With a stack of new decals in hand, I am back into mass production mode on my project! The next batch was my US equipment. These had been painted up to their first wet brush and brown on tools. Next was application of all the decals. For these, I had collected numerous stowage parts over the years. I had sprayed these tan and gave them a brown wash earlier. Once the decals had dried, I added random stowage to many of the vehicles.
The first group up was some late war tanks that could be used in Korea also. Specifically, a platoon of Chaffees and Pershings. The models are all Battlefront plastics.
With that said, these followed the same steps as the early lend lease project vehicles. I sprayed the models with Krylon dark olive camo paint, hit the bottoms with Vallejo dark mud pumice, black washed the tank, drybrushed up the green, painted details, added the decals, drybrushed the mud brown, added and detailed stowage, dull coated the models and finished with a Iraqi Sand drybrush. It is a pretty quick way to get through armor and gives a very dirty effect.
With these knocked out, I’m grabbing more tanks.
- Manteuffel