68th Medium Regiment, Royal Artillery, France, 1944.
The vehicle
“The AEC Matador was a heavy 4×4 truck and medium artillery tractor built by the Associated Equipment Company for British and Commonwealth forces during World War II.” [1]
“The BL 5.5-inch [140 mm calibre] gun was a British artillery gun introduced during the Second World War to equip medium batteries.” [2]
The kit
Airfix 1/76 kit [3].
Assembly
Painting
The base colour was AK Interactive Real Colours “S.C.C. No.15 Olive Drab” (RC875).
Weathering
Usual things here – minor amounts of chipping at this scale, rust paints, oil wash (“Raw Umber” and “Starship Filth”) and pigments (“Dark Earth”, “Russian Earth”).
The base
I cut a base from 4mm thick MDF sheet. AK Interactive “Neutral Texture for Earth” (AK8023) was applied and, once dry, various paint tones. After sealing with a gloss varnish, an oil wash was added. This done, I flattened it all down with matt varnish and then dripped pigment fixer to the whole surface and dropped on pigment until the surface was covered. Basing glue was then painted along the sides of the track and a mix of 2mm, 4mm and 6mm grass flock dropped from a static applicator. All of these I got from WWScenics. The tree was created from a tree making set I had bought years ago from Woodland Scenics.
References
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