Tom,

You are kidding, right? This one was nerve racking enough. I couldn't imagine working on someone else's tank. How in the world do you do it?

- The camo was done with Tamiya paints, but because of some handling issues, has been touched up with Model Master paint. Euro I Dark Green looks like it might be a better match(slightly darker) to the Nato green than Tamiya's, but even the real Nato schemes have different shades due to application variances and batch mixing of paint.

An airbrush would do a much better job at hazing the separations between the colors, but the pattern itself is very involved. Stand off masking would be best. One thing I've noticed is that the airbrush patterns on most of the armor models hazes too much. That is the hazing is too broad between the colors. Either that or you can see the exact way the paint was airbrushed on. First the outline of the pattern, then the filling in of the various patches. Or the colors have different shades to them. That isn't a bad thing though. Some of the pics I've seen of Leopards seem to indicate their crews do the exact same thing we used to do for shows, inspections, etc. They go to the store and buy touch up paint and don't really care if it matches exactly. Can you say P.O.D.?(paint over dirt - ha ha)