_GOTOBOTTOM
Armor/AFV: Modern - USA
Modern Armor, AFVs, and Support vehicles.
Hosted by Darren Baker
M2A3 Bradley
freddietello
Visit this Community
Alicante, Spain / Espaņa
Joined: May 18, 2012
KitMaker: 199 posts
Armorama: 175 posts
Posted: Thursday, May 08, 2014 - 08:56 PM UTC
M2A3 Bradley

M2A3 Bradley

I just finished Meng's M2A3 Bradley, although I prefer the eighties Bradley with the MERDC scheme I took the opportunity to try a couple of things.







http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-DhrN9GGj1NM/U2x8OZP_tJI/AAAAAAAAOXY/-mA6U8TvJJY/s1600/IMG_3754.JPG



Cheers

Federico Collada
35th-scale
Visit this Community
Kildare, Ireland
Joined: November 21, 2007
KitMaker: 3,212 posts
Armorama: 2,807 posts
Posted: Thursday, May 08, 2014 - 11:29 PM UTC
Oh, lovely job. Took me a few minutes to figure out that first shot was not a reference picture.
Great build, great painting & weathering, nice job with photoshop or whatever!
jon_a_its
Visit this Community
England - East Midlands, United Kingdom
Joined: April 29, 2004
KitMaker: 1,336 posts
Armorama: 1,137 posts
Posted: Thursday, May 08, 2014 - 11:32 PM UTC
really nice work Federico, how did you do the periscopes, & what is with what looks like an ashtray(?) behind the Optics box in the preceding pic?
JUSTK
Visit this Community
Trinidad And Tobago
Joined: December 01, 2005
KitMaker: 91 posts
Armorama: 85 posts
Posted: Thursday, May 08, 2014 - 11:32 PM UTC
Hi Fredrico,
Greetings from Trinidad. Great job on your model. I have a request, with regards to your tracks. Can you tell me how you paint them step by step, I have approx. 7 vehicles (leopard 2, leclerc, ee-t2, type 85, t-62, 2 bulldozers) waiting on tracks, some vinyl and some plastic link. Thanks in advance.
HeavyArty
Visit this Community
Florida, United States
Joined: May 16, 2002
KitMaker: 17,694 posts
Armorama: 13,742 posts
Posted: Thursday, May 08, 2014 - 11:43 PM UTC
Very nice. It looks great. Did you build the interior on it, and if so, any pics of it?
jon_a_its
Visit this Community
England - East Midlands, United Kingdom
Joined: April 29, 2004
KitMaker: 1,336 posts
Armorama: 1,137 posts
Posted: Thursday, May 08, 2014 - 11:59 PM UTC

Quoted Text

really nice work Federico, how did you do the periscopes, & what is with what looks like an ashtray(?) behind the Optics box in the preceding pic?



EDIT: answered my own questions, and Ginos' by googling his name, thought it was familiar... FCM ModelTips
bill_c
Staff MemberCampaigns Administrator
MODEL SHIPWRIGHTS
Visit this Community
New Jersey, United States
Joined: January 09, 2008
KitMaker: 10,553 posts
Armorama: 8,109 posts
Posted: Friday, May 09, 2014 - 02:28 AM UTC
Very nice work. I traded for a Bradley and it's in my to-do stash (as opposed to the "someday" stash).
Crox77
#354
Visit this Community
England - West Midlands, United Kingdom
Joined: January 06, 2013
KitMaker: 184 posts
Armorama: 178 posts
Posted: Saturday, May 10, 2014 - 07:52 AM UTC
Excellent work, first pic looks so life like
freddietello
Visit this Community
Alicante, Spain / Espaņa
Joined: May 18, 2012
KitMaker: 199 posts
Armorama: 175 posts
Posted: Saturday, May 10, 2014 - 09:20 PM UTC
Hello guys

thank you very much for your kind words, though I´m not quite happy with the photoshop work, the illumination of the model is different form the one in the backgrouns and for a perfect melting they shoud have the same.
Anyway here are some mor epictures





Here you can see the effect of the metalized biscuits paper behind the transparent plastic periscope.


And this is the color I used as a base

Cheers

Federico
 _GOTOTOP