T55AM in progress

Thanks friends!!.

Here more pics: Version: Armour of a Libyan Battalion, 1981 - the name of the turret is "Salah-al-Din" (Hero and leader of the Century XII) - Front: plate enrollment says Army and number of the armour - Note: the borders of the marks must be irregular







Regards,
Rodolfo

still doing a reat job!! keep the pics coming.

Actually, the words on the turret really say "my other car is a mule cart."

Looks great. Doing sloppily-painted marks is always a challenge, because then people just think you did a bad job of painting on neat markings. It's a dilemma. The Hitlerjugend vehicles for Normandy are a perfect example. I've noted that it looks a lot more realistic once the weathering is done.

rtvmodeler, what's going to happen with the big slots on the front of the turret?

By the way, a very interesting subject. That's the great thing about the T-55. It was everywhere (and to some extent, still is).

What's the combat record of your T-55 unit? Did it fight in Chad?

Hello friends:

Thanks for your comments!,

Larry, regarding your questions:

1.- the big slots will stay there because not was part of the modifications. Sometimes the gunner changed the position the machine gun in the another slot

2.- This armor force participated in combats in the border with Egypt and the Invasion to Chad in 1980

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In the next two pics, I applied weathering with oils (dark-yellow) and turpentine spirit and I applied powders pigments same color too.





Next 4 pics:

I realized an experiment and I obtain a good result.

1.- Over the wash and pigments previous, I applied washes of sienna mixed with shadow over pigments
2.- Rust pigment
3.- Sienna pigment
4.- rust (40%) & sienna (60%) mixed

With this was possible to mix both applications









I am working in another details, I need to give more earth in some zones

Regards,
Rodolfo

Finally here is my T55 finished!. I applied additional brown-red (pigments) for eliminate some of rust and adding the town cables. Represent a tank abandoned in the border with Tchad after of manny battles. Sure, soon I will ad in a Diorama. I hope you like it.









Best regards,
Rodolfo

Very nice work Rodolfo from start to finish. Can't wait to see this one in a diorama setting. It's already come to life, the dio will just add that much more to it.

Really nice work. Excellent progress photos. I would like to keep track of a model I build someday like you have.

Thanks for sharing