1/35 Challenger 2 TES Rye Field Model RM5039

[Canute]

Too bad there is no aftermarket parts available for one piece tracks for these.

[Old Collingwood]

35 minutes ago, Canute said:

Too bad there is no aftermarket parts available for one piece tracks for these.

Very true mate  - imagine a cast one already pre made with working links  - just needing painting/weatheriing  then closing the link together when fitted  - that would be cool.

 

OC.

[Landlubber Mike]

Looks really great OC, very nice job!   With your great work, I sorta read your log with one eye closed and the other half open to avoid the temptation of starting down the rabbit hole of armor. 🙈  So many cool subjects and diorama possibilities...must...stay...away...

[Old Collingwood]

2 hours ago, Landlubber Mike said:

Looks really great OC, very nice job!   With your great work, I sorta read your log with one eye closed and the other half open to avoid the temptation of starting down the rabbit hole of armor. 🙈  So many cool subjects and diorama possibilities...must...stay...away...

Thank you kindly Mark,   you really should do one mate  - no pressure ..........we would all love you to build one😉

 

OC.

[Egilman]

2 hours ago, Landlubber Mike said:

Looks really great OC, very nice job!   With your great work, I sorta read your log with one eye closed and the other half open to avoid the temptation of starting down the rabbit hole of armor. 🙈  So many cool subjects and diorama possibilities...must...stay...away...

Each genre of modeling is a black hole of excitement and anticipation, Armor is no different.... Once you see and feel the attractiveness and excitement, it will suck you in......

 

Give in to the force, you will not regret it my friend....

[Old Collingwood]

Evening all, more progress  on "Tanky von Tanky"   I have fitted the other side armour skirt then made and fitted the other frontal  skirt device, also the mud guards  were fitted painted and weathered.

 

OC.

[Canute]

Armor is similar to the TUSK stuff, except flat plates vs scalloped.

[Old Collingwood]

Just now, Canute said:

Armor is similar to the TUSK stuff, except flat plates vs scalloped.

Indeed Ken  - they are drop in blocks  that I think are held in place by some locking arrangement on the tops, easy enough I guess to replace  them when they are damaged.

 

OC.

[Egilman]

7 minutes ago, Canute said:

Armor is similar to the TUSK stuff, except flat plates vs scalloped.

 

4 minutes ago, Old Collingwood said:

Indeed Ken  - they are drop in blocks  that I think are held in place by some locking arrangement on the tops, easy enough I guess to replace  them when they are damaged.

 

OC.

They are identical to TUSK I, (just sized a little larger) the Scalloped plates are distinctly TUSK II, an add on to TUSK I

[Old Collingwood]

Evening all,  a bit more progress  with the frontal addional armour plates  - again painted washed  and  weathered.

 

OC.

 

 

[Old Collingwood]

Evening all,   some more progress today  - I fitted the other rear guard,  then I decided that the frontal area wasn't dirty/dusty enough  - so out came my flat white and I started to dry brush in a few layers -  its very very dusty now.

 

I also dry fitted the turret  then dry brushed atound the frontal areas as side to lens in with the hull.

 

OC.

[Canute]

Looking suitably dusty there, OC

[mtaylor]

Nice weathering.  BTW, the CO will holding a vehicle inspection so the dust may have to go.

[Old Collingwood]

24 minutes ago, Canute said:

Looking suitably dusty there, OC

Thanks Ken.

 

OC.

[Old Collingwood]

13 minutes ago, mtaylor said:

Nice weathering.  BTW, the CO will holding a vehicle inspection so the dust may have to go.

I heard after,     they are stopping by an ELF  garage to use one of the jet washers  - and to pick up somemore   (you guessed it)  "Popcorn"

 

OC.

[lmagna]

21 minutes ago, mtaylor said:

BTW, the CO will holding a vehicle inspection so the dust may have to go.

I was thinking the same thing Mark but you said it first.

[Canute]

Clean it with a toothbrush.

[Old Collingwood]

1 minute ago, Canute said:

Clean it with a toothbrush.

That would be fun.

 

OC.

[Old Collingwood]

Seriously though  - Is it to  "OTT"?    I am trying to make it look like its been on a dusty  range with that  dusty  type of  roads that kick up so much  dust when you  power along them  - I have seen pics of them in quite similar conditions Just never tried to simulate one on a model before.

 

This kind of finish  - not my pic.

 

OC.

