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
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.
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
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.
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
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
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.