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Dominik Weitzer
awesome weathering!

Simon Nagorsnik
The whole thing looks so fantastic!
You have created an extraordinary centurion.
Great painting technics and details that bring the whole thing to life!

Ian Brandt
Thank you both

Mark Broughton
Great model, really like the way you have displayed it. Weathering is top notch.

Neuling
Greasy, oily, slimy, dirty, dusty, muddy, rusty. Can this be beautiful? Yes it can! And I like the many added details as well. Top notch!

Ian Brandt
Thanks

Rui S
Excellent work 👍

Stephen Lesley
Weathering perfection. As an Aussie I can well and truly appreciate this build.

Mr James
Neuling has nailed it... Beautiful work

hiveloc
Watching this- I will be tackling the slat armor on a T-62 myself some day!

Villiers de Vos
Very nice progress.

André Silva
Thank you @Villiers de Vos and @hiveloc. @hiveloc so that you know just today (like 5 minutes ago) I decided I will never assemble PE slat armor again in my life! It sure looks good but i'm never going through that again.

Villiers de Vos
You are a brave man, and you did it very well.

Bart Goesaert
looking great... ah slat-armor. a pain to assemle, but it is looking nice. Did you glue it with CA? Tried that too, but is is very delicate to handle afterwards. Found that soldering is more resilient... (Terminator Tundra | Album by Silenoz (1:72))

Once you get the hold of it is still time consuming..

André Silva
@Bart Goesaert I use VMS CA Flexy Glue (not sure if that's the name), of the regular and slow curing type and have no complains about it.
Yes even you get the hold of it it's still time consuming and dificult, just less so.

hiveloc
Thanks Andre and Bart for discussing the CA vs. soldering. This why I haven't started my T-62 yet- I was debating whether to proceed with CA, or take the time and brush up on my soldering. Both of you have done fantastic work using either method.

Jv
Your a patient man Andre
Looks amazing sofare
Thanks for all your likes to

Gary Curling
Lots of hard work going on there

Mark Sherwood
Detail M'Man a testament to your attention and skill.

Jonathon Herring
Very nice. Soldering is way better for adhesion. I have done both and the soldering holds up to my meat hooks much better. This is coming from a novice in "tinning" skills. Just my 2cents from the peanut gallery. 🤔 2 cents for peanuts? Cheaper than groceries and seems to be unaffected by inflation 😏 LOOPHOLE!

Michael Kohl
Interesting build.
I did a slat armour and got away with gluing. But next time I will try to solder. Particularly if you want to replicate damage the soldered parts behave much more natural.

André Silva
Thank you for your comments Mark, Jonathon and Michael. About soldering, you're right but since I dont intend on ever doing PE slat armour again i'll use glue on this one and fight the urge to touch the model after completion. I have a T-90MS and he has some plastic slat armour, i'll just try my best to sand and thin those parts.

Jonathon Herring
I haven't done slat armor but then again…. With my tenuous grasp a sanity, my Dr gave me a excusal note. That's a lot of work and I have long hair so.,,,. to easy to get a real handful before I pull🤪 Good luck Andre

André Silva
Jonathon, the slat armour on this model is very time consuming, I suggest you think about it before tackling one of this dimension. If you choose to proceed try making a jig beforehand like I did, it will save you a lot of hair pulling. Good luck Jon, this message will self-destruct in...

Mockingbird
Amazing work, seem to take a lot of time

André Silva
Thank you Mockingbird. It did but it shouldn´t have, I just wasn't very enthusiastic about it so I took it easy, no rush.

Bart Goesaert
Nice work on the anti-neutron layers... some tedious work. Doesn't that run along the whole of the cupolla? I don't know, and can't find many pictures of it, hence the question

André Silva
Thanks Bart. When you say the "whole of the cupolla" is it the whole turret roof or just some specific part of it? Do you mean the area between parts 1 to 4? Anyways, through all the references I could gather (there is none I found about the layers specifically, except that it was installed) this was the best I came up with.

