Centurion3RTR
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- John
Hi all, after my feeble attempt Normandy GB (which was shocking to say the least) i thought i'd build something a little better than the someone stood in a cemetery. Plus, it's amazing what you can do when the Playstation network is down lol.
Here we go then, it's the Tamiya 1/35 Centaur Cs.Mk.IV and built staight out of the box. The only thing i did add was some Hobby Boss Cromwell tracks, these are single link tracks. Small but great to work with, it says on the box that 123 for each side but i had to take 6 links out so 117 gave the right amount of sag. With this Centaur being of the Royal Marines it's in Khaki instead of Olive Drab it made a nice change (thinking about it, it's still one colour lol), and sorry Ron i used the airbrush this time. Pre-shading and Khaki/klear on it was time for decals, now the hull was ok it was the turret that was the nightmare. The instructions say put the "degree markings" on before the turret lifting points, i didn't because of pre-shading and dry brushing so i had the cut the decals to fit. I did have a go at the hairspray technique though, hairspray then a light dust of a sandy yellow then played with water and brush to look like dust and dirt thats been walked on.
Four figures are from Miniart and needed a lot of work just to look right and the driver is Tamiya own, well, i wasn't going to cut into one of Miniart's figures just to look at his head lol. I just had to put the cat in, he's from Tamiya's German ammo loading crew i have in my stash. The building is from Miniart too (thanks John, it's took me a year to build it), a lot of cutting out to do but well worth the work.
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Have fun, John
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Here we go then, it's the Tamiya 1/35 Centaur Cs.Mk.IV and built staight out of the box. The only thing i did add was some Hobby Boss Cromwell tracks, these are single link tracks. Small but great to work with, it says on the box that 123 for each side but i had to take 6 links out so 117 gave the right amount of sag. With this Centaur being of the Royal Marines it's in Khaki instead of Olive Drab it made a nice change (thinking about it, it's still one colour lol), and sorry Ron i used the airbrush this time. Pre-shading and Khaki/klear on it was time for decals, now the hull was ok it was the turret that was the nightmare. The instructions say put the "degree markings" on before the turret lifting points, i didn't because of pre-shading and dry brushing so i had the cut the decals to fit. I did have a go at the hairspray technique though, hairspray then a light dust of a sandy yellow then played with water and brush to look like dust and dirt thats been walked on.
Four figures are from Miniart and needed a lot of work just to look right and the driver is Tamiya own, well, i wasn't going to cut into one of Miniart's figures just to look at his head lol. I just had to put the cat in, he's from Tamiya's German ammo loading crew i have in my stash. The building is from Miniart too (thanks John, it's took me a year to build it), a lot of cutting out to do but well worth the work.
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Have fun, John
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