Here's my Meng primed and ready to be pre-shaded tomorrow. It's all out of the box. My plan is to model it after a tank from Delta Company 1st Tank Battalion that was deployed to Afghanistan in 2011. I will post more after the pre-shade stage.


IMG_1271 by jay g, on Flickr

IMG_1270 by jay g, on Flickr

IMG_1269 by jay g, on Flickr

IMG_1268 by jay g, on Flickr

IMG_1267 by jay g, on Flickr

IMG_1266 by jay g, on Flickr

IMG_1264 by jay g, on Flickr


The wires in the DUKE system will be (hopefully) will ran once I figure out were those cables run into the tank. Thanks for checking out my tank.

Looks realy good. I didn't know the exhaust extension was fitted to the tanks in Afghanistan.

Olivier

This is the M1A1 I'm trying to recreate.

abrams-abrams-the-u-s-the-tank-the-u-s-main-battle-tank by jay g, on Flickr

Thank you for sharing ths picture.
Looks like you're on the right way to depict it
Olivier

Heres an update. I didnt get to finish the preshade on the M1A1. My Neo Iwata started to sputter so took it apart to clean it out better. I clean it really good after every use. Just like your weapon if you take care of it, it will take care of you. Anyway, i dont know if i pissed of the modeling gods or what but as i was cleaning the airbrush and the nozzle broke off leaving the threaded piece in the airbrush. . So this weekend im going to take it in to an airbrush shop and have them remove the part of the nozzle in my airbrush and replace it with a new nozzle. Next time i use it I better make an offering to the modeling gods so that dont happen again.

I had that happen to me once. I stuck the needle in flipped 180 degrees (instead of the needle point going in first it was the back end that went in first) and I was able to unscrew the broken portion by twisting the needle. Might save you some cash in labor rates.