Tamiya 1/16 Pershing

[Ad Lav]

Here's how she looks as of Sunday afternoon, mint condition and built/painted very well.

Decided messing about with cheaper projects was daft as you spend as much money as a full option Tamiya in the end.

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Weathering on the Pershing nearing completion!

Pigment and thinned Buff brushed on, excess wiped with thinners.

Chips and detail work done.

Stowage added with webbing and straps.

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Rusted exhaust and stowage shots

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Not quite finished, been genre at to get back into Tamiya stuff after a break for a few years (kids/house/wife)

[mr crispy]

That's looking nice n dirty Adam, great work. Where did those C ration crates come from? They are spot on!

[lee1980]

That's awesome one day the tank for me to its like it must be done at some point!

[Ad Lav]

Thanks Nic - the ration crates are part of the kit! They come with Sherman and Pershing kits.

You can buy the sprues individually, I get mine from axels modellbau, about £6 each. Comes with Jerry cans, ration boxes, ammo boxes etc.

Love my tanks - due to start the Tamiya Leopard at some point!

[March75]

Nice! I've had one on the go since March - might have it finished by next March if I'm lucky!

[Ad Lav]

They're quite involving to build, lots of bits to add and fettle with.

I think I'm done with it tonight though

[Ad Lav]

The finished article! Did a burnt ember wash tonight on raised lines etc and finished the figures face. Helmets added to stowage.

Don't think there's much more I can do...

[March75]

Very nice indeed, loving the grubby look - it's making mine look far too factory fresh, how did you get the bare metal effect? Did I need to do something before I painted it green or can this be achieved after?

[Ad Lav]

Looks good without the skirts! I like it!

My previous Pershing I sold a few years back was painted desert yellow and looked so good without skirts. Was tempted to paint it with swastikas 😄

The tank was in Tamiya Olive Drab, ts-62 I think and factory fresh, I decided to weather it by using the following:

Tamiya thinners

Tamiya buff acrylic

Mig pigments (sand I think)

Mix together, needs to be loose, not lumpy. Apply with a stiff brush into the wheels and suspension/lower hull. Wipe of the raised areas with a cloth and leave to dry.

Do the same with the upper hull but not as much, focusing on where the mud/dust would flick up.

Turret in similar places. Again, wipe off with cloth.

If you apply too much wait until it's dry then brush with neat thinners and then a cloth.

I highlighted areas with a small brush and burnt umber and then chips with humbrol silver.

Think that's it

The pigments won't wipe off when you touch it as the thinners/paint help it to stick.

[March75]

Thansk for the tips!

Its looking ok so far but far too fresh, the stages I went trough are:

Humbrol spray olive drab

Halfords acrylic gloss lacquer

decals applied

a thin wash of olive drab and black 50/50

dry brushed with olive drab and yellow ochre 50/50

Humbrol matt varnish

So that's a wet mix with the pigments then? I've never used Mig pigments but I'm imagining its a fine powder?

I have some Humbrol weathering powders in jars that I have not yet experimented with....

[Ad Lav]

Mig are a dry powder, just have equal measures of paint and thinners and a dollop of pigments into a bowl and mix well

[mr crispy]

Some lovely weathering there Adam.

I like to use a graphite pencil to get that "worn down to the metal" look and you can apply it on top of other paint really easily. I start with dabbing a sponge in dark grey paint and then blotching it over the area that's going to be worn and weathered. The sponge gives a nice random pattern but I usually fill in a few bits with a paint brush as well.

While that's drying I scrape an artist graphite pencil with a knife and build up a pile of dust. Then you just dip a finger in the dust and rub it onto the grey painted areas. It doesn't matter if it over laps into the base colours as the grey just helps to give that mottled look. Here's how the back of my StuG 3 looked after this method.

You can skip the grey paint and it still looks good but I prefer the end result with it for larger areas. A misting of Matt varnish will set it.

[March75]

nice job! I can see this taking me another 6 months to finish now...

[Ad Lav]

Good idea Nic - I've got my engine grills to blacken!

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Blackening to do on the grills and muzzle brake tonight

[mongoose1983]

Fantastic tank and great paintjob. Looks fantastic, congrats Ad Lav!

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I think I can call her finished

Been debating selling her to buy a 1/14 Tamiya truck with Mfc and low loader for the Leopard...