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Painting Battlefront's BA-6


BA-6
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SU300
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$8 USD


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DontFearDareaper Fezian of Lone Star Historical Miniatures writes:

I did the bulk of the painting on these models in a single evening.

Once the primecoat has completely dried, I give the vehicle a heavy drybrush in the primary vehicle cover. In this instance, I used the Vallejo paint 894 - which is the pigment Battlefront recommends for Russian vehicles.

I gave the vehicle commander a heavy drybrush of white.

At this point, I had to decide what I wanted the finished model to look like. I had already decided to go with the simple Russian green paint scheme, as this how the vast majority of Russian vehicles were painted throughout the war.

I could have gone with a winter whitewash, or used a lot of foliage to break up the vehicle's outline as this was a very common practice on recon vehicles. I ruled out whitewash as Bill intended to use these vehicles for number of games and rulesets, and a summer paint scheme would be workable for almost any scenario but a whitewash scheme would look very out of place for, say, a Kursk game.

Covering the vehicle with foliage would look cool, but it makes the model much less durable, as the foilage easily wears or breaks off unless special care is taken.

Just a simple Russian green paintjob would look boring, so I decided to heavily weather the vehicles to look like they had been on muddy and dusty roads.

Once the base color was dry, I painted the tires a dark charcoal grey.

Basecoated

Next, I gave the vehicle a very light drybrush in the lightest tan I had on hand. In this particular case, I used Ceramcoat Trail Tan. The objective here is to highlight the areas of wear, such as hatches, corners of the vehicle, and the tread on the tires.

Weathered