Hi to all,
this is my current project the M2 Bradley from Tamiya. I started with the interior and used the Eduard PE set. As I'm not experienced with PE I was very busy with all the small parts. Fortunately I got my new Hold & Fold Bug which was a great help. Next step will be the priming and painting of the interior.
comments are welcome
greetings robert

Looking good so far.

Ditto. Keep us posted on your progress!

Hi everyone,
I went on with the interior. First came priming with Tamiya dark grey followed by several layers XF-21(sky). Details were painted with Vallejo acrylics, I went on with the decals. Still everything isn't glued in place, don't know about weathering the inside.
Yeah I know I'm a very slow builder. The colours came out very bad, sorry my light is not the best for taking photographs inside.
Nice evening to all!
greetings robert

Looks great, I just got given this kit for christmas and am way outta my league as I mostly build WW2, so i'll be interested to follow this and see how you get on.
Any idea on the markings you'll be going for? I'm thinking of going for a Desert storm version.

James

Hello Robert,

Everything you've done so far looks outstandingly good!
Seems you are a natural with the PE parts! They all look great and glued perfectly in place!

The paint on the interior looks pretty good too. Are you going to open a hatch or something to be able to see the inside? If so I would weather the inside too. Remember if you are going to weather the inside you kneed to know in which terrain the tank was deployed. If it was driving in mud there should also be muddy foot prints inside, for example.

Anyway, everything looks very good, keep us posted on your work!

Greets,
Heli

Nice work so far... Any updates?

Good evening to all,
here is only a small update of my Bradley. It is still not completely finished, I'm not sure on how to paint the periscopes. I tried clear blue (enamel) over silver, but it's not convincing. Maybe someone has an idea foe me. Thanks for looking.
robert

Robert -

Looking good, thanks for sharing your photos of your build. Keep it up!

Cheers -
Tim

I don't know if I should compliment on your photography or your build skills.

Looking good so far. For the periscope, I paint them black first, then apply a couple coats of clear red, and lastly a couple coats of clear gloss. They come out looking pretty good and change color from different angles, just like the real thing. Another option is cutting out small pieces of mylar or plastic confetti, or pieces of film negative.

One other pointer, unless you want you Bradley to be in a training environment, the stripes on the stowed TOW tubes is incorrect. Tamiya took pics, and created their decals from one in training. The blue stripes are only for training rounds. Live TOW rounds have a brown stripe and a yellow stripe.

Hope that helps.

Hope this is of help...
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