WIP - Chieftain at Bovington
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Step 1 - wheels...
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And suspention.
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Working on hull - some nice details some not
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Like very bad rope
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Workin on base as well
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Proposed layout
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Smoke grenade launchers need some drilling
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Nice welds on turret (at least I hope that those are welds)
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No polycaps in my kit, so I had to glue gun mechanism
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Very bad and ugly mantlet with something that suppose to imitate machine gun
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I replaced it with needle
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Comparison of Voyager bright series lamp (on the left) vs kit's glass on the right
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Working on turret
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Comparing kits tracks with friuls
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Comparing kits tracks with friuls
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Comparing kits tracks with friuls
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One side ready
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Current launcher mounting
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Future mounting made of PE parts
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Smoke grenades launchers mounted
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Preshading stage
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Tracks painted with alclad Steel/Aluminium
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Rubber pads painted, then with gloss and at the end Mars Red wash
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First color
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With black
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Details painted
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Fit trial to the base
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Comments
1 29 March 2019, 20:05
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Looks 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
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Thank 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
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Looks 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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[img2]
17 April 2019, 20:59