Bowcat's 1/35 Meng Gepard A1/A2

[monica]

nice start with them,Bob,there a nice looking track,:smiling:

[Mr Bowcat]

The hull is now mostly finished, just a couple of bits to add after painting. :smiling3:

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[monica]

looking good,do like the PE,makes a lot of differences to a build,adding that bit more detail,:smiling:

[Mr Bowcat]

I agree Moni. There's not much on the hull, but a fair bit more for the turret.

[col68]

Coming along nicely Bob.

[Mr Bowcat]

I've had a monster modelling session this weekend and finished the turret.

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There's loads of nice detail in the rear of the turret and on the back of the radar unit, but none of it is seen once the two are together. It looks like you could probably make the radar unit hinge as in the real vehicle, but I just glued it all in to place.

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Despite what I said before I haven't done any more of the tracks yet, so I think I'm just going to sit down and knock them out in one go.

[monica]

looking good,dose have a lot of detail,and very busy ,looking good,:hungry:

[Mr Bowcat]

Cheers Moni.

[Ian M]

Hope you solved you problem with FS colour conversations, if not Vallejo have quite a comprehensive conversation chart as a pdf file. There are a lot of paint brands on it.

[Mr Bowcat]

Cheers Ian, I'll check out their chart but otherwise will just buy the Ammo/AK paints from John.

[Mr Bowcat]

So I found out today that none of the German A2's had side skirts, so the parts is cleaned up were superfluous, other than two very small parts at the ends. After a short amount of butchery I went from this:

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To this:

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I also started on the rest of the tracks. I've decided to production line them, so first job was removing the track pins from their sprues. Each one has 4 connection points so will also need sanding.

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[stillp]

:dizzy:

[papa 695]

Very nice work with the turret Bob, but rather you than me with the tracks. :dizzy::confounded:

[Mr Bowcat]

Tracks and wheels are an AFV modellers punishment for making dirty vehicles. :tears-of-joy:

[Mr Bowcat]

What a tedious evening.

180 odd track pins sanded, 4 connection points each.

For an encore I did the inner track pads, only 1 connection point each, but 340 of them! My back is killing me, and I have cramp in my left hand.

Just the outer pads left to do, another 340.

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