Karl - Outstanding....simply outstanding, love it. Enjoy your trip, be safe.

Rounds Complete!!

Karl, if I didn't know better, I would swear this thing was actually made from metal. Your painting and weathering are superb!

This has to be the ugliest thing I have ever seen, or a favorite title contender....  

I am strictly talking about the subject Karl, not your flawless execution!    

I can't wait to see when you are done with it, and would sure enjoy your skin tone tutorial!

Thank you, Mike! I'm doingmybest to stayoutof trouble over here!:)

Thanks so kindly, RBaer! I genuinely appreciate that generous compliment!

Gun Tech

This has to be the ugliest thing I have ever seen, or a favorite title contender....  

I am strictly talking about the subject Karl, not your flawless execution!    

I can't wait to see when you are done with it, and would sure enjoy your skin tone tutorial!

I think that maybe, during whatever passed for acceptance trials there and then, that the first time the driver jumped the brakes from anything over 10mph and the thing did a a nose-stand, that right there might be why it was never produced in volume......  but it's still cool.

lol. THAT's funny, RBaer! I could actually see that! The thing sureIS nose-heavy!

Thanks for the laugh and the comment!

Couldn't help myself.....   :)

RBaer

I think that maybe, during whatever passed for acceptance trials there and then, that the first time the driver jumped the brakes from anything over 10mph and the thing did a a nose-stand, that right there might be why it was never produced in volume......  but it's still cool.

Ye, I can well imagine that. The warrior IFV can do that, but you have to be travelling at some speed. Driving this monster, I would be terrified to go anywhere near the brakes.

My dad worked for FMC in SanJose for a while, and they had a test-track out front,  across the street from the airport. We used to go out there, park in the airport's observation area (tells you how long ago it was) and watch the FMC guys do bad and crazy things in M113's, one of which was try to stand them on their noses. They also jumped them off hills that looked like something they make up for stadium MX..... It was pretty cool, especially for a 16 year old kid.

Russ, now THAT sounds COOOOL!!!!! I see a diorama idea in the making!!!!

Yeah, the drivers wore white motorcycle helmets, drove hatch open, usually.  Can you imagine an M113 with a Chrysler Hemi? Engineers are goofy.....

Seriously? They put other engines in them? How cool!

I'd put a Superbird wing on mine with a white Road Runner roof strobe decals over a Plum Crazy finish! Oh BOY!

An outstanding build!

I too have this in my stash but I don't know which friul AM tracks to get. IS or KV?

I know my build won't come close to this one, but I will enjoy it and get to use some of my Russian tank green on it!

What tracks should I get for Trumpeter's IS-4?

snapdraggon, thank you for looking in and for the s!

As far as the tracks go, I can't imagine why you would throw away money on those overpriced Friuls--they're only going to cost you a lot of money and honestly, they're not going to look any better than the perfect kit tracks. Trumpeter has a great thing going with link-and-length tracks--they glue easily together, and are PERFECTLY sagged. Paint them up the same as you would any other, and you won't be able to tell the difference. You'll never hear me recommend metal tracks. They're about as necessary as expensive rims on your personal vehicle.

It's all rusty and scratched up, and muddy, and the paint seems faded and worn in areas… you nreally need to take better care of your models   

Outstanding realism   

Nice job on this big beast.The weathering is perfect and to scale.Looks like the real thing for sure.

Thank you both, SprueOne, and Tojo, for your kind and generous comments! :)

Been awhile since I've checked up on this Karl, looks great as always! That thing is massive

Hey thanks, Josiah! I'm getting ready to post finished pics! Stay tuned!

Alright, another one for the dsplay case! I've finally finished this one, after a few additions and some time to let the imagination fly...

I wanted this model to look COLD!!!  I wanted snow and ice and chills! So I made some snow (I'll have a mini-toot on that later) from Woodland Scenic's Snow powder, and applied it using a brush. Nothing complicated here; just white glue and water and add the powder to it. I added it around to make it look like it was a few days old, with melted areas as you would get on a cold, sunny, Siberian plain..

The figures by Helo Minatures were finally finished: I'll have my skin tone toot up soon too!

And here are the finished pics:

One more nice little "special touch" that I did was to make icicles out of clear sprue, stretched over a candle. They were cut and the tips filed with an emery board--this had the result of making them look like air was trapped in the ends of the icicles! Perfectly realistic! They were attached with superglue, and "ice" runs of superglue were added above them to look like ice runs.

Well, that's that! Thanks to everyone who has followed along with this build, and for all the kind comments and compliments!

Here is the link for the Skin Tone toot:

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Here is the Snow tutorial:

163958.aspx

On to the MBT-70--my next "museum clean" build!

Finger lickin G O O D Karl

Tony lee

That is fantastic Karl! Kudos!!! I'd been thinking about slapping some icicles on my next winter model, love how they came out!

Karl,

 This is a great display of multiple effects that really turned out super.That snow and the icicles have added to the look that really compliments your winter scene.

Those spruecicles bring back memories of when I did them the very same way on the old Lindberg T55 back in '91.

Always looking forward to the next one doog......... 

That is a great job!!!!

I've seen better. Of course that was in my dream world were I have superior model building skills to the doog. Hummmm.... maybe that's more a fantasy world. LOL.

AWESOME WORK, the doog!!!  

Thanks, all! Of course, like always, I geniunely appreciate you looking in and taking the time to comment!

Steve, I don't think I've seen that model?

the doog

Steve, I don't think I've seen that model?

It's a really old, old, old model now covered in dust and spiderwebs on top of the refrigerator.

Here'ya go. I took a quick pic for 'ya....

Hey!

Very nice, liked the snow, ice and all...but for me, the best part are the figures!

I liked the colors and thos rusky boots made of fur are just fantastic.

Hopefully I will be able to create and paint a figure like that one day.... oneeeeee  day...