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I use a color called "light chocolate" to dry brush my Russian tanks. Looks good I think. Not sure how to get the same effect on my German camo


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Would you use the same color or do something different? I'm just concerned it'll just make the model look flat instead of weathered.

I have always used a sand or dust color to dry brush my camoed germans. You might even try white or antique white at this scale (very lightly though). These are just some ideas that I use. Generally I wash with brown or peat ink color and then drybrush the above colors. Hope this helps

I have recently painted up some Italian armor with Afrika Mustard, which is about as close as I get to German DunkelGelb. Some were camo'd with green, some with brown.


M13/40s done in plain Afrika Mustard.


AB41s and AB40s done with a base of Afrika Mustard, and with brown painted or green inked camo. Wash was done before the camo. A seperate wash of plain water was used to soften the camo edges (of the inked green). Dry-brushing was done after the camo and the washes.

I used a dark brown for my wash, and flesh for my dry brushing. Yep, flesh. Seemed to work OK.

On my next batch, I'm going to repeat with the dark brown wash. But I'm going to try Polly-S "Soviet Desert Sand", a very light, subdued yellow, for the dry-brushing.

I may get to it tonight. I'll post up some pic's when and if I do.

Yep! Flesh works just fine as a fine drybrush for fx. "sandy" colors. I just finished painting my Panzer IV's and i tried a superfine drybrush of boltgun metal here and there. The result was a nice metallic weathering, especially on the armor shields on the side =)

My basic technique for painting tanks and such are:

1. Base coat of black. (Why - I dont really know. Old habit I guess)
2. 'Brutal' drybrush of neutral color (fx. dark grey if painting panzers in pnzergrau or Olive Green if painting fx. Shermans).
3. A little finer drybrush of a lightened version of neutral color.
4. Inking/Washing. I use black ink for cold colors and dark brown for warm ones. Ex. dark brown ink for panzer gelb and black ink for panzer grau.
5. Fine drybrush with very light. Flesh works great with panzer gelb for instance.
6. Ultra fine drybrush with bolt gun metal on metallic parts that could be worn down.
7. Dark flesh (GW) + boltgun metal for tracks.

Happy Painting =)