Tamiya M10 IIC Achilles

[Road of Bones]

Thanks for the support Bob!
As for the shells, they are painted plastic, from the Bronco 17pdr ammo set. I airbrushed them with normal Tamiya gold acrylic, hand-painted the heads & stripes (badly!), and used the decals from the same Bronco 17pdr ammo set for the stencilled details. I think they really made the turret interior detail pop. The PE retaining straps helped, to be fair.

 

[Mr Bowcat]

Welcome aboard Pete.

Alistair, I agree, quite a focal point, although my interior will have crew in place and will probably obscure the shells. Might nick the strap idea though.

 

[Jakko]

The rounds in the ready rack in the back of the turret are quite prominent, even with a crew in there too.

 

[Ian M]

Yer ‘tis (apologies to those who saw this first time around

Can I ask you to make a thread in the complete armour build section of this build.
Then I can delet these and put a link in their place!

Alistair, happy for you to post pics.

Perhaps it would have been better if you had read my post about posting of builds in other people's threads befor you replied to that.

 

[Road of Bones]

Can I ask you to make a thread in the complete armour build section of this build.
Then I can delet these and put a link in their place!

Perhaps it would have been better if you had read my post about posting of builds in other people's threads befor you replied to that.

Just delete them then Ian, I’m not precious about it. I just wanted to share my pleasure in Bob’s choice of subject (and I did ask his permission to do so) - I didn’t expect to call down the wrath of the moderators because of it.

 

[AlanG]

Alistair. Please don't take offence. Your build was indeed fantastic. But we (as mods and forum) have just had a lengthy discussion regarding the posting of finished build pics on other person's threads. Whilst i understand you were asked to post them, we had agreed in the thread i mentioned that only pics of build issues/work arounds would be posted. Links to finished builds would be ok.

So we are not incurring a wrath on you. Just trying to point out that it was not within the conditions we had stated.

 

[Mr Bowcat]

Perhaps it would have been better if you had read my post about posting of builds in other people's threads befor you replied to that.

I did, but I asked for the pics as I thought they would be helpful to my build, which they were. As the OP I don't see the issue. However, if those are the rules that are being enforced, fair enough.

 

[Mr Bowcat]

Good morning chaps.

I got quite a lot done this weekend. First up was weathering the interior of the hull which was done with a wash of starship filth and some pigments. Then I got the shells/racks painted up and installed. I decided to use AK True Metal for the brass which turned into a bit of a nightmare as it kept rubbing off down to primer. I'm not sure what I did wrong, possibly finger print oils were the issue?

Once everything was dry I fitted and glued the upper and lower hull.





With that done I moved on to fitting the external parts of the upper hull, minus the tools and aerial which will get painted separately. The spare track grousers are just PVA'd on for the time being.



With that done I built up the gun breech (which still needs a little filling) and started on the turret internals. I'm going to try something different with this and paint & weather each half separately before joining them. There are several parts that also need adding but will be painted separately and added later.

 

[Road of Bones]

Nice work Bob - the fighting floor looks really good! For what you'll be able to see of the sponson ammo racks once the turret is on, I think the shells look fine.
I did the same as you with the turret internals, and painted them first before assembly, and then masked the turret open top to paint externally.

 

[Mr Bowcat]

Cheers Alistair.

Yep, the plan was to mask the turret top and bottom once it's together.

 

[scottie3158]

Bob,
Looking good mate some very nice work on the interior.

 

[Mr Bowcat]

Cheers Paul.

 

[minitnkr]

Great stuff. Interior came out excellent. PaulE

 

[Steve Jones]

Weathering and dust work is spot on Bob. Very nicely done. It looks a very "busy" build. Lots of interest going on. Keep up the great work mate

 

[Mr Bowcat]

Cheers gents.

 

[Mr Bowcat]

Afternoon all.

I pushed on again this weekend and got the turret interior finished.

The shells were quite tricky and involved some delicate masking, but I'm mostly pleased with how they came out.

 

[minitnkr]

The Stens? came out great too. PaulE

 

[Mr Bowcat]

Cheers Paul.

Yes the Sten's are nice, quite fraught cleaning up the mould lines but managed not to snap any.

 

[Steve Jones]

Beautiful work Bob. Don't envy you all that masking. Great stuff

 

[scottie3158]

The turret interior looks very nice indeed.