French tanks in British service, Battle of France, 1941

[Jakko]

Thanks I'm mostly well again, now I need to get back to those models too ... The H39 has a green base, with khaki-green strips on it. The AK paint I used for that covers quite well, so I don't think that's the problem — more that it's just very close in overall tone to the green I mixed up for the base.

[Jakko]

Sickness, difficulty finding the right colours, an airbrush that didn't want to cooperate ... everything together this is once more taking longer than I would like. But by now I didn't just finish the camouflage on the B1 but also added shadows and highlights to both. I will get there eventually

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[zenrat]

 

[Captain Canada]

Great builds. Crazy how real you make them look already ! Every time I see a tank build, I want to build one myself lol.

[NARSES2]

I do like that Hotchkiss in particular 

[Old Wombat]

Looking pretty sweet!

[Wardukw]

Man they both look very very nice ,,,bloody nice work so far bud ,,,also ,,hope ya start to feel better sooner than later 

[Jakko]

Thanks, all I am feeling much better than I did almost two weeks ago, but still coughing far more than I would like The models first need their details painted, then some weathering applied, and the H39 will gets its undersides sprayed in a dirt colour to match the weathering on the upper part.

[buzzbomb]

Nice colour schemes. Looking good

[Jakko]

After weeks of not being able to make myself do much at all in terms of modelling, I now put the markings on both of these tanks:

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Taken from my big box of old decals, plus hand-painted (with the aid of a piece of masking tape with a hole cut in it) nationality markings — that is, the white squares. In real life, those were abolished after the BEF had been evacuated from France, but in the timeline in which these tanks existed, that of course never happened. There should also be one on the front, but for both I couldn't find a good spot to put one that wouldn't make it an aiming point without a crewman directly behind it.

The registration numbers are from much later tanks, but with the last digit cut off, they're suddenly in the right kind of range for early in the war.

[Jakko]

Making progress on the H39 now:

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First, I added a wash of Tamiya XF-55 Deck Tan over the whole of the tank, except for the lower hull and suspension, and once it was dry, I sprayed those areas with that same colour. Next I added a wash of XF-57 Dark Earth, and when that had cured, drybrushed with cream white (Rackham Noesis White) followed by pure white. The upper parts, I drybrushed with the basic green and brown of the camouflage. All this is meant to give the impression of a tank coated in dust from a dry summer on the chalky ground of northwestern France.

[Wardukw]

  
Mate you know how to make paint look great 👍 😉

[Rick Lowe]

 

[Jakko]

Mate you know how to make paint look great 👍 😉

Thanks, but IMHO I'm not that great a painter A bit above average, maybe, but I keep thinking that if I can do this, then so can pretty much everyone else ...

[Weaver]

That looks great!  

When you look at French WWII tanks, there's so much that's right about them that the wrong bits are REALLY frustrating. If only they'd had two or three crew turrets and radios, they'd have been great. It's not like they couldn't do the big turrets either, given that they could cast half-hulls.