Hello All and All hello. This is the first post I have to make here on this great site ...
A little back story of how and why I made this kit -
I was a little bit bummed out with working on gundams and most importantly, I was sick and tired of people letting their skills in modding their gundams get into their heads ( elitism and so no so forth) that I decided to get away from all those negativity and worked on this.
Well, more like re-worked on it cos I did this way back in my noobish days with pieces just slapped on and with some silly-full-of-brush-strokes-hand-painted camos and I have been dying to rework on it and now's the best time to do so.
Also, not to nit pick on my own kit, but I bloody well forgot to close the seams along the entire length of the bloody barrel ... darn it.. oh well....
This is a MBT (main battle tank) from the Italian army and the brand is Trumpeter and the scale is 1/35.
I used Tamiya paint for painting and shadings and MIG pigments and some artist pastels (chalk) to simulate the mud effect.
I have to say, for my first time every using pigments and putting in such weathering effects on AFV model, I did really good.
I would like to thank my two teachers whom I met on FB, Mr. Glenn Burford and Mr. Chris Bryan ( owner of http://www.modelmakerz.net/ ) for always answering my question regarding scale models and my good friend Miguel Escobar, who helped me with the feed back and Steve Woods ( again, a modeler I met on FB ) whose T-72 dio has helped me alot with this one.
So without further ado, I present to you , my master piece in scale modeling - Trumpeter 1/35 C1 Ariete MBT
I took quite a bit of photos showings exactly what I have done and how they look like -
Here is the link to the Muds and weathering I put on the wheels -
LINK - http://s1001.photobucket.com/albums/af133/hummingbird2012/C1%20Ariete/Ariete%20-%20Wheels/
And Here is the Link to the TOP views - to see the dust and shadings from top -
LINK - http://s1001.photobucket.com/albums/af133/hummingbird2012/C1%20Ariete/Ariete%20Top/
And here is the Link to the Close up views of the accessories of the tank -
LINK - http://s1001.photobucket.com/albums/af133/hummingbird2012/C1%20Ariete/Ariete%20-%20close%20ups/
I hope this beauty is to your liking. I haven't touched scale models for quite some times, it feels so thrilling to work on this and finish this with improved standards from 2 years ago..
Thank you all for reading. Stay Tuned for more.
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Trumpeter 1/35 C1 Ariete MBT
hummingbird
England - East Anglia, United Kingdom
Joined: March 06, 2012
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Posted: Monday, March 05, 2012 - 11:48 PM UTC
bison126
Correze, France
Joined: June 10, 2004
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Posted: Tuesday, March 06, 2012 - 01:41 AM UTC
Hi Gary
welcome on board !
You did a great job on this Ariete. I just wonder why you glued this strange oblique part on the left side of the turret slope.
As you can see on this picture from Ferrea Mole site, on the real one thete is nothing similar
Olivier
welcome on board !
You did a great job on this Ariete. I just wonder why you glued this strange oblique part on the left side of the turret slope.
As you can see on this picture from Ferrea Mole site, on the real one thete is nothing similar
Olivier
hummingbird
England - East Anglia, United Kingdom
Joined: March 06, 2012
KitMaker: 120 posts
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Joined: March 06, 2012
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Posted: Tuesday, March 06, 2012 - 03:24 AM UTC
Quoted Text
Hi Gary
welcome on board !
You did a great job on this Ariete. I just wonder why you glued this strange oblique part on the left side of the turret slope.
As you can see on this picture from Ferrea Mole site, on the real one thete is nothing similar
Olivier
I honestly have no idea Olivier ... it was in the KIT and the manual said put it on so i just put in on .. LOL ..
Thanks for the feed back
Il_Colonnello
Modena, Italy
Joined: March 08, 2012
KitMaker: 140 posts
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Joined: March 08, 2012
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Posted: Saturday, March 17, 2012 - 11:38 AM UTC
Hi Gary,
after looking at the many photos I have, and to the best of my direct knowledge, I confirm that Olivier wrote to you.
In fact, none of our Ariete owns this bar on the front of the armor plate.
Also, I do not even know where a particular like that should be mounted on the model (maybe it's just a support with spare bolts?).
Although I am an ex commander of tanks unit, I haven't still built any of the three models of Ariete that I bought, but sooner or later I will do (but only after I will finish my Leopard).
However, a very good job. Bravo!
Regards
after looking at the many photos I have, and to the best of my direct knowledge, I confirm that Olivier wrote to you.
In fact, none of our Ariete owns this bar on the front of the armor plate.
Also, I do not even know where a particular like that should be mounted on the model (maybe it's just a support with spare bolts?).
Although I am an ex commander of tanks unit, I haven't still built any of the three models of Ariete that I bought, but sooner or later I will do (but only after I will finish my Leopard).
However, a very good job. Bravo!
Regards