Chieftain Tank

Dirk Heyer
Sadly this fine tank is not available in scale 1:72!!!
An unbelievable circumstance,because it is beside the first Leopard type, one of the worlds best and innovative tanks of the sixties!!
A lot of Braille Scale Modeller waits for a new engineered model in 72!!
And I am one of them!!! 🙂 🙂

Duncan Cook
Hi Dirk,
I must say the Kit is not bad.
It's not Trumpeter but it's a solid base with some nice details.
Yes it's a shame that this AFV is not aviable in 1:72.
MAybe Trumpeter will change this.
The Kit represents an MK.I, with no Range finder.
I planed to build some MK.s of the Chieftain and the base will be this kit.
And my first question: Is it possible to paint the MK.I in a 2 collour camouflage like the Challenger 2?

Duncan Cook
MAybe I will do a small base.

Dirk Heyer
Uuuh, difficult question!
Try a question in missing lynx or Armorama!
But I think the Mk.I was only in unique green camo. The 2 colour camo`s that I know are all late types.

Duncan Cook
I did some resear.
It seems like all MK.I were in one collor.

Wilfried Bogaerts
So, good subject to practice your airbrushing skills 🙂

Duncan Cook
I will brush paint it. MY Airbrush is not working there is something wrong with it I will take it to the Modellbaustammtisch.

Duncan Cook
I'm almost done, some small parts and some paint left.