What was the best armor kit you have done.

Modeling Subjects Armor
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With all the problems of fit or the lack of detail or even yet wanting to upgrade but have yet to find the AM parts to do so.What would you say to being the best that you have done with correcting,painting and updating a armor kit.As for me I am pertty proud of the work I did on my Centurtion as you can see below.Digger

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With me, it seems which ever kit I did last. With each build, I put more into it (more research, more PE and unfortunately, more money). My current build is my most comprehensive- Tamiya’s King Tiger with replacement indie tracks, aluminum barrel, full PE set from Eduard plus it will be the centerpiece of my first diorama. Next build is the Tamiya Tiger with even more PE, fruili tracks. And after that it is off for some psychiatric help.

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For me it’d have to be the Skif BMP-3 you can see in my signature. That was a bear of a kit to finish! I spent two weeks just cleaning up the parts. The combination of terrible fit, half-molded parts, thick or missing details, and an instruction sheet that was a pack of lies turned this kit into the biggest challenge of my modelling life.
Meeting that challenge and turning it into a halfway decent model, along with the fact that it was the first model I’ve ever been commissioned to build for a magazine article (Armour Modelling) makes this the model I’m most proud of in my collection.

Digger, I’ve been meaning to tell you that your Centurion looks great! Can you post some more pix of it?
One small thing, though: one of your tracks is on backwards (the right track, according to reference pix)! Which is no biggie, as that can happen in real life, too![;)]

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Without a doubt, the Trumpeter T-34 kits in 1/16 scale.

Ron

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I don’t think you read Digger’s post, Ron![;)]
He’s asking for the one kit that you have personally put the most work into yourself to make it the best model YOU’VE created, not the best kit as it comes from the manufacturer.

Those T-34s sure are cool, though![:D]

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Hi, I have to agree with Poniatowski here. Trumpeter’s T-34 in 1/16 scale has to be the best model I have even worked on for the simple reason that being of such a big scale, and with so many accomplished modelers working on this kit and posting photos of their very fine work, that I have had the room to be able to try to re-create some of these innovations on my model. And even through they aren’t nearly as well done on mine as they are on theirs, it has given me the courage to continue and try to do even better the next time around.

Hopefully there will be a next time, as I would very much love to see some more of these 1/16 scale models produced in the near future.

Take care, Sgirty

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For me it would have to be the Dragon 1/35 Leopold. I get a warm fuzzy feeling everytime I look at it sitting on my desk…lots of challenges and complexity with it’s multi-media components, painting and weathering, directions that tried to deliberately trick you into doing crazy things, and just the sheer monstrosity of the whole thing insures it a special place in my modelling history.

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J-hulk,I have posted pics of the Centurion in the BirttishCommonwealth gb and on here under the title of Last Centurion.Digger

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For me it is Revell Germany’s 1/72 Panzerhaubitze 2000. Since I just picked upmodeling about a year ago I don’t have much to choose from. The reason that the PzH 2000 is my best model so far is that when I was almost finished ( I was still building models at the kitchen table) my wife drop the phone by accident on the model. Anyway, I fixed it as good as I could and it placed first place in a contest in its category. This tells me, even if you have bad luck with a kit it doesn’t mean it has to end up in the thrash can.

Joe

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Thanks, Digger!
I’ll check 'em out!

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I’m an OOB type of guy, so with that, my current project would be my favourite in that respect, as I’ve gone to some lengths to correct parts and details on my Modelcraft Centurion.