Roco T-54 Tank Project and Sherman Tanks

Despite working on the Roco T-54 tanks, I have also found a few minutes to paint some resin and Paul Heiser Sherman tanks.  The ones on the right are Sherman Jumbo tanks.  The Jumbo was built with massive extra armor.  My last major project was to build my Sherman tanks, but I did not paint most of them.  So on a good weather day, on a day when I have a little time, I can whip out a few Shermans and paint them.  I always keep my Testers Olive Drab spray paint on hand.

Roco Minitanks T-54 tanks that have been fully assembled and ready for combat.  Tanks that are fully unpainted are not going to be painted until all the tanks are assembled.  That way I have a better idea of what colors may be most important.

The T-54 boneyard.  The gray tank is a T-54 from some generic Chinese company.  It is very slightly larger than the Roco T-54 tank, just as the Roco tank is slightly larger than the actual Russian made T-54 tank models.

Here is my collection of right side T-54 tank track assemblies, about half of them have massive mold flaws.  I don't have corresponding left side T-54 tank track assemblies.

Some of my Roco T-54 tanks have these little truck type wheels on them for some unknown reason.

I removed then and will likely use them for other purposes.

Wheel close up.
 

T-54 Tank Upgrade

Roco T-54 tanks getting their upgrade.  These tanks were spray painted but with the turrets on, and so when the turret is turned, the unpainted space is revealed.  So I am touching up these tanks upper hulls.

Here is a green T-54 that had the same problem.

The junk pile.  Many of these tanks have mold flaws, missing or broken parts and other problems.  So some of them get tossed into a stack to get fixed later.  I am trying to get as many into service as possible in the shortest period of time.  However, my plan is to get as many fixed as possible.

My tank collection had solid green, camouflage green, tan, camouflage tan, and chocolate brown, and unpainted.

Here is a camouflage green tank.  It has what I have been told are Syrian markings on them.  I am painting these out.

Note the tan tank with the sheet plastic glued on the upper hull, with two of the boxes cut off.
 

Re-Supply

As part of my Batman 66 project, I got some Lilac paint to paint a lair for Louie the Lilac.

It's Rust-Oleum paint that I will use to paint a car, and some of his lair.

I got some cross stitch grating.

Some of the Batman 66 villain lairs had cross hatched walls and a black background to make a minimalist room.  I plan on using some of this for that project.

My first paints were Testors paint in these little jars.

I still buy a few of the colors, particularly metallic, and red.

When the bottles are empty I often clean them and keep them for mixed paints, or decanted paint.

This is a enamel paint that requires mineral spirits to clean the brushes.  So it is smelly, flammable, and not as nice to use as water for acrylics. 

Still, I find about 20 of their colors useful.

I get them at Hobby Lobby.

Now I have been restocked and am ready for more projects.
 

Painting Buildings

For years I have been buying various dollar store buildings.

These are two of my most recent purchases.

I got some new paints and used them to paint these new buildings.  The paints are similar to poster paints.

These are the colors that I used to paint this one.

And these colors were the ones I used for this one.

The colors are rather thick, like poster paints.  As you can see the buildings look much better with just a little paint.