Conqueror Mk II build – Part 4:Weathering

4/9/2024

The exhausts were painted with the Vallejo Model Color “Black Grey” (70862).
The entire model was washed with a dilute mixture of Winsor & Newton “Raw Umber” and “Lamp Black” oil paints (ratio about 5:1) in enamel thinners – the excess being cleaned up with a dry brush or cotton bud.
Some extra shading was added using AMMO Oilbrusher “Starship Bay Sludge”.
The wooden tool handles were brushed with Winsor & Newton “Burnt Umber”.
Abteilung 502 “Light Mud” (Abt125) was added as dots to some of the vertical and sloping surfaces of the hull and and drawn downwards using a flat brush to simulate streaks of dirt.
The entire model was sprayed with a 1:2 mixture of Mr.Color “Flat Clear” (182) and Mr.Color Leveling Thinner.
AMMO “Europe Earth” and “Airfield Dust” pigments were brushed onto the lower half of the tank, wheels and tracks and fixed with a 1:1 mixture of AMMO “Pigment Fixer” (A.MIG-3000) in enamel thinners, added by brush. Very much smaller amounts were brushed onto the top of the hull and parts of the turret. I wanted to add some dirt and mud, as if it had been out on manoeuvres, but, otherwise for it to be in good condition, as it would be for the period.
Before the tracks were fitted, AK Interactive “Dark Steel” (AK086) pigment was brushed on onto the raised parts of the tracks in contact with the ground or running gear, as well as the edges of the metal tools and the machine gun.