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Painting my first allied tank

Continuing with my Italian theme, and to support my US forces, I decided to paint another vehicle. This time a Sherman. The kit is from Rubicon and it went together quite well (a bit confusing in some parts of the instructions) and it was really fun to paint. I dont really like the crew models from Rubicon, but that has more to do with my bad painting then the models themselves.

Now that I understand how to paint vehicles, I hope to do more. There is a hope that I can play a game of What a Tanker! now. Maybe the Sherman can verse the little Stug that could, or some Italian Armour that I have.









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  1. Doug20 December 2019 at 01:40

    Very nice work. I always think of Italian campaign vehicles as being incredibly dusty during much of the year, and incredibly muddy for the rest.

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