hi all
Today I have an M48A3(Ithink) this is the tamiya kit straight from the box,lots of bits and bobs from spares box on the tank,was painted with tamiya & humbrol paints, a coat of johnsons clear, washes and mig pigments.Was my frist go with the pigments.It is suposed to be a veitnam M48. Hope you like and look forward to hearing your coments
Darren







thanks for looking Darren

Darren,

looking real nice, too bad the colors dont come out as they should , the mud on the wheels look a little pink on a couple of your picts. but on one you can see the darker color. I dont know if its when you take the pict. or if its how it comes out when you post. Keep up the good work.

frank

Looks good, I like the weathering. A couple of real quick fixes I see that you could make are drilling out the .50 cal barrel and the exhaust pipe for the personnel heater (the pipe that is just to the right of the driver's hatch as he would be seated).

Nice job. You are modeling a vehicle from the 11th ACR. The guidon should be red and white.
NIce work.
DJ

Darren,

It looks good to me. I suspect that (as Frank also points out) the pictures don't do it justice - too much flash for one thing.

It may be difficult as the autumn and the dark nights set in, but try to use natural light if you can, and a plain (preferably blue) background.

Despite its age, I love this kit. I first built it in the early / mid '80s, and I recently picked up another one that's currently waiting in the stash, ready to have a 'better job' done on it than that first attempt of a quarter-century ago!

- Steve

Some good work here.
Couple things.
There are some nasty sink holes in the blacked out lights.
The stuff on the rear deck would fall off as soon as the tank started moving, especially the gerry can laing on the box.
I'd reduce the dustiness on some of the suff on the turret, e.g., the .50 cal ammo cans as they would be moved around more.
You still have a seam on the .50 cal.
I think the lens on the spot light faces inwards so its refection on the silver interior os sent outwards so the thing inside the casing should be black. .

Looks pretty good. In addition to what the others have said, you have the wrong ration boxes on it. You have a couple modern MRE boxes and a '80s-'90s MRE box. They chould be C ration boxes. All of the optics should be glossy too, they look like flat black.