S&S PT-76's completed

I've finally managed to finish a few things and more importantly take photos, so over the next few days I'll be posting quite a lot.

I thought I would start with the finished PT-76s as I showed the WIP a week or so back.  These were nice straight forward, well cast kits, which I've painted to be useful for my Soviet Naval Infantry in particular, but I also wanted them to be useable for East Germans or Poles - or even if I ever want to go that way - for 3rd echelon Soviet Motor Rifle who would still have been using these rather out-dated tanks in their recce forces.

I also decided to make up my own batch of pigments - mainly because I wasn't totally sold on the pigment colours available from Vallejo, and nowhere around here sells the MiG or AK Interactive pigments...  So overtime I have picked up a few hard and soft pastels from art shops, and I ground up a few to get a colour I was happy with to represent Norwegian mud.  (as if I know what Norwegian mud looks like!!)

Anyway - here are the pics:

As I pointed out in the WIP previously, I added a few things to the tanks to spice them up a little.

I also weathered the PST Model's PT-76 I've shown previously so it now looks a bit more battle-worn rather than parade ground:

This one has definitely been decaled as a SNI tank - so I'll need to get 1 more PT-76 to field a vanilla platoon.

More coming soon (maybe tomorrow) so stay tuned

Thanks

Richard

Soviet Naval Infantry Vehicles - Work-in-Progress

First of what I hope will be many posts in 2015... Happy New Year everyone!

I had hoped to have had these vehicles finished for this post, but things have been pretty humid in Sydney lately and so I've had some issues with gloss and matt varnish sprays - so I'm not real happy with the state of these models, so I still consider them a work-in-progress rather than finished.

Anyway - this is where the BTR-60Pbs are up to:

I'm pretty sure I have the flags on backwards!  Oh well... Decals are from various ACE kits.

As a little surprise I also have this:

The PT-76 is a PST Models kit, which initially I found very frustrating (to an ACE Models level)...

... but once I got past the hull issues it was actaully a pretty straight forward build and looks pretty nice in my book.  Just need a few more now and some T-55s!

Once these all have had a decent couple of coats of a "good" matt varnish, I'll weather them and then they'll be finished.

So that's it for now - plenty of more Soviet stuff, plus more to come.

Happy Cold War gaming.

Richard