X-Mas came early this year

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Spray the skirt plates off the tank with a matt sealer.
No need for flash hobby grade stuff, there must be a shop near you that caters for home artists that like to paint portraits etc.
There is a product in aerosol can used to seal paintings.
I use a matt seal and its fantastic.
Once dry, THEN wash over the paint.
Im taking a guess at the spots of dirt on the tank being just as simple as tamiya Flat Earth XF-52 speckled on by blowing paint off a brush at a distance from the surface ?
Very nice job getting it all looking like you have

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Look what I did next.....

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Took the same light brown which matches the lighter lines on the tank, between the olive green and chocolate brown.
I mean I looked for a Humbrol colour which came close.

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Made the paint more liquid with terpentine, used a stiff brush and while going through the end of tge brush, making the mud splatters.

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Saw some vids on youtube in which the splattering is done with an airbrush blowing through the wet brush.
But I did it with my fingers and the results are good enough for me

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One more remark, on the road wheels there are more mud splatters than on the hull and turret of course.
I made some more splattering on the Schürzen too, to match the wheels a bit. No clue if this could be realistic or not....I just like it better that way.

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Made an attempt to get the commanders hatch a bit more realistic.....at least that's what I tried

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