David built Tamiya’s French UE armored carrier out of the box except for the stowage. The 55-gallon drum is from Mig Productions, the jerry cans from Italeri, the chain is a Hudson & Allen item, the first-aid box is a resin item made by Verlinden. He painted with Tamiya acrylics, then weathered with artist’s oils and Mig pigments.

Starting with a 1/35 scale Dragon kit, David built an early T-34 as one of the tanks that faced the German onslaught in 1941. He removed the molded-on engine screens and fenders, replacing them with Aber photoetched metal. The metal fenders made it easy to replicate damage often seen on Soviet tanks. He painted with Tamiya acrylics and weathered with artist’s oils and Mig pigments. David says he loves weathering single-color camouflage schemes.

David plumbed Trumpeter’s 1/35 scale SA-2 Guideline surface-to-air missile and added grab handles to the launcher. It’s painted and marked for Egyptian service. David started with a high-gloss finish because the missile featured a lot of decals. He thinned Polly Scale clear flat with Windex, then weathered with paint chips and a pinwash mixed from pigments and thinner. The rust was added with pigments.

After adding a little extra interior detail to Tamiya’s 1/35 scale Japanese light armored vehicle, David painted the model with Vallejo Model Air colors. After a coat of Vallejo Model Air clear gloss he added the kit decals, then sprayed the model with very light coats of Polly Scale clear flat thinned 75 percent with Windex glass cleaner. “This is the only flat coat I have tried that goes dead flat … every time,” David says. All of the weathering is Mig pigments.

David, a jeep fan, built Miniart’s 1/35 scale Bantam BRC 40, adding a little Eduard photoetched metal to detail the dashboard and modifying the front axle to pose the wheels turned. He used the kit decals to deploy the vehicle with U.S. Army in early World War II. He weathered with artist’s oils and Mig pigments.