HL M1A1 TUSK upgrade

[nexusys]

Great tip with the tree scaling idea. I've never thought of that

Pleasure!

[Estnische]

Drive out to Wittenoom, and you'll find some blue backgrounds! (Just need to take a respirator and a hazmat suit!)

[nexusys]

Drive out to Wittenoom, and you'll find some blue backgrounds! (Just need to take a respirator and a hazmat suit!)

Bit of history there. Never thought Hancock has a lot of involvement north of WA ever since before.

Sometime i go up to Tom Price and go pass Karijini. But naaa i would avoid that area.

[HERMAN BIX]

Yea those pictures are awesome. That’s some location for pics. Very cool
And nice work on the tank

Hey Marko! Thank you. Appreciate it

I think it would be nice to have a nice backdrop on that for all of our work. Please tell us if you used a camera or your smartphone? Makes for a nice bit of information for the folks entering the TOTM picture thread

Hi Carl, Cheers for that

- I'm using DSLR camera,
- Look for open space far away from the trees, this way the size of the trees can be slightly down scale to the tank.
- Distance myself as far as i can
- Use 18-55mm lens
- And zoom as close as i can (zoom to the max)

One of my shot on 1/24 Abrams VSTANK

The photos were awesome

Thank you Hammer!!

THAT, is an OUTSTANDING and very creative picture of any tank of any make mate.......
Pure genius and one I feel may be all to common in real life in-theatre situations now days.

Very Nice!!

hahah Cheers Barry, i'm still eyeing on your Abrams!

[nexusys]

Its been awhile since i update the progress. Been busy back home, gathering all the things i need to take them all up here and now back in action.


Slat Armour.

I had to rework on it because i didnt do the 2 vertical bits of the armour. Previously, i built a long straight bar across both ends.
This time, i modified it to add them based on the real ones.

Before


Now



I tried to line them up as level as i can, but i didnt get a straight line across. Tell you what. Its quite difficult.
Those bits i put in between is to set the slats apart until the glue dries up. Otherwise it keeps moving all over.



I attempted to paint them using Acrylic Paint, but it won't stick. Im not really good in painting, so maybe i did something wrong


I brought it to work and spray paint it. I would love to use Tamiya paint, but i just had to use what ever i can to paint it.




Cool that bit is done.


Next, the hull. When i cut the rear side skirting and the rear part, i didnt cut it straight. Plus i think i cut it a bit to high up exposing the lower hull parts and visible.
Notice this?



Bothers me and get annoyed by looking at it
Went and bought Light Curing Putty, its expensive. Because the hobby store i went doesnt have normal putty in stock. It was last minute job, and i blew the money.


I cut a bit of styrene, line them up, glue them and smudge the putty to fill the gaps


At first im struggling using this and wasted heaps of them. According to Tamiya, under the exposure of UV lights from the sun, it can take up to a minute to dry and fluorescent up to 2 mins.

I did this at night, and tested over and over, NEVER DRIES! left it overnight, still not dry!!!

Took it to work, leave it in the car under the sun indirectly, left them several minute BOOOOOMMM dried up like no tomorrow. SOlid hard! BEST PRODUCT EVER!

This putty is that sensitive, if you apply it outdoor, the putty starting to cure and haredened almost instantly!

Had to bring in indoor in a room to do some application before taking outside for drying.

The tube itself needs to be stored in a black plastic bag that comes with it and store it. thats how sensitive this thing is.

This is the result! Amazing


I sand it down and ready for painting touch up


Here after i painted the bits




Im using Tamiya Acrylic Nato Black paint for this. The skirting has been weathered since.


Next, hand held spotlight. Cut bit here and there, and putty it again


Not the greatest, but hey, i tried


I made a mount for it and attach the spotlight. Next step is to add the swirly cord to it





Hey thanks for stopping by!

[HERMAN BIX]

Looks alright to me !!.........................doing a tidy up, will move this into the Modern builds section soon

[nexusys]

Looks alright to me !!.........................doing a tidy up, will move this into the Modern builds section soon

Thanks Herman!

Yep, if you dont mind put me in the right place. I didnt see that section when i opened this topic, Cheers maayyyyte

[nexusys]

Cheers Herman, for moving this topic!

[nexusys]

Starting to work on belly armour.

Not much reference out there, except PrimePortal as always. Even that sort of help me a bit. I just do it based on whatever photos i have.









What do you think? you reckon the size needs to be taller in height from the front view? or just right?

[BarryC]

Nexusys,

Mine is based on several different 1/35 models and on the limited available photos.

I can't tell from you photos how much angle you have on the front. Here are some pics of my effort, may be of help.

Barry