You have put dimples in your Smoke Dischargers tops, I was going to suggest that, makes them look much better for some strange reason.

great work!!! But IMHO, you really need a resin gun mantlet cover for your baby

Indeed Matt, I had to at least try to do something about those

Dave, trust me I know...The thing is that I wanted to try different product and technique with this build. The resine mantlet was part of that initially! You know voyager model: Always showing waaaayyy more than what is really in the kits. The budget for this one is busted I`ve patched it, and I`ll asses the situation once the primer is on. If it sucks....God knows what I`ll do Thx for the good word.

here is the tracks...Mixed feeling about miniarm. One side was pure madness tought they were absolute crap and the other side went up in 10 minutes with no brakage...go figure.


tracks01 par asmodeuss, sur Flickr


tracks02 par asmodeuss, sur Flickr


tracks03 par asmodeuss, sur Flickr

Thanks for watching.
Phil.

Primer and preshade on!


primer02 par asmodeuss, sur Flickr


preshade01 par asmodeuss, sur Flickr


preshade02 par asmodeuss, sur Flickr

tracks are also primed and colored, next is lots of masking for the stripe camo.

Thx for watching.

Phil.

TRACKS!


track1 par asmodeuss, sur Flickr

Phil.

Thats a sweet Pre-shade job right there my friend and the track look nice as well! BRING ON THA CAMO!!!!!

Gary

Thanks Gary! I`m working on the masking...Hope it turn out good

Phil.

Laid down some base camo...not sure about masking for the hard edge...Should I?


camo01 par asmodeuss, sur Flickr


camo02 par asmodeuss, sur Flickr

Phil.

GOOD GREIF Phil!!! That is one BAD A$$ camo job right there brotha! Absolutely love the colors...you nailed it bro.

Gary

THANKSSS Bro! The second pass will spice it up a little, then details painting weathering and done!...It may take some time hehe

Phil.

Lower hull is ready for weathering, upper and turret this week-end.


lower01 par asmodeuss, sur Flickr

Phil.

Tres Belle Piece
Make me want to start mine as well

Hi Philippe,
it's nice to see it with a neat camouflage! I'm eager to look at the pictures with the weathering.

Olivier

Hey brotha,

T-72 looks sweet with the Tracks on. Lets see some weathermatizeing!

Gary

Hi Philippe,

this is a very nice T-72M1, indeed. I really like the camo. As far as I can see you decided to make a former East German vehicle.

I discovered a small error in your T-72M1 turret. The small round box of the smoke discharger (left turret side) is misplaced, position is too high.

Here is a link for the T-72 in Detail:
http://www.t-72.de/html/der_t-72_im_detail.html

the smoke discharger´s box:
http://www.t-72.de/html/turm_detail_3.html

the NVA T-72M1 three-tone camo:
http://www.track-link.com/forums/research_postww2/5103/flat

instructions for three-tone camo of the NVA troops:
http://www.google.de/imgres?q=nva+verzerrungsanstrich&um=1&hl=de&safe=active&sa=N&biw=1280&bih=879&tbm=isch&tbnid=yADOJu2pBwXtiM:&imgrefurl=http://www.panzerbaer.de/colours/a_relaunch/nva_verzerr.htm&docid=0NFeTsKHkMjd0M&imgurl=http://www.panzerbaer.de/colours/pics/nva_truck.jpg&w=295&h=161&ei=48gnUaO5G8bRtQb9loCoDg&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=323&vpy=563&dur=1608&hovh=128&hovw=236&tx=179&ty=45&sig=110903894183324981575&page=2&tbnh=128&tbnw=236&start=31&ndsp=39&ved=1t:429,i:267

When you translate the lower passage you will see that all hatches have to be painted within a darker colour or between two darker colors.

Vincent
Merci! Where are you from in Québec?

Olivier
Your kladivo was an inspiration to me. Thank you for the good words.

Gary
Brother! If I can get my head outta my ass I`ll get some serious paint job done this week-end.

Nenad
Thank you for the input I know there is some small errors all around this build, it is a schooling project...I`ve learned a lot of new technique and used some new product as well. I will use those links on the next build wich will have a correct turret and not this very controversial Tamiya turret

Thanks to all!
Phil.

It's looking very very nice Phil,

I like the way you have a solid block of white/grey on the end of your gun barrel, kinda creates an optical illusion, making the barrel look shorter, very much like the wavy white stripe/band that they used to put on Sherman Fireflys to try and hide the uber long barrel.

Thanks Matt

I must admit I went this way because of the firefly... But this morning I went and got some feild grey at the point...Not sure I`m keeping it tough

here is where I am at:


fueldrum03 par asmodeuss, sur Flickr


fueldrum02 par asmodeuss, sur Flickr


fueldrum01 par asmodeuss, sur Flickr

Thanks for watching

Phil.

Hey Phil,

She's a beautiful deadly beast my friend! IMHO, i think the gun barrel would look even better with the end tipped in the darkest shade of camo. Nothing wrong with it now. Just a thought.

Phil, votre réservoir est une mère douce F-er

Plus tard, mon frère,
Gary

Haha bro! thx.

Great job Phil!!

Hey Mauro! Long time no see. How is it going?
Thanks my friend, I`m just trying to keep up with you guys

Phil.

Pinwashes done.


pinwashes04 par asmodeuss, sur Flickr


pinwashes02 par asmodeuss, sur Flickr

Thanks for watching and comments.

Phil.

some weathering:


oil04 par asmodeuss, sur Flickr


oil03 par asmodeuss, sur Flickr


oil02 par asmodeuss, sur Flickr


oil01 par asmodeuss, sur Flickr

Soon: Ze chips!

first step of chippin


chip03 par asmodeuss, sur Flickr



chip04 par asmodeuss, sur Flickr


chip02 par asmodeuss, sur Flickr

Next step highlights on the chips to give depth

Thanks for watching.
Phil.