WIP - Chieftain at Bovington
Step 1 - wheels...
And suspention.
Working on hull - some nice details some not
Like very bad rope
Workin on base as well
Proposed layout
Smoke grenade launchers need some drilling
Nice welds on turret (at least I hope that those are welds)
No polycaps in my kit, so I had to glue gun mechanism
Very bad and ugly mantlet with something that suppose to imitate machine gun
I replaced it with needle
Comparison of Voyager bright series lamp (on the left) vs kit's glass on the right
Working on turret
Comparing kits tracks with friuls
Comparing kits tracks with friuls
Comparing kits tracks with friuls
One side ready
Current launcher mounting
Future mounting made of PE parts
Smoke grenades launchers mounted
Preshading stage
Tracks painted with alclad Steel/Aluminium
Rubber pads painted, then with gloss and at the end Mars Red wash
First color
With black
Details painted
Fit trial to the base
Commenti
1 29 March 2019, 20:05
Bart GoesaertLooks good so far... think there's still a mold seam visible on the turret, image 20, next to the smoke launcher (right)
17 April 2019, 15:50
Przemek PrzybulewskiThank Bart - and to be honest, I'm not sure what are seam lines and what are welds. Need to find some good reference photos to verify this.
17 April 2019, 20:24
Ingo FLooks like a mold seem. Here some pictures of the real one. Its an MK. 10 but they have the same armor package as far as i know:
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17 April 2019, 20:59
