Thursday, December 18, 2014

Cold theme challenge = Winter Panzer

The great thing about being challenged is to try something you have not done before. I was thinking about trying out a winter scheme on Early War German tanks for a long time and the Cold theme in the Painting Challenge was the motivation to give it a go.
While not the best photos below you can see how I went with this. Rather than a nicely applied totally white workshop spray job, this tank is in the style of painted with brooms, rags and whatever else came to hand in the field. The snow has started to thaw and the Mud Season is about to begin.
Be sure to go have a look to how other hobbyists responded to the Cold theme here.
The Panzer is an older Battlefront 15mm Resin and metal. I actually prepped and primed the tank black for the last challenge. It painted a lot quicker than I thought it would take.
Is he on the Radio or someone just farted in the Tank?



























Cheers from Brendon
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14 comments:

  1. Paul WDecember 18, 2014 at 10:29 AM

    A very effective paint scheme, I like it a lot. That's definitely a "gas attack" he's reacting to :-)

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  2. DeanMDecember 18, 2014 at 11:03 AM

    Very nice camo and weathering. Makes me think fondly of my earliest forays into military modeling with a Tamiya kit.

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  3. The KiwiDecember 18, 2014 at 11:56 AM

    Thanks Paul and Dean. Cheers

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  4. UnknownDecember 18, 2014 at 4:29 PM

    I think it looks great in this picture. I'd never done snow effects before and was afraid to try, but the Challenge got me past the fear.

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    1. The KiwiDecember 18, 2014 at 8:46 PM

      That's the great thing about the challenge. Motivation to try something not attempted before.
      cheers

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  5. PhilDecember 18, 2014 at 4:52 PM

    Great job, love the camo!

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  6. Michael AwdryDecember 18, 2014 at 5:59 PM

    That's one cold cat!

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  7. The KiwiDecember 18, 2014 at 8:46 PM

    Thanks Phil and Michael. Cheers

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  8. BaconfatDecember 20, 2014 at 9:19 AM

    It looks terrific Kiwi, I initially thought it was a 28mm sculpt, I would love to see you do a whole cold army.

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    1. The KiwiDecember 22, 2014 at 3:39 PM

      That's about as good as compliment that I could get. Thank you very much sir anda whole army like this could indeed be interesting. cheers

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  9. ScottswargamingDecember 20, 2014 at 7:57 PM

    Very effective job :)

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  10. SinSynnJanuary 9, 2015 at 1:21 PM

    Yeah that is an excellent paint job! I can actually see the brush strokes the crew made in my mind. Really effective random, haphazard field-applied camo.
    Two tentacles way up.

    I knew that was a Battlefront tank as soon as I saw it. I don't know why so much of their stuff looks 'melty' to me. No crisp, clean edges. Even the fenders tend to be all bendy, cuz hell- they come that way in the box!
    And all the barrels are usually bent, too. Lolz.

    Nuthin' could hold down that paint job tho.
    Too sweet.

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  11. The KiwiJanuary 13, 2015 at 10:48 PM

    Thanks SinSynn for the two tentacles. The melty is noticeable on the axe and shovel. It's an old product though and I think they have improved now. Cheers

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