Little Tanks & Tiny People

As promised in my last post , here are my 15mm German tanks. I left most in their dunkelgelb basecoat, although the gelb I used may be slightly dunkler than the actual colour was. As a side note, I used Vallejo English Uniform for this, which is perhaps a little ironic.   The Panther and Maus are inspired by the paint job on the Panther at the Tank Museum at Bovington. At the end of the war, tanks were no longer painted in the factory but were shipped to the units in their red oxide primer. They were then camouflaged by the crews, who sometimes left some of the primer uncovered. Panther and Maus P zKpfw V Panther ( Gale Force Nine) P zKpfw VIII Maus ( Gale Force Nine) Base coat: Hull Red 70.985 Camo: Desert Yellow 70.977 and White 70.951 Tracks and tools: Black 70.950, Gunmetal Grey 70.863, Flat Earth 70.983 Wash: Umber Wash 73.203 Dirt Drybrush: Flat Earth 70.983 followed by Bonewhite 72.034 Tiger, Panzer IV and StuG III PzKpfw VI Tiger (Zvezda) PzKpfw IV  (Zvezda) St...

Back in 2020 , I painted up some tiny 15 mm or 1:100 scale tanks. If I may say so, I think I’ve gotten a bit better at painting in the last four years, so I thought it was time to redo them. I couldn’t resist buying some extra as well, of course. I’ll start with the Allies, the Germans will follow in the next post. Brits (NW Europe) British Cromwells (Gale ForceNine) British Sherman Firefly (Gale Force Nine) I used a much more acurate green than last time. As you can tell, the yellow diamonds aren't perfectly symmetrical because I did them by hand. Base coat: Refractive Green 70.890 Drybrush: Khaki 70.988 Tracks and tools: Black 70.950, Gunmetal Grey 70.863, Flat Earth 70.983 Wash: Umber Wash 73.203 Chipping: Khaki 70.988 and Gunmetal Grey 70.863 Dirt Drybrush: Flat Earth 70.983 followed by Bonewhite 72.034 Brits (N Africa) M3 Lee's (Zvezda) These M3's are technically American Lees, not British Grants, but I don't mind. I really dig the camo. Matilda II (Z...