Tiny Tanks: Italeri 1/72 Jagdtiger
I finished a new tiny tank recently: a Jagdtiger. I picked up the kit for $10 a few years ago. In that time I built a Dragon 1/72 King Tiger and a 1/72 Panther, which I kept fairly clean. For the Jagdtiger, I wanted something more beat up and dirty. I was even going to try my hand simulating shell dents with my soldering iron, but forgot about it till after the kit was primed. I used shading to give the illusion of weight, and I highlighted things with a lightened shade of the Panzer drab that was the base color. The lower bits got a through shellacking of pastel ground up into mud. The nice thing about making mud is that you just sort of mix it up without worrying about how much of X or Y color to add - if it's different from what you did before, it actually looks better. I also did for the first time - and I'm forgetting the proper name for this - a 'color dot' technique. Random dots in different colors are put on, and you take then almost all t...
