Panzer IV with Diorama

Ready for the Paint 

Did some pre-highlighting, but I could have gone brighter. 

 

Primed with blue-grey and added the decals. Again, I feel like the highlights should have shown through more. 

Stopped here because I had to order enamel thinner—didn’t want to stain my whole tank. 

 

After some trial and error with the enamel paints, I ended up with a lightly weathered tank, but I didn’t like the look at all, mostly because I had no idea how to achieve a realistic effect with just a touch of weathering. 

So I just went ahead and used this model to try out a variety of different enamels and application techniques. 

In the end, I kinda like it?! It looks like a tank from a long-lost crew, but it was a great model to practice weathering on armor.