Academy Stug IV 1:35

[leander]

good evening fellow modellers,

I've bought this kit for 11,50 euros along with some other modelling stuff. sure, it's really old but I think with some
decent painting it can be turned into a very nice looking model. construction is nearly finished with a black paint coat already on,
so it's time to think about the camo. I was thinking about a late war tank, not too beaten up.
so if you have some ideas/suggestions regarding the camouflage scheme, I'd be grateful.

happy modelling and cheers

[leander]

Painted the whole tank in dark yellow, adding some highlights with buff and some shades with extremely thinned down black. still not too sure about the camo.

[Coen]

I love that colour Leander... what company did you use for those?
Those yellows are awesome!!!

[leander]

thank you, Coen!

I used tamiya xf-60 dark yellow for the first coat over the black primer and tamiya xf-57 buff for the highlights.
the clear coat I'm gonna use right after the application of the camouflage will blend everything together quite nicely - I hope

[becsta]

My only advice, keep doing some more of the highlight, especially around the front deck of the tank, and track guards/fenders.

You have a solitary white highlight on a panel in the middle of the front deck, but none on the plates around it.

Other than that, the rest of the highlighting looks fantastic!

[AchtungPanzer]

Good work with this StuG . Well done mate

[leander]

thank you very much everybody. I'm gonne rework some of the areas before applying the camo (which I still didn't choose yet).

apart from that I am thinking about building the armor skirts from scratch - the kit ones are really really thick.

[UKguyInUSA]

Nice camo scheme...looks great so far!

[leander]

thanks UKguyInUSA,

but there's no camo yet - it's still only the base color with some highlights and shadows added. I don't know which camo to apply - and
I had a set back because I knocked over a whole bottle of tamiya buff next to the model. not a huge catastrophe, but it hit the road wheels