A friend of mine was commanding it during this exercise & we both agreed it looked really good, sadly a few weeks later he sent me a PIC & it was green & black
Re: BATUS Challenger 2
Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2016 1:41 am
by atcttge
Ah ok, I stand corrected then.
Would be nice to have it all black too, although for practicality (i.e., to break up the general pattern/silhouette that identifies it as a CR2) a camo pattern would be more useful. Then again, after a day in the field especially a muddy one, all those colours would "disappear" from all the mud.
BTW, thought you guys might find this of interest:
Re: BATUS Challenger 2
Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2016 8:34 am
by Simon M
The majority of Challenger 2's are just uniform green these days, those that are green & black are more often hand painted other than sprayed, there's still a few sand/green Challys kicking about but BATUS vehicles (not just Challenger) are uniform sand now, all down to out government cost cutting!!!
Re: BATUS Challenger 2
Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2016 12:35 pm
by Simon M
Simon M wrote:The majority of Challenger 2's are just uniform green these days, those that are green & black are more often hand painted other than sprayed, there's still a few sand/green Challys kicking about but BATUS vehicles (not just Challenger) are uniform sand now, all down to out government cost cutting!!!
Here's a few varieties, first one is DT12AA, the black one after repaint
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Re: BATUS Challenger 2
Posted: Wed Feb 10, 2016 1:37 pm
by Uncarina
Great pictures! Thanks for sharing.
Cheers, Tom
Re: BATUS Challenger 2
Posted: Sun Feb 14, 2016 9:42 pm
by Simon M
Uncarina wrote:Great pictures! Thanks for sharing.
Cheers, Tom
Not more done, replaced the damaged sprocket, painted the areas on the turret & hull for C/S & zap codes. Done a little bit of detail work on the turret so far but not happy with it yet! Guess when I've painted/touched up & weathered it a bit you won't notice it anyway lol
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Re: BATUS Challenger 2
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2016 1:49 pm
by Uncarina
Looks great! FWIW, Carson at DKLM RC is coming out with a metal template for adding the holes to the wheels.
Cheers, Tom
Re: BATUS Challenger 2
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2016 6:23 pm
by Simon M
Thanks Tom, I may invest in one of those
Re: BATUS Challenger 2
Posted: Tue Feb 16, 2016 6:27 pm
by Simon M
Well I ended up making my own decals, made a stencil originally but that wasn't very successful, sooooooo I reversed the template on the back of an address label, drew round it, cut it out, stuck it on & sealed with matt varnish lol, didn't need to be perfect as BATUS vehicles call signs are as rough as nails
Talk about being a cheapskate!!!!!
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