Swedish Army, Strv 103C MBT - S-Tank

TommyKillander · Post by **TommyKillander** » Sun Jul 19, 2015 10:59 pm

JonMW wrote:For field repairs we only had one color with us as space was limited and most things could be painted in that green.

The car looked a lot better after we got done with it. Considering it was painted flat black by some drunk guys in the middle of the night before we got started on it. And we were at least not drunk, so it was a master paint job

Interesting, when I zoomed in my own pictures of the 103 (posted earlier in this thread) I noticed that the gun barrel had a faded splinter cammo but the rest of the tank was dark green. I dismissed this as this vehicle where a mashup of different scrapped tanks put together, but thinking about it - this would happen at a regiment too; You don't throw away a usable gun barrel because it has the wrong colour, right ?

Anyway. About the repainted car; a paintjob done by sober persons is probably better than if they are drunk, even if it's done in the middle of the night.

Cheers

TommyKillander · Post by **TommyKillander** » Sun Jul 19, 2015 11:06 pm

Hey,

I have an update, almost forgot. The commanders hatch have been assembled and painted in base colour (dark green).

It will be stowed away until its time to paint the rest of the tank and start working on the cammo-pattern.

I have spent most of today exercising brass-origami, not much to show yet though.... Just tiny pieces of metal at the bottom of a cup

I'm workin on the upper hull now hacking away styrene aswell....

Cheers

patrickroos · Post by **patrickroos** » Mon Jul 20, 2015 11:52 am

Colours look good, only the dark green that looks a little dark to me.
Maybe mixing in a little lighter green?

Also keep in mind that our Swedish material was serviced pretty good.
In my service the "important" vehicles such as PBVs and Tanks were never in the field for more than a week max.
Maybe there was the occasional exercise that was longer.
Their service life were short exercises or spent in the garage, so heavy wear and tear including sun bleaching...at least I cant remember any regarding paint. Before each exercise we serviced our stuff thoroughly and the same after.
Cars, trucks and other vehicles on the other hand could be quite worn down.
But they were used much more frequently (daily) and also inexpensive resources compared to a tank. Therefore not subject to the strict service routines.
There was lots of normal wear though accumulated during a week in the field. Scratches, buckles and dents (hehehe), dirt (lots of dirt), lots of walking around on top, loading/storing all possible gear and crap on the vehicles. Finally camouflage in the form of nets and what nature had to offer. In the Swedish army we had this obsession for camouflage, everything should be camouflaged! We even taped our AK4s with camo tape and tied twigs and leafs to them...sigh. The Russians would never have found us!

Great work!

Danta2er · Post by **Danta2er** » Mon Jul 20, 2015 9:08 pm

patrickroos wrote: In the Swedish army we had this obsession for camouflage, everything should be camouflaged! We even taped our AK4s with camo tape and tied twigs and leafs to them...sigh. The Russians would never have found us!

Great work!

LMAO!!

Nige201980 · Post by **Nige201980** » Tue Jul 21, 2015 6:26 am

Brilliant work mate love the look of those periscopes

TommyKillander · Post by **TommyKillander** » Tue Jul 21, 2015 9:53 am

patrickroos wrote:Colours look good, only the dark green that looks a little dark to me.
Maybe mixing in a little lighter green?

Also keep in mind that our Swedish material was serviced pretty good.
In my service the "important" vehicles such as PBVs and Tanks were never in the field for more than a week max.
Maybe there was the occasional exercise that was longer.
Their service life were short exercises or spent in the garage, so heavy wear and tear including sun bleaching...at least I cant remember any regarding paint. Before each exercise we serviced our stuff thoroughly and the same after.
Cars, trucks and other vehicles on the other hand could be quite worn down.
But they were used much more frequently (daily) and also inexpensive resources compared to a tank. Therefore not subject to the strict service routines.
There was lots of normal wear though accumulated during a week in the field. Scratches, buckles and dents (hehehe), dirt (lots of dirt), lots of walking around on top, loading/storing all possible gear and crap on the vehicles. Finally camouflage in the form of nets and what nature had to offer. In the Swedish army we had this obsession for camouflage, everything should be camouflaged! We even taped our AK4s with camo tape and tied twigs and leafs to them...sigh. The Russians would never have found us!

Great work!

Thanks Patrick,

I will make a couple of tests with a lighter 326M Dark Green, the contrast between the light green and dark green is maybe too high.

