Tamiya Model Magazine – September 2019

FULL-BUILD: WW2 ALLIED ARMOUR

12 September 2019 TMMI 287

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Once the interior parts had all been painted and weathered, it was time to start on the exterior. The first colour to be applied was Lifecolor’s Panzer

Grey Deep Shade. This would form the base colour for the ‘Mickey Mouse’ scheme. The forward section of the hull side showed some blemishes

under the ‘black’ so it was rubbed back and repainted

The author picked up this ingenious

Gyro-Cut tool at last year’s Scale Model

World and this is the first opportunity he's

had to use it. Because of the swivelling

cutting head, it is perfect for cutting

curves, wavy lines or circles

Once all the masking had been applied it

was double checked to be firmly in place

with no chance of any paint creeping

under any edges. The author then gave

the rest of the vehicle an initial coat of

Lifecolor’s SCC-15 Olive Drab

Here we can see the Mickey Mouse ear camouflage pattern taking shape. It was a

struggle to find clear reference photos of this pattern on actual British armour, but

some great photos were found, showing this scheme on soft skin vehicles and this is

what the style and pattern was based on

The Base SCC-15 was then lightened, weathered

and generally faded with some Dust, Dunkelgelb

Ground shade and Olive Drab faded shade.

In this photo it all looks too light, but this was

done knowing that the subsequent weathering

effects will darken the colour noticeably