Hull almost ready

Some more progress to be announced. The hull was washed (once with oils and second round with the new MigAmmo wash products) and chipped. The chipping is very subtle as I intend to depict a fairly new vehicle in good condition. The bodywork is slowly ready - and in the meantime the 2cm gun is progressing as well, washed and waiting for chipping (and painting the gun barrel to gunmetal). Next big step is the track and the wheels and a lot of dust and weathering the lower sections and finally bring together the hull and the gun. Probably this year. Or maybe not :)

"Kasten"

I have no problem with spending my non-existing free time. But some progress happened anyway. Painted the ammo boxes and made some experiments with weathering. I decided to paint some grey boxes too just to be a little more interesting when put in the fighting compartment. The Griffon box with open top (though quite slow to build its 24 parts) looks very nice when painted, maybe I buy some more...

The original ones look like this (found on missing-lynx.com): 

Second "Mini Me" project...

On 14th of May our daughter was born. Beautiful, healthy and always hungry :)

Sloooow style

Weeks are passing by and I play World of Tanks instead of building the model ones. Finally the radio is ready (the wiring took several hours from my life) and looks as I wanted it to look. Unfortunately the spent ammo basket does not fit the gun because of the aftermarket firing pedal mount. Also a few hours of work for nothing... Or not nothing but for the spares box.

Friday afternoon

I've painted the radios. Small plastic pieces were glued before to hold the wiring of power supply and the headset and microphone. The knobs are black but the white is not really white to decrease the contrast I mixed it with buff. I'm a bit afraid of the wiring but it will worth a try I think.

Pipe

Slowly progressing further... The full body received pin-wash and some very subtle filters (simple oil paints were used, no "official" filter or wash products). Tow cable was painted, weathered, some missing minor parts (Notek, aerial base, etc) were glued and painted.

The most recent action: painting the exhaust pipe. I always had problems with painting this part - my experiments ended in too orange-shade and too vivid results. So this time I tried a different method.
1. Painted the exhaust with Dark Rust as a primer
2. Some hairspray...
3. Vallejo Model Color - BUFF was applied
4. Made heavy chipping (hairspray technique)
5. Very light filter was made with the original colour (Vallejo Model Air - Sand Yellow)
6. Dark Rust and Light Rust was applied with an old brush (very short bristle) like some kind of mix of the "sponge method" and dry brushing
7. Final touches with MIG Standard Rust pigments...

The result is close to what I wanted to achieve: an exhaust of a not-too-old vehicle.