Here a few pics of my Ardennes KT. This the Tamiya kit built OOB except for the piece of copper wire for the headlight wiring conduit.
I need to find a good way to hold the skirts on temporarily for painting so they can be removed to put the tracks on after painting.
I also need to pin those tracks down, of course Fruil tracks would have solved both problems.
Thats looks aswome Claymore!!! I built that kit a while ago and I suggest you take off the treads and tools and put on the side skirts to paint. Nice job!
Coming along Great! I use rubber cement as a contact cement (put on both pieces, let dry, stick together) when I want something to be mated temporarily. When I’m done, it just rubs off.
Ron
Very nice and clean build Derek. Thanx for showing us.
Keep well.
Looks great so far, can’t wait to see the finished product.
Lookin’ great, Derek. Thanks for show us. And thanks, Ron, for the rubber cement tip. What a great idea!
Looking good, Derek! How are you going to paint the hard-edged camo pattern on? With a brush? Or masking and airbrushing?
Ron: Thanks for the tip, I have some DAP contact cement but it stick really good, geuss I better test it first huh!
Larry Brush, I’m just gonna do the scene as shown on the box with the motorcycle messenger.
Nice look sofar. how about some pix when is finished[tup]
Derek, Contact cement does not act like rubber cement, eventhough application is similar. If you use contact cement, the parts will probably be “contacted” for good!
Derek,
looking good!
you have been busy.
Ron - great tip! i wish i had asked when i was doing my Panther.
i tried a bunch of things and then ended up using micro quantities of CA.
then i ‘popped’ them off after the paint was dry.
worked ok, but a bit scary.
She’s looking good even at this stage. Should come out really great.
Show us pics when completed.
Looks good, how did you like the Kit? I keep seeing it on Ebay, but haven’t picked it up yet. (mainly because I need to finish 50 others first)
Go with an ambush scheme Derek.
Built mine once-you may have seen it as the crazy striped winter camo one in march…I just made it so that the whole upper hull comes off on demand-never glued it on, and the it can all separate into three pieces for painting or working on tracks…
Great looking K-tiger, Derek
It’s gonna look awesome with some paint on…
Regards, Dan
Derek, looks great!!!
TY all. Will get pics up when done!
This kit gets [tup][tup] from me, little to no flash and the engineering is top notch. Went together like a dream. An absolute joy to build, there are more of these on the horizon for me!
Yep I remember. Wish I’d of thought of that! Oh well, next time.
Looking good
i use little drops of Super glue for the Side skirts, it holds them one nice and can come of too
Nice job , Claymore ! [tup]
Glad it worked well for you. The bigger tanks - you definetly feel like you get your money’s worth - lotta plastic
Keep us posted when you paint