Firsts...

And unfortunately another first ...... the links failed ..... sorry.

Well, it sounds cool. Try to get those pics up. I'm not the guy to ask how though. Good Luck!

Sorry I only see lots of red text, and when I click it I get "document not found"

Darn, sorry about that. I'll try to get that fixed.

Okay, I hope this works...

http://www.geocities.com/warren_bridgewater/pictures.html?1080580338908

Yep, the second link worked fine in routing to your site.
Good jpb on the tank. I really do admire the small scale stuff

Looks gerat. I wish I could really get into the small stuff, could do alot of multi vehichle dios that way.

awwww 1/72 is soooo cute, like a little keychain :)

Looks great, nice job!!

Thank, glad you enjoyed the pictures

Really neat. Great job in 1/72!

Really nice. I wouldn't say basic... I'd say there is room for additions. Some rufuse or something in the area by the grass in front of the tank would do wonders.

Cool stuff wrbridge

Ooo...yeah, refuse would add a nice touch to the scene. Thanks for the suggestion cassibill

You're welcome wrbridge. For some reason space filler isn't noticed when it's there, but only when it isn't. You could use anything for refuse. Just weather it into the ground work good. You could do odd stuff since people fleeing would have lightened the load periodically.

Now where did I put that 1/72 scale air conditioner and office furniture set....?

Looks good. Small and wonderful.

Looks great

Looks great, keep 'em coming

Very nice Warren. 1/72 is very impressive when done with skill. Congatulations on a great build.

great work there Wrbridge. wish my atempts at armor and dio's came out that good.
Greg

Thank you very much guys.

Office furniture on a Mule! That would have been freaking hilarious!!! Good job Warren. ya got me thinking about trying some 1/72. Keep up the good work.
Ryan

Good job, very impressive!

I think is great ,but you can put a little dirt on the tank to give a used look,and add some little stones to the floor I think.
Nice job

ok very good but if you want to, take the base color and very very very very very very lightly drybrush over the decals to dull them a bit. other than that, very nice work. =D

Thanks for the suggestions guys. I did weather the tank with a few washes, some dry brushing and a little but of pastel dust. In person the tank looks a lot more 'used' but for some reason in the pictures that detail was lost (the 'sand' also was quite as yellow as it looked the shots). Too much flash maybe? I'm still trying to get the hang of the whole photography thing.

Good stuff Warren, When it gets older, will it get bigger?
I like it. I really want to try some of the smaller scale stuff one day. The artist and compulsive part of me would make my head explode though trying to do detail work on a piece that small though.
What did you use for a base? Ground material?foiliage?
Fill us in on some more info on this build. I mean the pics are a great but that's just a teaser. Enquiring minds want to know....

Mike

hehe....I'll have to water it occasionally and see if it grows

The base is made from three layers of thick plastic that I salvaged from an old tri-fold display stand they were throwing away at the office. I used contact cement to secure the three layers together which gave me a pretty firm base to work with. I built up the road with strips of cardboard and then sculped the contours of the hillside with polyfiller. I pained the entire base tan as a base coat and added some darker highlights to detail the run-off ditches coming down off the road.

The road surface is actually a course paper type compound that I believe is intended for model railway scenes. I weathered the road with a couple of different layers of pastel calk to give it a dusty appearence (which again wasn't really picked up in the photos, it actually not as dark as it looks in the pictures). The ground cover is fine ballast from Woodland Scenics, and I used Woodland Scenics static grass and light foiliage on the ground in and around the marshy area below the road.