{"id":6872,"date":"2016-08-17T08:00:06","date_gmt":"2016-08-17T07:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=6872"},"modified":"2016-08-13T07:51:02","modified_gmt":"2016-08-13T06:51:02","slug":"tiny-stewarts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brigademodels.co.uk\/Blog\/2016\/08\/tiny-stewarts\/","title":{"rendered":"Tiny Stewarts"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My next Crucible<\/a> detachment is the third that replicates a 15mm force – this time the Stewart Regiment<\/a>. These use a combination of our British Apollo tanks and Artemis APCs, along with some co-opted Soviet Kunitsa tracked APCs (one with a mortar). What makes them slightly unusual is the addition of two Tyche towed anti-tank guns. We don’t make this model in 6mm, so instead I used two EuroFed CAC-41 guns.<\/p>\n

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The colour scheme in this case is very simple – after priming (in white this time), they were airbrushed with Vallejo desert sand, drybrushed with GW Terminatus Stone and washed with GW Sepia. I couldn’t find any suitable decals (the 15mm variants have Saltires as unit markings) so I hand-painted markings on one or two vehicles.<\/p>\n

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A quick word about primers. I always use Halfords automotive primer in one of its various colours (Red Oxide, grey or white) depending on the colour that’s going over the top of it. There are a number of spray paints aimed specifically at the wargaming\/modelling market that purport to be coloured primers and can be supposedly be used straight onto bare models. This may be true on plastics, but in my experience using these on unprimed metal or resin doesn’t always work. On the occasions when I’ve tried this, the result has been paint that either rubs off easily with minimal handling, or in the worst case simply blistered and peeled off a set of metal Land Ironclads. So I always use a proper primer paint designed specifically for the purpose, and Halfords’ is the best that I’ve found. I realise this isn’t much help if you don’t live in the UK and can’t get hold of it, but the principle still applies, and wherever you live there should be an equivalent. It’s worth spending the money to buy a decent quality primer – Halfords is a bit more expensive (\u00a38 for a large can, although that can holds twice as much paint as a normal spray can) but will spray 100+ models so compared to the money you’ve already spent on the models, the investment isn’t that steep.<\/p>\n

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My next Crucible detachment is the third that replicates a 15mm force – this time the Stewart Regiment. 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