The Arsenal of Democracy - Painting WWII US Army Vehicles [How I Paint Things]

[@simonleach6632]

If you're using normal household masking tape, then before you stick it to the model, stick it to your hand and peel it off again, this will 'de-tack' the tape, basically makes it a little less sticky so it shouldn't pull paint/wash away with it, you can also try peeling it off slowly and flat to the surface at a 45degree angle if you have room to do so, this can also reduce the chances of takig paint with you, but if you de-tack the tape first, that alone should be enough!

[@simonleach6632]

Also if you're struggling to find a US Olive drab then it's dead easy to mix, the US OD colour was actually quite brown-ish and (as with all WW2 vehicle colours) can vary from vehicle to vehicle, you can get a fairly authentic USOD by mixing black and yellow. British SCC 15 Olive drab is I think a touch darker and more green/grey than the US olive drab so is more of a pain on the butt to mix, for that I would buy a ready made paint, but it's not so easy to come by as the US version, I think AK do it in their 3rd gen acrylic range though

[@marksullivan7766]

Nice looking ambulance

[@Fredeye63]

Very good, as usual. I'll watch this again when I start painting my German trucks and halftracks.

[@loupiscanis9449]

A Very Special Thank you , Troy . 🐺 Loupis Canis .

[@Matt-md5yt]

Glad you did this half truck my friend. Looks awesome

[@SirCircon]

Awesome result!

[@philRminiatures]

Nice tuto and splendid ambulance, always glad to see these models!

[@andyshaw5378]

Another top video. Just when I think I have all the paints I will ever need you suggest another one I haven’t got. Keep up the good work. 👍

[@johnkelley9877]

I like halftrack ambulances too and I have the Airfix kit so I need to build it. The model looks great and as far as the markings are concerned I have seen the Red Cross brush painted on the real thing and it was just like the one you did. Excellent tutorial and on one of my favorite subjects, halftracks. Thanks for sharing this.

[@ShaunTame-re5us]

Really good vid again. It is helpful to see how to remedy mistakes. Thank you.

[@metajock]

Sweet job. Thanks!

[@jacobrichards8359]

Looks great! I just got done painting a few of his models for the Kickstarter myself!

[@bo12328]

Completely unrelated to painting US vehicles, but ive been trying to find a replacement for PA Canvas and, once again, Sledge delivers

[@angrypantz87]

Fantastisch! I do love a good vehicle tutorial.

[@bluedragontoybash2463]

amazing job as always

[@Jim-yk9if]

Another great tutorial!

[@thepiratepenguin4465]

Wow, that is so much simpler than my recipe for US vehicles & looks great. I wish I got a can of Vallejo Olive drab before starting this army. I have tried both Army Painter's Uniform Grey & Army Green as the primer & found Army Green was the better option for this process. After priming I then did a filter with Vallejo Olive Green wash to get the look I was going for & it all added some shading at the same time followed by a dry brush of Venom Wrym which gave the paint job a very worn look like it had been in the field for some time. I used Combat Fatigues for the canvas with a wash for a soft tone followed by a dry brush of Necrotic Flesh. As for the dirt & mud effects, I would use Vallejo European Earth wash & Vallejo environment Mud & Grass.

[@komma8203]

That pencil tecnic works better with a grafite stick or a watercolor pencil, ak interactiv makes a cool and realy nice set of weathering pencils, i had them since they came to marked like 5 or 6 years ago, they are realy nice and can be manipulated with water. Worth checking out, pretty cheep to

[@alessiodecarolis]

Nice tutorial, allied vehicles, also if were painted generally in OD, had always been a pain to paint, given OD's tendency to fade in different shades, from kakhysh to (light?) green, looking to late war 's colour photos you can see different shades in the same unit. At least VMC OD is a good start, contrary to the old Humbrol 's.

[@andygale77]

As always, a great video. For the primer you have Vallejo US Olive Drab spray. Looking online I can find two Vallejo olive colours listed. These are: 005 Olive Green and 003 Camouflage Olive Green. As I'm rather new to all this, could you tell me which one is best for US Sherman's etc, please. Thanks

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

The primer spray is should just be called Vallejo US Olive Drab; having a quick Google, it looks like the 005 can. Camouflage Olive Green is only showing up for me in bottles.

