Das Werk 1/16 Leopard 2 A7V

[Merad]

Hey folks, first post here.  I got back into the hobby about 6 months ago and this is my first truly large scale build.  This is a newly released kit, I had it on preorder and it came in Thursday.  It's probably going to be an out of the box build, haven't seen any aftermarket available yet and the detail on the kit is so incredible that I'm not sure I could improve it much with my skills.  I'll be doing Bundeswehr markings - the only downside of building the Leo is that they're all basically identical (I read that they're painted by robots).

I'm now at the super fun track assembly step.  😅  Honestly it's not been too bad, about 2 hours Friday evening got all of the track pins off the sprue and cleaned up, another 2.5 hours last night got half of the track links off the sprue and about 1/4 of them assembled.  The tracks are so big that they go together easy!

 

Finally a few close ups of some of the amazing detail on the kit.  Pretty decent looking weld seams IMO, able beautifully crisp bolts and casting marks.

[FullArmor]

Hello. And welcome to this forum. 🤝

Nice to see this new kit build. And all 1/16 builds are very welcome👍

Those track reminds me about my 1/16 abrams build😬

[BlrwestSiR]

Welcome aboard! This is a kit I plan to get in the future so I'm glad to see one being built. Great to hear it's going together nicely. 

As for AM, there's a couple MG3 guns have been announced/released but that's it. 

Carl

[DocRob]

Another friend of heavy metal, welcome to LSM. Good to see you building the big Leo as the first one here.

Cheers Rob