Creating dirt!

Mrs. Woody would no doubt highlight that I can be good at creating dirt. Give a freshly cleaned floor and it is almost inevitable I walk in with muddy boots. However in this case creating dirt relates to the T34 Egyptian tank. Military vehicles, unless on parade, do not get cleaned very often especially if they are on the front line. Even if they did get cleaned they are working machines and will pick up dirt quicker then Mrs. Woody can pick up on me wearing muddy boots on her clean floor! 

Model wise, the idea is to try to create that dirt and the weathering that vehicles who spend most of their time outside pick up. I have initially used a brown paint thinned and using a small brush tried to highlight areas that would have a stain mark around them.

I then mixed up several different shades of the base colour - mostly darker - and airbrushed these into the crevices and edges around the hull and turret. In daylight you can see the variety of colours and how these highlight the various parts of the hull. The pictures below don't show this up as well but at least you can see a difference to what the tank looked like when first painted which is the first photo.

Now with added dirt!

 Next up is to matt varnish the various parts and then a bit more dirt creation - now where are my boots!