?
Regardless a very impressive job of work and a pleasure to look at. -thumbs up-
Thanks for the comment!
DeleteThe water should indeed have been muddied up a bit. The first attempt kept looking iffy, and I just kept adding and adding the gel, until it was too late to realize I should have added a touch of brown.