Under full armour - Challenger 3 with TES
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The crew was made first. They went together without any problems. Maybe their helmets are a tad too big. But this is in the eye of the beholder...
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Completed lower hull
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This is the extra armored plate for additional protection of the crew against buried IEDs
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Already looks very monstrous 🙂
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Here starts the first surgery for converstion into Challenger 3. The rubber pads of the gun rails and one support above the engine compartment have to be removed
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Support at the engine deck and rubber blocks removed; made two flatbars at the outsides with Evergreen stripe and made the drillholes.
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Finished the stern of the tank
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suspension completed
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View of the completed underside
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All running wheels applied
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frontal view with full TES installed. There is speculation if Challenger 3 would have a driver´s camera or not (plain vehicle which was officially introduced didn´t showed one but I estimate it will have when fully uparmored during a conflict.
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Top view. It looks like a giant turtle with its reactive armor around
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Rye Field provided etched grilles for the forward engine louvres but not for the ones behind. Don´t know it this is correct or not?!
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Rear view - all components are just assembled with patafix just to show how it looks. It will later be disassebled for a better painting of the single components
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Finished the turret; the reactive armor differ at both sides at the the original kit. I had to saw off to reduce the height at the right side and add a flange bar to let both sides look identical.
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The bracket for the rear turret bar armor had to be modified as the rear turret of the Challenger 3 is not angled like the Challenger 2 Megatron
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Single link tracks is, to me, the most boring job at tank modelling. But with the provided jig it went really fast and clean
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I didn´t made a complete track for each side as you won´t see it anyway because of the side shields and the add on armor
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I have no idea if there is a remote weapon station planned for the Challenger 3 too or not. I have glued together the one within the kit to see how it looks. Will decide later if I use it or not
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Tank driver finished - the british national shoulder badge were made out of thin masking tape, paintet with blue, white and red oil colors and sealed with matt laquer
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The black glaze is still wet, thats why you still can see some glossy areas. Will be matte very soon
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Tank commander finished. The wires were made with PLUSMODEL 0,3 mm lead wire
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Loader finished - also here the black glaze is not completely cured and still shining. When dry everything will be clean matte
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Finally found time and interest to paint the vehicle in the standart british camouflage. The paints used here were from Alclad
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The paint sheme were copied from accessible pictures of the real Challenger 3
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dusted in and the driver already took place in his workstation. Sadly not much can be seen anymore of his uniform
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Sideview. I am not very satisfied with the dusting of the side reactive armor but somehow the pigments kept sticking and I was not able to remove them as I had planned.
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rear cage armor
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Top view; dusting was reduced here to a minimum
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zoomed picture of the driver
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Remote weapon station finished and fixed at the loaders position
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view from the loaders hatch
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The big lense was made out of a spare sheet of reflective periscope set from AFV-Club for the M1A2 Abrams
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frontal view of the finished vehicle. I made the distance poles for the driver out of wire and a blob of cristal clear painted in black and white
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a picture of the complete crew together
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The numbering at the turret´s rear cage armor was salvaged from an old Tamiya challenger decal set I believe
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I just switched the loader and commander as I think they fit better in the other´s station
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Finished the diorama base for my Challenger today
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