1/35 Tammy M51 1967 Six Day War ....Complete.... RFI ....pixs !!

[CANicoll]

Awesome build and you'll still have plenty of time for the GB.  

[Peterpools]

PW

Flying through the Sherman build for sure - looking mighty good.

[PanzerWomble]

5 hours ago, Martinnfb said:

I like the damaged road wheels , nice touch.

Cheers

Martin

😀Thanks 

That Negev desert ..... full of rubber destroying rocks was my thought  

[PanzerWomble]

Back on the road .. today my stowage arrived , lotsa it . 

Appears to be a copy of the Legend Productions set , which is a little disappointing to find it's a knock off. Last stuff I bought was original work . 

 

 

Cleaned it all up and affixed with heavy viscosity superglue . Remembered to wear a mask when grinding it all clean 

 

 

 

 

[PanzerWomble]

So now according to Martin Kovacs it all get black based 

 

Nope , as much as I like his work I find this , followed by light shade from up top and below with a darker coat ....a bit cliched in 2024 ..and results in all your models looking like Uncle Nightshifts ...

So generic grey primer, good coverage and slightly textured, plus good for mixed media -some of the parts are copper sheet replacement ..sticks ot it all 

 

 

[PanzerWomble]

Ok ex factory these came in OD ...so OD it is . Followed by the best hairspray for chipping as recommend by Evan at Panzermeister36 ...

 

 

Which os still a dark base , but authentic colour and only there for some light chipping later

 

 

[PanzerWomble]

so , mix by eye Light Sand ....its been faded a bit , mix of XF s

and some wet brush chipping one heavy travelled areas . Not gone too mad , Israelis looked after their tanks as valuble kit . 

 

 

 

 

[PanzerWomble]

3 decals ( god.... I love armour for that ) .....and a bunch of painting using Vallejo paints and a wet pallette. 

 

 

 

And draw the session to a close with my favourite matt varnish ...a recommend from Alexander Pedan who makes great trucks 

 

 

So a good evening , we are now ready to start the weathering , finish the tracks, build some figures  and complete the model , before moving onto a small dio . 

A shot for the 1967 Six Day War ..

 

 

Laterz

PW 

[CANicoll]

PW:  Awesome!  Great work on the add-ons, the paint and weathering looks terrific.

[Martinnfb]

Very nice progress.

[Landlubber Mike]

Wow, looks great PW!  Really impressive.

[Peterpools]

PW

X4 Fantastic progress and both the Sherman and the addons look brilliant.  

[Martinnfb]

[Martinnfb]

[PanzerWomble]

@Martinnfb

 

Thanks for the pics my friend  , FYI some are Six Day War ...some Yom Kippur ..

I've gone 1967 as they were still mostly "light sand" ...IDF turned into "grey desert" in the early 1970s , although apart from where they mounted some of the accessories there's not a lot in it . 

They palmed the M51s off on the Lebanese Militias in the 1980s ..who did this with them , although god knows how old 1940's homogenous armour coped with RPG-7 Rounds ....probably why they were cast. 

 

[PanzerWomble]

Some good research HERE !

[Martinnfb]

I’m planning to build Chilean version. One day …

[PanzerWomble]

Calling this one done . Didn't reckon much to the in-box figures , so will leave any dio to another day when /I can find some nicer resin offerings . Plus I'd like to finish my Brizzol .

 

M51 1967 Six Day War .

Cheerz

 

PW 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[belugawhaleman]

Nice finnish! I built that kit a while back, fun build.

[Peterpools]

PW

Brilliant, fantastic work and the weathering is spot on and oh so real. 🏆

 

 

[CANicoll]

PW

Beautiful work!  Your added bits really make a huge improvement to the terrific work you did on the tank.  Weathering is so nicely done, too.

[HubertB]

8 hours ago, Peterpools said:

PW

Brilliant, fantastic work and the weathering is spot on and oh so real. 🏆

 

 

 

6 hours ago, CANicoll said:

PW

Beautiful work!  Your added bits really make a huge improvement to the terrific work you did on the tank.  Weathering is so nicely done, too.

What Peter and Chris said 

Hubert

[BlrwestSiR]

Great work there. 

One question, how do you paint the road wheels after everything is assembled? Any easier than painting them before assembly?

[PanzerWomble]

16 hours ago, BlrwestSiR said:

Great work there. 

One question, how do you paint the road wheels after everything is assembled? Any easier than painting them before assembly?

Cheer Carl 

I brush the wheels after base colour but before the tracks go on ( although have done that as well when using individual links ) 

If you look closely you'll see the inner rubber tyres are mostly unpainted ....but you don't notice when you look at it. 

 

My style is "glue everything together as much as you can and then paint" . It's partly where I come apart with aircraft because I have to plan it far more..even worse with ships . 

 

@HubertB  @CANicoll  @Peterpools  @belugawhaleman

Thanks for the encouraging comments fellas . 

[BlrwestSiR]

Thanks!  I'll have to give it a try.