I remember the obsession of camoflague from my military service; during an exercise our location where supposed to be attacked by Fältjägare (special ground forces) simulating Spetznas operating behind our lines. Our base where so well hidden so they couldn't find it and they ended up on a small beach surrounded by water on three sides (their whole group arguing where they where....). Our platoon moved out of our covers down to the lake and opened fire at 100 m. I think we released 300 rounds in total at them - I emptied a KSp58 with 49 rounds - Rambo style

Their observing officers where not happy with their performance - being beaten by Supply line forces

TommyKillander · Post by **TommyKillander** » Wed Jul 22, 2015 6:43 pm

Yes!

Got the individual link tracks today. Couldn't find them in any Swedish online hobbystore so I bought them from eBay (shipped from China)... The funny thing is that I visited my favorite local hobby store this weekend and told them about my problem to source the tracks, had to order them on eBay and wait for 2-4 weeks before the arrive

The guy in the shop reached under the desk and promply handed over a box with the tracks -"Anything more I can help you with, sir?"

Anyway, now the eBay package has arrived:

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The tracks don't look too bad, but the injectio port is massive - it requires quite a lot of work to clean that up. I tried to cut the links off the stem using my sprue-cutter but got better results cutting it with a scalpel. The exit port is much easier to deal with.
There are some flash but its not so disturbing.

I couldn't keep myself from building a couple to check how the looked...

....but, back to the PE bench again - think I have done 1/3 of it now. Atleast now I can alternate between tedious tasks

Cheers

demarcation · Post by **demarcation** » Wed Jul 22, 2015 9:06 pm

Nice work! I suspect you're heading towards a real masterpiece here mate!

TommyKillander · Post by **TommyKillander** » Thu Jul 23, 2015 3:46 pm

demarcation wrote:Nice work! I suspect you're heading towards a real masterpiece here mate!

Thanks, I definitively have invested both time and money into this kit - let's hope I don't mess it up

One challenge I face is when I do some research on a detail I more and more realise that the Trumpeter kit does not make the tank justice. Some can be fixed with aftermarket stuff but to get something that is visually correct a whole lotta scratchbuilding is needed. I will try to do some, but I'm also eager to complete it for the GB...

Cheers

TommyKillander · Post by **TommyKillander** » Fri Jul 24, 2015 7:48 am

Hey guys,

I estimate at I have completed around 1/3 of the PE in this kit right now, most of the small parts that I'm going to use are in place.

The remaining PE are big parts like plates, grilles and holding brackets for the flotation equipment, that needs to be prepared before I can start doing the assembly of the upper hull.

These are the link arms that are used to extend the bulldozer blade. They are just rods of steel, with no hydralics, since the tank suspension gives very fine control of the depth of the blade, when the Strv 103 is doing "garden arrangements". When the blade is pulled back, the arms detached and stored on top of the front deck.

Stay tuned!

patrickroos · Post by **patrickroos** » Fri Jul 24, 2015 11:17 am

I love that Your really going to town on this one...also suspect its going to be a real beauty!

TommyKillander · Post by **TommyKillander** » Fri Jul 24, 2015 10:11 pm

patrickroos wrote:I love that Your really going to town on this one...also suspect its going to be a real beauty!

Thanks Patrick,

I'm not an armour-dude (I do play a lot of World of Tanks, I must admit) but I'm mostly into jet aircrafts. But the more research I do on the Strv S I realise what an unique tank it is. Also I'm learning a lot in the process and it's great fun too - everyone at ISM is awesome !

I will do my best to make the 103 justice!

Cheers

TommyKillander · Post by **TommyKillander** » Sat Jul 25, 2015 10:29 pm

Hey guys,

I was this ---><--- close to put the Dremel into the upper hull earlier today, but I chickened out and decided to scratchbuild the MG box ports instead.

Anyway, the 103 has two fixed mounted MGs situated on the right side of the front upper hull. In the kit they are closed with protective caps. That is not cool - we want as many guns as possible showing on this bad boy...

So, there is a buildinstruction on SPFH (Swedish Armour Historical Society) website, how to make this modification. Since it's in Swedish so I will simply go through the steps below.

1. First remove the front of the caps and make rectangular holes leaving a rim around the openings.

2. Put a piece of 1.0mm thick styrene sheet as a distance for the barrels. Note that the left barrel should be flush with the end of the frame and the right one should be flush with the inside of the box. Use a 1.0mm styrene rod or a brass tube for the barrel.

