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75th Anniversary of Battle of Monte Cassino and Northern Italy (Army Build)
Alllied Support - Humbers and Stuarts - Finishing them off
With the dip applied and dry, I’ve been over everything with a matt varnish. I find the dip looks awful while shiny and you can’t see very well what you are working with until the shine has gone.
I’ve gone over the wooden handles etc again as well as dry brushing the tracks with a light gunmetal. This just helps pick out all of the detail.
I’m looking to weather these down so have taken a brown wash and applied a light wash in places more likely to be grimy as well as adding some water marks.
I’ve chipped the tanks up in the usual way. A small bit of sponge dipped in a dark brown and applied over the places where chips are most likely to occur. I’ve then gone over with gunmetal but lighter and less frequent.
To apply the mud, I have some high quality Sussex clay soil from my back garden. This is dried out and crushed down to a fine powder. I mix this with PVA and then with a very fine brush, dab on blobs where mud would collect. The PVA dries away to leave the mud behind in little clumps. At 15mm, this looks pretty good.
I’ve finally gone over with another matt varnish to seal everything in. And all done!
Great work, @redvers – I especially like the armored car – and the mud spatter on the Stuart looks great!
I know what you mean about the wash coming out shiny. It happens to me a lot, as well as a bit of “frosting.” The shine is easy to beat with a matte varnish afterwards, but that frosting really gets on my nerves.