thanks  guys next is just a bunch of gear not sure how much. bin a bit slow as of late bababy sitting my 17 month old grand daughter. while my daughter works. shes a hand full

Oh gee hadn't noticed you'd updated your post. 

Looks pretty decent to me, I like the worn areas on the front of the skirts. 

bufflehead  thank you i should have posred more pics of the building progres so i could start this post more proper. i still have a way to go. kicking around the idea of building somthing to place it on.

blackdog, that's some really nice progression from the first photo with the clean vehicle to the chipped and dirty one in the last photos!  very nice work sir!

close up

and yet another pic. i took some better ones but photobucket is take like 24 hr to post. i still have way to go but this is a good start. tools and hatches fell during weathering also

well i got some time on my bench yesterday and got some weathering done.

first of i did get some chiping done. i used rust with a little black in it and then another wich was black with some steel added folowed up with some deluted dunkelgelb. all paints are model master acryl.

then i did a wash useing vallejo. its there black wash also arcrylic. i did not put on a clear coat so i worked slow in small areas with a q-tip with windex to help clean it up.

clean it up quick or its permanent.

Thanks guys that's my next step to do some washes dirty it up some. I think I'm going to try make some welding that holdes my armored plat on the front. May even try some new side armor. Somthing that looks more to scale.

Very neat clean job with her! 

You might try a little weathering in the future but you've got the basics down. 

This loks nice, and like the addition of the extra armour. I believe a lot of the early Academy armour kits were copies of Tamiya kits.

Off to a good start. As you said, the kit from my understanding is that it was indeed a copy of a Tamiya kit. 

sorry for the aircraft i couldent remove them after adding them by mistake. a pic of the plastic for the added armor.