Hobby Boss 1:35 Leopard 2A6M CAN

[wasdale32]

Initial Afghanistan deployment before installation of Barracuda thermal camouflage.

Built OOB with no issues with the basic kit but the bar armour could have been better engineered especially suggesting that square holes are drilled! At least the full size bar armour isn't always fitted perfectly.

First experience of painting with Mr Hobby aqueous colours which I found sprayed really well using their own thinners.

Weathering with home made mix of chalk pastels.

Mark

[scottie3158]

Initial Afghanistan deployment before installation of Barracuda thermal camouflage.

Built OOB with no issues with the basic kit but the bar armour could have been better engineered especially suggesting that square holes are drilled! At least the full size bar armour isn't always fitted perfectly.

First experience of painting with Mr Hobby aqueous colours which I found sprayed really well using their own thinners.

Weathering with home made mix of chalk pastels.

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That is a cracking result. If you find a square drill let me know lol.

[papa 695]

Fantastic work, looks very good indeed.

[Tim Marlow]

Looks excellent Mark.

[BattleshipBob]

Very nice Mark!!

[Guest]

If you find a square drill let me know lol.

OK:

[wasdale32]

OK:

The weird cam shaped bits are interesting - Unfortunately they don't come in 2mm or 3mm square!

[Tim Marlow]

There are Morticer bits as well….only go down to half inch though LOL….

https://www.machinemart.co.uk/p/13-mm-mortise-chisel/

[dalej2014]

Lovely build; turned out very nice indeed. Kudos.

[minitnkr]

Came out great Mark.

[PaulinKendal]

Been looking at your completed builds, they're all really impressive. I particularly like the way you photograph them, with that simple contrasting background. How do you set this up? it really focuses attention on the model itself.

[wasdale32]

Been looking at your completed builds, they're all really impressive. I particularly like the way you photograph them, with that simple contrasting background. How do you set this up? it really focuses attention on the model itself.

I use a folding light box similar to the one below - it is about a 60cm cube when assembled and has two adjustable brightness LED lighting strips - mine was from an Amazon seller. The camera is a DSLR on a tripod - I use aperture priority with a small aperture so the exposure is quite long henc the tripod. The kit came with several different backgrounds which can be arranged to curve so effectively you have an "infinite" backdrop. I find the blue or neutral grey ones are best for the armour models - the white one tends to under expose everything a bit and black can cause the camera to over expose a bit but its worth experimenting - I guess a winter camo vehicle would look good with a black backdrop.

[PaulinKendal]

Thanks for that - I think I need a lightbox!

[colin m]

A very nice finish, as mentioned above, great pictures as well.

[adt70hk]

Mark

Somehow missed this. That's turned out very well indeed.

A great effort and like the others have said great photos.

ATB.

Andrew