Tabletop wargames, fow, wh, lotr etc….
The Elephants received their primer coat tonight. As explained in the Panthers post the Primer paint is Color Kote. Metal primer. It went on very shiney and appeared thick but it shrinks and dries very fast and with a wonderfull dull surface finish.
I havn’t much comment to add further on the tanks themselves so I will let teh pictures entertain…
I used poly kote metal primer to spray paint the stripped ad new Panthers.
Poly Kote is an acrylic metal primer and is dull finish.
I was surprised at what appeared to be heavy cote dried very thin. Some interior corners didn’t receive an application but this is more a symptom of my sweep and pass spray technique than a problem with the spray pattern.
You will notice some green and grey areas wher the cote is not covering.
Platoon make up is: 
Kompanie HQ – peaked cap commander at cupola. Bare hands at rest.
Kompanie HQ 2ic – Closed cupola but has front track guards removed.
All non command tanks have a spare road wheel on the right hand side of the turret.
Plt HQ – soft cap commander at cupola with binoculars in hands.
Plt Panthers – closed cupolas with spare road wheel.
Plt Panther 2ic has a set of expelled shell casings on the rear deck. These casings are putty rolls. As they are Milliput I will be able to file and shape them in place to tidy up the shapes a bit better. But with correct painting you won’t notice any sculpting defects in these.
The thin Shurzen panels will be painted and attached seperatly at later date as some pinning will be required. These will be blue-tacked onto the tanks after dunkelgelb application so that the airbrushed pattern in brown and green will match up with the tank hull side patterns. Pinning and fixing will follow after the tracks and road wheels are detailed properly.
Anyways… here is the picture.
For a long time my favourite and best painted figure in my collection (with the exception perhaps of my Avatar which I went and sold :cry:, anyway moving on). This minature truly embodies the mean and green spirit of the orcs. Obviously I’ve pretty much faithfully followed Games Workshop colour scheme as I almost always do. There have been a couple of times when I’ve deviated thinking something would look good painted with a different scheme and then.. well.. it didn’t. As a result I have little faith in my visualisation of colours and so tend to copy that which is proven. The only thing thats a little different is the armour isn’t quite as blackened and the green skin isn’t quite as light. Each time I think I should lighten the skin I decide not too. I kinda like it dark.