3. This will make the left barrel protrude a little more than the right one, which is accurate with the Strv S.

Cheers

TommyKillander · Post by **TommyKillander** » Sun Jul 26, 2015 6:50 pm

Hello!

"No guts - no glory", they say..... After spending the morning staring at the upper hull of the kit, I finally decided to go ahead with the modification of the exhaust port....
So, with the hesitation out out the way I started to drill out the parallellogram shaped hole. I had an idea about just opening the gaps, but that was impossible to do - so I had to remove it all.

Obviously Bofors (or Landsverk) design engineers had too much time to play with, because all the ribs have different spacing

I leave that for the rivet-counters to whine about...

I have built up an sloped internal structure for the exhaust interior.

So, this is the sloped "floor" of the exhaust port. I'm happy with that and I will do some crazy weathering I think to accentuate the port.

Cheers

gustavlekstal · Post by **gustavlekstal** » Mon Jul 27, 2015 8:55 pm

best vacation read so far

TommyKillander · Post by **TommyKillander** » Mon Jul 27, 2015 9:58 pm

gustavlekstal wrote: best vacation read so far

Thanks Gustav,

I'll post updates as soon as I make any progress, I'll try not to make this into a thriller this time....

The build have for some peculiar reason grown into a aftermarket arms race

The more aftermarket stuff I put into the kit and the more research I do the higher is my expectation of the end result, which means that I have to scratchbuild more things - well, I don't have to... but I think you get what I mean

Anyway, I think that the timeschedule still holds and that I will be able to complete the build and get a handful of decent photos before the GB ends.

Cheers

TommyKillander · Post by **TommyKillander** » Mon Jul 27, 2015 10:20 pm

Hey guys,

Had the opportonity to spend a couple of hours today fiddling with PE so I managed to put som bits and pieces together. I'm starting to see the end of the tunnel, with the photo-etch that is. I think that I'm through 1/2 of all the PE parts now (edit: make that 2/3, some parts will not be used and the periscopes are completed - forgot about them).

The plates shown on the pictures below have gills that Eduard recommends that you form using a ballpen - don't do that, I tried it and it looks like crap; use a cut off cocktail stick instead to indent the PE.

Cheers

patrickroos · Post by **patrickroos** » Mon Jul 27, 2015 10:46 pm

Some mighty fine craftsmanship there Tommy!
Everything looks really nice

Your turning out to be a master of detail!

MarkVerploeg · Post by **MarkVerploeg** » Tue Jul 28, 2015 1:23 am

After catching up with this build i think i want to add those detail sets aswell and keep it for my retirement in 30+ years
The amount of work you put in this is great and the result is already something to be proud of even if paint it pink it would look good with all the details it has
Keep up the good work

TommyKillander · Post by **TommyKillander** » Tue Jul 28, 2015 8:16 pm

patrickroos wrote:Some mighty fine craftsmanship there Tommy!
Everything looks really nice
Your turning out to be a master of detail!

Thanks Patrick,

It fun to do modifications but sometimes a little bit tricky, there are times when I wish I had the 20X stereo microscope we have at my work

But I'm starting to get more confident in making modifications and cope with kits that are missing details.

MarkVerploeg wrote:After catching up with this build i think i want to add those detail sets aswell and keep it for my retirement in 30+ years
The amount of work you put in this is great and the result is already something to be proud of even if paint it pink it would look good with all the details it has
Keep up the good work

Thanks Mark,

Yeah the build have run quite smooth sofar and I'm happy with the result. I'm whining about the amount of PE all the time, but I really enjoy this kit with all the extra stuff. I can really recommend them if you plan to build a great looking Strv 103.

Why paint it pink - when I can paint it like the Swedish flag:

Cheers

TommyKillander · Post by **TommyKillander** » Tue Jul 28, 2015 10:24 pm

Short update today.

Been working with some bit and pieces today; storage bins, shovels and the dreaded Front Bracket for the flotation equipment. First time I saw it I thought it looked quite intimidating, but it wasn't that hard to assemble it actually.

Anyway I will continue with sides tomorrow and I might also assemble the gun barrel - wohooo

Cheers

TommyKillander · Post by **TommyKillander** » Fri Jul 31, 2015 8:14 pm

Hey guys,

Been busy with all those boring tiny parts that there are plenty of in the kit and I have saved for last (because all the easy and fun parts are already completed).

But this was fun!

