"MkII Grav Tank Finished + New Inspiration Needed" Topic

Hey guys, finished my second 15mm Critical Mass Games Heavy Grav Tank last night. In this instance a MkII with a Railgun slightly modified to make it a command variant.
Check out my Blog for some photos, and a commentary on it.

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On a separate but related issue, I've 5 or so 15mm AFVs still to paint and I'm looking for inspiration for a new paint scheme to try out. Anyone any good links to their own, or other peoples pics on schemes that they think work well ?

Kind regards to all

Vulture

Nice work. Really like the ace of spades.

Vulture,

I love the look of your tanks. The pattern workes great and the over all effect is spectacular. I may have to steal a few ides when I paint mine.

Jeff

vulture, great stuff. to answer your question, perhaps have a look at current russian camo patterns for inspiration? not a straight copy, something that might be a starting point:

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Beautiful work, Vulture! Very inspiring.

Great paint job! Love the turret but the chasis on the model seems a bit small, for the turret?

Very nicely done Vulture!

I like the slight modifications, camo., and overall finish of the tanks.

Thanks for sharing.

For alternate paint schemes, consider the blocky Berlin Brigade camo:

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Or something resembling an animal camo scheme:

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Maybe even a variant of the "Dazzleflage" from WWI:

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Very nice as usual Vulture! I enjoy your blog too.

Vulture,

here's my blog; link

View at your own risk (to your sanity)….

Grav tanks are IMHO fun in any scale…

Leland R. Erickson
Metal Express
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That's a great camo scheme! Well done.

Guys, thanks for the positive feedback and links :)

The Evil Morlad
The T80 camo in this picture grabbed my attention. I'll certainly be giving this one a try ! :) Thanks for the links.

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Raven1066
The turret is quite large when compared with the hull, but IMHO is seems to work okay. On the tabletop it looks fine.

Javelin98
Thanks for the links. I especially liked the one on Dazzlefage. Painting a vehicle like that would be one hell of a challenge ! :)

BlackWidowPilot
I'll be checking your Blog out tomorrow. Thanks for the link, I'm looking forward to looking round it.

Regards to all

Vulture

(My Blog: link )

Something about this one that Jav linked hits me well in several ways
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(more pics of same theme)
link (patterns)
link / picture (APC)
link / PDF link (printable patterns)
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picture (APC)
picture (LAV)
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Great work on everything. I'd love to see a little painting turorial some day.

Love the shot of the rabbit in the snow! Made me think of my old dutch bunny from many years ago--he's now with his bunny friends in the sky playing a long-running Redwall LARP. :-)

Very nice work.

The office video cracked me up, but seems to totally prove that cubicles are the root of all evil.

I think the Soviets also had a version of the Berlin Brigade camo. I'll have to see if I can find it.

Oh, and here's a Leopard II PSO (Peace Support Operations), a specialized MOUT or TUSK version of the Leopard 2Asomething:

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28mmMAN and Javelin

Thanks for links the guys, very interesting. Painting an urban camo scheme looks a real challenge. I'm going to give it a try next week :)

Regards to all

Vulture

(My Blog link )

No prob!

By the way, I was bored a bit last night, so I put one of your pics through the night vision goggle treatment:

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Hey Javelin98, excellent job, love it :)

Hope you don't mind, I've taken a copy of the photo and posted it onto my Blog :) link

Many thanks

Vulture

Javelin that looks fire trucking good my friend!

Go ahead! It's your picture, after all!

That's a little process I learned somewhere. Kind of fun to apply it to pics of minis.

I've experimented with that as well, on some unpainted minis.

It is rather fun to do.