[Desert]--Indian Army T-72

[ColemanCollector]

Here's the official start to my Desert Group Build project--an Indian Army T-72 in all its pointillist camouflage glory.

The tank is a HL version 6.0 T-72 I picked up used on marketplace. Everything is working but it suffers the usual mass assembly woes of mold lines, seams where there shouldn't be, textureless surfaces and crudish details. The PO twisted the parts off of the sprues, so lots of those twisty bit remnants, poorly positioned and glued details, and a sloppily applied winter camo to finish things off.

The starting point:

20230221_180815.jpg (1.93 MiB) Viewed 2769 times

20230222_133657.jpg (2.15 MiB) Viewed 2769 times

20230222_133849.jpg (1.83 MiB) Viewed 2769 times

20230222_133711.jpg (2.1 MiB) Viewed 2769 times

The finishing point:

Untitled.jpg (319.16 KiB) Viewed 2769 times

Indian T-72.jpg (1.45 MiB) Viewed 2769 times

Indian_Army_Tank_01.jpg (152.13 KiB) Viewed 2769 times

Plan is the usual strip off of details, add armour texture, budget accurize stuff as much as possible, canvas mantlet, rubber side skirts, and then give it a pointillist camouflage pattern that's as spicy as the Lamb Vindaloo at the Little India Cafe in Nepean, Ontario! And it is spicy, and it is good!

Mike.

[Panzermechaniker]

Amazing camo scheme. I'll definitely be interested in how you do it and how long it will take. Wow

[Ecam]

The PO twisted the parts off of the sprues, so lots of those twisty bit remnants, poorly positioned and glued details, and a sloppily applied winter camo to finish things off.

It wasn't mine Mike, I don't do modern.

That camo is going to be fun. Looking forward to this build!

[Herr Dr. Professor]

"[A] pointillist camouflage pattern that's as spicy as the Lamb Vindaloo at the Little India Cafe in Nepean, Ontario" is a wonderful description. This is well worth a clean-up of the parts and a camouflage paint job that should drive you a) bananas and b) to an optometrist. Yay ColemanCollector

[MrChef]

Oh, you're really gonna do it. I can't wait to see if you lose your mind doing that camo scheme...

Off to the races we Go!!!

[HERMAN BIX]

And this

No use putting off the paint job, we all know you started this trail!!!!

[Pavel]

I think before THIS painting is finished, I can move into a house over which a cuckoo will fly.....
Just looking at THIS makes my hands drop....

[ColemanCollector]

Hey, I've got Heng Long developing a full sheet of "T, L, & I pasters" for this tank. Piece of cake.

To be honest, I'm putting away on it slowly, but not feeling the building mojo. Hull stuff pretty much done, turret to texture and get HLs weird conduit that starts and goes nowhere fixed up. Even got the Indian triple external half fuel tank arrangement figured out for placement and piping.

The weight of the pointillist world...

Mike.