Looks excellent so far and the semi - gloss should be a great effect!
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For both tanks, I also built some figures, mainly from the Gecko set with early war British tank crews . Both were painted in the black uniform of the Royal Tank Regiment. But they’re rather on the small side: the figure on the H39 is 47 mm tall from the soles of his feet to the top of his helmet, which equates to about 1.65 m …
Anyway, I consider these models finished now 
On the B1, I painted the more-or-less horizontal surfaces with gloss varnish, and also smeared that down the vertical sides. I first used a wide, flat brush to create a lot of little stripes, and then made bigger stripes with a fine brush. You can’t see them very well in the photos, but by looking at the model from different angles, the “rain” suddenly appears.
The figure has an upper body from Gecko with Tamiya legs, from the M25 Dragon Wagon.
Some hopefully better pictures of the rain effect:
Both together:
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They look great, congratulations. 
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Thanks
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This is great work and a novel concept. I can’t help but think that French use of some of the contemporary British tanks might work as a subject too.
Anyway, well done on the figures - as always - they bring it all to life.
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I agree on both counts Something like a Matilda II, an early Churchill or an A13 with French camouflage, markings and crew would be a good subject as well.
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I’m almost minded to have a go myself! I was thinking about the A13, and had forgotten the Churchill; as you identify an early version - a sort of Char B-ish type - would look very interesting.
However, back to my Cold War induced stash (and the hell I’m just discovering in an ACE Model MUNGA).
Thanks again for this project - it’s been very interesting and well executed.
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Ace sure isn’t Tamiya and only their second 1/35 kit. I have stayed away for now as their 1/72 can be “challenging” to put it mildly.
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Talk about caveat emptor! The instructions are completely unusable; no guide to actual assembly - which one might think is what instructions are for, just a series of complicated drawings surrounded by numbers, which are meant to indicate installation; absolutely hopeless.
And I thought the resin versions I had were difficult!
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Vickers Mk.VI light tanks…
M
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The colour schemes alone would make this worthwhile!
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It gets worse; some of the pre-war British-built tankettes/light tanks of the Thai Army (of which they have quite a few preserved) have been repainted in digital camo, as has at least one of their Type 83s (Japanese Type 95 Ha-Go)…
Just when you were thinking Caunter was a bitch…
Cheers,
M
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A Churchill in that funky multi-tone French camo would be too cool.
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