Ian M's 1/35 Tamiya Leopard 2 A6

[col68]

Looking good ian

[Guest]

Coming along nicely Ian, looking forward to the next update

[Ian M]

Cheers chaps, ended up painting the tracks and road wheels instead pictures tomorrow .

[monica]

looking good,Ian,
will look forward to next update,

[Ian M]

Well its eight below brass monkey weather here today, so I hid myself away in the cave with a pack smokes and a pot of coffee.

This is what happens when you over thin Vallejo model color. Pigment separation! Grr. This was due to being lazy. Just needed to stretch the paint enough to spray this sides reactive armour!
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So today I got stuck in to the camo. A process that is for me a bit like a cat chasing its own tail. I normally end up loading the tree colours into the airbrush at least five or six times, Moving shapes and eliminating overspray.
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The score today was only four! So I call that a success lol. It is not 100% true to life, Tamiya made sure of that as the different views of the scheme contradict eachother. The top view showing the colours one way, the side another and the front back something totally different!!! Still the kit was 'published' in 2006 (I think). So things like that are expected. Maybe if they had used three more different shades of grey in the plan, they might have seen the issue.
Why not White, grey and dark grey instead of grey, a tiny bit darker grey and just a bit more dark grey!!! lol
The new fangled colour diagrams are much easier to follow. ( though they can also be wrong!)
This will probably sit the weekend to cure fully and Monday I will get the decals down and weather it a little bit.

[Guest]

Oh the joys of painting armour with all its troublesome sticky-out bits! Looks good though Ian

[monica]

great job,Ian,real like the look of the camo pattern,very well done,so far,

[Guest]

Loving this build Ian, the camo is spot on bud. And the Leopard 2 turret & Stuart for size makes you think.

Have fun, John

[Ian M]

All done and dusted so to speak...
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THE END... get it? lol

More pictures in the completed armour section: http://www.scale-models.co.uk/thread...-gb2017.27652/

[papa 695]

Well I totally missed this build Ian