15mm German Panther tank breakthrough

I've been fooling around painting these tanks for about a year now. I keep bringing them back out to touch up, or to start again. I'm finally finished (I think!) My technique is to black undercoat the model, then air brush on a mid tone for the base colour (desert yellow in this case), but leaving some areas black on the tank. Then I air brush over the two other colours for the camouflage. At this state I dry brush the tank with a mix of pale sand (mostly) and stone grey. This is essential to bring out detail on the tank. It is nerve wracking to have done so much work and then to take the chance of spoiling it, but you may as well not bother if you aren't going to dry brush at this stage. The results were still not satisfactory, and I tried various washes, which were a waste of time, both before and after dry brushing (and repainting..). I was after more contrast on the model, so what I eventually did was to airbrush black onto the model as a last step, around the turret, and then in a few other spots. Voila! I was at last satisfied.

For my next trick I have some 28mm Bolt Action and Berlin or Bust vehicles I'm working on. It was seeing Troop of Shewe's excellent work on 28mm tanks that got me interested in airbrushing.

I'll be selling ready painted 15mm vehicles. Now I have the hang of things hopefully it won't take a year for each batch of 20 vehicles..

Here are all of the vehicles I've just finished brought to you in marvelous repeatovision.

15mm Command Decision Panther tanks air brushed

15mm Command Decision Panther tanks air brushed

15mm Command Decision Panther tanks air brushed

15mm Command Decision Panther tanks air brushed

15mm Command Decision Panther tanks air brushed

15mm Command Decision Panther tanks air brushed

15mm Command Decision Panther tanks air brushed

15mm Command Decision Panther tanks air brushed

15mm Command Decision Panther tanks air brushed

15mm Command Decision Panther tanks air brushed

15mm Command Decision Panther tanks air brushed

15mm Command Decision Panther tanks air brushed