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Leopard 2A6M CAN
Update It seems like ages since I last put something on here, so here goes. Tracks have been in primer for a week and as I have been busy with other parts they seem to have been ignored - to be rectified in the next couple of days... On the right is the kit offeringand on the left is the...- Isitme
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IDF D9R.
Just completed and now on its base. Interior pics are from the build as now you have a hard job to see into the cab - but it is all there - honest :smiling4: And that is it for another build, many thanks for looking in and taking part. Mike- Isitme
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IDF D9R
Update, Build now complete and off to the 'Completed Models' section. Many thanks for all your comments and likes it is both encouraging and good to realise someone takes an interest - Thank you. Mike.- Isitme
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Spots on the Internet (2022)
Don't know if it has been reported earlier... RFM released the Leopard 2A6M CAN with bar armour. (All pics from RFM and for discusion only) An early version - to get the later version first you add the 'Barracuda' camoflague and then for the later version you add the short bar armour... But... -
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Leopard 2A6M CAN
Update, All the wheels etc plus the underside of the sponsons have been primed ready for a coat of colour, which once the outer sections are on will make it difficult to paint. The mine roller has now had the chains added and will soon be getting the final details painted... ... It is not...- Isitme
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Leopard 2A6M CAN
So while waiting for the base of the D9R to reach completion (sanding, filling, painting etc) I had a dig around my collection of projects started but not finished kits and came up with this offering. (for discussion only) A Leopard 2A6M CAN with mine roller attachment..... As I said the kit...- Isitme
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IDF D9R
Update, So Saturday arrived and I did my duty with the RSPB bird spotting I spotted and Becky did the recording - trouble is that our three 'children' have this thing about birds in the garden - so it was up the road to the local woods - well we do walk the dogs in there and they do consider it...- Isitme
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IDF D9R
Update, First many thanks for all the comments and likes, some I have replied to and to those I have not even more thanks to you for taking the time to put fingers to keyboards, you are all stars. Detail painting is now done and the ahem! decals are on... The paint is meant to look rough as it...- Isitme
- Post #53
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IDF D9R
Update, Been a busy day today, last thing yesterday I primed all the brass bar armour and the cab section, assembled the rams for the dozer blade. Today I sprayed the base coat onto the cab and bar armour, then primed the rams for the d'blade. Tonight have been busy with detail painting and...- Isitme
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Garden this morning
John, John, do not panic :anguished:, I will send my three little darlings around, and they will sort out all that green stuff you have in your garden, they are great at turning perfectly good grass into mud within hours and you can guarantee you will hear language from your SWMBO that would...- Isitme
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IDF D9R
Update, The brass work is still progressing and thankfully I am nearly at the end of the bar armour... only the part that is attached to the door to go.... Left side... Test fit with the 'ladder' in front. There was some confusion with the lower mounting brackets. The instructions would have...- Isitme
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IDF D9R
Update, Been a few days since the last update, but I have not been idle... I have had one small enjoyable distraction. The cab has had more brass added and still more to go..... Bar armour for two sides only.... ...Rear and right side... Tracks - I started to construct the tracks but really...- Isitme
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IDF D9R
Update, The bar armour and brackets are now underway, but I cannot just cement the lower brackets in place as there is not locating drawings or locations marked, just the 2D sketches on the instructions which give a vague location.... Locating the first bars and uprights in the jig.... Work...- Isitme
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IDF D9R
Update, Again many thanks to all that have 'Liked' and also commented on the build. Well I hope you all had a good Xmas, our's was so quiet even the grave stones left for brighter lights (just joking). So a couple of days before my neighbours break-in SWMBO decided that the washing machine...- Isitme
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Latest Acquisitions (2021)
As some of you possibly read on my build I finally retired my old tweezers and went looking for replacements... Well here are the replacements, and as you can see they have been in full use - not!!! The Pink pair are what is left from the 'Army Painter' set of tweezers, the ones with the points... -
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IDF D9R
Update, Many thanks for your comments, as always encouraging. Couple of more pics of the work in progress... The headlight and guards.- Isitme
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LAV-25
Here are a few pics of the Canadian LAV-25. Mike.- Isitme
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A new suit of armour - LAV-25 style.
Update. Now finished and on completed models. Cheers Mike.- Isitme
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IDF D9R
Update, So work has been going apace on the cab... The work was taken from the D9R book from Eagle Publishing.... I rebuilt the escape door on the right side... The black edge has to be touched up and made finer... I noticed that behind the Cmdrs seat there was a two-door cupboard and this...- Isitme
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IDF D9R
Update, So that was where I was apart from some awful painting (must have been a duff bottle) before I put the build away... And this is where I am a week ago... Notice the roof of the engine bay to the right... The kit exhaust stack was replaced with tube and even more brass... Then it was...- Isitme
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