Ciao a tutti,
I just finished this very ambitious project (for my skills!!), an Italian tanker with an Italian L6 tank turret during the Russian campaign.
Ambitious because this is my second tank (well a part of it this time) I've ever done; also been able to place the turret with the figure in the minimum space possible and being able to tell a story was another great challenge, last but not least, paint this 1/35 miniature with the tiny details is painful sometimes!
The figure is from Alpine range the turret and the fuel tank are from Model Victoria, wood box is from Plusmodel and all the tools are plastic kit from a company called Diopark.
As for the paint I used my usual technique for the figure, just made an experiment for the leather coat, I painted the worn parts with a really light colour, using ochre, Naples yellow even white, when all dried I did paint over glazes of burnt sienna and raw umber.
Talking about the ground work and tank I did apply the technique used by the tank guys!
To make things easy, I did apply a winter camouflage, this has been the cherry on the cake!
Overall has been great, I loved every bit of this project and I'll try to work on more figure/ tanks project in the future.
I hope you like it, please let me know what you think and if you want to see more pics, please go to my blog.
Grazie.
Giovanni
I just finished this very ambitious project (for my skills!!), an Italian tanker with an Italian L6 tank turret during the Russian campaign.
Ambitious because this is my second tank (well a part of it this time) I've ever done; also been able to place the turret with the figure in the minimum space possible and being able to tell a story was another great challenge, last but not least, paint this 1/35 miniature with the tiny details is painful sometimes!
The figure is from Alpine range the turret and the fuel tank are from Model Victoria, wood box is from Plusmodel and all the tools are plastic kit from a company called Diopark.
As for the paint I used my usual technique for the figure, just made an experiment for the leather coat, I painted the worn parts with a really light colour, using ochre, Naples yellow even white, when all dried I did paint over glazes of burnt sienna and raw umber.
Talking about the ground work and tank I did apply the technique used by the tank guys!
To make things easy, I did apply a winter camouflage, this has been the cherry on the cake!
Overall has been great, I loved every bit of this project and I'll try to work on more figure/ tanks project in the future.
I hope you like it, please let me know what you think and if you want to see more pics, please go to my blog.
Grazie.
Giovanni