[@nickdavis5420]

Oh this is nice

[@lethalhomeless4317]

For someone who doesn't want to use Citadel paint, what Vallejo substitutes would you recommend for the drybrush?

[@Adi031978]

Is the whole model a 3D print? On the canope, in the right light, before painting I noticed some slight layer lines. But the chassis looked like an injection molding kit.

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

The whole model's a print. The 'kit' itself comes as the hull and canopy, then wheels and tracks are separate pieces you glue on after printing.

[@Adi031978]

@@SonicSledgehammerStudio Impressive quality for a print. Did you primt it yourself or was it done on a professional print farm?

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

Printed myself. Mentioned during the intro that it came off of my Mars 3. ✌

[@Adi031978]

@@SonicSledgehammerStudio ah, sorry. Missed that bit 🫣 Still thanks for replying

[@hellcat64]

do u have the stl? or remeber how u laid it out in slycer? i have a mono 4k and cant seem to get the setup right for vehicles

[@samb2052]

Good technique for US vehicles. I’m not sure about which VMC green to use for the Olive Drab. They seem to have altered the names of some. My old OD bottle looks a lot more grey than this.

[@oskar6661]

He's using the Vallejo spray. It only comes in a handful of colours (a set of WW2 uniform/armour colours and some GW-styled colours).

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

The green I've used is literally just called US Olive Drab. There was an update maybe a year or so ago now; it used to be Brown Violet. But the primer spray and the bottled acrylic are in the same name.

[@samb2052]

@@oskar6661 yes, I got understood that, I meant how to match it to the bottled paint.

[@samb2052]

@@SonicSledgehammerStudio ah, that’s why mine don’t match. I tend to use Tamiya sprays as the bottled paint works better in my airbrush so it’s easier to match. I also particularly like their Dark Yellow, on smaller scales it’s far better than VMC middle stone or dark yellow.

[@vytrium]

Simple yet effective paintstyle as always, modern vehicles seems to look always good when drybrushed and withered a bit. By the way, did you see Piano Wargames' new Danubian Campaign Part 1 kickstarter ? I think that'll be the next napoleonic minis I'll buy after finishing with all those necrons and tyrannids I still have in the backlog. I wonder if he will go as far in the War of the Fifth Coalition as doing minis for Naples, Piedmont-Sardinia, Spain, Portugal, Great Britain, Kingdom of Italy, Holland etc or if he will keep focusing on german states.

[@SPD3DPrinting]

what size brushes are you using? they look quite big.

[@FrMehman]

What's a good recipe for American vehicles in North Africa? I'm sure Sonic did a video, but I can't be sure!

[@dacabe4457]

I suppose the same method/paints could apply for Russian vehicles, but swap out Olive Drab spray for Russian Green 4BO?

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

Should work! Green is green is green past a point.

[@OneofInfinity.]

I member "democracy", good times.

[@sweatilaa5325]

a red medical cross on a white background, nice violation of the Geneva convention ;)

[@samb2052]

There was me thinking it was an English Civil War halftrack! 😉

[@sweatilaa5325]

@@samb2052 ah yes of course, you're right, my mistake. The English civil war halftrack was indeed still very popular in the US military during WWII I think Cromwell would have been proud to know the halftrack's legacy :D

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

How so? It's an unarmed vehicle that was actually used as an ambulance. They were common on both sides.

[@samb2052]

@@SonicSledgehammerStudio we’re pulling your leg. The Red Cross on an ambulance doesn’t usually extend to the border of the white background. It’s normally the reverse of the Swiss flag. What you have is a Cross of St George, hence my reference to the ECW. Please don’t take offence, you do great work which inspires many.

[@SonicSledgehammerStudio]

Aaaah, okay, now I follow. I'd just missed what the reference was! 😅 In researching the markings I did see that the majority of vehicles had the 'proper' Red Cross marking, but a few of them - original photographs in black and white rather than reproductions - also had the 'full' cross right out to the edge of the white border, perhaps as a field expedient. Ultimately I went with the latter since it was easier to paint!