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Ian Doody
. SDR Piloten Christof Motti, painted him up, and slapped him in, basically just the stock pilot, with the Super Jerry blind cockpit gear, added cables, may have to sand his butt down, as you can't see much of the poor swine, when he's sealed in his walking coffin. That'll do for today.

Nathan Dempsey
Your pilot is looking great. Following 👀

Ian Doody
On to the legs of the Jerry Heavy Super Armored Fighting Suit. Now, the newer WAVE release has the shorter foot with cleaner details, but the old NITTO release has the longer but softer detailed foot, as it's a chicken walker essentially, I'm after stability, so I'm going to sacrifice detail for a solid stance.

Ian Doody
Chicken walker Ma.k, I dig it. I really like this design. Mines a super heavy Gigant Floh, armed with anti-air rockets, anti personnel machine gun, and a recoilless rifle. Bad ass.

Ian Doody
That's me done for the day, added seatbelts. And the side bubble windows, built both legs, looking good so far. I'll be building this in the classic white wash and orange camo scheme.

Dash Rendar
Great job so far, looking awesome!

Ian Doody
Added the recoilless rifle as a dry fit mock up of the chin. Looks really nice all glued up, looks really angry with the solid hood, but you can see more of the pilot though with the blown glass hood... Hmm 🤔

Ian Doody
That's where I am today, still very much a WIP. I'm working my way around it, adding extra armor, smoke launchers, it's going to be very busy, but it should look pretty awesome.

Ian Doody
I've added radiator details to the underside of the rear engine bay, and an armored cover for the large rear vent.

Ian Doody
That's it for today, getting there. Just a dry fit of parts added drooping wiring to the under engine area, I'll change the mounts of the rockets, to make them more dynamic, cockpit enclosed forever, adding small nuts and bolts, pretty happy with it so far.

Ian Doody
After adding a cast texture to the whole main body, the start of the winter white wash camo on the Gigant Floh. Rust washes next, then grey wash, then white. Still have a fair few details and wiring still to add. Sort out the rocket launchers fit, aerials, armour plates nuts and bolts.

Ben M
I have no idea what this is, but it looks cool.

shadowlight
Nice work! How did you made the cast texture?

Ian Doody
@shadowlight, I used Ammo putty, brushed on and stippled with some sponge.

shadowlight
Thank you!

Ian Doody
First all over dirt, rust and muck wash.

Ian Doody
A lot more detailing, armour plates, and washes to come.

Ian Doody
Painting has now got to the second grey wash stage, I'll be going up to off white soon, also used a muck wash and rusted up some areas of the engine deck. Rear armour is removable to see the engine deck, fan and exhaust detail. Painted up the lower engine power pipes too..

Jörg Schäfer
It's going to be another fantastic wash.

Chrisswe
Looking good! Is it easy or hard to work with wooden decks?

Jörg Schäfer
Looks good, I will stay.

Goldman
Almost exactly the idea I have in mind for a project hopefully next year - just got Gecko's wheeled version skid loader and not planning to convert the HEMTT to the A4 version. Good luck with this project!

Olaf R
Thank you. Same for you. I'm still looking for options for the backhoe loader. I found a 3d A4 conversion online that I'm planning to use.

Goldman
I think Trumpeter is supposed to release A4 HEMTTs soon(ish). They were in the latest catalog (a cargo and a tanker, not a tractor though).

Currently my main issue is getting the load chained-down properly. Need to find proper (and affordable) 1/35 modern chains and stretchers and find hooking points on the tractors and on the trailer so it looks reasonably believable.

Thank you very much for the photo you loaded - it will be a great help.

Olaf R
I just uploaded some more pictures. Accurate Armour has some 1:35 tank transporter tie down items, but they are closing down. Maybe one day 3d printed modern tie down chains and hooks will become available.