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Weeman0000
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Hey guys.
Well its been a longer build than usual, paints needed 2-6 coats which just covered the model in paint. If it was a real tank it would now have 200mm armor instead of 75mm from paint alone.
Anyway, If you don't know, the Chi Ri was built as a late war IJA tank but never got out of the prototype stage phase before the japanese were overrun.
It was fitted with a 3 round auto loading 75mm gun. Altho it was a medium tank with only 75mm of armor at its thickest (unslopped) it was bigger than a king tiger albeit half the weight.
Iv wanted to do a camo tank for a while, but with a brush and maybe the worst paints i could find (Not even IJA colors) i thought why not. So it was my first camo attempt.
It was also the first time iv used pigments correctly and on such a scale. Altho crappy in the application if you squint your eyes and rapidly move your head around just viewing the tank out the corner of your eye i can safely say it looks amazing. Just dont look too close for any length of time
Erm, first time working with magic tracks, i can say they were amazing compared to working and rubber tracks.. Two dark washes then some 6 pigment muddy dust color and it looks not bad if you use the same viewing method as above :P
Overall it was a nice kit from finemolds, came in at about £40 from amazon, has full gun's and partial interior, you could even put an engine in it as well, however there are no seats or controls.
If you spot anything that looks weird or wrong please gives a shout and ill try not to make that mistake again on my future kits. Any tips will be help me.
So just leaves me to say thanks for checking this monster of a tank out and hope you enjoy it, if you dont theres always google
Cheers.
Jason.
PS Sorry about the massive amounts of pics. I took a lot and then realized i forgot the exhaust smoke and shell smoke on the barrel's... typical :P Also there is a PE mesh for the exhaust however it hives all the details and unless i can get it looking really good ill leave it off.
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Well its been a longer build than usual, paints needed 2-6 coats which just covered the model in paint. If it was a real tank it would now have 200mm armor instead of 75mm from paint alone.
Anyway, If you don't know, the Chi Ri was built as a late war IJA tank but never got out of the prototype stage phase before the japanese were overrun.
It was fitted with a 3 round auto loading 75mm gun. Altho it was a medium tank with only 75mm of armor at its thickest (unslopped) it was bigger than a king tiger albeit half the weight.
Iv wanted to do a camo tank for a while, but with a brush and maybe the worst paints i could find (Not even IJA colors) i thought why not. So it was my first camo attempt.
It was also the first time iv used pigments correctly and on such a scale. Altho crappy in the application if you squint your eyes and rapidly move your head around just viewing the tank out the corner of your eye i can safely say it looks amazing. Just dont look too close for any length of time
Erm, first time working with magic tracks, i can say they were amazing compared to working and rubber tracks.. Two dark washes then some 6 pigment muddy dust color and it looks not bad if you use the same viewing method as above :P
Overall it was a nice kit from finemolds, came in at about £40 from amazon, has full gun's and partial interior, you could even put an engine in it as well, however there are no seats or controls.
If you spot anything that looks weird or wrong please gives a shout and ill try not to make that mistake again on my future kits. Any tips will be help me.
So just leaves me to say thanks for checking this monster of a tank out and hope you enjoy it, if you dont theres always google
Cheers.
Jason.
PS Sorry about the massive amounts of pics. I took a lot and then realized i forgot the exhaust smoke and shell smoke on the barrel's... typical :P Also there is a PE mesh for the exhaust however it hives all the details and unless i can get it looking really good ill leave it off.
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