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[Desert]--Indian Army T-72
Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2024 9:58 pm
by 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:
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The finishing point:
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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.
Re: [Desert]--Indian Army T-72
Posted: Tue Jul 09, 2024 11:01 pm
by Panzermechaniker
Amazing camo scheme. I'll definitely be interested in how you do it and how long it will take. Wow
Re: [Desert]--Indian Army T-72
Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2024 12:16 am
by Ecam
ColemanCollector wrote: ↑Tue Jul 09, 2024 9:58 pm
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!
Re: [Desert]--Indian Army T-72
Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2024 12:32 am
by 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
Re: [Desert]--Indian Army T-72
Posted: Wed Jul 10, 2024 2:17 am
by 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!!!
Re: [Desert]--Indian Army T-72
Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2025 10:49 pm
by HERMAN BIX
And this
No use putting off the paint job, we all know you started this trail!!!!
Re: [Desert]--Indian Army T-72
Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2025 10:07 am
by 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....
Re: [Desert]--Indian Army T-72
Posted: Sat Mar 15, 2025 2:56 pm
by 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.
Re: [Desert]--Indian Army T-72
Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2025 12:46 am
by HERMAN BIX
C’mon Mr Coleman, I know this is out there.
Let’s be having you then
The villagers are revolting
Re: [Desert]--Indian Army T-72
Posted: Sat Jul 26, 2025 2:35 am
by MrChef
HERMAN BIX wrote: ↑Fri Jul 25, 2025 12:46 am
C’mon Mr Coleman, I know this is out there.
Let’s be having you then
The villagers are revolting
somewhere I even saved several pictures of this camo pattern and a modeler who did it.