André Silva
Update on the turret slat armour supports: It didn't go well. Most likely my "calculated" guesswork on the placement of parts was not good enough and in my frustration a further mistake was made, so it's kind of a botched job. I wasn't able to place the part that connects the turret supports to the slat armour itself in the same position as in my references, so they were never level but always in an angle. I measured, drilled the turret and CA glued the parts multiple times but they never ended up correct. Upon further and more careful inspection of the Voyager PE set instructions (vague on the placement of these parts) we see that the parts are actually at an angle, so it seems I wasn't going to be able to place them level. My suggestion to anyone who tries this set is before purchase send a daily email to Voyager asking for more detailed instructions on the placement of the turret parts. It was my intention to provide such detailed placement but only if they were correct, so I wouldn't advise anyone to follow my build to the letter. Anyways, despite being botched the build will continue.

hiveloc
I'm sorry to hear about the slat armor mishaps. It makes me a little nervous because I am going to be starting on mine this weekend! I've read the Voyager instructions MANY times- one confusing spot I see is that steps i and k have optional choices on some of the parts for the turret slat mounts- which layout did you go with?

John
Whether or not the slat armor works out, the armor slabs look very good. 👍

André Silva
Hello John, if you mean the numbered black parts they are an anti-neutron radiation lining, not armour. I figured if I was building the slat armour (never doing that again) might as well add that detail too.

John
Yes, I've heard it referred to as "anti-radiation armor" previously. Whatever it's called, it looks very good. I can see how that slat armor would be a once-in-a-lifetime job, seems like a mojo killing task for sure!

André Silva
Done! Finally!!!

gorby
WOW, fantastic!

Mark Sherwood
👍🥸👍

Villiers de Vos
Fantastic work.

Gary Curling
Outstanding build,well done.

Neuling
Interesting vehicle, very well done!

André Silva
Thank you everybody for your compliments. Hope all is well with everybody and your builds are going great.

Simon Nagorsnik
Great detail work, respect for the processing!
A really impressive work for 72'.
The whole dio is very nice to my taste🙂👍

Tom B.
That is one seriously cool project 👍 So many beautiful little details 🙂

Rui
Wow! Thanks for point me at this build. Very much interested in the Canadian stuff. I only experienced the Leopard C1, but my Iltis nearly got run over by a German Leo 2 back in the '90s. Your building the what-if I never had 👍

Patrick Hagelstein
Those Barracuda mats look awesome! I've been trying to find a solution for those for a Swedish Leopard, but I might try your approach as it looks really realistic. 👍

Moritz Fentzahn
Count me in Michael. Looks very convincing. And a great composition on the base 👍

Michael Kohl
Thanks folks for your interest and sorry for the (very 🙈) late reply. It is cool to have you folks around whose builds I like to follow. 🙂

@Rui: I read the canadians learned some bitter lessons with the Iltis in Afghanistan and discarded them rather quickly.

I hope with the figures done, this project will see some more progress.

Dean Harpster
Fantastic job! Thanks for showing your assembly methods. I'm just starting to do some armor kits and this is a wonderful tutorial. Amazing work in the small figures as well. What kind of brushes do you use?

Michael Kohl
Just regular sable brushes.

Mirko Römer
Hello Michael,
some cool stuff going on here, looks very well, indeed!

Peter de Bruin
Taking a ride! Really looking forward to see this develop 🙂

Villiers de Vos
Very nice.

Tom B.
Coming along very nicely! That slat armour is really impressive 👍

Erik Torp
Impressive work in 1/72 scale! I like it alot!

Christian W
Great job! I just find no words for that.

Michael Kohl
Hi mates. Sorry for the late reply. This build slid down - another time - the priority list a bit. But with two projects progressing nicely I should be able to commence it again soon.
Thanks for your warm words.

Finn
Still: looking great!

Michael Kohl
Thanks Finn for the heads up. Plan is to finish it for Moson in April.

