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Painting the Puma

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So i got round to painting it. After a black undercoat I painted it all a dark green. Next i added more light grey to the green, and completed several highlights of drybrushing. Next i made dark brown lines all over the vehicle, then highlighted with a desert yellow. I added dark brown camo shading to the lines. Finally picked out detail, added decals. Used grey on edges to give the impression of chips and damage. Then drybrushed on muddy browns. I am quite pleased with the result, and will probably use the same method on future vehicles.

28mm Puma

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  Needed a break from the battle reports so i started work on Warlord Games plastic Puma. I have always loved the look of this vehicle and so decided i had to have one..   The box it comes in has some lovely art work on the front, while the back has some information on the vehicle and a nicely painted example of the Puma   Inside you get two sprues to make the Puma, a waterslide decal sheet and instructions. Some of the parts looked quite fragile, so i held off building for a while until i had fresh blades for my hobby knife.   You build the under carriage first. Which has some great detail on the vehicles suspension. Took me back to the old days as a young'un building model planes and the such. But the i don't understand why the wheels where made hollow. You go to great lengths to make the suspension look right encase people see it, but then decide that no-one will notice the wheels underneath. A am a bit confounded on why they weren't cast solid or w...