Today is “Flames of War Friday”::http://www.mightyape.com.au/…-War-Fridays! This week I've gone back to the Stugs I painted in a previous post to add some mud and extra camouflage.

I'm a big fan of painting up a whole army to a table-top standard and then going back to add extra detail like weathering, mud effects and the like. This approach gets your army ready for games faster and helps keep you motivated to paint as well.

Try rewarding yourself once you've finished painting a unit by doing some extra detail work on a tank or painting up a single show-piece model or objective.

So for the Stugs I added some dust effects and earth effects from the AK Interactive range, applying them to the lower edges of the hull and horizontal surfaces on top of the tank and then using some white spirit to soften the edges.

Then I mixed some earth effects and dark mud with a bit of plaster to make a thicker paste and applied clumps of this mud mixture to hull next to the tracks, with more towards the rear. Finally I flicked some fresh mud weathering liquid onto the same areas to give the splashed mud effects.

Lastly I wanted to add some foliage to act as extra camouflage. There's a number of different hobby materials you can use for this, including clump foliage like these green bushes or some undergrowth.

However I wanted to go for the most realistic option, so I chose some Fine Leaf Foliage from the leading scenery company Woodland Scenics. Fine leaf foliage is awesome because its made up of tiny & very realistic plastic branches with leafs attached and its perfect for the scale of Flames of War tanks.

That's it for this week, but be sure to stay tuned next week, as something big is coming on Monday…