Hi There,

I'm fairly new to armour having only built a couple of kits. I'm mainly a figure model and decided to branch out a bit into armour and A/C. I have the Academy Merakava MK III and was looking for some pointers.

What is a good paint scheme for the kit? I know is its not 100% accurate but I do have an Eduard photo etch for it. Being a figure modeller I will be putting figures with it. I know this is general but I would welcome any advice.

Cheers

Ray

life colour do a good sini grey ? which is very accurate as most of the IDF tanks I've seen are one colour this would be your best bet welcome to armour fetish

whats that, a good out of the bottle match for israeli green?

where can i get it?

cheers

joe

The kit is indeed very inaccurate and I think the only available authentic color scheme for Merkavas is overall sand-grey. But as the kit is not accurate anyway, you may just build your model as "what if" project and use your imagination for a colorful camouflage!

For example I wonder how would Merkava look in standard 3-color NATO camouflage?...

Regards,
Pawel

Use it in the T2K campaign!!!!
T2K '04

whats the tamiya merkava like?

ive heard it represents the prototype, is that right?

cheers

joe

No, I think it represents early production Merkava I and is actually quite accurate.
Also Academy Merkava II is reasonably accurate.
Only their Merkava III is really inaccurate, as it was based on very early prototype and even this was not faithfully reproduced...

Rgds,
Pawel

Don't know about the paint scheme or accuracy problems, but you might want to watch out for the ball-and-chain things that go under the bustle. A lot of them are too long, and if you don't cut them, they can get caught on the tank body and prevent the turret from facing forward... this happened to me...

You might try Testors Model Master Acryl Israeli Armor Sand Gray, number 4814. Link to the color chart below. (PDF file)

HTH,

Shaun

http://www.testors.com/tes_cds/color_charts/4600_MM_(Acrylic).pdf

Joe,
lifecolour do a few IDF colours sinai grey and the yellowish one match is good also
transport models stock it in the Uk it's
acrylic paint as well and the tamiya kit builds up really nice for its age think it's oop at the mo got one in the loft if you fancy a swap