Michael Kohl
Took this one out of the shelf for another time, sorted all the bits and pieces and restarted it again. Some detail painting commenced and loose tracks repaired. Damage by time and handling assessed and repaired. I gotta finish it this time.

Patrick Hagelstein
Good thing you dusted this one off as it is an interesting build. I am particularly interested in the way you tackle that Barracuda camo. Very inventive! 👍🏼

Łukasz Gliński
Very interesting, the mats look like the zimmerit of the XXI century 😉

Michael Kohl
Thanks Patrick and Lukasz.
I cannot take credit for the Barracuda-technique as I found a good tutorial for a camouflage net on the net. I just adapted the technique to scale 1:72 and played around with some materials. I still haven't made up my mind as which version it finally will be. The alu/alu version looks a bit too coarse but more 3 dimensional while the alu/paper version looks a bit too flat and dull. I will color and wash both for a test and then decide.

Michael Kohl
Had a good go yesterday and some progress was achieved. Cross fingers that the momentum lasts. 🙂

Michael Kohl
First two Barracuda mats done. Plenty more to go.

Jennifer Franklin
ohhh, definitely following 👀

Michael Kohl
Welcome to the show. 🙂
Steps by step I inch this eternal project forward.

Michael Kohl
Was breaking my head about the sequence of the chores left to do. When and how to add the slat armour. It will be very challenging to align all the pieces - no matter whether I start up front or from the rear. And when mounted the whole piece will be very, very, VERY fragile.

Jennifer Franklin
Progressing nicely

Christian W
@Michael ... the typical modellers life. Sometimes it sucks *lol*
I love the details you're working into the kit and the diorama. That is so good to watch.

Michael Kohl
Thanks folks for the cheer ups.
Yesterday I made a bigger step and put most of the Barracuda mats on the turret.

Łukasz Gliński
That umbrella makes me expect some towels, cocktails and sunscreen underneath 😄

Finn
Brave and really well done taking on the Barracudas! Impressive to say the least

Michael Kohl
@Łukasz:
😀 Haven't seen any such item on the pics available to me, but hey, nice idea. I should still have a folding chair somewhere. Maybe I add it. When I first saw the umbrella I knew I had to fashion one, as this is quite a special feature of this tank.
@Finn: Thanks mate. Was quite a piece of research, try and error and error and error to develop the technique. But now I am quite happy with it.

Michael Kohl
More details are constructed. MG mount and all antennas are ready for color. Turret slat armour is finally placed after a lot of try and error and dry fitting. Not yet glued as I want to recheck all alignments after a break.

Jennifer Franklin
It's looking really good. The antennas worked out well.

Michael Kohl
Thanks Jennifer. I could check off two more details off the to do list (decals and glass on the headlights).
Started to design, construct and build the supports for the slat atmour of the hull. Getting them all even poses quite a challenge for me. Some worked, other I will have to redo.

Michael Kohl
Bogged down in details. Finished more and more of the stuff the canadian Leos were crammed with. MiniWorld provided the beautiful FN240 and the gun support received some more details.
Actually, when delivered to the Canadians, the 2A6-Leos had german MG3 mounted. For whatever reason, the Canadians liked their FN240 better and - as the cupola ring of the 2A6 and the MEXAS are identical they swapped them guns.

Jennifer Franklin
Interesting, you learn a lot modeling

Michael Kohl
Indeed.
Some progress was achieved in a nice modelling session with a friend. The rear struts for the slat armour are mounted and so are the first ones at the sides. Hope to get this done this week. But before I can actually mount the armour, the Barracuda mats have to be placed.

Shar Dipree
Looks great so far. 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

Robert Podkoński
That's something unbelievable... You're a wizard, Michael!

Michael Kohl
Thanks Shar. So far I am happy how this develops and I hope the wave that carries me right now will continue to do so till the finish line.

Robert, don't say something like that. You make me blush. 😳😊
No wizardry involved. Fiddly yes, but nothing impossible. I am only willing to spend the extra effort on some of my builds.

