Halftrack repair and new paint job?

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michelekingtiger
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Halftrack repair and new paint job?

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have just been repairing my 1/16 halftrack after its run around knebworth house american car show last weekend, parts of the front split, the hull fittings did too and so did the back  :-\ so using a mixture of PVA and white enamel paint ive made a very strong sealent to repair it :)
but now its like this i really want to repaint it, but dont know what camo sceme to use, if any has any suggestions please say :) cheers
-1/16 Tamiya King Tiger Porsche Turret (late war)
-RC Sdkfz halftrack
-1/16 HL Tiger (early)
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Re: Halftrack repair and new paint job?

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hi there, got any pics of your fix mate ?
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Re: Halftrack repair and new paint job?

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here are a couple of bad pictures of where its been repaired, lots of cracks appeared so using the paste mixture really worked well :)
-1/16 Tamiya King Tiger Porsche Turret (late war)
-RC Sdkfz halftrack
-1/16 HL Tiger (early)
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Re: Halftrack repair and new paint job?

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cool looks good.

with the amount of paint missing, go ahead and repaint it, an nice ambush camo colour perhaps :D

cheers,

Matt
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Re: Halftrack repair and new paint job?

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good idea :) was thinking of making it look like this
-1/16 Tamiya King Tiger Porsche Turret (late war)
-RC Sdkfz halftrack
-1/16 HL Tiger (early)
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