Additional BMD-1 Chimera Weathering

Some of this will come off.

Here are the before additional shots again :

Granted, the light is different, but I added another colour of powder and added more.
Please comment if you have an opinion.
Also, how do you use white spirit to weather? I saw a bit on a forgeworld PDF but if anyone has some nice tips It would be appreciated.
Cheers!

BMD-1 Chimera and first paratrooper finished!!

What do you think of my first weathering powder attempt? too much? too little?

As you can see, I have used some weathering powders.
After all my problems with painting cleanly before, it turns out the paints I were using were too liquidy or didn't have enough pigmens. I used an old codex grey (5 years old maybe?) over a tamiya olive drab spray. I basecoated in chaos black, which then allowed me to drybrush gretchin green to highlight the raised areas. I used fortress grey over the codex grey.

I'm happy with the camoflauge scheme on the BMD. Suitable for urban or natural environments. I was considering using a desert yellow colour aswell, but desert yellow as we know is shit :/ I also didn't want to overwork the pattern.

As for the para I painted, I based it on this:

I need another flesh paint tone.
I painted the scheme (Knarloc Green and bleached bown blobs)
 then used a badab black wash over it. Do you think it's effective?

I can't wait to paint my Hind Valkryie now that I know how!

What the fark am I doing wrong?

HELP! I sprayed my BMD-1 with tamiya colour spray. I didn't use a primer, as apparently you don't need to as the spray itself primes.

I have practically zero experience painting flat colour on tanks. My steel legion armour was easy because it was dry-brushing a lighter colour over black. This time, I am not dry-brushing, merely painting a darker colour over a lighter one (camo and catachan green over khaki) but the thing is, it looks like shit. If I do a single coat the lighter khaki shows through the brush strokes. If I use more paint/ do layers it's too thick and also shit.

The catachan green doesn't even drybrush well at all...

thick and horrible

I'm requesting help on what to do. Do I just add more thin layers and build it up, or buy an air brush.
Also, in either case, to get clean lines for my camo patches I have to mask with blutack /putty right? How do my Imperial Guard comrades paint their camo (if their scheme is dark over light basecoat?)?

WIP BMD-1 Phase II/Now Russian VDV (Airborne Troops)

For my other BMD's, I'm going to make the hatches more detailed. I'll add some brackets onto this one though. Rivets too perhaps.

 So, I was working out how to make it more chimera-ish.
I didn't end up putting firing ports on this one. Perhaps next one. I make a big plasticard hatch. I think a little too big, I'll use additional card on top of the card that covers the gap in the vehicle. I decided to just have a rear small door, that the soldiers will need to duck under. but if they open the hatch and the door they can get out easy. I used this hatch already on the tank as a door because it looks good and is about the right size to close up the gap at the rear.

Also, with my Chimeras being BMD's, and my soldiers being veterans, and my army going to have 3 aircraft, and everything being Russian, I have decided to base my army on a historical unit.

from wiki: "After an experimental period, the 104th Parachute Regiment of 76th Airborne Division (Of the VDV, or Russian Airborne Troops) became the first Russian ground forces regiment that was fully composed of professional soldiers (and not of "srochniki" – the conscripted soldiers aged eighteen)"

VDV have blue berets. I can use this for some of my guys now.

I think this gives me a reason to have my soldiers as veterans, and for my chimeras to look different to normal chimeras.
This background then prevents me from using heavy armour. Airborne troops still have light armour and self propelled artillery though. So instead of Russ's I'll use Banewolfs with melta cannon for anti tank, and Hellhounds. Perhaps a medusa or manticore too.

This means half my army will be fast, and everything being able to move 12" a turn.

Thanks to the BMD's longer body, the enemy will get more sideshots, which is good.
It is good because as well as using storm troopers, it won't mean I will have an army that is too competitive.

Note the hatch and rear door. It would actually act as a step down for the troopers when open.

Russian BMD-1 Chimera WIP

Yo! The Russians want their eagle back!

AND LO!!!
He said he was starting a Russian Ground Forces IG army...and it happened!

Spend ages looking on the internet to see if I could find a BMP-2 that was the right size. But BMP's are larger than BMD's in 1:35 scale, and they looked too short in 1:48 scale.

So here is my WIP BMD-1 chimera! Looks so good. Was a bitch to make though. GW models don't have as much fine detail either. Theirs is more appropriate for wargaming, It's bolder and less fine.
This is the first non-GW kit I made.
It was a bit hard because the chassis was bent, and it took ages for the glue to fix it.
I used  Revel plastic glue, for the first proper time ever. works a charm.

I have to come up with an idea for a top hatch that looks good, and a rear door. Perhaps a better way to give it a heavy flamer too.

Putting the multilaser in the turret took a little bit of thought, but was easy. all I did was glue bits of sprue and plasticard to create a sort of wedge to keep it in place. I didn't glue it, so It can actually elevate, like the normal chimeras.

here is the KIT I used, and pics.
Enjoy.

Slightly longer than a chimera, and lower, and narrower. So more side shots, and easier to hide, in some circumstances.

Need to convert the back, to have a door.

I need to glue the tracks down onto the idlers somehow...

I don't mind the flamer really :)