With the first batch cleared, I reached for some light tanks from the queue. So, I grabbed the Stuarts and Scotts. The Stuarts got shifted to the US, after I found M3a3s for my Free French. That gave me two platoons of light tanks and a four gun section of M-8 Scotts. These got the stowage treatment.
The models are all from the Plastic Soldier Company Stuart set. You can assemble them as M5s, M5a1s and M8s. I went with the latter two.
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 and brown, painted details, added the decals, added and detailed stowage, drybrushed more mud on upper surfaces, 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 done, it is time for some Shermans.
- Manteuffel