...but this was not so fun.
The first fuel can took 30 minutes to do. I spent around 6 hours completing all 18 of them

I had to take a couple breaks to get coffee, walk the dog, just breathe and make use of horrible language to keep myself from going insane

The fuel tanks are used as spaced armor to protect the hull from HEAT rounds and test showed that the Strv 103 could take quite a lot of beating. This is for all you guys that love to see explosions (the speaker voice is Swedish, but there are english subtitles)

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But hey, it's time to assemble the gun now...
The 105mm L/62 is derived from the Royal Ordnance L7 used on the Centurion tank. Sweden negotiated a deal to develop a new gun based on L7 design to able to use the same ordnance. The Strv 103 has an autoloader making it possible to fire the gun every 3 seconds and the dispersion between shots is very low because the gun is basically bolted to the hull of the tank.

The metal-barrel doesn't come with any instructions, but it's quite easy to find picture how to assemble it. The difficult part is to get the different brass rings/washers correct.

So, this is the completed metal barrel. I'm happy with that.

All the major parts have been assembled now (except for the tracks) and I will prepare everything for primer!

I have started to make an assembly- and paint-plan. I will make 4 sub-assemblies, upper hull, lower hull (incl. wheels, dozerblade), tracks and sides that I will paint (and maybe also weather) separately and put togheter as a final assembly. I will start with the upper hull.
It think this will make the masking and painting much easier.

Cheers

demarcation · Post by **demarcation** » Sat Aug 01, 2015 12:19 am

Great progress Tommy! Scratch building and PE work perfectly executed, can't wait to see her painted and weathered.

TommyKillander · Post by **TommyKillander** » Sat Aug 01, 2015 8:35 pm

demarcation wrote:Great progress Tommy! Scratch building and PE work perfectly executed, can't wait to see her painted and weathered.

Thanks!

The build of the sub-assemblies is almost finished now so it's not too long until I can start to put on paint.

Cheers

TommyKillander · Post by **TommyKillander** » Sat Aug 01, 2015 8:49 pm

Hey guys,

I have almost completed the assembly. Here's the progress sofar:

It seems that I where a little too eager to assemble the gun yesterday, I forgot to add the support for the barrel, so I had to dismantle the gun - but it was quite easy to remove the muzzle-break after a quick bath in acetone.

I started to work on the rods for the flotation equipment, but the plastic looked so horrible that I'm considering to scratchbuild new one out of brass-tubes instead. It will probably go much faster to build new ones instead of clearing flash/burr and try make the rods round.

Cheers!

patrickroos · Post by **patrickroos** » Sun Aug 02, 2015 2:46 pm

WOW!!!!

Nige201980 · Post by **Nige201980** » Mon Aug 03, 2015 7:31 pm

wow brilliant.

TommyKillander · Post by **TommyKillander** » Tue Aug 04, 2015 6:41 pm

patrickroos wrote:WOW!!!!

Nige201980 wrote:wow brilliant.

Thanks guys!

Cheers!

TommyKillander · Post by **TommyKillander** » Thu Aug 06, 2015 10:16 pm

Hey guys,

I'm preparing the tank for primer and cammo-paint at the moment. I have decided to paint the tank with the upper and lower hull assembled, which means that I need to complete the exhaust port for the gas turbine before I put everything together.

I have used Vallejo paints in rust tones which I have sponge painted starting with darker colours and ending with light orange.

I have used Micro Mask as chipping fluid and airbrushed a light coat of Tamiya X-32 and XF-19. After the chipping mask where removed I weathered the surface with rust pigments and sealed it with Micro Flat.

The exhaust grille have been painted with rust colours on the side of the bars.

This is the final result. I will mask this port before I airbrush the splinter-cammo and touchup that part afterwards with a brush. I want to preserve as much as possible of the rust colours. I was thinking of using masking fluids, but I'm not sure I can get rid of it after hull is assembled...

While I had all the rust tones on my bench I did some rust painting to the shovels. The Swedish Army standard shovel should be painted dark green.
I will add a very light drybrush with metal tones to some of the edges of the blade.

Next step will be finalise the assembly and to put on primer. I might be able to start with the cammo this weekend

Tommy

cib2265 · Post by **cib2265** » Fri Aug 07, 2015 7:28 am

Loving this build and attention to detail!

Ive ordered one from HLJ, just waiting to get it back in stock...

