My Type 74 is all done. The in-progress of this is probably my most well-documented with over 150 images. Anyway, on to the pics!

http://fichtenfoo.com/02GiantRobots/02a-JGSDFType74.html

I'm going to give your masking off camo job a try on my Sturmtiger!

That is such a cool dio and thanks for the WIP. Not only is it one of my favorite armor subjects but your model looks just how I would have done mine!

Great job!


Jeff

Mike,

Very well done. The Type 74 looks great in the hull down position.

Have you considered putting a few small objects to fill in the open space near the tracks and ballast behind the figures...maybe a bottle or little bits of crumpled paper or some left over railway spikes?

It' s always nice to see something different from Panzers, Tigers and Shermans !!!
The type 74 is a beautiful tank and the model represent it very well. The realization is excellent and the small dio is amazing, realy well done. Did you use some some aftermarket part to improve the model or is it OOB ?

Fantastic job! I followed this from the begining, great documentation.

Thanks everyone! Glad you like it.




I did consider that. However I didn't want it to bee too "littered" and figured that it'd be clean. I live around lots of railways and most are pretty clear inbetween the tracks. Probably due to the trains "blowing" debris off. Although I did consider a penny on the tracks or maybe a soda can.




Mostly it's OOB, but with a lot of my own modifications. There's no AM parts for the Type 74 except for the ModelKasten tracks which I used to replace the rubber bands that came with it.




Thanks! I'm hoping it can serve as a tutorial for those that frequent my mostly Gundam forum to do weathering/building in this scale. There's a 1/35 line of Gundam support vehicles and parts (severed mecha arms and heads for dios) that just started and most of those guys haven't ever touched AFVs.

looks great . Thats a tank that you don't see much of.

Great job, that turned out really nice.

Your coverage of the build was awesome too btw !

Congrats !


Bill

Thanks guys!