*Almost* finished wrecked T-34 dio

As a over of all things old, burnt and rusty, I give it an 8/10 for a first effort! Points off for way too much ash near the roadwheels, but other than that, it looks pretty darned good!

One thing you could add is a bit of white color near where would be the hottest part of the fire--themetal would bleach white for some reason where it was hottest. Look at some reference photos of burnt-out tanks; it looks almost like a hard-line camo pattern done with white.

Bravo!!!! coming along very nicely

 

looks great.  love the rust work.  nice job with the busted tracks i .

Thanks for all the comments guys. This being the first destroyed tank I've attempted, I didn't even give consideration to some of the things you've mentioned.

Whenever I can get my bench back, I will try to somehow change the ash. Ironically, the first time around, the piles were about half as high, but looking at pics, it didn't look big enough, so I added more.

As for the heat and rust, the idea was to show that most of the damage occured on/in the rear of the tank, and besides a large initial explosion, there was not much damage done to the front. I tried to base it on some pics of modern-day T-55 tanks, and I've seen a few examples like this. Although, you are right, and there seem to be more that are just completely rusted/burnt over.

As for the rust, and burns, it was a fairly lengthy process. That part alone took me as long as all of the other construction and painting together. I started by painting the damaged sections in a dark hull red/dark brown mixture. From there various lighter and darker shades were sploted all over. The lower hull and wheels were sprayed with a dark brown, almost black shade, to represent the soot that would have gathered from the burning tires. From there the upper hull was covered with several different colours of orange, red, and brown, in oil colour, which were then blended and streaked. When this was fully dry, the model was coated with chalk pastels and pigments (more chalk pastel than pigment)

One other thing I learned with this one; painting figures with oil is just fantastic. Those who haven't tried it yet, you're missing out.

Once again, thanks for the comments guys. Lots to think about and improve on the next one.

Seems to me that a fire hot enough to burn the rubber off the road wheels would have also burned off more paint on the AFV.

I love it, especially the rust job with varying degrees of color of rust. How'd you do that?
paint or pastells?

How about some white ash footprints on the tank? I like burnt out tanks, but you don't see them very often. Yours looks really good. The groundwork on the road could also maybe be drybrushed a little?
--------------Kevin

I like this...looks better complete than when it was in the initial planning stage...wreckage looks fairly realistic...my only point of concern is the amount and texture of the burnt-off rubber from the roadwheels: typically you would see less of it and the white ash would be far more fine and not coarse or clumpy...the "curling" of the celluclay from your smooth base is exactly why I glue sprue trees down on the base to act as "rebar" before pouring the celluclay...also, adding lots of white glue will help reduce shrinkage and curling...figgies look great.

Nothing much that I can say except that it looking good at this stage. My only question is the ash on the tracks that extends towards the front when it looks that the explosion (and burned effects) seems to have occured on the rear side.

Again, great job.