Sunday, October 21, 2012

IDF SHOT KAL Centurion ERA part 4

Had worked on this project for more than 3 years. Sat there after my work on the Kosovo T55 project for a Greek collector.

This is a kit bash of Legend and the old battery operated Tamiya Centurion kit. It was further added with details from Verlinden collection of IDF stowage as well as Brown 303 from Academy with the nose job Browning 50 cal from the same. Strethcers and tarps are Academy and Tamiya Epoxy putty affairs. The cables are made from nylon strings adn the sand tones are higly thinned Vallejo paints.

Here is the tank model again with flash added into my HTC phone photo, amazing how these little pin hole cameras can take pictures of such quality.

I am putting in the barbed wires as well as an old Verlinden Israeli Live Firing Area warning sign post. The ground work is a two tiered affair of 2 large pieces of plywood, and the depression was blank area left in the ply when I air nailed the 3 sections together. One in 18mm, one in 12mm and leaving a corner blank to be profiled with Epoxy Putty and Milliput. Then I added in the rocks and the posts, which are areall 16 gauge wires that were twisted on a drill bit.