Finish line!
Added 2022-11-03 16:07:17 +0000 UTCMy friends, luck was at my side yesterday as I managed to finish the KV-2. All it needs now is a scenic base and those small resin figures!
I've done snow on a tank 4 times so far. My first two attempts were with a mixture of white pigment and baking soda, applied dry, and fixed with Tamiya X-20A thinner. The second method I tried was Wilder's Snow! acrylic paste. Basically Wilder's Textured Earth, just white. And this time it was Snow from AK Diorama range, the same one I applied to the groundwork for the Pz 38t. I tried messing around with Snow Microballoons fixed with flat varnish and acrylic thinner, but the results were poor and mushy. Snow Sprinkles wouldn't work here as they're more suitable for melting and frozen snow thanks to their translucent quality. I'm pretty sure there are better materials and methods to represent fresh, compacted snow on a tank, but this was the best I could manage with the products I have at hand, and to be honest, the result ain't that terrible IMO!
The scenic base will be quite interesting to make because the ground will have to combine both frozen ground and this fresh, powdery snow with the tank's imprints. I was very tempted to situate this model in another melting snow scene because of the weathering possibilities, but I decided to follow the historical photograph where you can tell it's at least -30 outside! :)
PS: to make the steel wheels look like polished metal I painted them with Silver from AK and then brushed metallic VMS Pigment Jockey on top. It acts like dissolved graphite powder, excellent for those cases when an application with a pencil isn't possible!
