Thanks a lot guys for the support!
Im excited to see this done as well hahaha!
Hello Dupes wish granted and I did a more detailed step on how I progressed on this crawler. cheers bro!
PAulH thanks a lot man! hahahaha yeah still do sleep but when i sleep i still think of what scheme/modifications etc to be done on some of the models on my stash hahahaha!
cheers mate!
Here it goes!
After painting the sand color, I coated the kit with a gloss clear coat. Fortunately, I did not encounter any frosting of sort when I used this one.
What I used is a common hardware clear spray paint diluted with Gunze lacquer thinner.
The results are good and suits my taste
The undersides were painted this way.
I left some black portions as these will be dritied up with dust, grime and pigments plus this was the color that I noticed common on truck undersides.
After the clear coat was cured, I applied a wash of AK Interactive washes. I used the Dark Brown Wash (Works best!) and the Rust Wash on some areas like some rivets, crevices and some nooks and crannies that most likely will accumulate rust.
Here are the side doors; painted, coated and washed with AK mediums.
The Sepah decals were done and mated already.
The other door sports a Farsi script that says 'marg bar Saddam' (translated to 'Down with Saddam').
The wheel rims were painted and washed also.
Now, you will see that I painted the wheel rims in a random color.
Some were painted in sand while some were painted in hull red.
This is to give an idea of battlefield modification and to give an impression of urgent battlefield repairs using whatever materials at hand.
Now that the wash has cured and settled, I applied the AK streaks.
The streaks that I used were the AK Streaking Grime and the Rust Streaks. AK did provide a very easy medium for modulating your models. Kudos to the AK team.
These are samples of the streaks applications.
Note that you will see some of the rust washes that have accumulated on some of the rivets on random fashion.
For now, last to be applied is the AK Filter.
What I used is the DAK filter suitable for Dark Yellow vehicles.
Here is an example of the of the streaked and filtered finishes that I had.
This is the rear bed of the Ural truck and also the engine hood.
Also noticeable is the effect it made on the 2 side doors of the truck after the filter was applied.
I love the AK filters as it makes the paint looks a bit sundamaged and a tad faded.
I researched and asked about what needs to be applied first if wash then filter or vice versa but there are mixed reviews so I just did what suits me and that is Wash then Filters. Thanks to ER for this tip btw.
Finally you can notice the old basic color of the paint and the weathered one.
The initial paint color is still on the rocket launchers while the truck sports the AK'ed effect.
Next is to repeat this process on the rocket launcher cab then on to the chipping.
Enjoy guys!
Suggestions are most welcome!
Cheers
Iking
