The Duke's Micro Model for the Month.

[Duke Maddog]

Here is my placeholder until this starts. Then I'll have a proper start pic:

I need more Canadians so this campaign will get me one more.

 

[Heavens Eagle]

Mark you should have to do a Macro Model for the month. (I'm kidding )

 

[sharkman]

Looks like a good choice Mark

 

[razordws]

You can never have too many Canadians!

Good choice!

 

[Duke Maddog]

Mark you should have to do a Macro Model for the month. (I'm kidding )
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LOL! Tried that once, thinking I could finish a four-engine plane in that amount of time. If I'd done it like a seven-year-old builds, I could've finished, but I tried making it look good. Never got past the preliminary paint stage.... In fact that model took another year and three months to finish!


Thanks Sharkman!

Thanks Dave! I agree, I do need more Canadians!

 

[sharkman]

Not sure about the strength of our armed forces but I think its amazing that we once had the third largest Navy in the world!

 

[Duke Maddog]

True. That is fantastic. I'd love to get a few Canadian ships too.

 

[SA Dave]

Any progress mate

 

[Duke Maddog]

Yes Dave; I did manage to get the whole thing built and ready for paint. Stay tuned, pics forthcoming.

 

[Duke Maddog]

Okay, here is my progress I did on this build. First, I'll post my startup pics here:

I miss the old "Modeler's Alliance Official Campaign Time" on the bottom of all posts showing the date and time, I always enjoyed showing my startup pics with that!

Anyway, let's get started on this....

I started by assembling the lower hull as it was in three pieces:

I then built the turret, only doing the basics while leaving off delicate parts until later:

Next was adding the additional parts to the upper hull. There weren't too many:

This is all three sub-assemblies dry-fit roughly together. Yes, the lower hull is under there:

Finally, I assembled the running gear and tracks and added additional parts and sub-assemblies to the turret. This tank is now ready for paint. Here it is all mocked up:

And that's as far as I got on this so far. Once I get a few more projects ready for paint, this one will be painted as well. Shouldn't be too much time now.

Thanks for looking in, comments are welcome.

 

[SA Dave]

Looking cool mate

 

[razordws]

That was quick Mark!

 

[Duke Maddog]

Thank you Dave and Dave!

This was a very quick kit to build; elegant in it's simplicity. The longest time I took on this was to carve grooves down the middle of the wheels to simulate the two roadwheels this is supposed to have.

 

[Impisi]

when I was in school - 10 or 12 - a freind of mine lived near the area where Kraus-Maffei was testing their Leopard 1 tank. We always tokk our bikes to get close where the Leos where driven - one could feel the earth vibrate when they did come close. Looking good

 

[Duke Maddog]

That is such a cool story Martin! I love reading things like this. It also reminds me of a friend who served with the German Army some years back. He told me of exercises with the US Army when the M-1 Abrams first came out. They would be setting up only to be taken out by the Abrams: they couldn't hear the turbine engines until they were right on top of them!

Gonna get paint shot soon I hope. Stay tuned.

 

[Duke Maddog]

Oh wow, I actually finished this campaign! I think this is the first time in seven years for a MMM campaign, five for any campaign!

Here it is the 1/72 scale ancient ESCI Canadian Leopard 1A3:

And I got it done with a couple days to spare!

 

[moon puppy]

Nice finish Mark

 

[Duke Maddog]

Thanks Bob! I'm glad I finally finished one of these again! Man, it's been too long!