This is a built model of 1/35 scale British Crusader Mk.II Africa in WWII. Model from Italeri kits.

Hi Jeff,

Nearly missed this one. All three of your desert tanks look brillient, great work indeed.

Excellent stuff, I hope my Grant is half as good.

Al

Lovely looking model. The weathering in particular looks very good. Not too battered but well used. I also think the tracks look very natural. Are they the kit tracks or aftermarket? I have one of these in the "to do" pile myself and this is an inspiration to get on to it.

Lovely build!

The caunter scheme looks great and the weathering is top notch.

A great build of an often overlooked tank, congratulations!

James

wow..again nice..love the weathering and painting style. thanks again.

Pure art ! G.

Nice finish, but a couple of things to note about this kit:

- There is a step in the front fenders of the kit that tshouldn't be there. It's a pretty easy fix.
- The devices on the back fenders are air cleaners and not exhaust mufflers, so the piping to them and the exposed parts of them shuold not be heavily rusted, rather they should be the normal exterior colours with no extra weathering.
- While that canon tube may have come in the kit, it is obscenely too large in diameter for a 2 pdr and really should be replaced, if you can.
- I think I can see sink marks in the middle of the headlights, which should be filled it they are there.

These may seem like nit picks, but it's a shame to see a nice finish let down when just a little more work could make the underlying build match the finish.

Paul

Great looking build Bob

Great weathering job

Nice weathering job - but every time I see the mantlet of Italeri's Mark II I just cringe, Verlinden's resin turret of 20 years ago was streets ahead.

David

Jeff -
Great looking Crusader. Amazing job all around, nice finish applied and weathering. Thanks for sharing your pictures. Cheers -

Tim

really nice work

there is a good weathering,

The builder did a great job. I see it and many other models you've posted are being sold by a Chinese based ebay seller. http://stores.ebay.com/ACE-loen

Jeff Li, did you build this kit? yes or no? You don't seem to mind receiving compliments on the model. Are you the company promoter? Please let us know. There's nothing wrong with built models being sold. But most contributors to this site post their own models or at least correctly say who the builder/painter is.

I have to agree with Roy's call for some honesty here (and in a few other places).

There are quite a few of these models being posted on at least two of the Kitmaker Network sites. They all seem to be from the same source, but the person (or persons) making the posts never actually claim credit for the build. They all start off with a statement like, "This is a built model of XYZ", with little, if any, information about the build itself. It's all rather vague, and maybe purposefully so. But I think some clarity is in order. If you're not the builder, at least have the decency to say so. If you're trying to promote and sell, then say so. If you are the builder, and just want to post pics of your models without sharing any other information, then say so. There is nothing wrong with posting photos, or trying to sell your built models. But there IS something wrong with making it look like someone else's hard work is your own. And frankly, there is something unsavory about using these community-based forums for stroking your own ego, or unabashedly pushing a product, if that's all you're doing.

Perhaps I'm just seeing conspiracy, but the two people (or is it only one person?) responsible for these posts (Jeff Li/ squall802 on Armorama and Yu Lin/ luftwaffelin on Aeroscale) both opened their accounts on the same day (ironically, Friday the 13th of June). A little more information from either of them would go a long way in alleviating suspicions that something disingenuous, and maybe a little dishonest, is going on here.

-YL

Great work and excellent effect!

Adam