French AMX 30 B2 Brennus

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Re: French AMX 30 B2 Brennus

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I started to paint the details today. The running gear has been painted according to my reference pictures (at least I tried :lol: )
The few decals are applied. Unfortunately most of them are wrong. The numerals should be silver grey and the letters on the barrel light grey.

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Coming along really nice Olivier :)

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Thank you Jan.
When looking at my reference pictures I found a major mistakes in the TM camo scheme. A large black strip is missing on the turret top. So the AB was used again.

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The Brennus has got a layer of dust with oils.

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Very subtle and discrete, this is the point where I personally tend to go overboard and mess up things :roll:

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Fantastic paint job Olivier :D

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Re: French AMX 30 B2 Brennus

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Thank you guys for the comments.
I applied a last wash between the ERA blocks as there shouldn't be accumulated dust there.

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Nice work Olivier, the rear of the turret is really busy on this one.
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Looks really good Olivier :)

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Re: French AMX 30 B2 Brennus

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Thank you.
Adam the vehicle I wanted to depict was displayed at an open day so the baskets were empty. In the field they often are full of crew gear like Blast Models resin set.
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