Hi,

Amazing work and detailing you've done on the construction. Even in primer, it looks magnificent. Looking forward to the painting and weathering stage.

Yixiang

Really great work!!!Congrats!
2nd best I've ever seen ever!!!And I've seen a lot as I am planning to build a merkava myself.

Happy you like it, thank you.


Guido

This is simply one gorgeous Merkava! I wish my modeling talent was such that I could turn a kit out like that! Yours makes mine look like something the cat dragged in! Talk about an inspirational build! I need to get anotehr Mekava and try again, that's for sure! Absolutely stunning!!!!

Thanks for the pics Guido
Now I do beleive that your Merkava is really nice and the anti-slip is great.
I hope to see it finish soon.
Cheers
Seb

Well Guido, what can you say. Your Merkava looks truly amazing and looking at it with paint on
I think the antislip looks just right based on the pics you showed us. The scratchbuilt stuff also looks very realistic. I´m a bit curious though what brand primer you used? As it looks like it gives a supersmooth surface.

I too can´t wait for the weathering as it always sets a model off!


Keep up the good work!

Emil

Thank you Emil. The primer is the well known Tamiya Grey.
Cheers.

Some other progresses.
I started with weathering steps. For the moment I'm working on the hull only.
I used Wash Brown oil colour from Mig range, to highlight all the lines and recesses.
This colour was used around all the rivets and nuts too.
I decided to avoid dry brushing on the antislip layer. So after the lining, I used the same colour plus Faded Gray to clear some points.
I also applied some dirty spots random on the hull.
On the next phases I'll use some clearer tones all around antislip zones.
That's all for the moment.



















Cheers.

Super weathering! This is gonna be a beauty!

Lars

Whoa that's some pretty precision work there... The parts seem delicate.

Hello:

Man, I'm really impressed with you r work. Your model is trurly AMAZING!!!!!!!!

I'm using your pics to inspire me for a Merkava IIID. In México the IPMS staf is planning to do a Special contest in IDF armos (your invited ) That's my Merkava is for. I sincererly hope that my model look at least a quarted good as yours .

I have a question for you: You scratchbuild the rear and the turret basquets, what do you do wiht the original resin ones? Will you interested in selling?

If the answer is "yes" I can give you my e-mail in order to make bussines

Keep in your great work.

Best regards.

Thank you, Dan.
For those parts, I'm sorry, but I prefer to keep them with me. Maybe one day they will be useful to me.
Thanks once again.

hi guido, wow very nice amazing..all the works and details you put in the merkava. thanks for sharing. ed

Thak you Ed.
Other pics. The hull is almost completed. I need just a few details, and I'll start with the turret.
I made an extensive use of oil colours (Shadow Brown and Wash Brown from Mig for filters and little washes) to reproduce dirty effects, above all oil stains and drippings. All was blended with various pigments in order to imitate these real effects







And this is mine. Hope you like it.






























I don't know if it's clearly visible, but for the first time I used for the tracks the Blacken'it solution and the result is in my opinion really impressive.
Cheers.

Super build model!

How did you get /make those ball-and-chain on the rear of the turretbasket and the linked plates of the rear baskets?

Thanks

Thank you Filip.
The ball-and-chains are inside the Baz' box. The building sistem from Legend is tricky enough. Each ball is provided with very little holes, you have to put a segment of brass rod in. This rod will be bended and linked to the chain.

The rear hull baskets, if I understood your question, are scratchbuild and those plates are PE from Aber range.
Cheers.


Guido

HI

Really nice job with good attention to detail. Are you going to put it on a base?

Tom

Hi Tom, thank you.
Actually I really have no idea about.
I don't know if to put it on a simple base, with its label obviously, or to make a little dio.
Any idea ??

Amazing work! Keep it going!

Lars

That is one of the best looking tanks i have seen. Have been thinking of getting the Legend kit also. What is your overall impression of the kit. Building ease, instuctions, errors, needing PE parts,etc. Again great looking build.Andy.

Thank you, Andy.
This is a stunning resin kit in my opinion. I can say a perfect moulding with a perfect resin: no holes or wrapped pieces in mine.
There are a few mistakes in the instuctions foil (see at PMMS review), so you need a bit of attention in some steps, but nothing you can easily resolve.
Obviosly being a resin kit, you have to be experienced with that material, but in the past I had more difficult models than this.
Yes, if you like you can improve it (as every model), but this depends on your skill level.
Surely a stunning kit.

Hmmm...I think this one is advancing to the 1st place in my Merkava models that I like.Really outstanding work with the paint job, and it goes to my list of bookmarks.I can't wait for the turret to be placed into position.
I like how you did the oil stains and I'm beginning to think that it would look nice on my M1A1.In comparison to the real Merkava the real Abrams is looking rather boring so I don't know about that.This merkava is one mean looking tank.

Guido - What a nice build! I am sure the pictures just don't do it justice.
I especially like the way you redid the rear collapsible baskets , nice touch!

Chris

Thank you mates. Tomapaul I saw a wonderful Merkava IIID by Adam O'Brian. Maybe are you speaking about that?

Great Merkava, Guido. I looks really good. Those Israelis really used massive sand as anti slip. Very interesting comparison between the Stryker and Merkava anti slip.

The anti slip might be a little overscale but will probably look more to scale under a couple of layers of paint.

Looking forward to see more