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Italian Bersaglier with L6 turret

gioazz

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Ciao a tutti,

I just finished this very ambitious project (for my skills!!), an Italian tanker with an Italian L6 tank turret during the Russian campaign.

Ambitious because this is my second tank (well a part of it this time) I've ever done; also been able to place the turret with the figure in the minimum space possible and being able to tell a story was another great challenge, last but not least, paint this 1/35 miniature with the tiny details is painful sometimes!

The figure is from Alpine range the turret and the fuel tank are from Model Victoria, wood box is from Plusmodel and all the tools are plastic kit from a company called Diopark.

As for the paint I used my usual technique for the figure, just made an experiment for the leather coat, I painted the worn parts with a really light colour, using ochre, Naples yellow even white, when all dried I did paint over glazes of burnt sienna and raw umber.

Talking about the ground work and tank I did apply the technique used by you guys!

To make things easy, I did apply a winter camouflage, this has been the cherry on the cake!

Overall has been great, I loved every bit of this project and I'll try to work on more figure/ tanks project in the future.

I hope you like it, please let me know what you think and if you want to see more pics, please go to my blog.

Grazie.

Giovanni

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Wow!!! I really, really like this. What a clever idea and so well done. The colors are beautiful, the coat, amazing.

Love it!
Tom

P.S.
The lifting cable on the far side appears to be...um...not lifting anything...
 
That is very cool. Did you pin the turret to the arm to the body? Just fantastic how you posed this and of course the painting is magnificent. :notworthy :notworthy :notworthy (y) (y) (y)

James
 
Thank you guys!!!!!!

I'm glad you like it, I've changed the photos with more decent ones.

@ TomN: I know, the lifting cables are made of copper and they ten to move... nest time I have to think of something else...

@ James: To fix the turret I did put a copper rod all the way from the bottom lef hand corner of the torso up to the right arm and into the turret side.

The tricky bit has been drilling the resin turret with a very small drill bit, the thickness of the turret size is less than a millimetre, so I had to be really careful.

I hope these images helps.

Ciao

Giovanni

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