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This the second scratch built T-LAV that I built from wood. T-LAV STANDS FOR TRACKED LIGHT ARMOURED VEHICLE. This model is roughly 10.5 inches in length. it’s got the 1 m turret, which is the standard for this armoured vehicle. This [...]
This was my first tank build and I really enjoyed it - a nice scale to start with and a very nice kit with a lot of fun building and detail.
I added some stowage to make it look in service and created my own tarp using tissues and watered [...]
My first foray into the armour world, I decided to go small, this 1/72 Panzerfunkwagen, was my experiment.
And guess what, I enjoyed it. had a lot of fun on this build, not the most amazing kit, detail lacks a bit but it was a nice little [...]
4 of 4 for 2021!
The Challenger II is one of, if not the best protected MBTs in service today, with heavily sloped composite armor throughout. This is fine for conventional warfare where your tank can hull down with only its turret [...]
Model 3 of 4 for 2021! I'd have done more, but gestures widely life gets in the way.
The Conqueror was the last British heavy tank, armed with a massive 120mm rifled cannon and was intended to knock out Soviet IS-3s and T-10Ms flooding [...]
I hope that this might be of help to some of our group and that I am not "teaching my grandmother how to suck eggs!"
I've been trying for a while to find what I think is a better way of adding camouflage nets (camnets) for my [...]
Part 2 of the AFV Scorpion build, this time, I'm covering priming, bleaching, airbrushing, post shading and gloss coats
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not my greatest ever build. paint scheme ruined a bit by the over zealous use of a bleaching filter which drained the colour out of it. Shame really, i enjoyed building it up until that.
This is the much maligned, but very enjoyable [...]
Part one of the FV101 commission, this time focusing on the build.
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Another from 2006:
History
Britain may have been the country that invented the armored fighting vehicle known popularly as the “tank,” but after the First World War, the British Army fell behind the rest of the world in the development [...]