1/35 Tamiya Jagdpanzer L/70 new tool

I built this a couple years back only to put it on the shelf as I really did not know what to do with it. FF to this year and a determined effort to reduce the shelf, here's what I came up with for this one.

The kit itself was flawless in assembly I don't think I uttered one curse while doing it. Soft edge ambush scheme airbrushed with Tammy Dark Yellow, Dark Green, and Red brown with spots added via the hair stick. The kit supplied tracks were very nice but I happened to have a set of Fruils laying about so they got used to more easily model the sag effect often seen on Panzer IV's and their variants. Weathering was done with a combination of MIG acrylic ground paste and enamel earth tones.

Kit supplied figures were not the best so they got replaced with one Masterbox and one parts box combination, both of which were given MiniArt heads. Uniforms painted with acrylics, faces and hands painted with enamels. I like the enamels for flesh much better than acrylics due to the low surface tension they have which makes washing and blending much easier.

The base is 1" foam board, sculpted with a wire brush and 80 grit sandpaper. The road ruts are air drying clay and the rest of the base was covered with diluted white glue which I proceeded to dump a bunch of garden dirt onto. Once dry I knocked off the excess dirt and applied the kitty litter rocks and gravel which I fixed with diluted white glue and a pipette. I got out my new static grass applicator and quickly found that it does not work with flock length much over 6mm or so, hence the shorter grass. I'm not very good with the thing yet.

Base was primed with acrylic flat black, then earth tones were added slowly in thin layers with the same paint I used on the vehicle. I wanted to try the dry grass look this time so I painted it Tammy dark yellow, then very dilute Tammy buff until things looked right. All painting on the base was done with an airbrush except a very few washes in places.

After working with wood for bases for years I sure am liking foam better, it's much easier to work with in many ways.

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