M1070 & M1000 w/D9R
I started this kit 12 months ago and the. Put it down realising I needed more quality time to devote to its amazing quality and detail
For a 1:72 scale kit, the fit and attention to detail is amazing
It probably took me an hour or more just to construct this chassis
The final, weathered vehicles.
On the question of the weathering used for this transporter and bulldozer, I was somewhat inspired by the vision of burning oil wells and the feeling I had that the air would have been full of soot and oily smoke, something like this shot here.
Photos credited to Col Michael C. Howard US Marines (Ret)
Check out his blog here … very interesting:
salutetargets.com/bl..ulldozers+to+Baghdad
Check out his blog here … very interesting:
salutetargets.com/bl..ulldozers+to+Baghdad
Thanks to Col Michael C. Howard US Marines (Ret) for this badge … love it!
This would make for an interesting diorama! An Iraqi MiG-25RB Foxbat-B found buried under the sand west of Baghdad is towed by an M1070A0
Comments
13 5 October 2021, 11:16
Jonathan Read-BoneThanks Thomas, I know what you mean re your "dirty" comment. There are a number a schools on this these days, and I have seen much debate over this 'new to me' art of pre-shading, oils and weathering. I recently completed an intentionally dirty scene with a Hellcat Tank Destroyer on a muddy track and was told is was not dirty enough! And when I look back at what I was building 12 to 18 moths ago, I was hardly weathering anything, but may be for a light bit of exhaust staining, my Spitfires were show room ready 😆
With this transporter and bulldozer, I wanted to portray them as 'combat hardened'. The environment, rightly or wrongly, I felt would be thick with smoke and soot from burning oil wells and this combo of transporter and bulldozer have had a tough time of it and may be are both on there way to the guys with the power washers for a bit of a clean. 😉
Archive photos I saw of vehicles of the time were either pristine or quite dirty. Some transporters I found were also either still camouflaged green and brown or hastily repainted in desert yellow, and in the latter example, would probably have looked dirty before even seeing action.
Beauty as always, will be in the eye of the beholder 😊
6 October 2021, 04:49
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Last year I bought a bulldozer for a diorama but then never used it. When I say a bulldozer, it was Takom’s rather detailed M1070 & M1000 W/D9R Tank Transporter with Bulldozer. I made the latter and then put is back in the box which is where it has been for a good 12 months. At last I have finally finished it.