Zippo · Post by **Zippo** » Fri Aug 07, 2015 9:12 am

Awsome build!

TommyKillander · Post by **TommyKillander** » Fri Aug 07, 2015 7:31 pm

cib2265 wrote:Loving this build and attention to detail!

Ive ordered one from HLJ, just waiting to get it back in stock...

Thanks !

Good luck with your build - hope this thread helps you around the worst issues with the kit.

Cheers!

TommyKillander · Post by **TommyKillander** » Fri Aug 07, 2015 7:31 pm

Zippo wrote:Awsome build!

Thanks Zippo!

TommyKillander · Post by **TommyKillander** » Sat Aug 08, 2015 11:05 pm

Hey guys!

I have been a busy bee today and worked on the final assembly of the hull. Now, the only parts that still has to be built are the tracks...

Todays quest have been to assemble the flotation equipment. The Strv S has the ability to swim. This is achieved by raising a watertight screen around the edges of the upper hull and use the tracks to propell the tank in the water. It basically swims like a dog

The driver stands outdoors on a platform and uses good-old bridles connected to the steering handles to control the bearing of the vessel.

Anyway, I have assembled the holders for the flotation equipment now. I decided to use 2-component epoxy glue since the alignemnt where quite difficult and CA-glue would have cured too fast.

The rods in the kit looks quite bad so I have decided to scratchbuild new ones. There are 15 of them in total where 2 of them have the wheels and a funny looking plate (I have no idea where it's used actually). The ones with the wheels will have some PE and the others will be scratchbuild out of brass tubes and plastic rods.

Building the rods where quite easy actually, because the 1.0mm tube fits inside the 1.5mm tube. So I just assembled them as a telescopic tube with press-fit of the two parts. The angled handlebar where more difficuly and I spent probably one half hour to cut the right angle and try to glue it on

- before I decided to spend 15 minutes to make a mounting-jig out of plasticard and masking tape. The jig helped me to cut the plastic rod at the right angle and also position the rod at the exact position when I glued it.
That probably saved me hours of frustration....

This is the final result, I'm happy with that

I will start painting tomorrow

I will build the tracks during next week inbetween the paintjob.

Stay tuned

Danta2er · Post by **Danta2er** » Sun Aug 09, 2015 2:50 am

I'm really enjoying your build and the commentary

Thanks much for sharing with us!

TommyKillander · Post by **TommyKillander** » Sun Aug 09, 2015 10:09 pm

Danta2er wrote:I'm really enjoying your build and the commentary Thanks much for sharing with us!

You're welcome! Glad that someone is listening to my rambling about this tank

Cheers!

TommyKillander · Post by **TommyKillander** » Sun Aug 09, 2015 10:21 pm

Ok, I had a plan this morning to put primer on the complete model...

I managed to prime all small parts and painted the shovels and the wheels (they where primed earlier this week), assembled a couple of track links - stuff like that. But my modelling where brutally interrupted by a visit to IKEA and I spent most the evening to build in scale 1:1 instead

But I managed to get some stuff done anyway. The shovels are ready for gloss coat and weathering.

After som consideration I decided to use the masking kit for the wheels; I thought the tape looked a bit wierd (it's not like kabuki-tape at all), it was much stiffer and the it had a very sticky adhesive. But since I've already paid for it I might use it...

It seemed to work just fine... no worries

The wheels are painted with XF-85 Rubber Black and XF-13 Dark Green (it looks a little wierd because the whitebalance in my phone mess up the colors).

Cheers!

TommyKillander · Post by **TommyKillander** » Mon Aug 10, 2015 8:52 pm

Hey guys,

I got the time today to put the primer on the vehicle. Spent two hours in the spraybooth today, putting on thin coats and really spending time to coat everything without putting on too much primer. My poor Sil-Air compressor almost overheated...

I have used black Vallejo Surface Primer. My mobile camera have started to act up and make all kind of wierd whitebalance adjustments lately, sorry about that.

Cheers!

patrickroos · Post by **patrickroos** » Wed Aug 12, 2015 6:43 pm

Clean and perfect, impressive work

Showels looks very realistic btw.
Amazing build Tommy

TommyKillander · Post by **TommyKillander** » Thu Aug 13, 2015 6:31 am

patrickroos wrote:Clean and perfect, impressive work
Showels looks very realistic btw.
Amazing build Tommy

Thanks Patrick!

Cheers

TommyKillander · Post by **TommyKillander** » Thu Aug 13, 2015 6:37 am

Hey guys,

Short update gotta rush to work now...

