Of course, I dropped everything and rushed the shiny new T34 and tank riders to the front of the painting queue!
(Arty-farty B&W version of one of my pics to make it look like a period shot!)
Quite simple to do the tank - I had done some pre planning and purchased a small (very small for what I paid but that's how it goes I guess!) aerosol can of Tamiya generic dark green paint - I tried getting a specific Red Army Green, but it didn't seem to exist, which is odd.
I think we all know, the Russians did not have any standard colours anyway - some of their AFV's are a very dark green, some more like the olive green of the US and British armies, and others a much lighter, brighter shade - so I could have gone with any of a wide variety of colours - but after my experience using a spray can of the Blitzkrieg German vehicles, I had decided that was the best way to go, rather than using normal miniatures paint with a brush, so I was limited by what was available in an aerosol can, and in stock at the bricks n mortar hobby store I went to.
The result is much darker than the painted example from the seller's web site that appeared in my previous post. The tank number and air recognition markings are deliberately a bit slap dash - because most of the images I have seen of Soviet vehicles seem to look like they were painted on by a ten-year-old! This is fortunate, as I probably could not have done a much better job, even if I wanted to! Initially, I was also looking to add a nice pointy red star on the turret too but a) I don't have any and neither do any of my friends and b) seems like it was quite rare for the red star to appear on WWII Russian tanks, anyway. Problem a) solved by solution b)! Now - on to the eye candy, PB&J part:
