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Armor/AFV: Modern Armor
Modern armor in general.
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Kampfpanzer Leopard circa 1968
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Joined: February 16, 2014
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Posted: Monday, February 29, 2016 - 10:55 AM UTC
Nice job!!

I remember back in 1980/81 seeing German tank crews adding mud camouflage with mops and brooms by simply slopping it on their Leopard 1A4s... It was pretty effective, especially when in a defensive position in a tree line.
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Posted: Sunday, March 13, 2016 - 01:20 PM UTC

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The Batch 1 vehicle (Y–253813?) at the beginning is very interesting. It has;

No turret ring protector on top of the front hull,
No rain channel on turret rear,
Early OVM tool layout,
Lifting lugs,
Searchlight cable in a odd place (early placement?)
reinforced turret hand holds,
and armoured shock absorbers.

I wonder if the amoured shock absorbers were added sometime during the Batch 1 production run or if they were just retrofitted.

This would make it much easier to build a Batch 1 vehicle from this kit.


There is a discussion above about Batch 1 on Feb 12. It is not as easy as you might think.

Leopard Workshop now has an improvement set for this kit: http://leopardclub.ca/workshop/LW033/
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