Started to paint some small parts in base color.

...and I have assembled the first set of tracks.

Will continue the tracks and splinter cammo this evening.

Cheers

demarcation · Post by **demarcation** » Thu Aug 13, 2015 3:58 pm

Exellent work!!

I will certainly book a front row seat for your next update mate!

TommyKillander · Post by **TommyKillander** » Sat Aug 15, 2015 11:26 pm

demarcation wrote:Exellent work!! I will certainly book a front row seat for your next update mate!

Thank you!

I will post pictures tomorrow of the cammo pattern of the upper hull, the camera in my mobile phone is trolling me big time so I need to take the photos with my DSLR instead in daylight.

Cheers

TommyKillander · Post by **TommyKillander** » Sun Aug 16, 2015 1:58 pm

Hey guys!

Yesterday I started to put on the cammo. I'm starting with light colours putting on paint and coating the layer with masking tape before I put on the next colour. Colours are Tan, Light green, Dark green and Black.

Confused yet ?

Did a touchup of more Light green to get better dispersion of the colours. Now the green colors need to be covered and the final Black paint should go on (forgot to take a picture of that step, sorry).

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So... Today I have been struggling with cameras and different light conditions whole morning and I finally gave up - I can't spent hours on WIP photos... I took some photos with my mobile in artificial light anyway.

To be honest, the cammo pattern is a little too complicated for a convincing splinter-cammo, so I'm not super-duper-happy with that. But I will do some minor touchups to try to bring down the complexity of the patterns. But part from that I'm happy with it, I think that the colours are a great start for filters and weathering - though the light green looks very exaggerated on photos.

But the gas turbine exhaust port turned out exactly like I planned it, so I'm 100% happy with that!

Next up is the sides and completing the tracks ofcourse.

Cheers

RobBye · Post by **RobBye** » Sun Aug 16, 2015 2:41 pm

Masking all that has to be a pain, but it's turning out brilliantly for you!

JonMW · Post by **JonMW** » Sun Aug 16, 2015 3:01 pm

That looks really nice! I'm glad I had a mask set for when I did the Viggen, that's a lot of thinking to get that right.
Don't think the pattern looks too complicated, looks pretty much like my Viggen. The light green looks a bit odd in the last few pictures, but it looks more correct in the in progress pictures.

TommyKillander · Post by **TommyKillander** » Sun Aug 16, 2015 4:34 pm

RobBye wrote:Masking all that has to be a pain, but it's turning out brilliantly for you!

JonMW wrote:That looks really nice! I'm glad I had a mask set for when I did the Viggen, that's a lot of thinking to get that right.
Don't think the pattern looks too complicated, looks pretty much like my Viggen. The light green looks a bit odd in the last few pictures, but it looks more correct in the in progress pictures.

Thanks guys!

That's what I needed to hear. I've been staring at the cammopatterns now all my awake time this weekend

I will continue with the tracks and other parts now and when I get back to the hull of the tank I will hopefully have fresh eyes.

I guess that a precut cammo-mask is a good investment. I couldn't find the J's work mask http://www.jsworkmodel.com/popup/PPA5080.jpg anywhere close, so I decided to have a go at it DIY-style.

Cheers

patrickroos · Post by **patrickroos** » Sun Aug 16, 2015 5:24 pm

This is modelling at its best!!!
Amazing work, lots of skill and patience behind that beautiful camo...perfectly executed.

I also think it looks great.
Before you change anything.
Remember that the weathering and varnishes will tone things down and blend it all together.
Its alright to be on the "bright side" of things before to end up just right...

What a cracker Tommy!!

TommyKillander · Post by **TommyKillander** » Sun Aug 16, 2015 8:14 pm

patrickroos wrote:This is modelling at its best!!!
Amazing work, lots of skill and patience behind that beautiful camo...perfectly executed.
I also think it looks great.
Before you change anything.
Remember that the weathering and varnishes will tone things down and blend it all together.
Its alright to be on the "bright side" of things before to end up just right...

What a cracker Tommy!!

Thank you Patrick !

Many thanks for your advice, I will put it aside for a couple of days and complete the tracks and sides. I will probably not change anything, maybe touchup some areas a little.

Cheers

jbellos1 · Post by **jbellos1** » Sun Aug 16, 2015 9:54 pm

I really enjoyed catching up with this thread - thank you!