Challenger Tank Miniature Painting Tutorial | Team Yankee

[@a_clifford]

Thanks for the tutorial

[@Billa2720]

Great to see some Team Yankee content, and great paint tutorial!

[@StackingLimit]

Great Tutorial. John comes through again!

[@notreallydavid]

Looks soo-perb!

[@WardenOfTerra]

You should add decals, brass rod aerials, and edge highlighting.

[@BigTiBu]

Absolutely fantastic work!

[@larrluck]

Thanks for sharing. Picked up some ideas to try out. Great looking tank!

[@marksminiaturemadness6789]

I called them both boz plates and side skirts. Side skirts when I was training on CR2 then boz plates when I got to Regt as thats what the experienced/older guys were calling them

[@MJM804]

I believe "boz plates" is short for "bazooka plates", according to a book I read about the Chieftan tank.

[@marksminiaturemadness6789]

@@MJM804 yes that is true

[@Andrew-se4tg]

Very nice job man!👍

[@tonymontenigro9107]

Great video! Loved it! It was very informative thank you for sharing ! Keep up the great work you do. It sure helps us beginners in the hobby. It is greatly appreciated! All my best Tony

[@ashram7345]

Great result ! What is a good ammomig/ ak/Vallejo equivalent of that chieftain green ? Impossible to find it here

[@CoffeeHobby]

Vallejo "Refractive Green" would be my go-to.

[@15mmGustavus]

Chieftain green is no longer produced by Battlefront.. those paints weren't the greatest received they went back to Vallejo. The British paint set has bronze green now but I've seen friends have success with Death Guard green.

[@shotou]

Hi John, I love your work, but is there any particular reason why you go from the Black primer, and then use the White primer? Is it just a good opaque white that you like to use? Because primer over primer is a little redundant no? I was lazy and just used the same British AFV set from vallejo that I used for all my Bolt Action stuff for the Green. For the Black I used more vallejo, this time NATO Black(71.251). I am rather glad I watched this, as I might go back over the tanks and do some of those rubber details. I would recommend varnishing before starting the weathering, especially with using alcohol. Oh you caught that, cool.

[@CoffeeHobby]

the idea was to make some pre-shading for the vehicle. to give the upper surfaces a lighter base for the green to be a touch brighter than down the turret/hull sides. But as per usual, my ham-fisted thinning of the green was bad and the effort didn;t amount to the desired result :P

[@shotou]

@@CoffeeHobby it worked great much better than my three or four colours did. My stuff is all varnished ready for decals, but I don't want to do them. I might just add the stowage, and start weathering.

[@dislikebutton3605]

Do you prime each piece before you assemble or do you assemble it all, then prime it?

[@BauthorFowler]

Serious question here; why isn't the gun shroud, as John called it, camouflaged? I'd think that would draw attention as much as the extinguishers.

[@CoffeeHobby]

It's a good question! I think one reason is that it's a consumable part. It wears down and needs replacing. Plus, being canvas, its naturally wrinkled appearance probably helps break up its shape a bit. As for the extinguishers. I've seen on the images for "Challanger 3" they put them into green fabric covers. All that said, most military extinguishers are a dark green anyway. You only see red ones ocassionally, and most on vehicles at public events, or parades. *shrug* A needless mystery in my mind, but the red splashes some colour on the model at least :)

[@BauthorFowler]

@@CoffeeHobby It's just, I don't get why camo patterned canvas isn't a thing.

[@CoffeeHobby]

@@BauthorFowler Nither do i. But it's going to be gone once Challenger 3 comes into service. that Rhinemetal gun doesn't need a thermal shroud.

[@notreallydavid]

dentist noises from the airbrush!

[@markwilliamson6277]

No Decals?