Armour Workshop

Looking good, nice work.

Thanks, Tim!
Guys, something is wrong with this model...I work on it 2 hours each day, but it looks always the same !

Or, perhaps I'm too ansious to see it finished

Well, some advances:

Real plate, with the holes for the exhaust pipes and the nuts for the armored covers



The main gun, WIP


Turret parts, also WIP




The copper wires will be used to make the rods for... opening the hatches?



The actual rods:



Instrument panel painted and a MG ammo stowage, built out of styrene sheet



Radios, exploded ammo boxes and some ammo



Some details added in the rear part: a pipe with wires and the exhaust pipes elongated (I consider the provided parts are too short)



I removed another part of the firewall



A tentative layout of the blowed parts (turret and engine cover)
Perhaps the turret will be layed upside down, I still don't know



Hope you like it

Darío

Dario, I highly doubt there would be any live rounds left inside the tank after that kind of explosion. They would have all gone off. Also i think the engine and transmission areas are to nice for having just gone through an explosion powerful enough to blow off the rear plate and engine deck. The parts look very good how ever.

Roy

Hmmm, OK about the live ammo, that's the idea; I need someone tell me "yes" or "not".
About the engine and transmission...perhaps the rear plate was not blowed with the explosion, perhaps some curious soldiers opened it? Of course they had the right tool to remove all those bolts

Thanks for looking and comment

Darío

Looking good Darío. The engine area looks great.

I agree with Roy that the ammo would have gone up in the explosion.

Tim

Some little advances: I made the MG Magazine racks, out of styrene sheet



Racks in place



First paint chipping, with a light green





Then I added more paint chipping with a dark brown, followed by a dark green filter, a pinwash with black and another wash for the rainmarks, all using oils diluted in white spirit

I still don't know how the elements will be displayed





I'm waiting Luckymodel receive AFV Club tracks; the vinil tracks are horrible >:(

Darío

Still hanging in there Dario, the most loyal friend! Keep up the great work. Takes a lot of patience to scratch those MG holders!

Looking good Darío. Nice work.

The individual tracks will be a big improvement.

Thanks, guys, glad you like it.
I treated a little te AFV Club track set ( I buy the plastic ones), with a light coat of Tamiya XF-57, followed by a wash of acrylic artist paint and some paint diluted in White Spirit; a graphit 6B pencil was used to mark the parts where the roadwheels touch the tracks :



The tracks are not glued yet, the high contrast of different pigment colors will be smoothed once the tank is glued to the terrain:











Critics, suggestions, opinions are wellcomed

Darío