Meng 1/35 Leopard C2 MEXAS (21B)

[apophenia]

Dang that looks good Frank! 

...This is in indirect light, late afternoon...

And shows that you've nailed that CAF CARC green colour. Drop the light levels and that olive tone goes with them 

Brian - the Meng armor would probably fit an earlier Leopard quite easily. The sections are mostly flat plates and could be duplicated with styrene sheets...

Hmm ... that raises an interesting (if pricey) option for building RW MEXAS Leopards in 1/35. Build your Meng kit as a Leopard C2 as intended but, first, measure all of those MEXAS components. Then, scratch-build the MEXAS panels out of card stock to fit a Leopard 1A3 turret for the earlier Leopard C1 build.

Actually, that raises a semi-related question. Does the Meng Leopard 1 A3/A4 kit (TS-007) include turrets for both types?

[Claymore]

I hope that story is true!

This picture from the thread you linked is a pretty good example of the greenish blue fade on the NATO/CARC green on those Leopards:

My time in Talibanistan was later than the Canadian’s C2 deployment but I do remember their Leo 2s in 2010, also the Danish Leo 2 just as they were finishing off at Camp Bastion in 2014 and the US M88 recovery vehicles at Camp Bastion/Leatherneck. As regards the faded colour scheme, pretty much anything goes although green does indeed seem to fade to a strange blue colour especially when seen under a coat of talc-fine dust. However, those vehicles that came back into camp for maintenance and a wash down sort of regained some of their normal colour.  Before returning home all vehicles were completely sanitised and looked almost as good as new - sort of…