Michael Martinez
Gainesville, Florida
Leonardo
da Vinci’s design for an armored car never got any further than the model stage
— so there’s no scale on the kit from Academy. Michael says, “This vehicle
would be a hypothetical example used in defense of the city state of Florence
during the Battle of Gavinana in 1530. The idea was to use early Italian
camouflage over a salt treatment of bronze plate. I cut open one plate to show
it at rest, with Florentine piping on the tent. There is a City of Florence
decal on the other side.”