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
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Hello,
A few more days, then "Ready for take off"
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All looking beautifully grubby, Didi! Excellent work :smiley:
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Working tanks - Good! :smiley: :smiley:
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Hello friends, I'm glad if you like them. They are now finished.
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:smiley: 8) :smiley: 8) :smiley: 8) :smiley: 8)
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Great stuff, Didi! What an array :smiley:
I especially liked your detail of picnic coolers on top of the 'plain' C2 and the tank with mine rollers :D
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They all came out great! I thought the second picture was a reference shot of a 1:1 tank.
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photoshooting part 1:
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photoshooting part 2, dozer
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part 3, mine roller
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part 4, mine plough
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Part 5, my other canadian Armour:
Model from ca 2019:
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conversion based on the ESCI Piranhas, 30 years ago. The Husky is the Trumpeter kit
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"what if", Canada was once interested in this
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Part 5, my other canadian Armour:
Model from ca 2019:
Great to see your Canadian Leo 2s again. I especially love your Leopard 2 A6M CAN build complete with 'Roll Out' placards :-*
... conversion based on the ESCI Piranhas, 30 years ago. The Husky is the Trumpeter kit ...
I had no idea that you had modelled the AVGPs! And the 'prototypes' to boot ... too cool 8)
... "what if", Canada was once interested in this ...
Another blast-from-the-past! Perhaps that 'Marten' was a "what if" but also very much a 'should-have-been' :smiley:
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Hello friends,
and now with Aerials from Leopardclub/ leopardworkshop
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:smiley: 8)
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Hello friends,
and now with Aerials from Leopardclub/ leopardworkshop
Nice touch, Didi :smiley:
A minor note - skinny electrical tape wouldn't be the first choice for attaching the glow-stick water bottles. More commonly, 4-inch plastic tape was used. Tape colours were usually OD, grey, or blue (3M #471 - same colour as the bottle caps used to hold in the IR sticks).
1st attached image: Leo C2, Jason Bobrovich photo
2nd attached image: Leo 2A6M, tape colour may be silver?
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2nd attached image: Leo 2A6M, tape colour may be silver?
They MacGyver-ed it with duct tape! ;)
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If you were running out of duck tape you could rip it in half, giving the look of the smaller tape. It’s all about the story!
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Hello,
Thanks for the opinions. I didn't know the tape was important. I based myself on these in the publications:
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Now that I've seen this I remember the light stick in the water bottle attached to the antenna bit. I just don't remember what it was for.....
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Now that I've seen this I remember the light stick in the water bottle attached to the antenna bit. I just don't remember what it was for.....
Mainly, the antenna chem sticks were for IR vehicle identification (including from the air) without interfering too much with NV equipment. Using multiple bottles vertically allowed different colour codes to be displayed.
A side benefit was that, within columns and convoys, the movement of each vehicle could be tracked by others under poor light conditions.