At last nearly finished! Just a bit more mucking around with some pigments and then that's it. I've picked out 2 crew figures, one for Mr Barkmann himself and the other for the radio operator, the drivers hatch will be closed. I've chosen some AB figures for the crew and they look great. The weathering to this point: a light overall wash of burnt umber oil paint then a few days latter some pin washes around selected details of burnt umber and a little bit of black. I then mixed up another oil paint wash of raw siena with a tiny hint of humbrol signal red and added, sparingly, some rust spots and streaks (they are very faint but subtlely change the appearance) I did the same with a raw umber wash too. Next came the paint chips using Vallejo model colour 822 German camoflage black-brown and Vallejo model colour 976 buff, I find buff works well as a minor (not to bare metal scratch) on dark yellow paint jobs. I use these straight from the bottle their oppacity is fantastic. I didn't like the tracks so after the paint chips i repainted the tracks Tamiya NATO black and mixed up some MIG pigments dark mud with some matt varnish and thinner (a very runny mix) and painted this on the tracks, working about 3cm at a time, and wiping most of it off with some paper towel. I also applied this under the sponsons, up the superstructure side and to the underside of the tank. I'll explain the mud and dust (still to come) on my next post.