Back on Parade, Sir!
This is my entry for the Modern Armoured Subjects Campaign, the pics have been added to the campaign picture area too.
This is the Academy Warrior Iraq 2003. Built virtually OOB with some bits added, e.g scratch jump leads on front armour.
This is the model I dropped a week or so ago so there has been some frantic re-building and adding of scratch parts for the bits I couldn't find... (Carpet Monster got them) e.g. the lower left smoke discharger on the left hand side is actually made from a wooden meat skewer and some other bits and bobs were made from Plastisruct.
The optics are a layer of Tamiya Gloss Dark Blue, two large and two small dots of Tamiya Aluminium and a layer of Tamiya Gloss Clear Green. I'm very pleased with the resulting look.
For the Oil cans I printed the writing and the nearest green I could find using MS Word and my inkjet then simply cut it out and glued it round the drum and carefully airbrushed Nato Green to blend. After weathering the can the slight differences in paint and ink are not noticeable.
The dust cover on the Rarden Cannon is heatshrink tubing slid over the barrel and VERY carefully heat shrunk to size. The barrel is very easy to disort (or even melt) with too much heat. I then just stuck a small bit of fuse wire at the front as the tie cord. Again very pleased with the results.
After painting and weathering a very thin layer of Tamiya Buff was added as dust.
The STOP sign in English and Arabic was simply copied from a picture on the internet, scaled to size, printed on the inkjet and stuck to a flat piece of plastic card that I attached legs to.
This was a great kit but as Erik T has said in a previous post the turret basket is a pain in the neck to put together and I had a
wonderful time trying to get paint to stick to the tracks.However, I'm so chuffed with this Warrior that I'm going to have the cheek to enter it for the next MoM competition.
Any criticisms and comments welcome.
