Hello everybody,

For my first post on Armorama I wish to present you my last (and only 4st) tank build: the Belgian T-15 (Retrokit 1/72 scale).

Photo of the boxart:


The kit:


In red: all that I have to remove.
Green: additions/modifications
Yelow: ...an accident. The piece was broken during the build and replaced by the other one, but modified.












Ventilation of the engine: made with copper wire. First placed with PVC glue diluted with water; then glued with cyano.


New parts made from scratch or from the spare box. The little reinforcements were made with photoetch parts.






For the Belgian khaki, I used the following formula: Tamiya XF-49 (Kaki) 40% + XF-59 (Desert Yellow) 40% + XF-52 (Flat Earth) 10% + yellow 10%.

The tracks: base Gun Metal, then gun metal with rust and drybrush with Citadel Colors Mithril Silver.


Before the weathering... (Decals are home-made with a color laser printer)




After the weathering:

Varnished withKlir (10 parts) + flat base (Gunze) (1 part)

Diorama: preparation


The ground is made with Piedra Pomez + Vallejo US Dark Earth. Will follow: drybrush with different brown, green, yellow. Barbed wire are home-made with copper wire.

The final result:













The tank is lightly "dusted", with Klir + talc + US Field Drab.

Hope you'll like it. Any comment welcome.

Greetings from Wallonia,
Daniel

Very nice! I always wonder how anybody can pull out such a result in this tiny scale. And the scene idea got me too - simple, clean and kinda funny. Great job IMHO.

Thank you very much for your kind words, Galwitz!

The dio is very-very good. (And the tank is incredible.)

Lovely little diorama. The tank turned out very well. Especially considering its scale.

Thanks for sharing

Thank you, Andras & Jesper

Wonderful little piece. Where did you get the goose?

I am extremely impressed with what you have achieved... without knowing this was braille-scale, I won't have guessed looking at the results... well done. The addition of the ATG (anti-tank goose) is a stroke of genius IMHO.

The whole composition is great. When someone says "simple" it's actually a complement. I have enjoyed looking at this little gem more than most of the elaborate setups with thousands of extra panzerfausts, equipments, and such.
(And I keep wondering if the goose wins or not. The odds are not clear-cut...)

Thanks all for your kind comments.

The goose came from a set of farm animals made by NOCH (1/87th scale). This set was bought for me by a friend in a German shop.

I like the term "ATG" very much! So I will name my dio...

Andras, the simplicity of the scene was voluntarily made to increase the dramatic effect of the "struggle" between the goose and the T15...

Who wins? Well... If the scene depicts a T15 during maneuvers in 1939, you can imagine that the orders are: "no collateral damage!!!" So, the tank stops to avoid to make the goose a "colateral victim"... No move til the goose go his way...
So, the goose wins!