The weather here in sunny UK – ie very sunny UK – has conspired against any spraying, hand-painting or even glueing, come to that, but here at last, in primer is the M113 C & V. Still some details to be added such as antenna (and a crew figure) but they’re always the last to be added to my models in any case.
I’ve said it before, but my models always seem to look a little bit better in primer; perhaps there’s a case for a monochrome collection, no figures, no paint jobs, no markings – a sort of permanent 1/35 recognition test, or say, a development thread of armour through the ages?
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I always enjoy painting the draped cam nets - it seems to begin to bring the model to life:
Still a long way off completion, but as I say, fun to paint!
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The draped camo nets kick the look up a level or two 
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Thanks Carlos - they inevitably cover up detail but do, I feel, aid realism. Horses for course I suppose, but for Cold War stuff almost a must.
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How do you paint the nets? Blasting them with the airbrush seems risky because of overspray, and painting them with a hairy stick seems like a chore.
And this vehicle now needs some “langharig werkschuw tuig” to crew it. 
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Oh, heavily thinned and a paintbrush; it is a chore and needs repeated coats but I find it quite therapeutic in a way. The tea leaves also come unstuck but that’s part and parcel of the task.
The effect is what we want, such as on the actual MBT-70:
Which whilst technically a What-If project, doesn’t mean the process isn’t relevant to all sorts of AFVs.
As to crew for the M113 C&V, I’m awaiting a consignment of figures etc from Sylly’s Models.
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