Edited April 9, 2021 by Old Collingwood

[lmagna]

It is a proper look for whenever a tank is traveling under it's own power in unpaved conditions just as any other off road vehicle. BUT you can be certain that as soon as they return to base the crew will be all over the exterior cleaning dirt, dust, and mud from everywhere they can reach. The ideal is if they have a convenient shallow river close by where they can just drive in and give it a good scrub down. It seemed to me that every time I saw an armored unit they were either going somewhere getting dirty or sitting still getting cleaned. 

[Old Collingwood]

4 minutes ago, lmagna said:

It is a proper look for whenever a tank is traveling under it's own power in unpaved conditions just as any other off road vehicle. BUT you can be certain that as soon as they return to base the crew will be all over the exterior cleaning dirt, dust, and mud from everywhere they can reach. The ideal is if they have a convenient shallow river close by where they can just drive in and give it a good scrub down. It seemed to me that every time I saw an armored unit they were either going somewhere getting dirty or sitting still getting cleaned. 

Thank you Lou,  I thought it would look better than the mono tone - fresh out of the factory look.

 

OC.

[Egilman]

2 hours ago, Old Collingwood said:

I am trying to make it look like its been on a dusty  range with that  dusty  type of  roads that kick up so much  dust when you  power along them

I agree with Lou, you just about have it down..... Couldn't ask for better.... Not dirty, just dusty....

[Old Collingwood]

16 minutes ago, Egilman said:

I agree with Lou, you just about have it down..... Couldn't ask for better.... Not dirty, just dusty....

Thank you Kindly Brother.

 

OC.

[mtaylor]

It does look properly dusty, OC.   When I was in choppers, it was common for the crew chief and first mech to wipe the bird down with some hydraulic fluid. Gave it a nice clean look but as soon as the rotor head started turning the dust immediately landed and stuck on all surfaces.  They had a lot of pride in their machines.

 

Hmm.... now that think about it... there probably should have been a concours d'elegance competition for the cleanest one.  Some were that thorough.  Even touching up the painted numbers, warnings, etc. inside and outside.  A few tried cleaning up the engine exhaust but that was pretty hopeless.

[lmagna]

I don't know of anyone who tried the hydraulic fluid idea on a Huey but I do know of a couple of birds where the crew chief managed to get his hands on some high gloss OD and "pimped" their choppers out. In both cases they were "command" birds that were used by the CO and other upper ranking big wigs. Our birds may not have been quite as pretty but they were clean where it was needed and mechanically as tight as we could make them.

[Old Collingwood]

2 hours ago, mtaylor said:

It does look properly dusty, OC.   When I was in choppers, it was common for the crew chief and first mech to wipe the bird down with some hydraulic fluid. Gave it a nice clean look but as soon as the rotor head started turning the dust immediately landed and stuck on all surfaces.  They had a lot of pride in their machines.

 

Hmm.... now that think about it... there probably should have been a concours d'elegance competition for the cleanest one.  Some were that thorough.  Even touching up the painted numbers, warnings, etc. inside and outside.  A few tried cleaning up the engine exhaust but that was pretty hopeless.

Thank you Mark.

 

OC.

[Old Collingwood]

Evening all,   I have decided to  put this to bed for a bit and go onto my Waterloo project as I fancied a change  - So its sitting in the display cabinet with my half finished Wokka.

 

See you in my other build.....

 

OC.

[popeye the sailor]

hey there OC.........superb job on the tank!  love the weathering job and what you did with the tracks.  you've really gone all out   

[Old Collingwood]

28 minutes ago, popeye the sailor said:

hey there OC.........superb job on the tank!  love the weathering job and what you did with the tracks.  you've really gone all out   

Thank you kindly Denis  - thank you for all the likes  - I was watching them   tot up from you,   I will return back to Chally  - but in the mean time I am back on my Waterloo dio  and working on Marshall Ney and one of his many horses that day.

 

OC.

[Old Collingwood]

Evening all,      well I decided to have a slight break from my Waterloo Dio  - and get back on this  as it needs a few finishing touches, I have made the Two Jerry can  - they need spraying, I am also making the comms aerials  out of some wire I brought  a long time ago, I will also  flat coat  over it using my airbrush  (any excuse just to use it)😁

Its a good break from my figure work  as I looked at the next batch og KGL  and thought to myself  - infact said to the admiral  "I am abit fed up of figure painting for now".

 

OC.