SU-152 Russian Howitzer, DML, 1/35

so im going to have a crack at this
never done a DML kit in this scale so that will be fun, and so will the individual tracks
you get a choice of 5 schemes......1 chinese from the korean war and 1 polish/3 russian from WW2
i might have a go at a winter whitewash paint job, seen it done with latex instead of hair spray ad fancy a go...........but then i might not, we shall see

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SU-152




lots of plastic



2 of these

and 2 of these

Nice subject Paul

I tried latex once but I reckon it's not as good or as controllable as hair spray.

I think its all down to how its applied....going to try a natural sponge to dab it on.....if i go the route of a whitewash

bit of progress

well that went together rather quickly!!

before i knew it it was together, painted and decaled!.....next job is all the individual track links....gulp

Looking brilliant Paul, colour is spot on for me.

GaryDainton wrote: colour is spot on for me.

it had better be.....it said Russian Green on the bottle

Well, that was quick. Nice work, Paul.

Very nice!

Houston, we have a problem........

oil filter had dried so i wanted to give it a coat of matt varnish over the top, for a couple of reasons i ended up using a rattle can of humbrol matt acrylic and it had a funny reaction (and i did the king tiger at the same time and didnt get it on that) and when it dried its given a sort of white 'bloom'



only thing i can think of is to give it another wash, maybe a really thin green one, rather than a black one to try tone it down

any one else got any ideas?

No idea Paul sorry, but looks good as a base for a 'winter white scheme'.

I'd leave it as is. Looks like a very light frost to me.

someone else has said its happened to him and all he did was give a coat of gloss which got rid of it, then matt coated again, so we shall see

I'm not an expert on weathering, but it only looks a little 'dusty' to me.

it was wore than the photo shows.................its all shiny again now lol....given it coat of Kleer will get some matt when i get round to it

Bad that the varnish reacted oddly but good that you were able to deal with it without need of a strip and re-coat. One thing about weathering and aging is that errors can often be worked into the effect. Looking forward to seeing the results of the 'fix.'

a different make of matt varnish has done wonders, just a patch on the front still remains, will try and hide that with something

so tracks on (and they were a pain in the nether regions!) , a few greeblies added, next step is add some more and then some weathering

Still looking good.

Great work!