You´re welcome Gary, glad to be helpful

cheers

PS: I also love chilean armour :-)

Here is a posting of pictures of my offering. I took a Tamiya Leopard 2a5 kit swapped the gun tube out or a Barrel Depot a6 version. That has to be the biggest turret I've ever seen, and with that long tube, well this one is really long. The right front fender is the same color brown as the rest of the tank, I guess the lighting (sun?) affected the picture. In the standard NATO colors here. Nothin' fancy here for the "BADDEST TANK in the world.

Hey Steve,

I really like your build alot! The camo looks great.

Which airbrush nozzle did you use to paint the camo?

Another Leopard 2A6 here, although this time with a slight twist as it is the Dutch version of the Leopard. I used the Tamiya Leopard 2A6 kit(very easy to build0 with the Legends conversion set. Really all you need from this set is the radio housings and the smoke/grnade launchers. As usual the Legend "instructions" were vague, especially concerning the grenade launchers.

I painted the Leo with Tamiya Acrylics and the weathering was done with Mig Pigments and Raw Umber oil washes and the decals are from Echelon.....







...hope you like it, it was certainly a fun and mostly easy build.

Regards from the Swamp

Eth

Great work on the Leopard Ethelian! Like the subtle weathering and the camo work.

As always, dont forget to move the photos to the campaign folder on kitmaker where i will compile all the entries.

Cheers.

I still use my ancient Paasche with medium tips. I can paint a pretty mean hard camo with it as well as a superb feathered. A lot depends on how tight I turn the nozzle at the end, the thickness of the paint and how close I get. MOst camo jobs today are sprayed on, but in 35th it would only showas lightly feathered. This is the approach I generally go with . With ww@ freg=quently I'll gohard edge as a lotwere and ainted by crew.

I'm getting ready with my T-80. SKIF kit, and almost made me cry during assembly. The instructions are terrible, sometimes contradict the box-art (position and presence of tool-boxes on the turret), and also some reference photos (I have photos showing the UDK with MG).The details somethimes are soft (so is the plastic, and it's not pleasant to work with), and the sprue is thick where it joins the parts. Small details are missing (like the arm that moves the IR reflector, and the protecting fabric from the gun) -and I didn't have the strength/skill/will to build them.
So please don't judge the accuracy. The building went like this: deep breath, model dug from the darkest corner of the closet, work, sweat and blood, model goes back flying into the closet, two weeks pause and start all over again. I have to say, you have to be a very good modeller to make a less-than perfect kit into an astounding model. Everybody can build a Dragon kit. Even me. This experience taught me some humility.
Rant OFF.
OOB build, texturing added to turred with Surfacer 500. After preshade, the tank was painted with Russian Armor Green, then "misted" with different shades of greens. The underside was textured with Modern Masters Iron paint (iron particles suspended in a paint) and rusted -gives a nice, fine, "muddy-dusty" look and some brownish color under the paint.
The rest of the dirt was misted from airbrush (earth, red-brown, dark yellow, etc). I did some wash with dark brown (can't really be seen), some more green was misted on, and now I'm applying filters. (Brown, yellow, green, blue.)
The worst part is, that most of it can't be even seen, especially not on the photos...
I need some piece of wood to be attached under the hull, and a flat coat after the filters. I didn't realize in time that the side-skirts are actually made of rubber, some fuel spills, some scratches, and it's ready. (The ammo boxes are missing from the MG, as I could not figure out how to attach them. No instructions.)




I'll try to make better photos when it's done.

I picked up a T-34 last week, so I guess, I'll have a second entry as well. I would have loved to get an interior for it as well, but reality kicked in. The Hobby Boss T-34 is on the want list, anyway.
So far I finished decalling. This is the first time I used decal for a large area. Usually I just mask and paint stripes. It was surprising for me how well the decal adhered to the slightest little details with Solva Set+Sol. I guess, I'll use the decals for my Golden Cobra AH-1 after all.
I have no idea what colors should the bedsprings have.

I'd like to build it as an abandoned vehicle that got a bit of a Molotov-cocktail on the engine deck screen... but I have no idea how would that look like.

I am nearly done with a Tamiya T-55A. Seeing as various patterns of the T-55 are still in service all over the place, I'd like to submit it, but if it isn't eligible then I have several other options.

My submission to the campaign ---- ***NB*** As it is well known I *DO NOT *do "GUN "tanks ... .here ....is a variation on what has to be the greatest -oldest-most widely used -multi-configured tank ever

--------CENTURION ..Beach Armoured Recovery Vehicle--------

Scratchbuilt on a Tamiya chassi pics can be seen at
http://s50.photobucket.com/albums/f329/BARV/BARV-BUILD/?start=80

Concieved in 1943 as an infantry support vehicle (UK) and then go on to be used as a heavy up gunned 5.5"-25pounder gun platform (UK) and heavy artillery weapon(India) --a bridge layer (3 types)--a recovery vehicle ..in 4 forms .(UK_S Africa.).engineer's vehicle ----Infantry combat support (Israel)and still in 2000's be used...Must be up there as a unique and "Great" tank.
I hope that this captures the spirit of the campaign...as not all tanks were designed to carry "big guns"
aye
BARV
(GOSMG)

Here is my Revell1/72 Merkava Mk III.
IMHO one of the Greatest Tanks of all time.

Seeing some fantastic entries here guys!

Steve very nice BARV kit you got there. Your kit is probably the most unique one of the lot for this campaign.

Dont forget to move the photos to the campaign folder folks!

Here's a couple WIP shots of my T-55A. Eduard 34015 barrel, Lionroar LE35011 PE set. I ended up not using a lot of the fiddly bits in the PE set, and the fuel barrels were a cast-iron lady to put together!

Holy smokes those fuel cans look tough to build Worth the work though, that 'cast iron lady' surely has nice cans-even if she made ya work for 'em- wow!

And cripes those late model Merkavas and Leopards have mongo-huge turrets! Great work guys!

Hey guys, just realise that i do see alot of photos up on this thread but not in the campaign folder. It would be great if you could all move your completed photos to the campaign folder as i would be using this to tally up the submission once the campaign is over.

Roll call people! Sound off!

----me here .............................................glug -glug!!
aye
BARV
(GOSMG)

I'm here!

I decided to "cheat" for this campaign. I was planning on building a Tamiya or Trumpeter 1/35 M1 Abrams. However, just yesterday I acquired a 1/72 Revell M1A2 kit. It is a cool little kit with good detail. So, as I have very little time nowadays and lots of overtime at work, I will take the shorter route and build the 1/72 Revell kit. Hope this little "cheating" is acceptable.

As soon as I'm done with my Bucket for Bucket Bonanza I'll start my build.

I think I'm in too with an Italeri M1A2 I have sitting around, that will be 4 campaigns at once. I'm thinking oob in NATO cammo with only the smallest tweaks....

I am still working on my T-72 for this campaign. Its just been such a busy summer that I havn't even looked at my work bench in 2 months.

Getting the itch again though!

Jeff

My IDF M51 Super Sherman. About 99% finished, just some stuff for the rear stowage bin to finish...





Cheers,
Gary

Here's my Revell 1/72 Merk III

Great jobs on the IDF hardware guys!

Having seen so many super shermans, i must jump on that bandwagon too.

Dont forget to move these into the campaign folder folks!

hi guys, seeing lotsa fantastic work out there! I'm still constructing the s tank, progress is slow, but here are some pics of my progress





hope i can make the deadline...

Lim, your S tank is cool! That's the first one of those I've seen. How is it to build?

Gary