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Modern Armor campaign entry: Swedish S103B
Petition2God
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Colorado, United States
Joined: February 06, 2002
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Posted: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 06:07 AM UTC
Here is my entry to the Modern Armor Campaign. Swedish S103B tank by Trumpeter. It is of course still in progress... So much more to be done- lots of sim lines to be removed i.e. gun, tracks to be attached, headlights, etc. Will keep it updated...

1st, I replaced all the handles with copper wires


then using some extra mash I had for my Abrams and metal screen I got from a speaker cover of my old cell phone, I tried to create a grill that looks as real as possible:


Now just photos of general angles:





Thanks for looking!
P2G
jazza
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Singapore / 新加坡
Joined: August 03, 2005
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Posted: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 06:15 AM UTC
Ah yes i remember watching a documentary on this tank. I seem to recall some sort of brush guards on the front with the turret in between them since the turret cant be rotated. Or like other tanks, they have many different variations of it?

Nice looking grill by the way. I would make it less shiny like you did to the middle portion of it.

Really would like to see the finished product on this one as this is one kit you dont see very often....well i dont anyway.
Petition2God
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Posted: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 06:26 AM UTC

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Nice looking grill by the way. I would make it less shiny like you did to the middle portion of it.



O, it's the bad lighting and reflection from camera flash. It's not so shiny in the bottom photos.
dexter059
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Region de Valparaiso, Chile
Joined: July 28, 2005
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Posted: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 07:12 AM UTC
Excellent, alredy wanting to see it finished...

congrats
bison126
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Correze, France
Joined: June 10, 2004
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Posted: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 11:43 AM UTC
Nice kit. I love this tank, it's so much different from all others in its design.

Be careful with the tracks as they are a bit too long.? (I'm speaking of the B version, off topic for the C version).

The front "brush guard" was not a feature of this version Jazza. It appeared on the C and according to Swedish sources was rarely seen during exercises.

olivier
Plasticbattle
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Donegal, Ireland
Joined: May 14, 2002
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Posted: Wednesday, February 01, 2006 - 12:21 PM UTC
Looking good so far. Those little extras will all help.
Remember when adding decals to take away the first 2 numbers of the 6-number code. The B versions only had the last 4 displayed!
blackeast19
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Singapore / 新加坡
Joined: February 22, 2005
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Posted: Sunday, February 05, 2006 - 07:13 AM UTC
Hi,

Really looking good there! Looking forward to see the finishing touches!

Cheers!

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