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Armor/AFV: Braille Scale
1/72 and 1/76 Scale Armor and AFVs.
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Challenger II w/Bar Armour - Dragon - 1/72
cetinsarf
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Ankara, Turkey / Türkçe
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Posted: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 - 11:47 AM UTC
My new project is a braille scale from Dragon ...



I can say that Dragon did a good job. Contents of the kit are like this which contains DS tracks, PE and slide mold technology:



Started with the wheels:

erhntly
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Posted: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 - 11:52 AM UTC
Hi Cetin.. I'm waiting for finish...
majjanelson
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Posted: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 - 03:59 PM UTC
These DML Challenger 2s looks pretty good. I'm looking forward to your build to see how it turns out.
SchoeniR6
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Posted: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 - 08:43 PM UTC
hi

nice projekt.
hope i can see a lot auf pictures during the buid.
waiting for finished model.

cheers daniel
cetinsarf
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Posted: Thursday, July 21, 2011 - 09:02 AM UTC
Thanks friends. There will be a lot of photos during th build, don't worry. =)
But I will be away for about two weeks for holiday. See you later...
cetinsarf
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Posted: Thursday, August 25, 2011 - 09:55 AM UTC
Before painting:



r2d2
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Posted: Thursday, August 25, 2011 - 11:37 AM UTC
Nice build!

Looking forward!

By the way a have done full conversion of this kit to the current TES 2008 and here is the build link:

https://armorama.kitmaker.net/forums/172376&page=1
Panther64
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Posted: Thursday, August 25, 2011 - 01:39 PM UTC
Nice start Cetin, I've got a few of these in my stash and they looked good in the box so I'm very interested in your build. If you've taken a look at Val's, you will be inspired!
SchoeniR6
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Posted: Thursday, August 25, 2011 - 10:48 PM UTC
Hey

Great model so far. Like modern tanks. Specially this one.
In the futur i hope i can build this one too. But there are so many projects.....
Looking forward to see the model in color.

Cheers Daniel
cetinsarf
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Posted: Friday, August 26, 2011 - 12:25 PM UTC
Val, I've just seen your outstanding job on chally2. I also like scrath work and your's is really inspiring as Kerry said. I wish I could see it much earlier. Now it is too late for the most of the work. I think mine will not be so accurate. But I will try to do my best on it. And if I got this one again on the bench some day I will follow your path. Thanks alot and congrats for the brilliant built.

Kerry, Daniel thank you for your messages. If you decide to do this kit be carefull about the instructions. It is not so clear and I think there's some accuracy problems.

See you on the next step...
cetinsarf
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Posted: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 - 02:06 PM UTC
I've finished the armor:



And then base coat:



SHarjacek
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Posted: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 - 02:53 PM UTC
Very nice!
SchoeniR6
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Posted: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 - 08:53 PM UTC
Hi

The Armor looks good.
Is it the pe set from the kit?

Cheers Daniel
cetinsarf
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Posted: Tuesday, August 30, 2011 - 08:59 PM UTC
Thank you Sven, and yes Daniel, that PE set is a part of the box... So this is an OOB project =)
cetinsarf
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Posted: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 - 12:49 PM UTC
I've painted some little parts and working on the tracks now:


PedroA
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Posted: Thursday, September 01, 2011 - 07:48 AM UTC
Excellent job with the PE. This is the part that I don't like to make.

Regards. Pedro.
Sudzonic
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Posted: Thursday, September 01, 2011 - 08:17 AM UTC
Very nice work mate, excellent work with the bar armour it is very delicate and easy to get wrong! Just one small thing the butt stock on all British GPMG's are black plastic not wooden like you have painted yours.

cetinsarf
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Posted: Thursday, September 01, 2011 - 12:18 PM UTC
Thank you friends. And Scott, I've checked the rereferances and noticed that you're wright . I'll fix it later. Thank you for the help .
cetinsarf
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Posted: Friday, September 02, 2011 - 03:50 AM UTC
Masking for camo with patafix and strech film:

erhntly
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Posted: Friday, September 02, 2011 - 07:21 AM UTC
Hi Çetin,
strech film and patafix good idea for camouflage..
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Posted: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 - 09:30 AM UTC
Hi!

Cool! Looking forward to seeing that camo finished !

Servus,

Sebastian
cetinsarf
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Posted: Tuesday, September 06, 2011 - 09:32 PM UTC
Camo finished and also the tracks, wheels and etc. It is now counting down for the end. But I'm having a break again for a little holiday for about a week.



cetinsarf
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Posted: Saturday, September 17, 2011 - 09:59 AM UTC
A simple base shows model more realistic:



Some more progress on the model:



Model with the base. I will take better fotos soon:

Korpse
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Posted: Saturday, September 17, 2011 - 11:47 AM UTC
Hi Cetin

I think you have achieved a very professional looking finish on the Challenger. And altogether have created a very eye catching piece on the base. In short it looks great !

cheers
Neil
cetinsarf
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Posted: Saturday, September 17, 2011 - 12:24 PM UTC
Thank you Neil. =)
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