1/35 Israeli Defence Force M60 A1 'Blazer'..

[PaulTRose]

No one want to let me know what the 'orange boxes' are then? Not to worry

sorry...only just got here  xD


you are right....they are smoke dischargers 

[spanner570]

Thanks Paul for answering my question.....


Thanks too to Monica and Joe for your encouraging posts.


Apart from some fettling, I've finished painting the tank, and I've added the decals. Still plenty to do.


I've given the tank it's final colour. Brush painted as usual, using Humbrol enamels and a good dollop of turps substitute!





I've hacked at the track pads as the mouldings were far too clean and smooth. Having seen the awful rough welding and general bad finish of a real M60, I'll never worry about cleaning seam lines properly on a tank ever again.............any tank! 





Next up I'll add the stowage, hawsers etc. finish / tidy any painting, weather the brute, then put it on a dio.


I hope you approve thus far and thanks for looking in.


Cheers,


Ron 


Edit - I've just noticed I didn't paint the top, small wheeled, track thingy guides O.o ....should 'ave gone to specsaver!!!!

[Snowman]

SWEET!! Great build! B|

[monica]

looking real nice,like how this is turning out so far,

[spanner570]

Thanks folks...good to have you still tagging along. I hope to wind it up soon.

[spanner570]

Hi folks,


Apart from some stowage etc., I've finished sticking plastic to this, so I've been adding a bit of detail painting and also started to weather to the model.


The two towing hawsers. Made from thick thread.





Sometimes I think folks get uptight about weathering models and then make it too complicated and difficult. That is of course up to the individual and I respect that. I prefer to keep the process simple (it needs to be!) I've done the weathering by just using a slurry of very thin Humbrol enamel, slightly darker than the main colour, letting it run where it wants. Then when nearly dry, I sprinkled the whole of the tank with polyfilla powder - and blew the excess off....seems to have worked for the dusty / streaky effect I was hoping for.


I don't much care for chipping, I think it tends to be way too much on some models. So later, I'll probably just do a bit of work with my trusty old pencil....... 





I've also started a fairly straight forward background for the model, using off cuts of polystyrene sheets. I am hoping to finish up with a bombed out section of a Syrian street, and then plonk the tank in front of the buildings.


I just stuck bits here and there as I went on my merry way. It's about 16" long. 


As I always do with my model buildings, I started with a 1/35 figure in a doorway to get the scale something like, and then worked out from that spot as ideas came along..


Here is the first session......


Roughly cut out and stone / blockwork scribed in.





Cheers all,


Ron

[Guest]

Sorry Ron I have just caught up with this and it is looking great love the nicks you have taken out of the pads nice touch.

[Guest]

This really is fantastic Ron, you've made an excellent job of it 

[spanner570]

Thanks Terry and Blair for your excellent posts.


These IDF tanks were loaded up with external clobber, so to make the model look summat like, I had to bite the bullet and buy Aftermarket stuff. Yes, me!!


I refuse on principle to spend at least half as much again as the kit cost, just to purchase a couple of rucsack and some bits and bobs which were the right era. 


I found these Tamiya thingies for £8, which will do me just fine.....No good for the purists, but near enough for the likes of me.(helmets excluded, mind!)





I'm up and running now, and able to finish the tank 100%


Cheers,


Ron.....

[monica]

real great work with the weathering on the tank,Ron,your why of doing it dose turn out a great resolute in the end,


some think I,have pickup from you and the why you do it , 9_9 like how your taken so nicks out of the tracks as well,


do real like your start to the building as well looking good,As I,will be paying a lot of attention to it as I will be doing one in the modern GB,next year,

[spanner570]

Thanks Monica, I'm glad you approve thus far.


Ron

[Ian M]

Been watching this from the start and I have to say you have done a great job all round. 
And we get a diorama as well. Nice!

[Snowman]

The tank looks the business, I'm drooling with anticipation for the dio...... :x

[spanner570]

Thanks chaps,


It'll only be a straight forward sort of backdrop for the tank. But it will be interesting, as I've not built / damaged this sort of construction before - the closest was that WW2 Kwajalein Atoll diorama I did a while ago.... 


Cheers,


Ron

[Guest]

The tank weathering is spot on, and the colour looks the business too, as for the dio, we all know how that's going to work out!!! Can't wait to see this finished. Am on my first dio as we speak, dipping my toes in gently with a Flak 36 in the desert. Have a lot to learn from folks like you Ron!