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Began with the anti slip application, after 2 hours straight this is the result so far. it's time consuming and labor intensive, hopefully the end result will pay off - it's malleable atm but past the paint stage i doubt i can reduce or increase anything...any comments wrt the scale of it is most welcome right now!

Cheers.

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Washes and chipping with oil paints, will begin with pigments.

Can't figure out the stance of the figure biggrin.gif he's probably a bit tall no? thinking of trimming him from his ankles...

Gun barrel isn't fixed yet.

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Thanks guys.

Hmm, I've got one of these in my for sale pile, but after seeing yours, I may reconsider.

Liquid cement and baking soda for the anti skid?

Great work.

-Jeff

Jeff yes, but instead of liquid cement i used hardware store cell. thinner (pretty much the same stuff probably anyway). i initially tried hairspray instead of cell. thinner - eventho it would be much less time consuming hairspray actually soften the carbonate where cellulose thinner didn't do much in that regard surprisingly. as for the kit it's a shake and bake tamiya kit! only issue i had was the towing cables which i substituted with copper fusing wire.

More progress with weathering and the figure, still not finished but i'm almost there.

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hi,

impressive work!

i like your way to do preshading.

The figure looks so real!

I agree. The face is really impressive.

Nicely done!

Mike

Thank you very much folks, this is my very first figure attempt in 1/35 , i guess years of gazing upon Shep's books and works had left a bit of an impression, apart from the beginners luck of course! laugh.gif

Time for another update, haven't done anything with the vehicle since last post but i built a simple base and it's almost done now, i'm going to add a bit of vegetation and sprinkle tiny rocks around per the reference shot then continue with the remaining weathering of the tank:

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Wow! Incredible work. Would you happen to have a scan of the instructions? I started mine about 6 months ago, and it all came to a halt when I lost them. It's my first armor build and I was thoroughly enjoying it. Seeing yours makes me want to resume.

Thanks

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Sebastian thank you very much for the kind words, unfortunately i do not recall the color that i used on this build, nor do i have the instr. manual at hand to do a scan. i'd urge you to continue your build because the kit itself is lovely and the subject is very interesting imho.

Regards,

Murad

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Murad,

I missed this one and only found it because I am thinking of picking up a Merkava for my collection. So this is rather very late but well done Sir :thumbsup:! The anti-slip is top notch and looks quite good to my eyes.

:cheers:

Don.

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