Good to see you back RB. Off to a god start.

Is the gray texture that you're adding or different plastic?

Nah, looks like Surfacer "roughening" for that cast feel... RBaer, good to see you build again. Some time ago your builds have motivated me to add the Nagmachon to my stash - this thing has haunted me sinse I've seen it in the news like 20 years ago. Good luck with your build and try to keep it sane... Have a nice day

Paweł

Thanks all. It's good to be building. I hadn't realized how much I was missing it until I had to take about 8 months off.

Pawel hit it, the gray is MrSurfacer 500, to simulate cast steel texture. I also had to fill a lot of holes and gaps on the old girl, and the MrSurfacer is good to get a uniform texture between kit plastic, added plastic and the various types of putty I use.

Eight months sure goes by fast.
Seems like just a few weeks since your last subject post.

                                            

You've been missed.

I'm really excited to see how this turns out. I've got a Magach conversion set in storage that I'd really like to play with eventually. Its such a mean looking machine.

She's looking really good! 

What kit # is this?

Matt

Tanker45

What kit # is this?

1/35 Academy Magach 7C Gimel (13297).

It's looking really nice too.  Good job on it so far.

Nice!  I have the same one on my shelf.  Can't wait to see it done!  Looking great so far!

I like the IDF armor builds. Looking good

Thanks all. More done this past week, mostly the turret. Academy supplies all the 7c turret as new parts, and the complete Sprue E from the old Magach6 kit for items like water cans, so I have lots of spare parts for the next project. With the AFV Club M60A1, Legend and Academy bits I have in the stash, and some tracks, I have enough left over to do a Magach6. Hmmm.....

Speaking of new parts, the Urdan cupola in this kit is new, and appears to be a very good representation of the actual item, much improved over the old Magach6 kit's part. Also, Academy did a slight goof on the turret basket tow cable brackets, supplying six when there should be seven, so in order to obtain the same look and keep symmetry, I only used five and shifted the mounting points. The basket itsef is pretty good, if a little "heavy", so if I was to do another one of these kits, I would use the Legend "loaded" basket. I think they do one anyway, I know they do a nice one for the Magach6B Gal-batash.

I've included pics of the hull, also mostly finished. Several parts are pirated from other kits, like the IDF-added Merkava style tow points on the rear. Academy's new (and mostly correct) drive sprockets still lack mud clearing holes, so those were added. Pitch is slightly off, even the kit tracks are not a good fit, and since I'm using Friuls, I had do so some filing and re-shaping on the teeth, but nothing major.

Anyway, the pics so far:

Edit: P-bucket malfunction, will update later.

It's time for anti-slip, not sure exactly what I'l use yet. All the pics I have show a very fine texture, different than Merkavas, so my Liquitex may work.

Thanks for looking!

That's pretty impressive so far.  I'm looking forward to watching your build!

'95, thanks. Still going on it, time for the small amount of anti-slip and then paint....

I think.

Anyway, I've done the spare road wheel mounts for the turret basket using some spare Tamiya wheels from the M48 kits, added spare track links and mounts in the turret basket and left rear fender using spare Friuls and plastic stock, and then more brush-work with Humbrol 110, trying to get those hard-to-spray areas and create some shadow at the same time. Turret MGs are built up, just not installed yet, and antenna mounts using Desert Eagle "tied down" springs are on. I'll be doing a minimal amount of stowage, as I plan on posing this one "in action", in an urban setting, and crews kept the baskets as empty as possible in such situations to reduce the chance of a basket fire.

Pics so far:

RBaer

 Been watching.
Coming along just fine Russ.


                                                                           

Always watching, Russ!

I didn't realize the 7C was based off of an M-60 Slick.

As usual, the build is nothing short of your typical impressive skill set. 

Cant wait to see more progress.  :)

Well dip me in shinola. P-bucket dumped my whole account. Until I can start over, here's a couple of pics of where I am now: two pics of the turret in paint, one of the turret and hull with anti-slip applied and before paint, and one of the wheels and bits, with the skirts also, which I have seperated into individual pieces to get that "used" look seen in so many pics of these things in action.

Yeah, here recently Photobucket has been too problematic for me too.
In the future, I intend to be moving on.

                                                  

Looking very good!!! 

And yeah PhotoBucket has gotten more and more hit and miss over the years. I'd drop it if I didn't already have so many photos posted there... 

Well, maybe it's a good time for P-bucket to die, as the only pics I might have are of an oil wash gone bad on top of a pebbly clear coat. Thinking about whether or not to strip and try again  (yuck)  or plunge on ahead.

Ouch, sounds like a mess. Been there, done that (too many times), got the T-shirt.

Good luck!

And funny about PB, it's back to working mostly normal to me. Seems like my issues seem to come and go.  

Well, I got old-school and decanted some base coat, then used a brush to fix the booboos. After letting it all cure for a few days, I re-did the wash, making sure to clean up the excess right away and everything came out okay. I also still had issues with the Merk2 tracks not sitting well on the sprockets, so I dug out a set of Merk1 tracks I had assembled earlier and went with them, not a problem as the 7c uses either. So while P-bucket is cranking along well enough to upload, although I still can't access most of my albums, here's a couple of pics so far:

Excellent progress. I see a base coat and wash going on.

re: P-Bucket, I had issues with it until I turned my modem off for five minutes (I counted exactly). Then turned it back on. P-Bct no longer a problem. It's still delayed by a few seconds because of the ads they want you to click but I have access to all of my albums and loading is at the speed I started with when I first started with that image hosting service.

Now I turn the modem off every night. I used to just leave it on all the time.

SprueOne

Excellent progress. I see a base coat and wash going on.

re: P-Bucket, I had issues with it until I turned my modem off for five minutes (I counted exactly). Then turned it back on. P-Bct no longer a problem. It's still delayed by a few seconds because of the ads they want you to click but I have access to all of my albums and loading is at the speed I started with when I first started with that image hosting service.

Now I turn the modem off every night. I used to just leave it on all the time.

 

Thanks, I feel better about the model now.

Re the modem: all other websites are working normally, but I may try that with the modem anyway.

Whoops, missed this last update. She looks good together and with the paint on. Great progress! 

Thats is looking amazing, really nice work.

I've ditched pb, just got sick of it. Now using Flickr without any issues.

Agreed, I've had about enough of P-bucket. But, it's sort of working today, so here's two pics of where I left off today: