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Tamiya 1/35 half-scratch build

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Tamiya 1/35 half-scratch build
Posted by djizomdjinn on Thursday, February 25, 2016 5:39 PM

I am not entirely sure that this is even the right community to post this in, or even if a community exists for this sort of thing, but here goes.

Basically I took an old, 70s Tamiya 1/35 M41 Walker Bulldog, assembled the bottom hull and suspension according to plan, sawed the most of the top hull and turret into detailed bits I could reuse elsewhere, and proceeded to more or less scratchbuild the entire thing into a fictional, roughly World War II-era assault gun out of styrene, metal pipes and strip, and unused bits from a Tamiya Pz.II I did a similar sort of conversion into a M56 Scorpion-esque tank destroyer.

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Posted by Gamera on Friday, February 26, 2016 10:39 AM

Hey that's pretty cool, I like it! 

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Posted by Bish on Friday, February 26, 2016 1:24 PM

Thats differant, i like it.

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Posted by tigerman on Saturday, February 27, 2016 12:19 AM

Kudos to your ingenuity.

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Posted by OldGoat on Saturday, February 27, 2016 1:22 AM

Now that is very imaginative.

Well done sir.

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Posted by stikpusher on Saturday, February 27, 2016 2:57 AM

Yes Very cool! It has that early Cold War look to my eye. The stuff sold under the Military Assistance Program to friendly nations

 

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  • From: A Galaxy Far, Far Away
Posted by Hunter on Saturday, February 27, 2016 7:01 AM

Very cool Sir, very cool. Great scratch buiding skills. What did you use for the sand bags?

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Posted by djizomdjinn on Saturday, February 27, 2016 2:34 PM
Just a set of Juweela sandbags. I could have sculpted them, but I wanted to get a set of scale sandbags first just to get the feel of how big they were in scale.
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Posted by SprueOne on Saturday, February 27, 2016 10:48 PM

Good ideas. I hope to see more like this from you. 

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Posted by Hunter on Monday, February 29, 2016 1:11 PM

djizomdjinn
Just a set of Juweela sandbags. I could have sculpted them, but I wanted to get a set of scale sandbags first just to get the feel of how big they were in scale.
 

Thank you dj

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