In an earlier post I stated that I was going to show you all the finished miniatures I am done with two of the the three vehicles. The Nova Respublik BTR3000 wheeled APC camo scheme that I painted, Idid not like. I stripped the paint off of it. The stripping and painting process will be on a later post. In regards to the stripping of the paint. I will be doing a comparison between Simple Green and Purple Power in an upcoming post. So a few photos of the BTR will show up and a little commentary too.
Assembly was quite easy, the first photo is of the 15mm Grifon-T Advanced Tracked APC, mostly assembled.
The weapon assembly was straight forward too. You can see the Drakon's secondary gun is in the background.
Here are several photos of the Drakon assembly. A couple of things to note and I did not notice it at once. There was an air bubble on the right side track housing and it left quite a hole. I am sure that I could have gotten it replaced, because Khurasan Miniatures would just do that. It then occurred to me, I will use it as battle damage. I just had to build up the track on the inside. Also the fit was not perfect, it had a little gap. But a little plastic putty filled it right in. This took me all of two minutes.
I then went on the prime all three vehicles and I pre-shaded them too.
I have to get better with my airbrush, there is a bit of splatter on the pre-shade. I just got the airbrush and I have to work on the thickness of the paint that I am spraying and the consistency of the paint coverage. A word of warning. Do not glue the wheels on the BTR until the vehicle is painted and the wheels are painted too. I did not do this and it is going to be a pain to paint the wheels. The wheels are very close to the hull of the vehicle.
The following photos reflect one coat of US Field drab. It is a little hard to see the preshading. This is both due to the photograph in general and I hard trouble with paint coverage i.e. too thick of coat. Again this will come with practice. You can see it best on the gun barrel.
I then put lines using Vallejo Russian Green Model Air. As a wash I used Vallejo Model Wash Dark Brown. I also used a Vallejo Pigment, Dark Yellow Ocre to make the vehicle feel a little dirty. And this will take a lot of practice to use. I did not think I used them properly. One side on the Drakon-T turned out ok with the pigment and I will note that photo. For the number decals I used decals from I-94 Enterprises.
I think this was my best attempt at pigment use and it was the last side that I did.
You can see the area of battle damage in this photo.
These are the first 15mm vehicles that I have ever painted and I think they turned out OK,especially as table top standards go. There are things that I will try on the next go. In closing, I really like these miniatures and I will be buying more Khurasan Miniatures. I will put up a separate post on the finished BTR-3000.
As always, thank you for reading.
Mike
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