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.
 

More Painting of Soviet Vehicles

Often I paint on cardboard so that I can toss it in the trash after they have been painted on, to get rid of the flammable material.

This is may base color for most of my Cold War Soviet Union vehicles.

This can has a circle on the top of the cap, indicating is has been open.

My paper towel for wiping the nozzle after every few sprays.

My spray can spinning shaking device, to make sure the paint cans are fully mixed.

Here are a few armed vehicles ready for paint.

Hole in the top of the chassis.

Pin on the bottom of the turret, and a hole in the cardboard to insert the pin and hold the turret upright while it is painted.