Great job so far! I love the Leopard series, both I and II. I will follow along.

Bill Morrison

Cool, the Leopard II is IMHO the best looking modern MBT. 

Nice beginning to your project.

Thanks for the comments guys. Turret is just about finished up with a few minor pieces still needing to be placed. 

Wanted to try an idea I had for diy barracuda netting as most of the reference photos I found were of the tank covered in barracuda netting. My method is to cut out and soak tissue paper onto the area you want to be covered with diluted pva glue. Once dry, I peeled it off and took a small hole punch and started punching holes. The hole punch won't cut all the way through and makes the tissue paper look pretty close to barracuda pattern. I opted to not cover the entire hull as the process is pretty time consuming.

Oh so the Germans basically went back to Zimmerit then.

Great progress! The barracuda netting is interesting, nice work on recreating it in scale. And yeah it does look sorta like zimmerit!

That stuff looks good,enjoying this build.

Had a nice 70 degree day to go out and spray paint the base coat. Too bad it will be back to cold and snow for a while.

It's weird that the Leo IIa6 seems to have a shot trap under the mantlet.  Someone mentioned that the netting resembles zimmerit, so the mantlet struck me as another " feature that the Germans had difficulty with in WWII.  Oh well . . . history repeating itself.

Bill

That's pretty cool !!!

Cool!!! Looks good, like the muzzle blast effect!