The box top shows a light OD green but the google pix show a light sand brown, ayone know if there is an out of the tin paint in maybe tamiya or humbrol enamels?
Interesting to see no rust on these tanks, just fade3d paint, no moisture in the desert i guess or they were recently painted
Model master makes an Isreali armor sand and Tamiya has Armor Sand in acrylic. Pick your poison lol.
Iâve found the color to look as though itâs a sand color with a grey tone to it. Pretty close to the color itâs already molded in as I can tell from your pictures.
Should be easy enough to find, or replicate with a sand color, with a touch of grey added to it. Might take some experimentation to get it right if you make your own mix, but the color is available without having to do so.
As for weathering an IDF tank like this, I wouls assume faded paint and dust would be the place to start? Do you guys also preshade areas like hatches and pannels like on planes??
I will have to go google ways to weather the tracks, I think this might be the hardest part of the build.
Yeah, your tank and the upper photo have the earlier VVSS running gear and the lower the later HVSS style.
You can certainly pre-shade. You might look up colour modulation too. Itâs where you paint shadowed areas with a darker shade and upper sunlite areas with a lighter.
Great work on the hull and turret. But the tracks shouldnât have any rust. If the vehicle is running, everything is a wearing surface, in an abrasive environment.
Start with a dark gray neutral base, add black on the outside for the rubber pads and highlight bright metal on the horns and raised surfaces on the inside.
Hi Bill, I totaaly agree with that. The pix is actually missleading as the true colour is more of a desert yellow/brown than the rust in the pix.
I tried to simulate the dirt/dust that gets stuck in the tracks that might be if driven over an early morning dew covered field, not quite heavy mud that gets flung onto the hull, just a light âstickyâ dirt - if that makes any sence.
She looks great to me Theuns. I assume youâll slather some of the same âdirtâ from the tracks over the running gear and the lower hull so it wonât appear as rusty tracks?
Yup, will do. I want the bottom of the tracks that are in contact with the ground to be more dirty with the âdew ground mudâ than on the inner surfaces of them as the âmudâ would only be a few mm thich and not really ride up and over the edges of the tracks. I will however dirty up the wheels and hull aswell.
Only real nitpick is maybe sprinkle some more of the sand material around the tracks so she looks embedded in it rather than driving on top of it. If the model is just sitting on the base and you havenât attached her yet just ignore me please!
And you might try rubbing some pencil graphite on a piece of paper and then rubbing your finger or a cotton swab over it and then rubbing it on the machine guns to give them a light metallic sheen.
Thanx lads, I have to say I dont mind lack of comment, I joined here to learn for the experts And learn ALLOT I have , still loads to go though LOL
I am trauling my local shops for more 1/72 armor, I would love to do 1/35 but funds at the moment will have to be managed carefully , besides 1/72 I can hide more of the mistakes LOL
The 1/72 Dragon Bradley IFV seems to be a nicely detailed kit, I might get that one âŚ
Looks good, some of the Trumpeter kits are pretty good, others not so good in this scale. The rear idler wheel is solid metal and should not have a rubber rim. The Trumpeter M4A1 kit was well received as it was much better than the Revell M4A1(76)W that came out in the mid 1990s. It was overshadowed by the plethora of highly accurate Dragon Shermans.
One of the issues I remember reading about this particular kit was that the hull sides were too sloped as opposed to being near verticle. Not too big of an issue, but it was something that was compared to the Esci M4A1 kit of the 1980s (now reissued by Italeri). That old Esci kit has been disparaged for over 30 years; many say the combination of the 75mm turret and large hatch, wet storage hull didnât exist. Others say it was an extremely rare version that only saw use as the duplex drive amphibious tank.
Donât be afraid of 1/72 scale armor. The quality of the kits has greatly improved over the old Matchbox and Airfix kits of yesteryear. Sites like http://www.onthewaymodels.com/ and http://www.172shermans.com/ have great information regarding small scale armor.
. by Theunis van Vuuren, on Flickr
I just had to drill out the hoist points.
. by Theunis van Vuuren, on Flickr
. by Theunis van Vuuren, on Flickr
