Here's my take on this moldy oldie. I built this out of the box with AFV Club tracks.









I used Tamiya XF-74 for the Marine Green of that era.

G

Awesome Wayne. I like the overall color and texture. The figures add a lot to it too. Congrats

Nicely done. Your painting and weathering has that used but not abused look and feel to it that I believe that era would generally have.

Nice work G, I'd be tempted to throw some mud at the tracks if it were my build. How did you like building the kit?

Thanks All!

Jeremy it, like all the rest, will eventually, LOL!, have it's own small base. That's when I'll dust her up to tie it in with the terrain.

The kit was typical Tamiya easy peasy. I had to fill the motorization holes, and work the seam between the upper and lower hulls. The turret halves fit together like a hand in a glove. I briefly sanded the seam and then treated the turret and hull to a bit of texturing. I used liquid cement and an old short bristled brush.

I sculpted the mantlet cover from Apoxie Sculpt as there was no mantlet cover! The barrel was designed to raise and lower so the canvas was, ahem "not there".

Being a single color it was easy to paint and fade with an airbrush. I lightly drybrushed the turret and upper hull to bring out the cast texture.

The AFV Club tracks are a must IMO. Kind of fiddly to assemble, but you cannot beat articulated double pin tracks for realism.

G

nice job!the afv tracks are way fun...not like the friulmodel ones iam doing now

G: looking very nice. Congrats.

Happy Modelling, -zon