Berlin, 1945.

ChTZ S-65 tractor build – Part 1:Introduction
ChTZ S-65 tractor build – Part 2:Assembly
ChTZ S-65 tractor build – Part 3:Painting
ChTZ S-65 tractor build – Part 4:Weathering

• Lighter paint chips were simulated using LifeColor “4BO Var” (UA239), applied with a sponge or brush.
• Darker paint chips were simulated using Vallejo Model Color “German Camouflage Black Brown” (70822), applied with a sponge, fine brush or flicked from the end of a brush.
• The exhaust was painted with Vallejo “Black Grey” (70862) and the various colours of the LifeColor rust set.
• The tracks were treated with the various colours of the LifeColor rust set, applied with a sponge.
• Before further weathering, a 1:2 mixture of Mr.Color “Clear Gloss” (46) and Mr.Color Leveling Thinner was sprayed over the entire model.
• 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.
• To simulate a degree of paint variation and fading, dots of oil paint (Winsor & Newton “Raw Umber”, “Payne’s Grey”, “Permanent Magenta”, “Transparent White”, and AMMO Oilbrusher “Olive Green”, “Medium Grey”, “Yellow”, “Black”) were added. The dots were drawn down vertically with a flat brush.
• To the some of the vertical sides AMMO Oilbrusher “Starship Filth”, “Starship Bay Sludge”, Winsor & Newton “Burnt Umber”, “Burnt Sienna” and Abteilung 502 “Light Rust Brown” (Abt060) were added. Then, using a flat brush, the oil paint was drawn down the side to simulate streaks of dirt or rust.
• AMMO “Europe Earth”, “Dark Earth”, “Rubble” and “Brick Dust” pigments were brushed onto the vehicle and tracks, to varying degrees, and fixed with AMMO “Pigment Fixer” (A.MIG-3000), added by brush.
• AK Interactive “Dark Steel” (AK086) pigment was brushed on onto the raised parts of the tracks in contact with the ground or running gear.
• Vallejo “Carbon Black” (73116) pigment was added to the end of the exhausts.
• Abteilung 502 “Bitumen” (ABT004) and “Engine Grease” (ABT160) oil paints, in varying dilutions in enamel thinners, were added to parts of the vehicle, to simulate stains.

Primer: Tamiya “Fine Surface Primer” (light grey)

Base coats: In all cases the paint was sprayed as a 1:2 mixture in Mr.Color leveling thinner.

• Mr.Hobby “Mr.Finishing Surfacer 1500 Black”
• Mr.Color “RG highlight 1” (CMC11) (part of their Russian Green set)

Details:

• Tracks: Tamiya “Dark Iron” (XF-84)
• Seat: Vallejo Model Color “Black” (70950)
• Lights: Citadel “Runefang Steel”

Luftwaffe anti-aircraft unit, Tunisia, 1943.

Kübelwagen Type 82 build – Part 1:Introduction
Kübelwagen Type 82 build – Part 2:Painting
Kübelwagen Type 82 build – Part 3:Weathering

• Paint chips were simulated using Vallejo Model Color “Basalt Grey” (70869), applied with a sponge or fine brush. This was meant to simulate the presumably grey colour underneath the desert colour paint layer.
• The exhaust was painted with Vallejo “Black Grey” (70862) and the various colours of the LifeColor rust set.
• The entire model was washed with a dilute mixture of Winsor & Newton “Raw Umber” oil paint in enamel thinner – the excess being cleaned up with a dry brush or cotton bud.
• The spade handle was painted with Winsor & Newton “Raw Umber” oil paint, with the excess wiped off with a cotton bud, to simulate wood effect
• The wooden floor boards with stained with Winsor & Newton “Burnt Umber” oil paint.
• To simulate a degree of paint variation and fading, dots of oil paint (Winsor & Newton “Raw Umber”, “Payne’s Grey”, “Transparent White”, and AMMO Oilbrusher “Medium Grey”, “Yellow”) were added. The dots were drawn on the surfaces with a flat brush.
• The entire model was sprayed with a 1:2 mixture of Mr.Color “Flat Clear” (182) and Mr.Color Leveling Thinner.
• A 1:1 mix of Mr.Color “Tan” (44) and “Radome” (318) as a 5% solution in Mr.Color Leveling Thinner was sprayed in light coats on the outside of the vehicle and wheels, to simulate a dust layer.
• The ends of the exhausts were treated with Vallejo “Carbon Black” (73116) pigment.
• The metal part of the spade was treated with AK Interactive “Dark Steel” (AK086) pigment.
• The wheels, suspension and sides of the vehicle were brushed with AMMO “North Africa Dust” (A.MIG-3003).