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THanks, guys. Here we go with the first coat of paint. Standard Tamiya OD, lightened with about 30% Dark Yellow. I’m painting this as a Jordanian tank during the 6 Day War. I figured that the US didn’t bother to paint them for the Jordanian’s so the color would be faded. I wanted a dark undertone wh...

Nice work, Milan.
Are you going to put a crew in it?

Looking good, Mark.

Steve Hutchinson wrote:Well saved Steve

Research is always useful, and never trust instructions

Looks good, time for OD?

Steve H

Thanks.

i decided to paint this as a Jordanian vehicle, so I'm going to give it a base coat of OD, then followed by some sort of Sand shade.

And here we are with the assembled tracks. Notice anything odd? http://i.imgur.com/Z8uzHkj.jpg THey're backwards. The cleats should be pointing forward. I followed the instructions and came up with this. I didn't realize it until about a week later. Then I spent a week trying to figure out a way to ...

Nice work, Olivier. Love the paint job.

Are those curved panels on the turret sides ERA blocks?

Mark Aldrich wrote:Looking real nice so far!

Thanks. I still have to work on the upper attachment points on the mantlet. You're idea of bending it worked great.

I took the plunge and assembled the tracks. I'm going to go the route, as some do, and assemble the entire tank and then paint. What the heck, it's just plastic. If it doesn't work out, I'll know better next time. So here is the finished right track. There are alignment pins on this jig to ensure so...

I''ve got to figure this image size problem. Those other pics were resized to 7-800 Kb and they're huge. THis image was further downsized to 260 Kb.


That's much better.

Here I am, stuck. The hull and suspension are done and I was looking at the next step - the tracks. Following the instructions, the tracks go on next. http://i.imgur.com/ZrdR672.jpg Using this jig to assemble them. http://i.imgur.com/kNZPpia.jpg Now, if I put the tracks on, how am I going to paint i...