My inspiration for building this diorama was Hamilkar's diorama "Scrap Metal". The Soviet T-62 wreckage in Afghanistan.
http://intscalemodeller.com/viewtopic.p ... crap+metal
Seeing that diorama, I wanted to do a completely rusty tank of my own. I had some old american tanks laying around. And one of them was a perfect candidate for being totally wracked and rusted. It was a lot of fun to wrack the tank and weather it in this extreme way! When a tank is this far gone, you can go all out in all the weathering techniques you can possibly imagine.
I painted it in several rust colors. I dark washed it. I put a lot of streaks on it. I dry brushed it. I pin washed it. I chipped it. I put pigments allmost all over it. I put moss on it. I put grass and little bushes on it. There's even a plant growing from it! I pictured it on a roadside somewhere in sunny France in the boccage. The poor Priest Tank didn't make it very far past d-day. A round got jammed in it's barrel and exploded. It got deserted and nobody since bothered to take it away. Sometimes children play on it. A silent reminder of lesser days...
waaaaaaaaaaaaay too much
