I didn´t knew that. I shall remove them immediatly.

Lars

Thats why we are all here, to help one an other.

I have damaged the wheels today. If anayone wants pics. Just ask.

Lars

And another update:


That's 1, you have 18 of them.


Another MRE


A bag. I don't know how its exact name is.


A spare wheel.


A helmet.


2 Bags. (In dutch they are called: plunjebaal of plunjezak and in english?)


Some ammo boxes.

I removed the training parts. I've repainted the sparetrack, because the black was to dark and I have put away some stowage. But if it's not to much they will be on.

Lars

I have a a experimental pose for the stowage. I will place some pics tomorrow.

Lars

Looking good lars

I have never though to damage the road wheels but very good idea.

#3 is a dust cover for molle gear i believe

#6 are duffle bags

Lars, the first bag is an ALICE rucksack covered with a DCU pattern cover. ALICE is a type of common design for various equipment - ALICE is old, and was used circa Vietnam until recently, and most of the regular army is now using MOLLE, though it is common to see ALICE in the National Guard and training. Rucksacks like those are generally OD green in color (ie they stand out in the desert) so sometimes you'd see desert colored covers such as yours (btw, nice painting). The other 2 backs are A-bags also called barracks bags.
In essence they are just large general purpose duffel bags.

Jeff

Ok. I'm not that good in such words and especially in english. Maybe i'm gonna make a database in word.

I have made 5 pics but 3 of them wouldn't upload, even after 3 times.





So you can't see everything.

Lars

Lars,
Great work on the dio so far, I'm working on one myself too, just look for "OIF Dio WIP".
Nice to see more young modellers on big A, well hey from one of them! One thing I would add are tie-downs for the MRE boxes.
Cheers!

You mean a roap?

Lars

The thank itself is finished. It wasn't much parts. Only the wheels, side skirts and tracks need to come on.









Lars

Very nice work, Lars. You may want to move the razor wire coil to the rear of the tank. Most Abrams in OIF carry razor wire hanging off of the back on either side of the engine exhaust.

Yup, something along the lines of that.

Marek

Lars
Nice work for a 13 years old kid, realy impressed
Concerning the stowage and every think related to the M1
just check the thread from Matt Sinclair here if you are running low on idea.

BTW welcome to the big A,

if i can comment one thing on the dio just rotate the overall scene with 45 degree you will see that in general roads and walls should not be parallel to the edges of the dio

cheers and Gefelicitered Jongen

gr
Seb

I have almost completed the wheels and i have build the side skirts.

Lucas C. I allready thaught something like that. I'm gonna change the stowage. I now think it doesn't look so right.

Marek Klik. Sorry, I ment a rope.

Sebastien Vale. Thanks. I'm gonna change the stowage. And I can't change the dio anymore. Or else I have to make a complete new one.

Lars

Your stowage is coming along nicely. The spare track looks a little bright at this point. Perhaps you planned on toning it down later with weathering?

I know, I'm gonna weather much parts, like the barbed wire to.

Lars

Looking good. Great work

Those 2 things are cots folded up! Being a grunt we rarely had them but tankers always had some on their turrets. A Bradley radiator isn't as nice as a cot but that's life. The cloth is likely a tarp, believe it or not tarps would be covering turrets to keep out rain while in the motor pool (leaky hatches). It would be carried on tank in the field or combat too.

I took another look, the cloth is a poly pad (sleeping mat). That tarp is in another picture. The poly pad would often be stowed by sliding it around the antennae so you could place it that way-yes standing up with the antennae running through it.

Ty guys. That from the foam sleeping mat is allready told, but still thanks.

I have painted it now in green and it gets the other 2 colours this week.

The colors are a darker on the pics.





Lars

Hi Lars,

Excellent work, well done, this is lookin good.

Al

Thanks.

Lars

Could someone give me the complete woodland camo scheme of the abrams?

Lars

Nice work there... Impressive for a 13 year old, i recall i was screwing up my 1/48 apache when i was 13.