Beyond The Sprues
Current and Finished Projects => Physical Models => Land => Topic started by: Marderman on December 06, 2022, 06:49:13 PM
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I've been building Leo 1 again for a long time. The 2 on the left have been finished for a few years. In the summer I started with Dozer. It's finished now. The Mexas from Meng.
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Now comes the one with the "thermal cover". Base is Hobbyboss.
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Check on Meng Mexas:
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Nice collection of Mexas kits. The resin thermal cover looks good.
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The MEXAS is looking good. Nice collection of mine plows, too!
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they got the thermal rubber looking very rubbery :smiley:
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:smiley:
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nice pack of Leo's
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Hello,
The cover didn't fit so well on Hobbyboss front
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I could have saved myself the work with scratching and copy in resin in 2015.
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now ready:
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The 3 brothers are waiting
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/49678289718_33876927d2_b.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/2iFUdLw)
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Great looking collection!
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That's a very cool collection forming there, Didi! 8)
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Hello,
Mexas No 5 is also finished. I built on it during an model show
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I see a big paint shop session in your future, Didi! ;)
Great work all 'round! :smiley: 8)
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Nice suite of tanks. Really nice work with the mods on all those Leopards.
Co-incidentily, I have just finished an Aussie Leopard 1A4 build, but using more ancient tamiya offering.
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I see a big paint shop session in your future, Didi! ...
Indeed! Although its almost a shame to paint 'Mexas No 5'. With all that gleaming brass, it looks like jewelry :-*
With your new direction, you might be needing a different 'handle' Didi. Perhaps Leopard Lad :D
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Hello,
Finally started painting today.
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Wow! 😮
Lots of great work!
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Now in Tamiya XF 67
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:smiley:
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That's a lot of Canadian tanks .... Are you sure they have that many? ???
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Production line is still moving.. great work throughout this lot
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Lovely work as always, Didi :smiley:
That's a lot of Canadian tanks .... Are you sure they have that many? ???
;D
Reportedly, the Canadian Army still has 82 Leopard 2 MBTs - 112 if you're counting support vehicles. I'm not sure whether that includes the 4 2A6s donated to Ukraine.
The real question is: How many of those Canadian Leo 2s are in good nick ... or even running?
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All........those.......wheels........ :o
And that's not considering the tracks! I hope they are not all individual links! :icon_crap:
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Hello friends, hello Kerick
Only 2 get individual tracks. I bought these about 20 years ago. They're from HKCW. I broke it a bit. The other two get tracks from Italeri.
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Coming along splendidly. I confess I don't keep up with modern armor too much, but these are really interesting.
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More, more more work,
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Always appreciate your work on all things Leopard and Marder. So many interesting variations to share.
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Always appreciate your work on all things Leopard and Marder. So many interesting variations to share.
Same. Some excellent works are displayed here! :smiley:
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Follow me on this.
The Canadians sent the Mexas to Afghanistan in 2006.
https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/dnd-mdn/army/lineofsight/articleimages/2021/10/D12-11-10-4E-p5-25.pdf (https://www.canada.ca/content/dam/dnd-mdn/army/lineofsight/articleimages/2021/10/D12-11-10-4E-p5-25.pdf)
This story takes place in 2007, the infantry grunt narrator identifed the armor unit as 1) British and 2) equipped with Challengers but since the British didn't send Challengers to Afghanistan and the Mexas has the L7 (as mentioned in the story) I think we know who the real culprits were. ;)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o8OFJyutZg (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7o8OFJyutZg)
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Without going through it again (No, I don't like the Venga Boys, either) they seemed to go by the callsign "Leopard"/"Leopard 2", which may also be a bit of a hint as to what popped around the corner. ;)
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Without going through it again (No, I don't like the Venga Boys, either) they seemed to go by the callsign "Leopard"/"Leopard 2", which may also be a bit of a hint as to what popped around the corner. ;)
There is that, but I didn't want to be Captain Obvious again