After alot of paint and some serious air brush clean up, I have a base coat on the tank and a reddish brown camo pattern laid down.
On the chassis below the skirts, I used the base Tamiya xf-60 darkened with some dark brown to add depth. The treads were weathered and installed after adding an extra link to each side for some sag and I am pleased to say everything still works..I was afraid I would break something with the full disassembly.


The rather obvious bulbs of the headlights bothered me. Rather then buy or fabricate slotted covers for them, I masked a very thin stripe in the middle of the bulbs and then handpainted them silver to block the lights. I then sprayed them with the rest of the tank, leaving a lit stripe when the tape was removed. Now time to paint details, put down markings and weather the beast..