Spent the past month building this diorama. I used dragons Sdkfz 250/5 #6141, tamiya recon set and dragons Wiking Recon kit. I painted the 250/5 with ammo Mig paints and used ammo migs dark wash and finished up with some oil paints for streaking. Additionally, i used Fruil tracks for the first time and really liked how it turned out. One part of using metal tracks is remembering to wash them prior to using the ammo Mig rust effect that you dip them in. I had a few spots that didn’t take so i did some additional painting on them and weathered with some mud effect.
The figures;
For the figures i used Andrea miniatures for the autumn and spring time camo and ak interactive dot 44 paint set. The camo has been something I’ve been working on improving over the past year and i feel like I’m starting to get the hang of it, maybe a few more iterations of painting these patterns and I’ll feel better about it.
The base;
The dio base i made from scratch, i used styrene plastic and cut a piece of styrofoam i had laying around the apt to size. Then i covered it with modge podge and added ammo migs acrylic mud. I deviated from my usual technique of using a paper machete layer then adding acrylic mud and other features. After adding the mud i painted it black and went over it with ak interactive Dot-44 base brown and then with ammo Mig brown soil. When i finally added all the kits to the base i added ammo mud to the track areas waited for it to dry and then washed the whole base in dark wash.
Small but beautifully formed Gregory! You are spot-on with the camo schemes imho. I know just how tricky they can be, particularly in 1/35 and you have excelled here.
Very nice. Just thinking about doing those figures with that camouflage pattern gives me a headache! 
Excellent job Gregory. Those camo uniforms are sone of the hardest to paint - in any scale- and you’ve done a great job of it. The half track came great too.
@Catsrcool @metalhead85 @Karl187 gentlemen thank you for the kind words. The Andrea miniatures are great for these uniforms because they give you a great step by step the dot-44 from AK doesn’t have that so j took some time back in the fall on a YouTube video to figure this scheme out. After applying the base coat for the scheme i noticed that there were two major colors that seem to have significant portions in the camo the black and the light tan. Once breaking these up i went over with the dots starting with the i believe light green then using the opposite colors of each major camo scheme. To break it up i went back and added some base brown and to apply all these dots i used toothpicks. I’m honestly surprised at how good it came.
Excellent vignette you really nailed those camo patterns!
Yeah I think with any camo pattern you have to spend some time studying the pattern and then try to break it down to major color areas and go from there. Not easy
@metalhead85 i still think it needs some refinement, to be honest if i didn’t have a pcs move coming up in a week i would still be on my first figure.
@SSGToms thank you SSG!
Superb! The camo came out really well. That mud looks really glutinous, very realistic.
@Hohenstaufen thank you, the mud around the tracks was a questionable job in my book, still learning how to weather vehicles lower hulls and will use the next few builds to work on that. I also used the mud to hid some paper clips i used to pin the vehicle to the base.