WIP: Kliment Voroshilov II

[xamel1975]

Trumpeter's KV-II. Going OOB with this one and practice heavy weathering effect.





Painted the KV-II with black base and highlighted with red brown.




Don't you just hate it when you've started painting then you notice some sink molds?


A bit of Mr.Liquid Putty will solve this.

[xamel1975]

Putty sanded off and respray. Then I use green and randomly highlight the tank.







Then I apply one layer of clear coat and leave the kit to dry for 1 day. This is to protect the paint for the next session...


Hairspray!!! Got the cheapest one - costs me around RM10 - RM11.

I randomly spray the hairspray and sprinkle unsifted sand almost immediately. Hairspray dries quickly so you have to be quick. Otherwise the sand or salt; your choice won't stick and be blown away when you apply your paint using airbrush.







I leave it to dry for about half an hour.

[xamel1975]

Once the hairspray + sand layer dried, I apply Russian green with some Red Brown filter.





I let the paint dry for about half an hour. Once the paint dried, I use this 'wire brush' which I bought from Multifilla. Actually any brush will do, as long as it's stiff.



With a bowl of water at my side, I slowly start to brush off the sand. Occasionally I put a couple of drops of water on the kit to 'loosen up' the sand particles.

Overall tank clean up is done. Here's how it looks.





Tank is still wet from it's bath - to remove all the sand particles.

Close up of the effect...













This is just a first layer of the weathering using hairspray technique. I estimate there's a couple more run of this process before I start to apply the winter wash

[xamel1975]

Did some red brown shading and apply another layer of clear coat.




Leave it to dry for 1 day. Once dried, I tear some bits of paper and tack it on. Then I repeat the previous process where I spray on the hairspray and sprinkle some sand.

[xamel1975]

Then a coat of off white applied.







Took off the paper mask...



Once the paint dried, again I scrape off the sand and then gave the tank another bath to remove the sand particles.



Some close up shot of the effects

[xamel1975]

Give the whole tank another coat of off white filter.





I brush the hairspray onto the wheel and spray a coat of off white. Once dried, I scrape off the white using circular motion. A bit of water loosen up the hairspray and paints came off easily.


Tracks were given a coat of burnt iron on top of flat black coat. I use the segmented/indy tracks instead of the belt one.

[xamel1975]

I use Tamiya's Brown Soil Effect weathering 'paint' for first layer of weathering.


Heavy application around the wheel area


Some goes onto the tracks


Let's not forget the wheels, too.


Tracks assembled and fixed to the wheels


Overall look

[Phoon]

Interesting! Keep us posted! ;D

[MastaKilla]

very infomative WIP ;D
keep it up the good work here dude!

[xamel1975]

Start creating the base for this build. An idea of a bunch of Russian soldier poses with the beast for photography comes to mind.



Figures are from Masterbox set.

[jinn]

LOVE THIS TANK AND LOVE WHAT U'VE done with it.

Sorry i really got a soft spot for winter camo. love love love!!!

[kriz]

AWESOME..work so far.

[genosider]

Looking great there Xamel!

[beckylaw]

Sorry, noob here, why mask with papers??

[xamel1975]

May 7, 2012 3:27:40 GMT 8 beckylaw said:

Sorry, noob here, why mask with papers??

I mask with paper on certain area to in my attempt to create a worn out look of the winter wash.

The torn papers are simply tacked on using Blu-tack, spray over the whole tank with white and the remove. This will create random 'edges' - soft and hard edge depending on the angle of your airbrush.

A few layers of filter is needed to blend in the contrast.

[xamel1975]

Base created. Just need to add snow and maybe some foliage. Figures painted except for the boots and gears.







One thing I'm concern is the color of the uniform. The kit color chart says Russian Green but the photos on the box looks more like khaki.

[xamel1975]

Latest photo. Can be considered as complete . I really need to improve my figure painting skill. Enjoy the pix !