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Painting tanks

Colors:

• Basecoat: Chaos Black Basecoat from GW
• Tamiya Color: XF-69 Nato Black
• Tamiya Color: XF-63 German Grey
• Tamiya Color: XF-53 Neutral Grey
• Tamiya Color: XF-52 Flat Earth
• Tamiya Color: XF-57 Buff
• Games-Workshop: Fortress Grey
• Games-Workshop: Chaos Black
• Games-Workshop: Scroched Brown
• Games-Workshop: Boltgun Metal
• Games-Workshop: Badab-Black
• MIG: Old Rust P230
• Brown pigments

All Tamiya colors are thinned with 1/3 Water and 1/3 of acryl thinner to make it fluid for the airbrush.

Step 1

I used a airbrushpistol to paint the full model with Tamiya Nato Black, after it was basecoated with GW Chaos Black

Step 2

Tamiya Neutral Grey was used to make a first simple camouflage.

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The whole model is washed with a 1:20 mix of MIG Old Rust pigments and water.

Step 10

Tracks are painted with MIG Old Rust with a bit of water. A little bit of a brown pigment water mixture is dabed in the middle of the tracks.

Step 11

A mix of Chaos Black and Boltgun Metal is brushed on the tracks.

Step 12

A mix of Chaos Black and Boltgun Metal is painted on the exhausts and then washed with Badab Black.

Step 13

MIG pigments are used to rust the exhausts.

Step 14

Finaly the details are painted and the tanks are done.