thank you. i was going to do it in syrian sand and green in keeping with my '73 war theme so i searched for some syrian BRDMs and came across half a dozen or so pictures. since i was in THE THIN BLUE LINE GB and had done an M-706 and wanted sone color on the shelf i figured what the hell. it wasn't difficult except for unclogging the air brush but it was tedious. i'm a technical illustrator so i tend to think and draw symmetrically and the challenge was getting a random pattern with the sizes being the same throughout. the actual pattern is more spidery, especially the black. the police signs really say police, the rear fender signs are DAMASCUS on the left and BARRACKS on the right and the front signs were made by inserting arabic characters that looked close. will make a cobblestone street base and put it in NATIONALS
i couldn't drive or watch tv for an hour after i was finished putting the silly putty on and later painting the black. and, with that in mind, i am building a 1/350 ww2 DD for a friend and the PE is insane. it's my first little scale boat (1/700 doesn't even count) and it will be cased so folks aren't going to get contest close.