![]() ![]() Once the wash is down I used a damp brush to clean up the excess in order to prevent tide marks and large, ugly patches of wash from pooling.Īnd now I’ve done a heavy drybrush of US Dark Green, followed by a lighter drybrush of a roughly ¼ ratio mix of Buff and US Dark Green.Īfter I finished the first pass on the hull colour I started on the details. Once that is done I applied a slightly thinned down wash of Army Painter Dark Tone Ink. The base coat is going to go on as four to five thin layers over all hull areas of the entire model. This colour is probably a little darker than a couple of the examples listed, but ultimately it doesn’t matter that much as I lightened it up with some Buff (VMC 70.976) mixed into the base colour to get the highlights. With these references I experimented with a variety of colours, and in the end settled on US Dark Green (VMC 70.893). I based the hull colour on a variety of photo reference of T-72s from the 1985 period and more generally. Since I’ve had a hard time getting my hands on the necessary colours I’ve opted to start with experimenting with Vallejo and working from there. ![]() In terms of painting, while the rule books gives an official colour guide, they are listed in the Colours of War range by Battlefront. In terms of combat performance it does suffer from lack of armour compared to its contemporary armoured vehicles, but none the less it remains a ubiquitous armoured vehicle. Moving on to the present day, the T-72 remains in service with many countries and is still being produced. Around the 1985, the year the events of Team Yankee take place, the T-72 was the mainstay armoured vehicle of the Soviet Union and all her satellite republics, produced under licence in Poland, Yugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, and others. This tank was optimised for mass production, combining a low silhouette with modern armament and armour. ![]() The T-72, first put into serial production in 1973 in order to update the Soviet Tank Arsenal which consisted of the T-54/55, which was a tank of immediately post World War 2 Vintage, and the T-64, which was plagued with a variety of technical and production problems which limited its production. ![]()
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