Tiger IE

This is the sister tank of the one posted yesterday.  Though painted much later.  Photographed in this position, (ie from the back) because well thats how the other one was photographed and well it has a casting defect in it’s left side track, so this is it’s best angle.

Painted it with Martin’s airbrush but did a totally rubbish job to the point it looked like some french partisans had graffiti’d it and left it up on jacks.  So the next day I made a glaze out of brown wash and basically obscured the heck out of the camo.  On the negative side this gives it a rather brown appearance (not that you can tell anymore but that is a dunkelgelb base coat).  On the upside though it doesn’t look like something out of the undie 500.  So a mixed result.  Like the other tiger I bored out the muzzle break (which looks really good I reckon) but I did not add the hull machine gun or an aerial.  Probably should do that and decal.  Thanks to some Future Floor Polish in the glaze it’s essentially varnished as well.  Though the tracks have taken a bit of a battering.

Tiger IE

Starting to run out of photos, will have to take some more.

This is my first german tank I painted, many years ago.  This was taken before I took the picture of the diorama in which the same tank appears.  For that I touched it up as bits of paint had chipped and highlighted a little more and weathered some more.  I really need to get some decals for it to properly finish it and some varnish probably wouldn’t go a miss.  Pictured here showing it’s rear since  already have a photo the reverse angle.

2cm FlaK38’s

These are my FlaK38’s (minus the command team) that I finished off last week.  The guns themselves were painted with Martin’s airbrush about a year ago?  but have only now finished them off painted the crew and based them.  Pretty happy with my work on the camo smocks for these guys, the combat platoons (of which I have no photos yet) are a realm mismatch with me trying different techniques and even colours.  They’re far from perfect but they’re certainly adequate.  I’ve also continued my theme of painting the bread bags ‘luftwaffe blue’ (highlighted to a considerably bright pale shade) because well I think it makes them stand out even if they’re a bit bluer than they probably should be.  Must be my background in painting fantasy figures that makes me want to do that.