I finished Academy's Desert Storm M551 Sheridan a week or so ago and finally got around to taking pictures. The kit is mostly OOB (correcting its many flaws, after all, would be a Herculean task), although I did use the Friul tracks and some extra stowage from Tamiya. This was my first time using Friul tracks and, although they are tedious to assemble, I think they work well to depict the original's sag. I painted the model with Vallejo Air and used Vallejo's acrylic washes. I weathered with a variety of AK and AMMO products and MIG pigments. In general, I used this kit as a test bed for new techniques. Let me know what you think.

















Sorry about my pictures--I'm a lousy photographer.

Really nice results! For me, there's just enough weathering and the sand/dust in the tracks looks convincing. Nice job!

Thanks, Jack!

awesome work!!

Nice work. The temptation is to really over do the weathering on this and you resisted and the result is a superb looking piece.

Looks great Lucas.

Thanks, guys! I tried to keep the weathering fairly restrained, although the pictures actually wash out some of what I did (I'm not very good at taking pictures).