Iron Mike
Master At Arms And Resident Curmudgeon
Okay, I've been sandbagging this one. Work began last fall on this variant, it is the old Dragon Imperial Series kit and I've add some things along the way. Click on the image for a larger picture.
A couple old washers glued inside the hull make a rock solid attachment for my AK Interactive Magnetic Handle.
Moving forward, I added some dirt and mud to the lower hull.
The kit tracks are supposed to be Ostketten, but they are the longer Winterketten. Since I did a vehicle with winterketten awhile back, I ordered a set of Friulmodel Ostketten.
While I was waiting for the tracks to arrive, the running gear got the treatment.
Looking for something different, a layer of concrete armor was added with Aves Apoxie.
I found an Armorscale barrel and mantlet in the stash, so that went on next.
I made the spare road wheel racks from scrap PE frets and wheels from the spares bin.
The tracks were well detailed and went together easily, a bath in track burnisher had them ready to install.
The road wheels, sprockets and return rollers went into place and the tracks installed.
The upper hull is dry fitted to see if everything fits before paint.
As I said, I've been working on this for awhile without posting, so it looks like a lot of fast progress (but it wasn't). More to come, thanks for coming by!
A couple old washers glued inside the hull make a rock solid attachment for my AK Interactive Magnetic Handle.
Moving forward, I added some dirt and mud to the lower hull.
The kit tracks are supposed to be Ostketten, but they are the longer Winterketten. Since I did a vehicle with winterketten awhile back, I ordered a set of Friulmodel Ostketten.
While I was waiting for the tracks to arrive, the running gear got the treatment.
Looking for something different, a layer of concrete armor was added with Aves Apoxie.
I found an Armorscale barrel and mantlet in the stash, so that went on next.
I made the spare road wheel racks from scrap PE frets and wheels from the spares bin.
The tracks were well detailed and went together easily, a bath in track burnisher had them ready to install.
The road wheels, sprockets and return rollers went into place and the tracks installed.
The upper hull is dry fitted to see if everything fits before paint.
As I said, I've been working on this for awhile without posting, so it looks like a lot of fast progress (but it wasn't). More to come, thanks for coming by!
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