You are doing a great job on this. It is nice to see a non-desert vehicle once and a while. I can't wait to see the weathering and the finished model.

Jeff

Thanks for the comments guys.




I painted the backs of the lenses w/ clear red, blue and orange then silver on the back of the clear colors.


Ronnie

Have you put this up for the summer Ronnie?


Still a beaut.

sgtreef two reef tanks not the other {reef}

Yeah it's stashed away from the kids. Don't want one of them pushing it on the floor going "vroom vroom"

Ronnie

Really nice work on this one, Ronnie.
I'm eager to see it weathered.

Olivier

It painted up real nice. Vroom, vroom. My wife is from Kauai. Aloha dude.

That turned out really nice. Did you use masking or did you make the camo scheme freehand?

Erik

@CaptainA aloha dude!

@Erik I did the camo freehand lotsa mistakes lol.

Ronnie

great job on the in progress...and the tracks too.

Completed. Thanks for looking.

Ronnie

Great looking Abrams. I am a big fan of that kit and now I am a fan of yours in particular too. Well done.

like how it turned out....i think its time for me to buy and build one of these beauties

color looks wonderful

cheers Alex

Hey Dude,really nice clean build I appreciate you breaking this kit down and putting it out there for us to see.I have this kit in my stash and it looks somewhat daunting.Could you break down the painting,did you paint the tracks on or off the tank,how about the upper and lower hull,painted before or after glueing,as a beginner could I trouble you for just a little more detail,it wiuld be very helpful.

thanks and again it's a great piece of art

Thanks for the comment guys.

@Anthony
The tracks were painted off the track. The upper and lower hull were already glued except for the fenders. I taped the fenders to the hull temporarily for painting. My mistake was gluing the upper and lower hull together before building the tracks, it made it difficult to position the track because of the tight space close to the upper hull. Review the instructions first. There's some holes that needs to be drilled on the turret before gluing the upper and lower parts together which appears late in the instructions. You might want to checkout this thread on planetarmor. There's alot of tips on building this kit. Specially where parts are numbered incorrectly.

Ronnie

thanks for the heads up guy.......i will check out those threads.


PS.....we just had visitors from Oahu last month