Type 61
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Bart GoesaertLooks good... I have his predecessor in the works... nice to see some things seem to be shared by these. Nicely built, weathering is maybe a bit heavy... but it still looks nice
Wojciech KuczaThanks 🙂 It might be right - weathering spun a little out of control... I hopefully finish the commander soon enough and after minor corrections it'll be finished 🙂
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Sadly - I didn't manage to make much photos of my work in progress - but here's what I did make.
The model itself is quite OOB - I added periscopes from clear plastic painted blue. without it it looked quite bare and unfinished andI filled the typical holes in the lower hull, Tamiya's earlier kit trademark so to say.
I also added a coaxial MG barrel in the mantlet, here a simple hole was looking quite bad.
I exchanged the typical Tamiya thread to some metal rope with the kit's original eylets (that fit perfectly).
Furthermore I tensioned the tracks with some trimmed pins - here the photos are not clear as to how much really they sagged. So i decided to make something visible yet (hopefully) not very prominent.
Finally I upgraded the very visible and eye-cathing .50 cal on the commander's cupola. I replaced the barrel and added some sight + grip. The kit one is simply too plain.
All in all - those were minor corrections that was mostly fun to do and by no means tedious. Of course - the kit looks go
