Cool! 

Most photos I've seen the guy used light in the center of the panels and the dark on the outsides. Looking forward to seeing how yours comes out. I might have to change how I've been doing things.

That's a very good looking build! Thanks for posting the process; looking forward to your painting and weathering.

Mike

Hi after small break.

I took Bradley to the International Festival in Bytom last weekend where I used it to test Tamiya LP paints.

They are the results:

 I spray black and white paints directly to the plastic and pe parts. They work very well and do not required any primer.

After airbrushing black and white I used brush and white color to highlight details.

I did the same on the wheels.
Tracks are primed with Ammo One Shot and then I covered them Vallejo Track Primer paint.

Oh wow, looking really nice! 

Lotsa detail there for washes and drybrushing! 

Looks pretty good.  One mistake Orochi made and Kinetic left is the backup sight that is the tear-drop shaped PE part w/the reticle on it.  It should be clear plexiglass, not solid PE.

I finished the turret construction. Overall it comes together nice but I got the impression that a little bit worse than the hull. The most problematic was the 2 era blocks that do not fit properly, finally I used putty in this area.
 
I really like the final turret look. It is very busy and well detailed. I don't installed the periscopes, I will do this after painting.
The assembly process is finished, now I will wash all model in water with detergent and apply primer.

I do not know about it :D

This is my first Kinetic kit and comes together as a dream, very good engineered.

I started work with the turret. The quality of all parts is the same as previous- very good.

I mounted gun barrel, it comes as one piece so it's easy to cleanup and look good, in my opinion aftermarket barrel is not neccessary.
I also drilled the coaxial mg barrel.

As you see all plates fit together very well, I used putty only in a few small spots. 

Nice work! 

Never built any of the Orochi* kits but the one Kinetic one I've worked on had great detail but bad fit problems. 

No idea if any of this is accurate or not but the detail looks fantastic! 

*The name always made me laugh because Orochi is an evil company creating fun stuff like genetically-engineered monsters and bent on world dominion in 'The Secret World' online computer game. 

Rob- yes it was a good move- the track assembly takes not longer than hour :)

Heavy Arty- this is really nice kit indeed, I do not work with Orochi but I heared that people complain about this kit. This Kinetic relase comes together really nice.

Yes, I did some research and read about it. I'm not very familiar with modern armour and I'm not a rivet counter so I just decided to paint this vehicle as interesting as I can. I want to paint my M3A3 something like this 

Next portion of photos and my thoughts about this kit:
A little bit of progress with the build. I installed the side and front BUSK III armour. On the front plate before the additional armour I made bracing for it.

The ERA armour panels fit well, only on a few places I used a little bit of putty. It was not neccessary but I want to make sure that after primer coat there will be not any visible gaps.

The same on the rear. I used putty just to avoid corrections after primer painting

 Next I installed the front lights. They are wll detailed but I decided to add some electric wires to increase a detail level.

When the BUSK III was finished I started to add other details, almost all of them fit in their places without any problems. Only the lifting brackets had too thick positioning pins, so I just cut them off.

The hull assembly process was rather fast, only this step require some time and patience. You need to shave off from the sprue twenty small rivets and glue them on the model. I don't know why the producer moulded them separatelly not on the main upper hull part like the other ones.

There are the "special" separatelly moulded rivets on it's place.

The right side of the hull is not as bussy as the opposite. The big PE mesh parts attract the attention. These parts are really thin and well made.This kit contain only a few PE parts, I do not like espacielly work with them so I'm happy with it.

The hull assembly is finished. I only need to add the front and rear mud guards and periscopes but I paint them separatelly and add after base coat painting.

Work with this kit is a pleasure so far. I'm glad from the detail level in this kit, I hope that the turret will go together as good as the hull.

As I wrote before I leave the upper and lower hull as separate components. It let me easily paint the suspension and tracks.

MattSz

 Most plastic parts are exactly the same like in the Orochi kit but this sprue is made by Kinetic...

Some of the parts on the other sprues have been reworked as well to make this a very nice kit.  It is much better than the Orochi version and fixes pretty much all of the issues it had.  

What version do you plan on making of it?  Just so you know, the ERA has not been used opeartionally with the new T161 tracks.  Also, if you leave the ERA off, you should fill the two holes on each front side skirt panel.

I know they replaced the individual track links with link and length, a much better option since 2/3rds of the track is covered by side skirts.

Rob Gronovius

Looks good, I've read that this is the former Orochi kit.

 

Yes and no.

Most plastic parts are exactly the same like in the Orochi kit but this sprue is made by Kinetic:

Looks good, I've read that this is the former Orochi kit.