Cheerio! 1/48 Tamiya Universal Carrier Mk.II ~Finished~

Beautiful Build Mg .  I love these 1/48 kits & you certainly did this one justice.

Regards,  Rick

Evidently the tracks did the turn by curving? not braking somehow.

Up to a point. Steering was by a conventional steering wheel. For small degreees of turn, such as might take place at speed, the idles would turn, in pretty much the same way as a wheeled vehicle. This warped the track in the desired direction of turn, anc caused the front of the vehicle to turn in that direction. In this way, full power could be maintanined on both tracks.

For more radical turns, conventional brake steering was used.

Cheers,

Chris.

Very fine work, mg - love the subtle variations in shading on the vehicle itself. A couple of points. First, why the need for lots of masking? Couldn't you just brush-paint the detail bits after you've done the main paint job?

Second, like the other guys hae said - those rifles! Stocks unlike any Lee Enfield or Bren I've ever seen (and I've seen a few, when I joined up, reserve units were still using them, and many Regulars preferred the Lee Enfield to the SLR for it's greater accuracy at distance). I use Citadel Bestial Brown for the base colour for the wooden bits of British personal weapons. I wouldn't try to reproduce wood effect on a rifle in 1/48, though.

Cheers,

Chris.

   A beautiful piece of work Mg.

   The fact that this little guy could easily fool someone into thinking that its 1/35 is a testament to the attention to detail that you've put into it.

   Also another good source of springs are the one's under the flints in disposable bic lighter's

anthony2779- Thanks so much for the kind comments!

doog- Glad it impressed! Hmmm..... I think your right about the orange. In person it doesn't seem that bad, but now that I look at the pics more, it does look a bit orange. So I'll be toning down the orange tommorrow. Might even make a wood base if I feel adventurous.

wbill76- Thanks for noticing the scratch suspension springs. Believe it or not, I found these small springs after realizing their's some in the tumbler of a lock! How's that for a world of scratch?

TD4438- Glad to hear the it was worth the wait! It seemed the build time was doubling week after week, probably due to adding one scratch detail after another.

Huxy- Glad you like the finished product and scratch springs. No worries, I'll be getting around to darkening the wood color of the guns.

Peeked a little in the GB when this was still a WIP. Glad to see it done!

But as Karl already said, tone down those rifles.. Those are just too orange!!

And the springs do really add to it.

Awsome work all in all!

WOW, I woulda thought that this was 1/35--beautiful job.

The only critique I would strongly recommend would be to tone down those orangy rifle parts with a good raw umber wash. They're definitely too "orange".

The rest of it though looks perfect!