The Duke Finishes Three More in September

[Duke Maddog]

After some time, I managed to bring some models over the finish line. These are my three latest for this month.

First my British Army has taken delivery of this 1/72 scale Roden Rolls Royce Pattern 20 Armored Car:

Next, my Russian army has taken delivery of these two tanks:

First, this 1/72 scale ACE IT-1 Drakon Anti-Tank Missile tank. This is based on a T-55 chassis:

This next one is the 1/72 scale ACE T-62B main battle tank:

With those last two Russian tanks completed, I have finally gotten that entire stack of eleven Russian tank kits out of the way. That stack of boxes is gone. I love it!

These aren't the best I've done, not even close. I'm still practicing with Tamiya's weathering powders too. I'm not too happy, as I don't want my tanks looking so crazy dusty. It could also be that Tamiya's weathering powders are formulated more for 1/35th scale armor, which might be why it looks so heavy here. Hopefully someday I'll improve enough to satisfy my sense of aesthetics, or find another system that works better with 1/72 scale armor.

Thank you all for looking in, comments are welcome.

 

[Brokeneagle]

Nive one.....that British armoured car must be small. I have one in 1/35 and its not that big!

 

[Duke Maddog]

Thank you Ian! Yes, the Rolls is quite small, probably no more than an inch and 5/8's. That sure made the suspension very delicate.

 

[dollar19]

Impressive!

 

[Heavens Eagle]

Looking good Mark as always!
I am always impressed by how much you get done over a short period of time.

Ran across this in one of my FB news feeds and thought you would like it. The guy shows a step by step on a Zvezda 1/72 ISU122

Modelling Made in Poland

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[Duke Maddog]

Thank you Dollar19!

Thank you Paul! I managed to finish four more this month but I'm hard pressed to find time to post them!

Yes, I saw that too. Most interesting!

 

[iambrb]

Nice! Hey Duke I too have had no luck
With the Tamiya product. For powders I prefer to mostly buy pastel stocks
And use a sanding block to grind them.

Another good one are the powders from VMS

 

[Duke Maddog]

Thank you Bruce! Yeah, I have pastels somewhere too. Thanks for reminding me I have them. I'll have to look and for them and give them a shot.

I'll look into VMS, but I don't expect to be able to get any for awhile.