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Current and Finished Projects => Physical Models => Land => Topic started by: Wulf on July 08, 2015, 06:35:51 AM

Title: IDF M60 Blazer
Post by: Wulf on July 08, 2015, 06:35:51 AM

current project is one of these.........

Israeli M60 with Blazer reactive armour

(http://i58.tinypic.com/ivzt4g.jpg)

the real deal

(http://i59.tinypic.com/2qwcwaw.jpg)

currently adding all the scabbed on armour

(http://i62.tinypic.com/ht652x.jpg)
(http://i58.tinypic.com/2dtpw5d.jpg)

Title: Re: IDF M60 Blazer
Post by: Old Wombat on July 08, 2015, 10:43:03 AM

You going to modify the commander figure to look like the guy in the photo? ;) ;D

Good start. Waiting for more. :)

Title: Re: IDF M60 Blazer
Post by: Wulf on July 08, 2015, 04:44:10 PM

Quote from: Old Wombat on July 08, 2015, 10:43:03 AM

You going to modify the commander figure to look like the guy in the photo? ;) ;D

Good start. Waiting for more. :)

lol, no......it came with 2 figures, one was dreadful and has been binned,......the other has been named Moshe and built as it should be since i dislike figures and have no intention of modifying him

Title: Re: IDF M60 Blazer
Post by: Volkodav on July 08, 2015, 07:20:14 PM

Looking forward to this as I love the look of the M-60 Blazer. 

Title: Re: IDF M60 Blazer
Post by: Wulf on July 10, 2015, 11:56:19 PM

its basically together, all the greeblies are attached, the bustle was an absolute pain!not as neat as i would have liked but its the best its going to be. it will get filled with cans and boxes and stuff anyway

next will be some paint, and im not sure what im going to do, need to go and do some more research....................or looking at pics of tanks on the net as swmbo calls it lol

(http://i59.tinypic.com/104p79x.jpg)
(http://i62.tinypic.com/2j51mcz.jpg)

Title: Re: IDF M60 Blazer
Post by: Volkodav on July 11, 2015, 12:43:41 AM

Really strange that you are building this now as just the other week I was showing No.1 son my incomplete M-60A1 and the Verlinden Blazer conversion kit I have had since the early 90s.

Title: Re: IDF M60 Blazer
Post by: jschmus on July 11, 2015, 02:35:24 AM

It's funny that I never noticed the broken English on Academy boxes before. 'Plentiful of machine gun and mount?' 'Include...wodden boxes?'  :-\

In any case, it looks good so far.

Title: Re: IDF M60 Blazer
Post by: Wulf on July 12, 2015, 06:11:01 AM

Quote from: jschmus on July 11, 2015, 02:35:24 AM

It's funny that I never noticed the broken English on Academy boxes before. 'Plentiful of machine gun and mount?' 'Include...wodden boxes?'  :-\

In any case, it looks good so far.

they are telling porkies about the 'realistic figure' too.......it came with 2....one was so bad it went in the bin, the other isnt the greatest either but i dont have anything in the stash that comes close to an IDF tankie commander lol

Title: Re: IDF M60 Blazer
Post by: Wulf on July 15, 2015, 04:19:49 AM

at this point...............paint is on, its a bit light cos it was all i had thats vaguely close and i hope once i get a brownish wash on it will look better...had a go at this preshading malarky, never got on with it in the past but since this is a light colour over all i thought id have another crack at it...its had a good coat of Kleer ready for the wash and the decals applied

currently doing the boring job of doing the road wheels

(http://i57.tinypic.com/10how36.jpg)
(http://i57.tinypic.com/25ezb6v.jpg)

Title: Re: IDF M60 Blazer
Post by: jschmus on July 15, 2015, 04:54:18 AM

Sans wheels it looks like some sort of spider tank.

Title: Re: IDF M60 Blazer
Post by: GTX_Admin on July 16, 2015, 02:13:35 AM

Coming along nicely.

Title: Re: IDF M60 Blazer
Post by: Claymore on July 19, 2015, 03:50:12 PM

Looking good   :)

Title: Re: IDF M60 Blazer
Post by: Wulf on July 25, 2015, 02:49:32 AM

so me and swmbo have had a few days away which has given the oil wash a chance to dry off although it dosnt seem that noticable in the pics, given it a coat of matt varnish to dull it all down too

planning on a pigment wash to mucky up the road wheels a bit

tracks next, which aint my favorite thing

(http://i57.tinypic.com/207xrhv.jpg)
(http://i61.tinypic.com/2zji0wn.jpg)

Title: Re: IDF M60 Blazer
Post by: Wulf on July 28, 2015, 01:19:43 AM

calling this done

it all suddenly came together

used one of those Tamiya weathering kits to add some black soot to the rear of the engine vents, could have done with a little more i think.....added some sand pigment to the tracks and road wheels to dirty them up a little

added bits and bobs to the bustle

knocked up a base with a sheet of polystyrene packaging, loads of pva then sprinkled with sand, didnt get the effect i was after so ended up paining with some cheapo poster paint....plan is to use this for the Panzer II as well

(http://i62.tinypic.com/2e5p54m.jpg)
(http://i58.tinypic.com/ettxsh.jpg)
(http://i59.tinypic.com/9qlmpe.jpg)
(http://i58.tinypic.com/754.jpg)
(http://i58.tinypic.com/euq3b7.jpg)

with Standardised Unit of Comparison

(http://i57.tinypic.com/15h0rgz.jpg)
(http://i62.tinypic.com/2nvgd5h.jpg)
(http://i60.tinypic.com/2hgr0yh.jpg)
(http://i62.tinypic.com/2m62829.jpg)
(http://i58.tinypic.com/ogbfb9.jpg)
(http://i62.tinypic.com/2n83hut.jpg)

Title: Re: IDF M60 Blazer
Post by: GTX_Admin on July 28, 2015, 02:23:18 AM

 :)

Title: Re: IDF M60 Blazer
Post by: Volkodav on July 28, 2015, 10:23:52 PM

Sweet, I'm impressed  ;)

Title: Re: IDF M60 Blazer
Post by: Old Wombat on August 05, 2015, 10:08:07 AM

Good one! :)