[Galery] Modelcollect 1/72 T-80UM1 - A Snow Leopard in Desert Camo

Helo again, fellow fans of small scale armor!

Unfortunately, I missed to save the shots I´ve taken during the painting process of Modelcollect´s T-80UM1... but as I have some photo-material of the finished vehicle, I´ll give you a gallery-type article this time.
I decided to spray some fictional deesert camoflage on the tank, including a dark red/brown color on top of a yellow-ish basecoat. It is intended to represent some kind of show/export vehicle for Middle East customers and/or Cyprus, to which the upgraded T-80s were offered. I wanted to have some contours on the vehicle for which I used a black AK-Interactive wash, but apart from that, I kept weathering moderate as I didn´t want to represent a full-service vehicle.

And by the way... Revell´s masking fluid may be good for aircraft cockpits, but it doesn´t work well for masking camoflages 😑

After all it looks quite neat... I´m positively suprised about the outcome.

Next project is again going to be an infamous Soviet-era heavy tank, but hold on, as I´m thinking about publishing some history article(s) about that.

See you soon!

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