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Armor/AFV: Modern - USA
Modern Armor, AFVs, and Support vehicles.
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All U Can Eat 120MM
stef29
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New Jersey, United States
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Posted: Thursday, December 12, 2013 - 07:21 AM UTC
This is a build for the Fort Stewart Museum project being run by Bob Burik. This is vehicle A31 of Task Force 1-64 that participated in Thunder Run's I and II. Feedback always welcome.


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jwest21
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Pennsylvania, United States
Joined: October 16, 2006
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Posted: Thursday, December 12, 2013 - 08:10 AM UTC
Very nice job!!
Belt_Fed
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New Jersey, United States
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Posted: Thursday, December 12, 2013 - 08:41 AM UTC
I will get around to working on my Bradley for the project one of these days....
andromeda673
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Wisconsin, United States
Joined: July 30, 2013
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Posted: Thursday, December 12, 2013 - 01:47 PM UTC
looks good! nice work!
DaGreatQueeg
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Napier, New Zealand
Joined: August 01, 2005
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Posted: Friday, December 13, 2013 - 05:08 AM UTC
Very nice M1.

I'm struggling to get the right look on the US desert yellow at the moment (it's either too yellow, too cream or pinkish) so it's always good to see one with a well balanced finsh and great weathering .....

cheers
Brent




Cheers
Brent
BruceJ8365
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Kansas, United States
Joined: December 25, 2012
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Posted: Friday, December 13, 2013 - 05:18 AM UTC
Very awesome.

Incredible weathering and attention to detail.

I love the stowage - like the come-along strap and all the details.

Photographing w real light and shadows adds a new dimension that most of us don't get when taking pics of builds. I'm going to try that new photo shoot!
rfbaer
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Texas, United States
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Posted: Friday, December 13, 2013 - 07:09 AM UTC
Most excellent!
stef29
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New Jersey, United States
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Posted: Friday, December 13, 2013 - 07:43 AM UTC
Thanks for all the kind words! Brent, I used Model Master Sand, 33531 for the base coat. Weathering was done with AK's OIF weathering kit, and of course typical pigments and pastels.
stef29
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Posted: Friday, December 13, 2013 - 07:44 AM UTC
Bruce, using sunlight/shadow was recommended to me by someone here a while back as my pictures never looked right. it really works! Background is just a large sheet of poster board.
bat-213
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Posted: Saturday, December 14, 2013 - 01:01 PM UTC
very nice build,great paint job.
stef29
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New Jersey, United States
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Posted: Thursday, January 23, 2014 - 11:43 PM UTC
Finally 100% complete, the difference from the previous pics is the spent shells and links, fixed the color of the tow bar (should have been green - just looked tan because of the coating of dust), and added an m4 carbine (the vets were clear that they had all weapons going during the Thunder Run, some ran out of everything including 9mm side arms). So call this one done!

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wildbill426
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Connecticut, United States
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Posted: Friday, January 24, 2014 - 01:50 AM UTC
Really like it. The weathering looks very realistic; the back panels especially.
35th-scale
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Kildare, Ireland
Joined: November 21, 2007
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Posted: Friday, January 24, 2014 - 03:06 AM UTC
Nice, very nice!
Trisaw
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California, United States
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Posted: Friday, January 24, 2014 - 05:21 AM UTC
Great job! Nice attention to detail.
bat-213
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Canada
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Posted: Friday, January 24, 2014 - 11:36 AM UTC
I think you have done a great on that build,thanks for shareing.
stef29
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New Jersey, United States
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Posted: Friday, January 24, 2014 - 01:31 PM UTC
Thanks everyone, greatly appreciate the kind words!
milvehfan
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Posted: Friday, January 24, 2014 - 01:34 PM UTC
AWESOME.

mil
Kenaicop
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Joined: August 23, 2005
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Posted: Friday, January 24, 2014 - 08:31 PM UTC
Very nice, happy to see all the well built M1's on here lately
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