Looks great to my eye! How long does it take you to build a 1/48 AFV on average?
That's one of those million dollar questions isn't it lol
For me it depends on a few things. Whether it's for myself or a customer, whether it's a kitset (eg Tamiya) or a resin casting like the Bradley above.
On average Tamiya kits take me about 4hrs to assemble with another 4 or so in painting and finishing.
I've had some practise with them though having made almost 40 to date.
If anyone's looking to try 1/48th armour I'd reccommend Tamiya in a heartbeat.
They practically fall together with a good enough level of detail to allow OOB builds.
The Bradley is quite different. Aimed just at the wargaming market it only has about 14parts, some in resin, some in white metal.
Detail is average (eg it vaguely looks like a Bradley) and working with resin has it's problems.
Timewise the Bradley has taken me about 8 hours so far with maybe another 2 left in finishing and hand painting the markings.
Another odd feature of wargaming kits is that they almost never come supplied with decals.
So funnily enough it's taken me longer to assemble the "fast build" wargaming kit. And it wasn't the sit down and relax job like a Tamiya.
With resin you often (and in this case) have a fight on your hands. You usually have large casting plugs to cut off as the parts are drop cast.
You need a rotary saw, grinder and face mask is mandatory, I'm too old to worry but the dust from this stuff will give you cancer ......
Both of the Bradley track castings were warped, the left hand side in two directions and the right so bad I had to fudge the banana bend with a styrene strip.
You often get warped resin parts but these were solid mothers and I couldn't straighten them with any amount of heat.
I ended up grinding out large parts of the track and hull and even then they are still off.
All that aside ..... it will look the part on the table once I've won my battle with it !!!!
And on that note - todays progress.
Added as much detail as I could be bothered with, enough to make it look like a proper kit at first glance anyway
Final painting and weathering tomorrow ....
cheers
Brent