Hello campers, I've put a coat of whitewash on the Pak 40 so that's done now, so I can start to give the diorama my undivided attention!
If anyone is a bit wary of doing a whitewashed vehicle, gun, armour whatever, I have found it best to use a small flat head brush. Try and aim for one around 1/8" across. This is near enough to scale of a real brush I have seen on photos of German soldiers coating tanks in the white stuff, massive things akin to a yard brush. lol!
Try to imagine you have been given a bucket full of whitewash and a brush and being told you have less than 15mins. to paint the gun before the enemy arrives!!!
That is what I do when I paint my models, think panic! Believe me it works...be brave, just slap it on. If you start to fiddle and do every nook and crannie it won't in my opinion, look realistic, just my own slant on it mind!
I know the stuff was sometimes sprayed on, but when in full retreat I reckon there were not many sprayguns and compressors taken back with the army.
In any case, I just don't particularily like the finish achieved using an A.B. it looks (to me) too neat and uniform and this form of cammo was usually done in a hurry and in the field with a brush.
But, as in all aspects of modelling it's down to the individual how he perceives the finished model should look.....
I hope you approve of my interpretation.
Thanks for looking,
Ron
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