Now down by the seaside! - Academy M-47 Patton. Republic of Korea Marine Corps - Completed

[Guest]

Super job Ron. Your grandkid will love it. The camo came out so well. Overall excellent work mate.

[grumpa]

Someone's needed to get up the bollocks to do a completely clean and factory fresh version of an AFV and of course it would be you Ron
Excellent work! I love it.............Jim

[james pithouse]

verey nice ron looks great thumbs up to ya

[Guest]

Well Ron, what can i say. It's a beauty matey.

Have fun, John

[Steve Brodie]

Thats 'Mint' like looking at a catalogue image

[yak face]

Eyup mucker tha's done a reyt paint job on thi tank! This must have taken some time and no small amount of skill , it looks brilliant ( although i must admit its making my eyes hurt!). I hope grandson likes it ( who wouldnt?) and im looking forward to seeing if it turns into a dio , cheers matey , tony

[spanner570]

Thanks everyone for all your great comments.

My grandson hasn't seen the model yet, but he has informed me he would like it mounted on a small diorama base, so that's what I've done.

I added a bit of weathering and exhaust blacking, then modelled the tank out of the shallows and running up through the scrub on the beach.

The base is scrap polystyrene. The sand is just that - sand! The scrub is stuff from my garden.

The silicone sea is a sort of flat 'suhshoosh' rather than a big scudumph!, with the water filling the tank tracks in the sand. I didn't want to hide the crazy colours on the tracks, so I've kept the sand off them.

Here's the pictures.....

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Flattened silicone, then worked with a nail.
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.......not such a wacky pattern as it looked!
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For the Grandson's shelf - I hope! I don't use picture frame surrounds for this kind of subject. Preferring to leave it sort of 'rustic'.
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Cheers all, and thanks for looking.

Ron

[Guest]

Beautifully done Ron. Top work here mate.

[Mr Bowcat]

That's epic, fantastic work!

[Gern]

'e's done it again! Another cracking little dio anyone would be proud of!

[Guest]

The looks the business Ron.

[col68]

Awesome as usual Ron well done mate

[Guest]

Very good stuff there Ron, the tank looks just right in that setting. Your water effects are always worth looking at.

[spanner570]

Thanks for the most excellent comments, everyone. I'm glad you like the final version. I think I'll keep it for myself and tell the Grandson the dog's had it!

I've just realised. I've forgotten to answer Colin's question as to what combat theatre this pattern of camo. was used.

Sorry, Colin I don't know. Our fellow modeller Colin (col68) wrote earlier, it is based on the U.S. Mid European Disruptive pattern. I suppose it could have been used for any projected amphibious landing on N. Korean beaches. Can't add anymore than that, sorry.......Over to the members perhaps?

Thanks again for all the posts.

Ron

[Guest]

Ron mate that is another cracker love the camo scheme and the finishing off by putting it on a simple ish base.