federation tank

Casey,
Try www.starshipmodeler.com and www.culttvman.com both of these sites have this kit in build ups and galleries. The only secret I heard was to attach the top of the hull to the top pieces before you glue the bottom on. My son put one together and didn't seem to have any problems but he didn' t paint his.
It looks like a very detailed model but I want to put at least one droid in mine when I get to it.

I have already built one: http://pages.infinit.net/jfp/swgallery/pm/MPC_TANK.html This kit is great and simple to built. I took 3 weeks (about 30 hours) to built and paint this kit. There is some errors that I need to fix.

J-F

That is one cool tank!

Hey thanks guys, the build up review will definately help, as i was concerned about the paint scheme. sunkist and budyboho you both did a great job, hopefully mine will turnout that good also. when I start I will try to get some progress pictures, gotta get the digi cam from my sister first.

casey

I apologize , Caseyn, I posted the image from sunkists' web address. I'm going to have to get one though.

Dan

LOL, no problem. I thought that tank looked familiar. I have two of these i doubt I will build them both, if you are interested in one email me.

casey

Thanks for the good comments :-) Here several good links for the paint scheme and reference. I used them (and the box picture) to built my tank:
http://www.starshipmodeler.com/r&v/ed_trade.htm
http://www.larottadikessel.it/galleria_tank_c.htm
http://www.galacticempiredatabank.com/TradeFedAAT.html
http://www.phoxim.de/modelle_episode_i.html
http://www.theforce.net/episode1/oldPreq/ships/tank.html
http://www.scaleworkshop.com/gallery/tradefederationtankka_1.htm

those links are awesome! thanks man, it should make the paint process a little easier. Man I think I want to start building sci-fi stuff now....lol

alright after seeing the pics of the tank in those links, I had to break out the kit. This thing is awesome, and its huge. the pieces fit perfect, so far I have only seen on seem that needs to be filled. i better get back to work on this thing.

casey