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.
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The jeep, a plastic model from Rubicon. It had more figures but I stole them for the halftracks.
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The M10 Wolverine (with some 3D printed crew off Ebay).
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Three M3 halftracks.
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My Shermans.
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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
Great work Jack and the addition of the decals at add detail is nice, not something you always see 8) .
Very cool
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