Merseajohn's Abrams u.s m1a1 Tamiya 1/35

[JohnSimmons]

Hey guys thought I'd just show you my friends Abrams that I painted for him. He came with me to the LHS and got all excited after building/painting his first kit (1/72 Revell Jagdpanther the threads here somewhere) that I gave him. He was like a bull in a china shop and ran around picking up kits under his arm lol, in the end we left with an Airfix 1/48 help the hero's spitfire (included paints and glue) and this Abrams kit. He started the Tank first and brought it round mine a couple of months ago to paint. With the sun out and the pub calling all he managed to do was give it a coat of Nato green Vallejo primer. Its been sitting out in my shed ever since, the other day I asked him what was happening with it and he replied "Oh can you just paint it for me". Bit of a shame but I'll make him do the spit lol.
Anyway I got this all done this morning, base coat, free hand camo, transfers, washes, mud effects and pigments. All products used were AK Interactive.
Unfortunately a few parts are wrong and broken due to it being bashed about in a shed for 3 months but I hope he'll be pleased with the result and that you guys like it, sorry for the long winded intro lol.

 

[geegad]

thats one mucky puppy john nice job for a friend hope he is happy

 

[JohnSimmons]

Ta mate, just txt him the pics and he's well pleased lol, he wanted to get out of work so he could start on the spit lol.

 

[andrei383]

very nice weathering job on that beast! ;D someones gonna have a hard time cleaning that up!

 

[JohnSimmons]

Ha cheers Andrei383!

 

[spud]

Very cool mj

 

[schweinhund227]

She is a beast of Burden !!! Just like I like them !

Nice going !

 

[JohnSimmons]

Thanks chaps

 

[Biskup]

Wow that's a dirty boy I like it

 

[WigWag Workshop]

Incredible job on the weathering!

-Steven

 

[multicam]

Nice and dirty! looks great!

 

[scratchmod]

wow that is some very nice painting and weathering. Love the streaks on the rear sides. Very nice work dude.

 

[JohnSimmons]

Wow thanks for the nice comments guys, I was trying to get it to look like the image on the side of the box:

 

[geegad]

Well it worked John

 

[JohnSimmons]

Cheers mate

 

[NecronautDrummer]

Very cool work, merseajohn!

 

[Jaitea]

Wow thanks for the nice comments guys, I was trying to get it to look like the image on the side of the box:

Absolutely stunning work there MJ, the mud there looks very real, interestingly you posting that reference photo above, I was driving behind a construction lorry the other day and it was raining a bit, and I noticed quite a large difference in the shades of the wet and dry mud on the truck and also matt & wet looking, has anyone tried to recreate that look?

J

 

[JohnSimmons]

Thanks J, I know what you mean. I work with tractors and diggers etc so in the winter when we get messy I see that quite a bit.

 

[Jaitea]

Aha, now I understand.....you've got an abundant source of reference on how weathering really appears!...you work with 1:1 scale, ha

Very inspiring work (as always)

J