Finished assembling , painting and weathering the running gear . I used burnt umber oils , tan and brown chalks , dry brushed with light gray on the hull and bogies . The tracks were painted flat black , washed with burnt umber oils , dry brushed with light gray and aluminum , Finally a application of brown and  tan chalks was applied over all to tone down and blend the colors .The hull is not yet painted o.d.

As always, the tracks and running gear look great   The dry brushing and choice of powders really pulls out the detail, nice!

WOW, man--I just got a chance to look through this post and am sorry I missed all the superb work you've done here! From the casting on the front glacis, to the dozer blade, and the weathering so far, you're seriously conquering this kit with s-t-y-l-e!

N-I-C-E work on the tracks... they look great!    That's two... for us both! 

Comin' along quite nicely dude.

Rob , Karl , Andy , Steve .........thanks you all for your comments guys ! Much appreciated by me .

I'm not quite happy wih the looks of the weathering yet , some times i have to move on to something else and then come back to a build to get a fresh look and feel for it ...i'm sure you guys do the same . Thanks again for looking in .

Just a couple more items . Here's the kit suppied .50 cal .

And this is my scratch made T.C.'s sight .

I've been doing some weathering on the upper hull and ran into a couple of problems . Should have that fixed and the problem areas repainted soon .

That TC sight........

Looking good.

Heya buddy : ) 

the .50 cal looks awesome and what can I say about the sight vane  ?.... LOOKS PERFECT  !!  ...what did ya end up making it out of ?

looking forward to next update ,

tread 

Steve and Tread thanks for being here !

Tread i made the sight from styrene plastic sheet and rod .I tried getting a b4 paint pic but the white of the styrene plastic blanked out any detail .

Here's where i am with the weathering so far .I applied a wash of black oils and sealed that with Future . This is going to be a USMC M4 in the Pacific theater of WW II . Now i want to come up with some markings . I did some research and i dont find much in the way of markings on the USMC tanks .I have this pic of a M4 dozer on Iwo Jima (?) .

Here's where my model is now with the weathering .

Looks cool, Shell...I think if ya did it with the 'Star and Bars" like in the pic it would be cool and unusual....always good to work off a real pic.

tread

p.s. the 'streaking' effect came out nice

Tread , i intend to tone down the streaking . You like the star and bars you say .......................not sure .

Steve .........

The Marines did a lot of cool/different markings and schemes in the Pacific...so you have several options especially when it comes to Iwo. Love the progress, keep the updates coming Carl!

Bill , i may leave this as a plain jane and concentrate on the weathering . I'm using Future to seal my oil washes as per your recomendation to PANZERWAFFE in another thread and its working out really well .Thanks for your comments .

Hey , here's something else i "Future" for . I put theese thick decals on . They had a prominent edge, So i put the Future on really thick and when it dried for a day i dry sanded it with 320 grit the feather the edge of the decale and re-applied more coats of Future .

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Durring

Completed

Nice work on the decal feathering Carl, Future's got a thousand and one uses, glad it's working out for you!

Thanks again Bill

Its a bit glossy but i sure like working with Future . I did a wash with burnt umber and sprayed some areas with the base O.D. color .

until next time ............

Decal work turned out very nice and you really smoothed them out beautifully.  Your shading looks FABULOUS   It just gave a whole new dimension to the overall look. 

......you earned 'em..... drink up buddy  : )

Rob and Tread thanks guys .

Thanks for the step-by-step tip with the Future and decal. It worked out great.

Overall progress on this, Outstanding!

Thanks Sprueone Stay tuned , more weathering to come .

Hi guys . I mixed Tamiya flat base with Future and thinned it with Windex glass cleaner and sprayed the entire model with this concoction in order to give a more realistic matt finish . Next i'll do some more weathering with chalks .

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Coming along beautifully Carl, the matte finish and weathering have layered together well.

Carl, love how the finish came out, and the dozer blade doesn't look too shabby either

This did blend very well. I like this idea, protection with the future but nice finish with the added Tamiya flat....may have to give that a try.  She is looking great and nice to see her without her paper skirt on.  Look forward to more