I finished* the four Stuarts (3 Rubicon M5A1s and 1 Company B M3 Satan)  I’d been working on yesterday.  They are a far, far, far cry from perfect (or even good), but I’m done with them and they’re easily the best vehicles I’ve painted yet.

Definitely came away with a bunch of things I need to work on.  I have miles and miles to go with weathering powders, but I feel like maybe they’re starting to make sense to me. Ditto the airbrush: I need a lot of practice with it, but it really clicked for me during this process.  Rather than focus on what’s wrong with these, I’m going to choose to simply be pleased with them. (Unlike the looted Italian vehicles I painted for my Partisans, which I’m so disgusted with I won’t photograph them.)

And, even though there’s a ton of stuff to work on, there are definitely a couple of notes here where I think things Worked.

* As I took the pictures, I realized I’d neglected headlights. Sigh

During Snowzilla (aka “Make Winter Great Again”), I painted up the Warlord John Basilone figure for the “We’re snowed in, so let’s have a painting contest” DAHGS painting contest.

I’m pleased with it, even if the mouth didn’t photograph particularly well.

It was a little disconcerting how few of the WWII buffs at the store knew who he was (“He’s going to have a bad time trying to fire that gun that way.” Well, yeah.)  Those guys probably should remember that it wasn’t Europe War II; I think I’ll blame Flames of War for that.