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Techniques and Tips

I offer some tips and curiosity that I have drawn from disparate sources.

splashes mud

To play the mud-slinging on a model just an old wet toothbrush in diluted color, match the pattern on the bristles and slide a toothpick, starting from the end farthest and pulling it toward you, repeat the procedure with more shades you will have a more realistic effect.

Zwolle:

The mud and clods of earth attaccatesi the medium are made with chunks of plaster from walls glued to the model, let dry and then painted.

Metal oxidized:

Beware of exhaust pipes mufflers will be rusty because of the heat, and must be painted matte black and covered with dry brush with a tan. The same applies to all metal surfaces that heat up and the original tracks.

Zimmerit:

The Zimmerit was a paste of barium sulphate (40%), polyvinyl acetate (PVA) to 25%, ocher pigment (15%), sawdust (10%) and sulfite zinc for the remaining 10%, which was used to prevent magnetic mines stick to the armor of the media. It was developed after the battle of Kursk in July 1943, and applied on almost all armored up to 1944, when it was shelved because there was doubt (never confirmed by tests) that the explosion of anti-tank could ignite. The model is achieved with a soldering iron flat head resting on the surface or on top of a thin layer of plaster model and then impressing the notches with a screwdriver.

Camouflage of the German Army (WWII):

The most common camouflage worn by German soldiers in World War II (from 1943 onwards) was known as Platanenmuster : This is done using a brown background with mottled green and ocher and dots, data with a toothpick in two additional tones of green and two brown. There are many other versions, more or less intermittently used by various departments, for which reference to other sources.

Camouflage German Air Force (WWII):

mimetic

The German Air Force (Luftwaffe) had a very light gray-green base with square patches in green and brown.

Italian Camouflage (WWII):

The Italian camouflage of World War II (remained in use until the adoption of the combination of NATO), often worn by German soldiers after the September 8, 1943, had a base ; in reddish-brown with mottled green and ocher.

Camouflage of the German media (WWII):

Until 1942, the German media were completely painted in gray-blue, from 1943 onwards, the background color became yellow- ocher ( Dunkelgelb ), with a camouflage green ( feldgrun ) and tan ( rotbrun ), the latter often consisted of the anti-rust primer left exposed during the later half of the painting.

In 1944-45 we adopted the scheme "ambush", exactly the same, but with the addition of ocher dots on areas of green and brown and green dots on areas of ocher. For the winter scattered on the existing color of a layer of white paint is not permanent or diluted lime. Obviously, because of different operational scenarios and discontinuity of supply, there were an infinite number of variations processed directly by the crews, both in the form of patches for the nuance of color.

tracks left by the crawler

We produce glued to the base of the diorama Das two thin strips of the width of the tracks there and then you click on the model before they dry. Once solidified Das, he is painted in brown with a few washes in brown, green and ocher.

For the marks left on the road and the asphalt, we proceed by drawing small irregular lines at points of support of the tracks with a bit of toothpick soaked in white.

Scours: Black
diluted reproduces the shadows and highlights in the folds, with the brown has the same effect on the Incarnation. The smoke-colored (brown-gray) is useful to simulate the wear of paint on metal plates and metal in general (swords and armor), normally, you go before drybrush.

drybrush: The color given to
dry brush (wet the brush in the paint and wipe it on a piece of paper up to leave a light trace) enhances the ridges of the models, emphasizing the separation from the recesses of necessity in the shade, it is essential to reproduce the light on fur, the hair and beards. With this technique you can make the idea of \u200b\u200bfabric or leather used (light gray), peeling paint (silver), dust deposited on the objects (ocher) or patches of mud (brown).

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