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Russian tank BT-7 Mle 1935 [Tamiya 1/35]


Antoine

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  • 3 weeks later...

Yes, Mike, but maybe it's the different light, compared to other pics here.

I've just bought another desk light.

I've already tried a bit of rub, and even with the under coat of metal, it doesn't seems to work very well, and I don't want to ruin everything.

I'll go for a wash, I think, and pigments are a good idea too.

But I'll also apply some drybrush, and some graphit (?) powder.

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Yes - graphite powder would be useful to return a sheen to the contact patches - I use an artist's pencil (a thick pencil made entirely of graphite). Maybe a wash of diluted oils or enamels to deepend the shadows, but that's usually applied over a satin/glossy surface :)

Incidentally, a rather kind chum gave me his Deluxe Materials rust set, and the results are quite nice... less of the orangy rust, and more mid tones. It is quite grainy though, so only of real use on really rusty things like exhaust pipes or derelicts.

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I think it's the same with the Deluxe set, as it gets rustier where the liquid pools. TBH, I think the powder is some kind of ferric/iron filings , and the binder is PVA, but I'm not entirely sure what the activator would be to cause that kind of fast rust to bloom. That comes from knowing nothing about chemistry :blush:

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  • 3 weeks later...
Thanks.

I think it's a bit too much for the tracks, though.

Perhaps, Antoine. Wouldn't a bit of a dark wash help take care of that? Otherwise looking very nice! I was watching some old Soviet film last night - those BT-7's could really move!

Regards,

Jason

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Well your right on the tracks, but thats what experimenting mean's,'is it not'. :hmmm:

Close up picture shows it rusted, but others show it workable.!!!!!

Anyway, great work so far :clap2:

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Wash + off the masks + metal drybrush.
Perhaps, Antoine. Wouldn't a bit of a dark wash help take care of that? Otherwise looking very nice! I was watching some old Soviet film last night - those BT-7's could really move!

Already done, but it didn't have realy an effect.

For the moment, I'll concentrate on the hull + turret weathering, and then go on working (slowly) on a future diorama.

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