Ukrainian dio components...

[Jeeves]

This one will eventually move into dioramas- but since it is just two tanks now it can wait...I am nearly done with the Ukrainian tank- bringing it to AMPS Nationals and getting the feedback helps me know what I need to work on for the diorama...

I will be using a mix of these two figure sets....

The other component to this is a T-72 wreck- I am basing on this photo:

Our resident Sharkmouth is being quite helpful with advice and photos- I have picked up the Verlinden engine compartment, Panzerart burnt out wheels and Panzerwerk Design 3D tracks which are my new obsession...

More to come soon...

 

[moon puppy]

 

[Jeeves]

Worked on the hull a bit today-- not as much to add with most of it blown off....

 

[Brokeneagle]

excellent start!

 

[Jeeves]

Working on the burned out T-72...primer coat down. Now on to lots of rust and ash. Gotta build something up for the gun to insert into since the only option is the vinyl canvas cover which is long gone in the reference photo.

 

[moon puppy]

Smokey
I don't think we've had a good knocked out subject here in a while.

 

[Sharkmouth]

Smokey
I don't think we've had a good knocked out subject here in a while.

Well that is because what @Jeeves is modeling is a tank empty of fuel and ammunition. Remember, this is usually the result when it has ammunition and fuel, the infamous turret toss:

Famous now thanks to the Trumpeter kit but click to see the 2022 turret toss inspiring this box art:


Record holding T-90M:

 

[Jeeves]

Looking at the reference photo, there was no massive toss but I'd say the turret was definitely displaced as its partially resting on the engine deck. Maybe just a little burp of an explosion?

 

[Brokeneagle]

 

[Jeeves]

OK...just added the first rust coloration- used Lifecolor Rust Base Color...much more to come. The spattering was intentional to try to get some texture to the rust.

 

[moon puppy]

 

[Sharkmouth]

Looking at the reference photo, there was no massive toss but I'd say the turret was definitely displaced as its partially resting on the engine deck. Maybe just a little burp of an explosion?

Ah, the crew had Taco Bell!

 

[Jeeves]

Took a lighter to the underside of the right track guard to start the damage there...probably would have been easier to do it off the model, what do they say about hindsight?....but anyways- here is my attempt at mimicing the reference photo.



Pigment work has started-- rust is a mix of some old Mig pigments and some Wilder pigments I won from an SMA contest a while back. The ash is a mix I made from some Doc O'Brien weathering powders I had way back before I realized there were much better options- but they worked alright here I think.



Also- added the best Lifecolor rust coat to the splendid Panzerart Design tracks- much more work to be done on these although the reference photo doesn't show a whole lot of these. Did some damage to the kit fuel barrels. Even though they aren't in the reference photo, I figure one may have been blown off and is somewhere off the back side- may place one or both depending of how I feel.



Finally, the very day I received my Panzer Art replacement barrel for the lost kit barrel, the kit barrel made an appearance. Still deciding which I should use....Panzer Art on the left and kit one on the right.

Also came across this in my internet searches...anyone know a good custom decal source?