28mm WWII US Vehicles

[bigjackmac]

All,

I wanted to show you my US Army vehicles for fighting the Axis powers in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations and the European Theater of Operations.  Not a lot of vehicles here, but what there is should suffice to get me through the stuff I want to do and, unlike most of the other vehicle sets, this one was mostly painted by me. 

I wasn't really sure how to go about painting 28mm vehicles, and I started out using Contrast paints.  It worked okay for some of my British vehicles and the one German tank I did, but I wasn't elated with the results, so I took to Youtube to see if there was a simple method that I might be able to follow, and lo and behold, I found something I'm happy with.  It's actually designed for painting 15mm tanks in a hurry but, from my perspective at least, it worked fine for 28mm, and it was quick and easy, and hell, even kinda fun (while I like painting figures, I really do not enjoy painting vehicles).

So I spray painted everything black, then set to dry brushing.  Started with Oak Brown, then Dark Green, then Brown-Green (dammit, it's a Vallejo Color from the US box but I can't think of the name, did up the tracks, tools, and machine guns (some wood color, black, then highlighted with silver, then hit with a dark wash), then Iraqi Sand.  I'm very happy with the results.


The jeep, a plastic model from Rubicon.  It had more figures but I stole them for the halftracks.


The M10 Wolverine (with some 3D printed crew off Ebay).


Three M3 halftracks.


My Shermans.


My M3 Stuart.

To see more pics, please check the blog at:
https://blackhawkhet.blogspot.com/2025/06/28mm-wwii-us-vehicles.html

And there you have it, my US heavy metal, ready to go whoop some ass!  Gonna play me some Haunted Tank with one of the Shermans

V/R,
Jack

[Steve J]

Great work Jack and the addition of the decals at add detail is nice, not something you always see .

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Very cool

[bigjackmac]

Thanks, guys!

Yeah, I've gotten over my fear of decals, now I love them, they make everything look better (even though I don't weather over them).

V/R,
Jack