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[Leopard2]

Good work Bagge. Looking at this makes want to start one of the Tamiya Leo's I have in my stash

Joe

 

[Bagge]

I'm sure they are much nicer than the Hobby boss kits to build
but it's nice that they do all the different variations (if they could have done everything right!)
//Mats

 

[Bagge]

Tape tape and more tape! need to get more today

time for some Nato black before we go to the IPMS show in Affligem
//Mats

 

[Iron Mike]

Have fun, Mats! Be sure to take lots of pictures!!

 

[moon puppy]

Man that's some masking...

 

[Bagge]

Back home now, took some pics and shopped some nice kits and some alclad chrome and black base one thing that i forgott was to charge the battery for the camera!!! aghhh!! it died just halfway thrue the all the nice builds
I will put upp what i have in a thread as soon as i upload them to the gallery.
Ohh i bought a whole bunch of masking tape to!!!
//Mats

 

[moon puppy]

Ohh i bought a whole bunch of masking tape to!!!
//Mats

Looks like you had to!

 

[Iron Mike]

Looks like you had a good time!!

 

[Bagge]

The hull is painted in it's 3 colours, going to be like christmas when i take off all the tape! :woohoo:

I guess it will be some touch up with a brush after, but not to much i hope... :hmmm
//Mats

 

[Iron Mike]

Looks more like unwrapping a mummy! How long will you let it dry before the tape comes off?

 

[Bagge]

not sure, never done so much masking maybe tonight after the movie

 

[Iron Mike]

My experience is don't leave it on too long. I usually pull the masking as soon as the paint is dry enough to handle.

 

[jknaus]

I agree with Mike. Whenever I've left the tape for a period I've had chipping. Looks cool though.

As an alternative Mats I've sometimes used paper for the mask and tape just the edges. Bit more work, but less tape and less chance of pulling up stuff. Hope that helps some.
James

 

[Bagge]

Ok now is the time! thanks mike for the tip

 

[Iron Mike]

Any time, my friend!

 

[Bagge]

well this is whats left of all the masking....

and this is the result!

small touchups here and there (hard to get the tape to sit tight over all the small details) but i'm happy with it, now the turret.....

//Mats

 

[Iron Mike]

Whoo hoo! Just like Christmas!!!

 

[Bagge]

thanks Mike and James, yes it's a good thing to use paper but here it was so many corners and strange angles so i decided to go with thape all the way and the tamiya tape is working great! i used some household masking tape (freeze tape) on the tracks, and it was stuck pretty hard.
//Mats

 

[jknaus]

Looks cool Mats. Very nice.
James

 

[Plastik Smurff]

lookin sweet mate