A13 Mk.I/Cruiser Tank Mk.III

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Hi Neo. Great to see the turret being started. Its been an awful year for you so I wish you a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year and I hope you are looking forward to a better 2021. Happy modelling my friend.
 

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Hi Neo. Great to see the turret being started. Its been an awful year for you so I wish you a very merry Christmas and a happy New Year and I hope you are looking forward to a better 2021. Happy modelling my friend.
Hello, Steve! thank you so much! Indeed. Not good year at all. Let's hope that 2021 will bring us more positive moment! Merry Christmas my friend!
 

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Greeting friends! The work hasn't been stopped. All that time I was working with turret. What can I say? All is wrong. Dimensions,proportions,details.... So I just try to find an average decision between accuracy and my abilities. As I have already written before, turret doesn't have armor plates at all. They didn't exist on a model. Therefore I need to show them. And there were a big question: should I grow the turret sides by Evergreen plastic or I just make a lines by knife. I chose second variant because turret won't look good on the hull and will be oversized. So that's why in some areas it will be less rivets in column or in line.
All in progress. Plastic is awful. It scratches by air. All the time after every movement I need to polish the surface. It makes me mad. Hinges are also wrong and too small. I made my variant. So.....to be continued.
And of course the smoke grenade launcher mount from Voyager is also totally wrong. They made it like rectangle.
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More great work Neo. You correct things most of us don’t even see!
I often think your builds are more accurate than the originals ;)
 

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More excellent work Artyom, up to your usual standards.
 

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At this point I wonder should we give up and take up knitting !
Neo brillent work .
 

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Thank you friends for a kind words! This kit is a real challenge for me. I hope I will find a motivation to finish this one and some old started projects like A30 or Sherman.
 

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Hi Artyom
Your skill and attention to detail is incredible.
Jim
 

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Bronco continue entertain me. Just for comparison. I marked all interesting moments. I need to move MG's basement down.Also I should have more space from the right. And so on. And I am not talking about countersunk screws on mask. Ufff...
The model photo is my friends work - Andrey. He has built it some years ago from OOTB with improvements.

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Greetings friends! So what can I say. I suspected that the turret will be the most weak and difficult part. And I was right. First of all I have bought the wrong gun barrel. I ordered as I already know late variant from Orange Hobby. Now I need an early variant. That's why it will take some time to get Aber gun barrel for early Matilda.
You may look at the pictures. Early barrel is one piece, later is composite.
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Than you may look at this pictures and compare model with the real tank.

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Here is some wip. Working with epoxy.

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Mind-blowing levels of accuracy......

Well done as always. The big question though is will this see paint? I can understand why you wouldn't, as it will cover your truly stunning attention to detail.

ATB.

Andrew
 

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Mind-blowing levels of accuracy......

Well done as always. The big question though is will this see paint? I can understand why you wouldn't, as it will cover your truly stunning attention to detail.

ATB.

Andrew
Thank you, Andrew! In true I don't know. My painting skills are significantly worse than scratching. So for a while all kits will be unpainted. Perhaps I will collaborate with my friends who paint well.
 
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