Here she is, guys, Zvezda's (ex-Dragon) 1:35 BRT-70 sprayed into the closest equivalent to the grey base colour the Russians used in Afghanistan, British Dark Sea Grey (Tamiya XF-54), overall.
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Next up with be the green disruptive pattern, again in acrylics. With the heat down in Aus at the moment I have to extend the thinner ratio by 20% to try to offset drying speed, but even so it's a teensy bit rough. That's okay for armor. Another trick is spray early in the morning or late in the evening to avoid the heat, or run the airconditioning and get the workshop cooled right down before painting.
Note that the grenade pitcher mounted on the turret has been omitted. The parts were tiny and fragile (displaying their Dragon pedigree), had no location devices and broke when touched, so I'll leave them out. This vehicle hasn't been fitted with it yet!
I've been holding off finishing this one for ages because I couldn't figure out what to do about the front vision flaps. I wanted to do them up but that would mean masking the windows, and as they were simply transparent plastic stuck to the back of the window component I couldn't think of a way to mask them that would not dislodge the clear sheet and have it fall into the interior. The answer is simple, spray the window area before assembly and rough-mask it -- so I'll do that on another BTR kit at some point and do this one with the armored flaps lowered. Of course, like any kit with openable parts, posing them closed reveals the fact they don't fit very well!
Cheers, Mike/TB379