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thank you tony . yeah those sandbags took me a few hours!! funny you mentioned the barbed wire because as I chucked it on my piece I also thought that it may be too thick. I will try and experiment with one strand instead and replace it.

and as with the mud, it was my first time experimenting with it. I used real mud from my backyard (it was a rainy day) and mixed some paint in it, but I got a question. Is there a way to keep real mud wet (because it was very shiny then when it dried it went to a matt dry mud texture)?

Use Klear or any gloss varnish either mixed in or lightly painted on, this will keep your mud 'wet'. Nice to see another WWI tank, they really are interesting things, looks good

Lovely little set up with a very good weathering effect on the tank. Funnily enough it was the barbed wire which caught my attention as well. I would stretch a piece of doubled up and twisted cotton between two pins on a peice of wood. With another piece of cotton tie single knots at regular intervals along it's length the place a blob of thin cyano on each knot. When it dried snip the tails of the knot close and you will end up with a very convincing looking barbed wire. Simply twist it around a round object to generate a coil. You might find an application of very watered down PVA will make it that bit more malleable and controllable.

Hi Stefan a nice piece the thing that stands out is the barbed wire, it is a little over scale richards suggestion on barbed wire is a good one and yields good results other than that a little gloss varnish gives a wet muddy look. The male tank is very well done and weathered and i love the sand bags, i chickened out and bought the tamiya ones for the piece iam doing so well done, nice work indeed don't you think WWI is an interesting period?
scott