Bob Abson
Bromsgrove,
Worcestershire, England
Bob worked
over a 1/16 scale Heng Long RC model of an Ausf G StuG III,
adding schürzen (skirts) to depict a
vehicle from the Das Reich division in Russia, 1943. “Vehicles from this
division also had the distinction of carrying track sections around the
spare wheels on the rear of the vehicle situated either side of a large storage
box,” Bob says. “Clutter on the rear of the vehicle came from the spares
box. The vehicle is still full RC.” Bob primed with Halford’s gray and
followed with a Tamiya mixture of XF-59 desert yellow and XF-60 dark yellow
overall. He airbrushed camo with a Tamiya mixture of XF-58 olive
green and XF-65 field gray. “The schürzen was similarly painted, but then
coated with hairspray and overpainted with Tamiya matte white,” he says. “When
dry, the white was removed with warm water and an old toothbrush to show a
distressed effect on one panel as if it had been taken from another vehicle.”