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Takom 1/35 scale tadpole and Tamiya Mark IV Male WWI tank

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  • Member since
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  • From: Pearl River, Louisiana
Takom 1/35 scale tadpole and Tamiya Mark IV Male WWI tank
Posted by claudez on Monday, February 1, 2016 10:18 PM

  The topmost pic is the Takom 1/35 scale Mark IV Tadpole. It was proposed to counter the German anti tank ditches, but was founfd to be too rigid and never used in combat.

The second set are of the Tamiya 1/35th scale Mark IV male WWI tank.This was a fun build. it is motorized and lumbers quite nicely over all the stuff on my workbench. Won a first place out of box armor with it in 2015.mark IV

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  • From: East Stroudsburg, PA
Posted by TigerII on Monday, February 1, 2016 11:32 PM

Very nice builds. Excellent weathering on the tracks.

Achtung Panzer! Colonel General Heinz Guderian
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  • From: On my kitchen counter top somewhere in North Carolina.
Posted by disastermaster on Monday, February 1, 2016 11:51 PM

TigerII
Very nice builds. Excellent weathering on the tracks.

I agree http://z4.ifrm.com/12405/69/0/e7401/e7401.gif
   https://forums.tigsource.com/Smileys/derek/eyebrows.gif Very nice work here.

Sherman-Jumbo-1945

"I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now"

 

 
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  • From: Pearl River, Louisiana
Posted by claudez on Tuesday, February 2, 2016 9:42 AM

Thanks, guys.. The tracks were done with this great stuff called Sophisicated finishes.I know you can find it on Amazon ( I did) or in craft stores in the antiquing section. It is a 2 part application that has you brush metal powder ( in a chemical suspension) onto the surface you want rusted and then an activator that rusts it in just minutes.. Very neat stuff.

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  • From: SW Virginia
Posted by Gamera on Tuesday, February 2, 2016 10:08 AM

Wow, that's some sharp work! I've seen a few 'landship' models around but yours is one of the better ones- kudos sir!

"I dream in fire but work in clay." -Arthur Machen

 

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    March 2003
  • From: Western North Carolina
Posted by Tojo72 on Wednesday, February 3, 2016 8:05 AM

I also enjoyed the Tamiya kit,but yours is outstanding.

I used it to attack the cat.

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  • From: Vancouver, the "wet coast"
Posted by castelnuovo on Saturday, February 6, 2016 12:01 AM

You are so mean Tojo Devil. What is your cat's address? I'll send him\her a panzerfaust or two Big Smile

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  • From: Western North Carolina
Posted by Tojo72 on Saturday, February 6, 2016 6:26 AM
Now THAT'S funny !!

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Posted by Tojo72 on Saturday, February 6, 2016 6:27 AM

Now THAT'S funny !!!

  • Member since
    January 2007
  • From: Pearl River, Louisiana
Posted by claudez on Saturday, February 6, 2016 4:08 PM

That's funny.. When I was a kid , first building models in the late 70s, I built the monogram 1/48 scale naval airplanes with the working features, i.e. dropping bobs, torpedoes etc.. and ran regular sorties against the family dog... till i left my room door open and came home from school and he had destroyed every one of them..hehe Chewed the bombs to splinters..

 

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Posted by CrashTestDummy on Monday, February 8, 2016 2:23 PM

claudez

Thanks, guys.. The tracks were done with this great stuff called Sophisicated finishes.I know you can find it on Amazon ( I did) or in craft stores in the antiquing section. It is a 2 part application that has you brush metal powder ( in a chemical suspension) onto the surface you want rusted and then an activator that rusts it in just minutes.. Very neat stuff.

My wife brought some similar stuff home made by TenSecondsStudio called VerDay paint.  It's an acrylic patina finish.  You get copper, iron, brass, bronze colored paints with a spray you spray on them when still wet that causes the paint to turn the oxidized color.  I've already tried it on the water jacket (copper) on my FT17 engine.  Plan to apply it to the treads too. 

Nice work!

Gene Beaird,
Pearland, Texas

 

G. Beaird,

Pearland, Texas

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  • From: Pearl River, Louisiana
Posted by claudez on Monday, February 8, 2016 8:03 PM

Thanks.. The sophisticated finishes stuff consists of 2 bottles. One is the finely powdered iron in a liquid suspension and the other is the rusting activator.. I slathered the metal on fairly liberally and drizzled the activator on top of it. I also coated the exhaust fairly heavily with it and applied the activator to it as well. It rusts up in about 10 to 15 minutes.

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