I hope so.

Very cool, looking forward to seeing you build this. Hope everything fits well. 

Hi,

I'm looking forward to seeing more of this build too.

Thanks guys. Its fitting really well, both the kit and the AM. Bit of work needed on the rear turret bin, but that was down to it not being designed for this turret.

The Scimitar has come along reall well After 5 evenings work it was all reay for the spray booth. The fit of the resin has been really nice with very little excess to remove.

The bolt heads were trimmed down and most of the parts ae to the hull.

I also got to work on the turret. This has the correct shape that the kit one does not but it does have the later additions introduce afer the falklands including a larger rear bin and large side bins, the same as the kit turret. The backdate set includes a small section of sprue from the AFV Scorpion kit which include the smaller rear bin, commanders set and a few other bit correct for an early Scimitar. As the smaller rear bin is designed for the different shape of the AFV kit it needed some re-working to fit this turret. The raised sections on the turret side are for the large side bins, these have to be sanded away.

And everything else added. The falklands conversion includes the covered barel trough but has you cut down the kit supplied metal barrel. The backdate set has the covered trough and a resin barrel with covered muzzle. Most photo's from the war show the muzzles uncovered, but the kit muzzle was rather poor, to thick and a poor shape, certainly nothing like the RB models barrel i used on my Warrior. So i went for the resin barrel.

And the final bits added to the hul and she is all ready for priming. The turret is not glued on just yet.

Its already had the primer and green base colour. Just got to let it dry for anotehr day and can mask before adding the black.

Last weekend i ordered a couple of sets of the Gulf War stowage set that Scorpion Miniatures recently released. It includes the older wedding and backpacks that were used in 82, before PLCE was introduced, so it will come in very useful. But i also contacted them about a couple of parts i had lost, including one of the resin rear idlers. I asked if i could buy replacments, but Michael Shackleton replied saying he would put the parts in with my order, and they arrived on Thurs. Surperb customer service i must say.

That's a really interesting build. I presume the site you're getting the bits from is this one:

  https://www.scorpion-miniature-models.co.uk/

If so, thanks for bringing that new resource to view.

I've always had a soft spot for the Scorpion so definitely added to the wishlist.

Thanks Rob, and yes, thats the site. Thanks for posting the link, i should have done that sooner myself.

I've got a bit of a soft spot for the Scorpion and the Chieftain. I saw those vehicles at a local fair when the army had a display, back when i was 4 or 5. And its that which got me wanting to join the army.

If you want any AM sets for the Scorpion, i can deffinetly recomend SMM.

Looking very nice Bish. 

I got the Scimitar primed and painted green last weekend. But then its been left all week while i finished contruction on the M109. With that primed and painted i got to masking the Scimitar and the black was added this morning. Allpaints are Tamiya, the green is my own mix of NATO green and field grey.

In the photo's from the war, it not easy to make out the schemes on any one vehicle. And as they did not carry markings once they reached the Falklands, its impossable to kow which vehciles you are looking at. So for these reasons i went for a generic pattern that is not based on any one vehicle.

Just got some clean up to do removing the little bits of white tac and then some detail painting before a gloss coat and weathering.

Also in the ref pics, it looks in some photo's that the 3 trip flare boxes have a pattern on them with similar colours to the vehicle and others they look one colour (they are normally brown). I decided to paint them in the camo colours but off the vehicle so the pattern did not match the vehicle.

The camouflage came out very well Bish. 

Yeah I love that camo Bish!

Thanks guys.

Thanks, ye, i know, those are some nice resin pieces on this.

I got the one and only decal added followed by a couple of coats of aqua gloss before weathering.

Also got the front boxes added.

And got the tracks all together.

And some weathering, oil filters and some streaking.

Just getting the tools and stowage together before the final weathering.

She's lookin' really good! Nice work Bish!!! 

Thanks mate.

Got the Scimitar completed last night. Final weathering consisted of adding some mud useing the same celluclay mix i used on the base. Once this was dry i used some AL wet effects to give it all a wet look. I kept it all low down, the terrain on the Falklands is mostly peat so it doesn't get very dusty. With that done i added some stowage and got the turret fitted. I was going to add a 35th fabric flag but it looked a but large, even though it was the right scale so i have ordered some 48th and 72nd ones and hopefully can add one of those to an antenna.

I am really pleased with this. Nice kit and lovely AM from SMM. Deffinetly going to get some more from them. Thanks for following along.

Amazing work Bish! Love the storage and the wet goopy look of the mud! 

And peat in the Falklands, I had no idea. I learned something new today! I just remember Irish/American comic P.J. O'Rourke joking 'God only put peat in Ireland because only an Irishman would get drunk enough to try to burn mud.' 

Thanks Gamera. Never heard that one before, i like that.

No heavy armour could function down there, the CVR(t) actually has a ground pressure less than a fully loaded infantryman, so it was ideal.