Very nice...love every aspect of it!

very nice looking build love the camo net on the barrel do you use gauze or some pre made camo netting for it?  wow 86 it would still be another year before i was born thats a long build time lol

Dude that's cool!

That has to be one of the longest builds i have seen. In fact, that can't have been much after the Chally came into service. Great job all round.

Really nice.  I mean REALLY nice.  makes me wanna finish mine.  It's not been since '86 but it's been on he back shelf for a few years.

hey bish

i've got a tamiya M60A2 missile tank (actually the kit is an M60A1E1) that dates from late '70s to very early' '80s, earlier than CHALLENGER. i may have to finish it.

gauze, bandage wrap. i cut it to fit and shredded the edges a bit. painted it with base green and brown and green and black. white glued it on and added masking tape for straps and paaimnted that because real tankers, and i are one, don't superglue tow cables, track pads, and camo nets to their real tanks.

looking for some thinner flimsier stuff to drab over turrets.

I agree with the other comments. She looks great.

Looks good to me  Although I think it would look better in a West German village setting...  I built that same kit about 20 years ago now and still love the way it looks.

i agree. might be time to build a generic building scene. and a generic dirt hull down base. i will be building a dig in base for some mid east '56 and '67 builds. also planning a golan heights firing ramp in the future.

That is a great looking tank. I love it. Are those sideskirts from the kit? They look really good.

yes side skirts are one piece. it's built OOB. i added antenna (thin wire), camo net, water cans on turret and other storage,

guess i best get started on my barak bde idf SHOT KAL for group build.

Great restoration project waynec

Very nicely done. I always loved the Challengers, they have really sleek lines, almost kind of remind me of being like the Ferrari of tanks.

corvettemike

Very nicely done. I always loved the Challengers, they have really sleek lines, almost kind of remind me of being like the Ferrari of tanks.

They go like a bloody Ferrari as well, especially cross country. Even though Warriors are as fast, we could never keep up with them on rouhg ground. They just glide over everything.

NIce job on this one Wayne, looks great on the base.

Nicely done,  Wayne.  You can really see the Chieftain heritage in the Challenger 1 can't you?

Great job Wayne, I too really like the camo on the barrel.

thanks to everyone for the really nice comments. it is encouraging to know i am developing the skills to take an older, average, inexpensive but well molded kit and turn it into something nice sans $40+US of PE and AMM. i might even finish the ALANGER 1/400 POTEMKIN russain predreadnought one of these days. this may go into contest next week. we have a max 2 models per category to prevent sweeps and i have a number of modern armor (8x8 LAV-III, 8x8 CENTAURO, 8x8 STRYKER) to use.

you can see the lineage. i have an idf SHO'T  and SHO'T KAL in the stash. i may have to look for an older tamiya CHIEFTAIN at the vendor tables at upcoming contests.

AWESOME BUILD waynec you brought this old kit to life. very nice.

Clay

Hi Wayne. It was nice seeing it in person at the club meeting last night.  Great build.  Are you entering it in the WingNut contest on the 15th?

I really liked the camo. on it.  

Doug

P.S.  do you still need those Arabic number decals? I can bring them to the show if you want.

hi doug

always good seeing you too.

ever have a kit that isn't bad but gives you fits and you keep doing stupid things when building it. this OH-13S is driving me nuts and it shouldn't. the good news is 1. i can pick up another one this afternoon and 2. i gain more and more confidence repairing goofs each time i make one.

i will have my LAV-III and CENTAURO in armor. given the comments here i think i will enter it and T-34/85. i hand lettered arabic numbers on it. not bad for a first try and most pics show them kinda rough. i would like the arab decals.

the CHALLENGETR I was handpainted 25 years ago. good thing i didn't have to try to match the green. think i will start looking at stash sales for a CHIEFTAIN now. and i am a warwheel guy. i thought i had given up on tracks.

i picked up some bridal veil today. the bandage gauze works ok on the barrel or rolled up but i have seen pics of LEOPARDS and other AFVs with nets draped over parts of the turrets and the gauze is too heavy. we used to drape nets over my M-106A gun tracks. i'm hoping i can paint it without clogging the holes. got a ahlf yard so i have enough to practice with.

woo hoo. CHALLENGER took 1st (AFV CLUB STRYKER ICV took 2nd) in local contest post ww2 armor. didn't expect either of these to win. my shelf queen finishes are claening up.

Well done wayne, nice one.

Congratulations Wayne. 

Very nicely done and she looks great on the base