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Armor/AFV: Braille Scale
1/72 and 1/76 Scale Armor and AFVs.
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Challenger II 1/72 - WIP
kit556
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Thailand / ไทย
Joined: August 28, 2008
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Posted: Sunday, February 28, 2010 - 07:19 AM UTC
Hi ,this is my next kit ,Challenger II , I postpone it for a long time to finished my 1/72 Bradley (https://armorama.kitmaker.net/forums/153198&page=1).

Thank you for very useful suggestions from Gino ,madmike ,Alexander ,Frenchy and many peoples here. I haven't use its for my last kit but I will try many suggestions such as camouflage and NATO colored scheme with this kit.

For this Challenger ,I use NATO green and NATO black.I added minimal of white to black to tone down it. After completed I found that NATO green is to bright so I over spray overall with thinned black for darken it.





For next step ,I'm not sure how to do. May be I will use brighter color for make a shading at all surface or may be I will try color modulation. The problem is I never use color modulation with camouflage tank ,is it possible or it's not possible I'm not sure. BTW I will try one and progress in next few days.

Thank you for attends my work ,any suggestion or comments are very appreciate :-)

(Apologize for strange wording and grammatic mistakes, English is not my native language)
kit556
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Posted: Saturday, March 06, 2010 - 04:22 AM UTC
After shading with lighter tone.





Color is still different from real tank (NATO green). I'm very confuse because this time I use NATO green tamiya color that should be same green tone as real tank but It's seem to be yellowish green. For next step I plan to do dot filter but I don't know which color should I use with green-black camouflage color scheme. Maybe I will use white or gray enamel for do this.

Thank you for visit my WIP and happy modeling :-)
sabredog
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Joined: July 22, 2007
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Posted: Saturday, March 06, 2010 - 01:04 PM UTC
Now that is shaping up nicely!

Looking forward to seeing more images as the build progresses.
Panther64
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North Carolina, United States
Joined: September 12, 2005
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Posted: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 - 11:23 AM UTC
Looking good so far Kritsada. It is definetly different in that it's a desert rigged Chally done up in "green". Cool!
kit556
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Posted: Tuesday, March 09, 2010 - 08:11 PM UTC
Hello , I have some progression now. This picture is after dot filter and dark wash. :-)


I have found problem when I apply dot filter ,as seen on below picture ,some white streak are appear ,this streak are still appear after flat clear coat. Another problem is uneven flat-gloss finish after I do a weathering with enamel color (Tamiya XF enamel). Prior to apply enamel weathering ,flat finish was very beautiful but after ,some surface still flat but some look gloss and between each flat and gloss I can see a line along it.



PS. - Apologize for my language and grammatic mistake.
PS. II - I try to compromise between historic accuracy ,funny and art in my work. I know accuracy is very important for amour modeling ,although this work far from accurate tank but its look more accurate than my previous kit and also I will try to do my next kit more accurate than this :-)
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