Michael Kohl
Turret received almost all the final details and was weathered with some pigments. Antennas and umbrella found their place too but can be disassembled if necessary.

Michael Kohl
Second row of supports for the hull's slat armour is finally done. Thus all the slat armour is complete.

Michael Kohl
I call the tank done.

Patrick Hagelstein
👌🏼

Michael Papay
WOW... mehr kann man da nicht sagen. In dem Maßstab noch die Barracuda-Matten selber herstellen.... Top

gorby
That would be an exceptionally good result for 1/35. For 1/72 it's stunning!

Jennifer Franklin
Impressive

Michael Kohl
Thanks mates. It is nice to get such positive feedback.

Michael Kohl
Let's continue on the base...

Patrick Hagelstein
Whoah!!! Picture 150 had me thinking it was a reference picture of the real deal! 👌🏼

Michael Kohl
Hi Patrick. Yeah, I think it is the chocolate side of this build and I really like that shot too. Nice thought that it fooled you for a moment.
Happy sunday.

Dominik Weitzer
1:72....unbelivable. thats an impressiv model.

Michael Kohl
Hi Dominik,
quite a bit of heart and soul went into this build. To see that it elicits comments like yours is very rewarding. Thanks for that.

Michael Kohl
Trying to represent a bit of the atmosphere of such a forward base. Built a crude wooden box and bench. Tried Uschi van der Rosten's wood decals. They worked quite well. Not happy yet with the color of the sleeping pat. Will probably change that. Brush painting next.

Michael Kohl
The base itself needed some attention too. Fixing blemishes from time and handling, correcting overspray and overbrush, tweaking the groundwork and improving the color of it.
Now all that seems to be left are some pigments and the final fixation of all the gear. Today even? Maybe work permits it.

Michael Kohl
Calling it ready. Finally. After ten years.

Happy with the tank.
Happy with the left side of the base.
On the right side I didn't quite achieve the feel I was striving for, but I'm good.

Thanks girls and guys that you've been sticking around, for your encouragement and nice feedback. Much appreciated.

CaptGPF
All that detailed work…
…in 1/72 scale. Only one word comes to mind : masterpiece!

Patrick Hagelstein
Congratulations Michael! Very well done and a perfect closure for ten years of visioning what you built here.

Tom B.
Came out absolutely great! Well worth the effort put into it 👍

Jennifer Franklin
Brilliant work; I love the result—a ten-year gem.

Michael Kohl
Thanks a lot for the high praise. Very flattering and highly appreciated.

Simon Nagorsnik
God damn! Outstanding work on the Leo!!
The camo net looks so cool 😎
Of course, the base is also an excellent piece of work!
👏👏

1/72 Scale Rocks 🤘

Michael Kohl
Thanks Simon for your high praise. Much cherished.

Although considered finished I still tweaked around it a bit.

Łukasz Gliński
Exquisite finish, that's gonna be a gem of every modellers' meetup. Great to see the dog and the beach gear 😄

Michael Kohl
Thanks Łukasz. I received some nice feedback at our last club meeting already - together with some suggestions for further improvement (some advice I heeded too already and tweaked the project here and there).
The dog wanted to be on the vignette so badly. So who am I to decline that wish?! 🙂

Marius
Wow Michael, this turned out to be much more special than the initial display some months ago. I like that backpack inside wodden cabinet, the red box, the figure painting, the metallic planks and the mesh on the Leopard.

Nicolas M.
Excellent work , i appreciate !!!

Neuling
Everything just fine here! Modelling at its best.

Michael Kohl
Thanks Marius, Nicolas and Neuling for your nice comments.

Laurent VILLANUEVA HELLER ForEver
wonderful !

Bas Tonn
Good work on the base

Michael Kohl
Thanks Laurent and Bas!

Mr James
Modelling absolutely at its best...

Milos C
Hi Moritz,
how is the prise for shipping to the Czech rep.?
The model is no opened?

Thank you. Milos