The Stug's Tools and Decals

Now that the modulation is done, it's time to start painting the tools. I was rather dubious about gluing the tools on and then painting them while attached to the vehicle. Turned out, it wasn't too bad to paint them in place. Sure there required a touch up here or there, but all in all, not bad. The painting of the wheels and tools were done over a weekend when the kids were away. Amazing the progress on models one can accomplish.

After watching a movie with the wife, at 9:30PM we weren't quite ready to get to bed, which is in itself unusual. She had a knitting project she wanted to work on and I my models. I queued up Twelve O'Clock High on Netflix for the third time, bust out the Stug and my new set of Ammo's Tool Set acrylic paints.

Here's how the next two and a half hours went.

Let's start at the back end with the muffler.

I was always concerned about the "right" shade of rust. On the side of the Tool Set paint box, it said to use red brown base for mufflers....OK!

To create a variety of tones I used some rust pigments that I have.

Some soot for the exhaust.

A touch of pigment fixer and I think the muffler is done!

I won't take you thru each of the tools, so you can gawk at your own convenience.

The next day I took on the tracks. I used Ammo's Track Rust pigment and worked it on.

Some fixer and done!

Next I did the same process to the rubber band tracks. Probably a bit red for tracks that are in use, I'm continuing to mull this one over. There maybe a changes comin'!

Pigments are a messy business.

You know what I love about decals on armored vehicles? There's usually only a handful. In this Stug's case, three.

Everything is all sealed now with another gloss coat. Soon I will be starting on the weathering. Hopefully you'll see an update in the next three months...

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