hey guys, heres my t-72 in pregress enjoy!

Beautiful aint she? my brother worked on this about 2 years ago with no experience and left it lying around so asked for it and got it lol.. the turrett has this huge gap that needs to be filled, the wheels are crooked and broken, the canon fell of, and the most obious.. the glue! no instructions nothing but bits and pieces of sprues with kit parts on them! its gonna be like reading chinesse!

Wish me luck!
Frank

I know he did it with his eyes closed right? :-) :-)
Good Luck with the restoration.

What the...???

Next time tell him to use the force!

Oh, adn good luck. Best thing in the world is to see a old model put to good use again.

lmao, i cant manage to get that glue out of hte corner i ended up stabign myself with a knife lol some primer, some paint, and a lot of mud will o the trick

Frank

You have your work cut out for you. Is that an ESCI kit??? The plastic is real funky.

I bought an ESCI kit once on E-Bay - It had been started by the seller and had that same discoloration. I built it as a knocked out Iraqi AFV and hid the blemishes under a coat of rust.

frank, uve read my mind abotu what i was gonna do lol... its pretty much impossible to build this thing well now, but il see, so far teh glue doesnt show with a coat of primer on!

Frank

Looks like a Trumpeter/Hobbycraft kit...

Wish you my very best to get something from this wreckage

As mentioned above, a battle damaged or traffic accident damaged tank appear to be the best you might get from it whatever your talents

Good luck, and keep on posting

looks to me like the start of a great diorama "when Iraqui met AMI"

Good luck Francois, looks as if you are gonna need it.

Two ideas. Portray the glue as sand piles. It is already in the cracks. Paint it in a desert scheme and you are in business.

The other is make it destroyed. Wheels be destroyed since they already are, cannon reglued at a bad angle or while large holes in it. You get the idea. Good luck

Jeff

jeff, ive managed to get the canon on, i sawed half an inche of barell of but i didnt realize the diameter of hte 2 pieces differe lol, so il be putting it.

the kit is made bymini hobbies never heard of them!?

as most of you said good luck, i respond: thanks, but il need a miracle or a talent donation from you guys :-)

Frank

This maybe a really stupid comment, but why are you wasting your time with this? I think your time would be better spent on a kit that hasn't been ruined!

OMG!!!boy do you have a mess there!good luck trying to salvage this one!!!!!!

Frank,

I thought that was some kind of sick joke at first! Good luck with doing something with that kit. It may be better to use that kit to test techniques on than to try to make into a nicely finished kit. ...Just a thought, and no insult meant to your brother. Good luck!

I think it an avatar for Trumpeter kits.

All I can say is, Good luck

Thanks for the encouragement john lol, jsut kidding. actualy your more or less right. il be trying some stuff out on it, but trying to get something thats not so bad to look at.

if i wanna get better i need a realy chalenge, and actualy its not much of a waste. so far it has a lot of chances to look like a decent destroyed afv!

Frank

The trick: plenty of putty and sanding!