M26 Pershing...DONE!!!, lots of pic's

The shading came out great.  Well done!

Regards,  Rick

 You got this far in three days! I would say the funk is over buddy!

 Nice job on the post shading. Looking forward to seeing the signature SMJ weathering on this guy.

Nice work, Steve! Goood to see that you're over your funk!

This is a really nice kit--I built it about two years ago.

What funk!!!

Hey, nice work, hope you took some time out for turkey!!.

Beeeeee careful with OD and washes. You are a little dark now....don't go much darker. Shading looks good but beeeeee careful.

For US WWII/Korean OD base I use PolyScale OD 505370 and use a 80/20 blend of Tamiya OD and YellowGreen for the dark shades. Then you are light enough for dots followed by a MIG wash.

Rounds Complete!!

Lovely job so far!

I built the very same one and, like you say, it just assembled itself-all I had to do was add the cement.

I sat a nice block of lead held (not overly heavy) in place with velcro stick on bases inside the tank base before fitting the top half of the hull-it really makes the torsion bars sit down nicely.

Here's mine-she's brush painted as I don't own an AB yet. For my third ever build I was chuffed to bits with her. Oout of all my builds she's my definate favourite so far..............

Keep us posted on the WIP.............

ATVB

Ben

Nothing like a well-engineered kit to get the juices flowing again.

Looks great, Steve. 

tigerman/rjkplasticmod/panzerguy/doog/Rbaer/wbill76:  Thanks for the comments and encouragement!

modelbuilder: I'm not sure if a post-shading tutorial is out there...I would think so though.  Go check it out and let me know.  If not one is definately needed!

BeltFed:  This is the Tamiya Kit.

redleg12: I'm with you on being careful not to darken this one too much...I will proceed with that in mind.  Thanks for watchin' my back.

Hinksy: Nice Pershing..and that's w/o and AB...not bad!

Guys:  Here's some current pic's. These were taken after oil washes of raw umber, burnt umber, permanent green and lemon yellow.  They were VERY diluted but I think they gave it a nice look.  I also added a pin wash to the details.    I'm sure enjoying this change of pace American thing!

Oooh yeah,

She is looking great-keep it up!

One tip: If I were you I'd remove the .50cal MG mount while you are working in on her. I didn't and it took the lightest of knocks and the tiny stub that pushes into the hole snapped off in the hole-it's VERY brittle.

Obviously I managed to fix it but it wasn't easy! A Pershing isn't  a Pershing without the .50 cal!

HTH

Ben

Coming along nicely Steve, good to see this one progressing with your usual method of tone variation.

I'm likin' it a lot.

Hinksy: I'm working VERY cautiously around ALL the turret add-ons...I have to, they are all glued on, including the MG!

wbill76: Thanks Bill...the tonal variation will be VERY apparent when I post the next pictures...I'm liking how this one is coming along...OD can be made interesting with a little effort.

Rbaer: Thanks man!

Steve I would normally not click into an Allied build, but this time I'm glad that I did, AMAZING WORK AND PROGRESS. Truely looks great.

Terry.

terry35:  I'm glad you came by to take a look..and thanks.   I'm nearing completion and hope to get some more pictures up soon...it looks A LOT different!  Much more weathering...but I think I restrained myself enough to make it unique but not overdone.

Steve - LOOOKING Good. Nice wash work. Coming along very well.

Rounds Complete!!

Guys: After quite a build funk and a bittersweet holiday season I finally got something completed at the workbench! 

This is my Tamiya M26 Pershing.  It was a great kit and a real fun build for me!  I've been wanting to depict a tank in my "yard" using my persoanl home property as a setting.  So here's a picture out my front door to give you the look I was going for as the base: 

I gathered up leaves, sticks and a rock to make it authentic.  I crumpled-up the leaves to get them to the right size and I used tamiya flat base on a few sticks of the sticks to get the Birch tree bark look. 

I envisioned the tank as being a late WWII vet, seeing a bit of action, then re-used in the Korean War..hence the sunbleached finish and rust.  She is OOB except for the netting and rope.

So without further ado here is how it all came out!:

Thanks for looking!

WOW!  I really like your diomara. Did you use real leaves?  It just looked too real... cutting old leaves into smaller pieces or something like that?  If so, never thought about this before since I have PLENTY of trees and leaves in the yard.   

deafpanzer: Those are INDEED real leaves!  I happened to find a bunch of dry ones in some protected corners around my house.  I crumpled them by hand to get them to correct scale...or so.  It was very easy, except I used a lot of watered down glue to get them to stay put.

Nice work on this one Steve, glad to hear you were able to get back to this project and get it finished.

Nice job. I like the netting. What did you use for it?

Steve excellent work it looks super, the netted barrel looks like the tank is acting as a sniper, really cool,

Terry.

Now that is one beauty of a Pershing, SMJ!! Seriously the weathering is superb, and the base is stunning as well. Overall I love the look of the tank on that base, right next to some birch trees.

Steve - very nice work. The netting is a nice touch. Glad to see you back in the saddle. Nice job with the leaves

Rounds Complete!!

Good job overall Steve. Love those trees.

Seems that everything ties together very nicely here.

Wow, fantastic work on this one.

Aside from the tank, I think you got a sweet look with those birch trees