Tuesday, February 18, 2020

Another Empress V100 Cadillac Gage Commando

The Cadillac Gage Commando served in areas other than Vietnam.

There are some examples in the Osprey book.


This particular example has been painted up as a well maintained vehicle in a drier climate.

The vehicle was first undercoated with Citadel Chaos Black, followed by Citadel Zandri Dust.
To generate the camouflage pattern I got out my trusty glass plate and the compass cutter to cut the patterns out of a strip of masking tape. The pattern needed to be concave to give the effect of the Zandri Dust overlying the Humbrol Olive Drab.

Once the masking was in place, the hull was sprayed with Humbrol Olive Drab.

Vehicle numbers come from a Warlord German Armour decal sheet, the smaller ones from the German Turret Number sheet.

 The vehicle registration numbers are from two Rubicon Jeep sheets, as is the First Aid box marking. The weight circle is from the Rubicon LRDG Chevy deal set.




 Here it is with the previous US Military Police example from last year.