I've been looking around the www for how to sites on painting, weathering, camo armour and havent had much luck. I've used washes to lightly weather before,but thats about it. I especially would like to learn how to do cam. Any suggestions.

try this site.all kinds of interesting stuff

http://www.track-link.net

Here's a good one for a [link=http://www.naritafamily.com/howto/kingtiger/photo_frame.htm]King Tiger[/link]

Another one:

http://www.ipmsstockholm.org/magazin...weathering.htm

Regards

Jake

Try our site for starters

http://web.mac.com/ethandunsford/DAK...ING_GUIDE.html

HI

Try [link]http://www.missing-lynx.com/[/link]

It has an amazing Gallery section plus lots of excellent pages and items on what you are looking for.

cheers
Gorehound

In addition to the excellent sites already mentioned, try this forum! Guys have posted excellent "how tos" over the years that I've learned from and then shared with other newcomers.

Can you get good looking camo without using an airbrush?

Tim,

An airbrush is really essential in laying down your base pattern & weathering, but then again I doubt many German units in the field had access to spray equipment - most tanks were "custom painted" by their crews with whatever they had at their disposal which included mops, brooms & rags. IMHO I think many of these beautiful camo jobs you see are too good to be true.

I've done it both ways but prefer the airbrush. You can get a decent double action setup for less than what that Tiger set Santa back.

Here's another link for your reference:

http://www.clubhyper.com/reference/p...anzersjb_1.htm

Chuck

Chuck, thanks again for the link and advice. I have a rather basic airbrush that I've managed to ignore for quite a while now. I guess its time to stop relying on spray cans and take the next step. Its funny you should mention the info about real tank crews painting their own tanks, I was just reading that at some point Panther tanks left the factories painted in red oxid paint and the tank crews where responsible for applying paint.

I suppose so, why do it the hard way? Start mixing and practicing on old models or at the very least some paper plates or something.