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Armor/AFV: IDF [Israeli Defense Forces]
Armor and AFVs of the IDF army from 1947-today.
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Merkava Mk 2D & 3D
mazyen
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Singapore / 新加坡
Joined: June 21, 2007
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Posted: Thursday, April 23, 2020 - 01:53 AM UTC
Hi Members,
Here's are my recently completed 2 out of 3 Merkavas lockdown builds. Yet to finish up the Academy Mk4 LIC:-

IDF Merkavas by mazyen, on Flickr
The 2D
IDF Merkava Mk 2D by mazyen, on Flickr
Merkava Mk 2D by mazyen, on Flickr
Merkava Mk 2D by mazyen, on Flickr
Merkava Mk 2D by mazyen, on Flickr
& the 3D from Meng
Merkava Mk 3D by mazyen, on Flickr
Merkava Mk 3D by mazyen, on Flickr
Merkava Mk 3D by mazyen, on Flickr
Merkava Mk 3D by mazyen, on Flickr
Merkava Mk 3D by mazyen, on Flickr
Merkava Mk 3D by mazyen, on Flickr
Thanks for looking & comments are welcomed.
Cheers
Lee
Petition2God
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Colorado, United States
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Posted: Thursday, April 23, 2020 - 04:05 AM UTC
Thanks for sharing! They look good to me.
Are these all out-of-the box builds or did you use any AM products?
robw_uk
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Posted: Friday, April 24, 2020 - 10:10 AM UTC
nice set of builds... have been tempted by modern armour recently so may be a Merkava should head my way.
mazyen
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Posted: Saturday, April 25, 2020 - 06:59 AM UTC
Hi James,

Thanks for looking.

The Academy kit has a set of Legend's resin stowage set. The tow chains from my spare box & bits of details added. Antennas are from brass rods tie down with couple of strand of hairs

The Meng's 3D is box build. Only extras are the some chains, wine foil for the turret stowage unit sign boards & brass rod antennas.

Cheers
Lee
mazyen
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Posted: Saturday, April 25, 2020 - 07:02 AM UTC
Hi Robert,

If you have the patience for individual track links, go for the Meng's kit. The tracks are frustrating to build but the result is very good compared to the rubber band track by Academy.

Cheers
Lee
T-Jones
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Aceh, Indonesia
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Posted: Friday, May 08, 2020 - 05:36 PM UTC
Very nice build! May I know how do you bend and set the antenna on Merk. IID?
TopSmith
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Posted: Saturday, May 09, 2020 - 02:45 AM UTC
The color and weathering look really good. The idler sprocket seems to have an issue because the track seems to tilt inward where it goes around the sprocket.
mazyen
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Posted: Wednesday, May 13, 2020 - 01:01 AM UTC

Quoted Text

Very nice build! May I know how do you bend and set the antenna on Merk. IID?

It's brass rods. The tips are layers of superglue & base spring from thin craft wires. Tie downs are strands of hair, of which, 1 has gotten loose cause the base broke & has to be re-glued.
mazyen
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Posted: Wednesday, May 13, 2020 - 01:22 AM UTC

Quoted Text

The color and weathering look really good. The idler sprocket seems to have an issue because the track seems to tilt inward where it goes around the sprocket.


The idlers are loose in the first place & the camber of the tracks are actually caused by the rubber band tracks which somehow have deformed during the painting & weathering proces. Couldn't seems to get it back to shape & difficult to glue down the idlers as the hull & skirts are already fixed for good. A set of Meng's individual track links would be nice for the Academy's kits
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