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Armor and AFVs of the IDF army from 1947-today.
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NegmaShot build
HermannWMLi
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Posted: Friday, October 05, 2012 - 11:18 PM UTC
Hi all,

Work has begun on a 20 years old stash, a NegmaShot conversion kit from AEF Design,



More pictures will follow as it progress,

Cheers,

Hermann
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Posted: Friday, October 05, 2012 - 11:57 PM UTC
Hi all,

Major component of the NegamaShot assembled over a vintage Tamiya Centurion hull,

as some of you out there might have the experience with AEF kits, the assembly process is already a major effort.

follow on will be a lot of modification and re-do's ,



Comments and suggestions are welcome,

Cheers,

Hermann
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Posted: Monday, October 08, 2012 - 12:10 AM UTC
Hi all,

A little update this time with the interior,

there are two layers of decking in the kit, this one is the bottom one with the crew bench and a little space for storage.


The other one is slightly above with radio and more storage, as can be seen here, the interior of the NagmaShot is quite crowed indeed.



Thank you for watching and comments are welcome,

Cheer,

Hermann
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Posted: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 - 05:09 PM UTC
Thanks Jamsim for the encouragement,

here's another update,

The Tamaiya tracks simply will not do in today's modeling standard, so I opt for the "Hush Puppy" track produced by AFV club. It only take a little alternation of the spockets to fit.

Here the tracks are painted and weathered, hope you like it,



Cheers,

Hermann
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Posted: Wednesday, October 17, 2012 - 07:11 PM UTC
Hi all,

More update, this is the time to re-work and re-fab the roof of the crew compartment.

The roof that came with the kit does not fit the compartment either because of shrinkage or warping I don't know, so I've to build a new one out of pla-card. Here's a comparision between the kit part and the new cut roof,




comments and suggestions are welcome as always,

Cheers,

Hermann
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Posted: Monday, October 22, 2012 - 05:10 PM UTC
Hi all,

While working on the re-fabication of the roof, the hull is done and weathered,

heres how it look for now,



Comments anyone ?

Cheers,

Hermann
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Posted: Sunday, November 11, 2012 - 02:57 PM UTC
Hello friend you can get some painting and weathering ideas form this project.
http://www.dishmodels.ru/gshow.htm?p=7034&lng=E

Edit: Here's some photos of the real unit to give ideas as well...




HermannWMLi
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Posted: Sunday, November 11, 2012 - 11:19 PM UTC
Thanks Captain for the wonderful pictures and the link, meantime I'm in the finishing stages of both the NagmaShot and the M151 TOW ATGW,
will post more pics soon,

Thanks,

Cheers,

Hermann
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