First released by Tamiya in 1974, this kit has been around a long time and is out of production. A friend from my local AMPS club (Armor Modeling and Preservation Society) gave me an unbuilt one. It has some inaccuracies: six spokes on the wheels instead of five, an engine deck for a radial engined Lee but with the exhaust system of a diesel, and of course the open sponsons above the tracks. I decided to build it as British Eighth Army. The British version had fender skirts, a gun mantlet cover, and rails to mount stowage, but I wasn't going to ruin my fun by going to the hassle of fabricating and adding that stuff. I built it out of the box, added turret decals a friend from AMPS gave me, and some fender decals from an old Testors/Italeri M24 Chaffee that I built over 30 years ago. I tried a technique a friend taught me, brushing on water based oil paint (takes plenty of time to dry so is easy to wipe off), to act as a shadow color (raw umber). The figures were given to me by a childhood friend who built them in the late seventies. I reworked, and detailed them. Other products I used were Tamiya panel line accentor, and pastel powder. The end result might not be true to life or historically accurate, but I could care or less. I think it turned out looking cool and I had fun, the only reason I build.
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First released by Tamiya in 1974, this kit has been around a long time and is out of production. A friend from my local AMPS club (Armor Modeling and Preservation Society) gave me an unbuilt one. It has some inaccuracies: six spokes on the wheels instead of five, an engine deck for a radial engined Lee but with the exhaust system of a diesel, and of course the open sponsons above the tracks. I decided to build it as British Eighth Army. The British version had fender skirts, a gun mantlet cover, and rails to mount stowage, but I wasn't going to ruin my fun by going to the hassle of fabricating and adding that stuff. I built it out of the box, added turret decals a friend from AMPS gave me, and some fender decals from an old Testors/Italeri M24 Chaffee that I built over 30 years ago. I tried a technique a friend taught me, brushing on water based oil paint (takes plenty of time to dry so is easy to wipe off), to act as a shadow color (raw umber). The figures were given to me by a childhood friend who built them in the late seventies. I reworked, and detailed them. Other products I used were Tamiya panel line accentor, and pastel powder. The end result might not be true to life or historically accurate, but I could care or less. I think it turned out looking cool and I had fun, the only reason I build.
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First released by Tamiya in 1974, this kit has been around a long time and is out of production. A friend from my local AMPS club (Armor Modeling and Preservation Society) gave me an unbuilt one. It has some inaccuracies: six spokes on the wheels instead of five, an engine deck for a radial engined Lee but with the exhaust system of a diesel, and of course the open sponsons above the tracks. I decided to build it as British Eighth Army. The British version had fender skirts, a gun mantlet cover, and rails to mount stowage, but I wasn't going to ruin my fun by going to the hassle of fabricating and adding that stuff. I built it out of the box, added turret decals a friend from AMPS gave me, and some fender decals from an old Testors/Italeri M24 Chaffee that I built over 30 years ago. I tried a technique a friend taught me, brushing on water based oil paint (takes plenty of time to dry so is easy to wipe off), to act as a shadow color (raw umber). The figures were given to me by a childhood friend who built them in the late seventies. I reworked, and detailed them. Other products I used were Tamiya panel line accentor, and pastel powder. The end result might not be true to life or historically accurate, but I could care or less. I think it turned out looking cool and I had fun, the only reason I build.
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First released by Tamiya in 1974, this kit has been around a long time and is out of production. A friend from my local AMPS club (Armor Modeling and Preservation Society) gave me an unbuilt one. It has some inaccuracies: six spokes on the wheels instead of five, an engine deck for a radial engined Lee but with the exhaust system of a diesel, and of course the open sponsons above the tracks. I decided to build it as British Eighth Army. The British version had fender skirts, a gun mantlet cover, and rails to mount stowage, but I wasn't going to ruin my fun by going to the hassle of fabricating and adding that stuff. I built it out of the box, added turret decals a friend from AMPS gave me, and some fender decals from an old Testors/Italeri M24 Chaffee that I built over 30 years ago. I tried a technique a friend taught me, brushing on water based oil paint (takes plenty of time to dry so is easy to wipe off), to act as a shadow color (raw umber). The figures were given to me by a childhood friend who built them in the late seventies. I reworked, and detailed them. Other products I used were Tamiya panel line accentor, and pastel powder. The end result might not be true to life or historically accurate, but I could care or less. I think it turned out looking cool and I had fun, the only reason I build.
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First released by Tamiya in 1974, this kit has been around a long time and is out of production. A friend from my local AMPS club (Armor Modeling and Preservation Society) gave me an unbuilt one. It has some inaccuracies: six spokes on the wheels instead of five, an engine deck for a radial engined Lee but with the exhaust system of a diesel, and of course the open sponsons above the tracks. I decided to build it as British Eighth Army. The British version had fender skirts, a gun mantlet cover, and rails to mount stowage, but I wasn't going to ruin my fun by going to the hassle of fabricating and adding that stuff. I built it out of the box, added turret decals a friend from AMPS gave me, and some fender decals from an old Testors/Italeri M24 Chaffee that I built over 30 years ago. I tried a technique a friend taught me, brushing on water based oil paint (takes plenty of time to dry so is easy to wipe off), to act as a shadow color (raw umber). The figures were given to me by a childhood friend who built them in the late seventies. I reworked, and detailed them. Other products I used were Tamiya panel line accentor, and pastel powder. The end result might not be true to life or historically accurate, but I could care or less. I think it turned out looking cool and I had fun, the only reason I build.
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