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| Subject: | Re: Two questions |  |
| Date: | Nov 5, 2001 |
| From: | Paul Roberts | |
> I have seen various pictures of tanks with logs attached to the side
> of them. Why, camouflage or additional armour???
While they are used as unditching aids (i.e. to help increase traction
to permit the tank to get itself out of the mud) some application of
logs to the side of Shermans was to prevent magnetic mines from
attaching to the steel sides of the AFV. They were also thought to
increase the stand-off distance for hollow charge weapons making them
less effective, although I haven't seen anything definitive as to
whether this actually worked or not.
> And I was thinking of doing a dio of a late tiger stuck in the mud,
> what would be the best way to do this.
Using actual clay won't work after is has dried, not only will it change
colour, but it will shrink and crack.
A method I recently tried, to good effect, was to use "Liquitex High
Viscosity Acrylic" medium filled with Blended Fibers, product 6708. This
is a translucent thick acrylic past that has small fibers mixed in. It
can be applied with a brush or spatula and allows you to add clumps of
very realistic mud to a model. If you want the mud to be dry, you paint
over it generally in a tan or buff paint. If you want it wet, those
areas get Raw Umber. If they are really wet, you spray Future floor wax
over those areas to show varying levels of gloss. That's the technique I
used on my Staghound, below.
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Paul Roberts
tankmodeler@home.com
Scale Tech Distributing
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