plasmahal Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 1/35 MENG Mk.A Whippet, B Company, 6th Battalion, Tank Corps, British Army, May 1918. Some background on the Mk.A Whippet: The Medium Mark A Whippet was a British tank of the First World War. It was intended to complement the slower British heavy tanks by using its relative mobility and speed in exploiting any break in the enemy lines.[2] Whippets later took part in several of the British Army's postwar actions, notably in Ireland, North Russia and Manchuria. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medium_Mark_A_Whippet Onto the box and sprues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plasmahal Posted February 6, 2016 Author Share Posted February 6, 2016 Update One As usual with MENG, it looks to be a well engineered and detailed kit. It went together over the course of a few hours with no fit issues. Starting of with the main hull and adding the front plate. Then it was a start on the turret assembly. Adding more to the turret assembly. Once the turret assembly was completed, it is attached to the main hull. Then lower hull plating is added. Then the four machine guns are fitted along with the engine intake lourves and exhausts. Then is was the long task to remove, clean and assemble the wheels and sprockets. Once the wheels were all done, it time to start assembling the track sponsons. I used some white tack just hold the idler wheels in place during assembly. One track sponson complete. With the other sponson completed, they were added to the hull. The last task of the day was to add the spare tracks and the tools. The tracks and the cables will be assemble and painted separately and added later. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yeoman1942 Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 Looking great 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spitfire1677 Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 Very nice Will be following this build 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrancisGL Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 Very nice progress for now, pops ready for more, cheers 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fatfingers Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 Looking good. Quite fancy one of these. Will watch with great interest. Regards Steve 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plasmahal Posted February 7, 2016 Author Share Posted February 7, 2016 Update Two The tracks links were removed from the sprues and the nubs removed. This took an hour or two. Tow cables were assembled with CA glue. Then everything was primed with black Stynylrez. The MENG colours in the instructions show a very dark green tank colour and it's generally accepted that the colour in WW1 was more a muddy brown with a hint of green. I tried a custom mix with XF-52 flat earth, XF-55 deck tan and XF-67 nato green but I added too much green and had to add some XF-72 brown/JGSDF as i had run out of XF-52. I think it came out OK in the end. With shading, washes and filters etc, it's going to change colour again. The tracks and cables were painted with XF-84, dark iron. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plasmahal Posted February 7, 2016 Author Share Posted February 7, 2016 Update Three I added some XF-85 rubber black to some of the original base colour in the AB colour cup. I added some post shading to break the colour up. 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yeoman1942 Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 That post shade is the business 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy Moore Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 Really nice shading on the paint. Looking great Andy 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrancisGL Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 Nice paneling shadows, pops ready fo more, cheers 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robw_uk Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 very nice... tempted by this kit so going to keep an eye on your build 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim T Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 Looking great. The paint job is excellent. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamden Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 Nice very very nice Roger 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyC Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 Superb work! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plasmahal Posted February 10, 2016 Author Share Posted February 10, 2016 (edited) Update Four So I have finished off the primary painting phase with the red and white stripes, machine guns, exhausts and the wooden blocks. As the machine gun ports were round, I used a white tack worm and tamiya tape to mask them for painting. Edited February 13, 2016 by plasmahal 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robw_uk Posted February 10, 2016 Share Posted February 10, 2016 very neat.... dare i ask why not just brush paint the MG & port? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plasmahal Posted February 10, 2016 Author Share Posted February 10, 2016 very neat.... dare i ask why not just brush paint the MG & port? The paint was already in the airbrush, it didn't take long. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robw_uk Posted February 10, 2016 Share Posted February 10, 2016 The paint was already in the airbrush, it didn't take long. fair enough.... great build 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris B Posted February 10, 2016 Share Posted February 10, 2016 That's looking very nice. As a point of interest re one of the markings, the David Fletcher's book Tanks and Trenches mentions that the large red IX marking was added 19 Sept 18 when the 6th Battalion (plus the 5th and 9th) were "allocated to IX Corps from Army Reserve", prior to the attack on the Hindenburg Line. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrancisGL Posted February 11, 2016 Share Posted February 11, 2016 Wow, is nicely the progress for now, i´m want watch more... cheers plasmahal 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
plasmahal Posted February 13, 2016 Author Share Posted February 13, 2016 Update Five The whippet was gloss coated with alclad aqua gloss and left to cure. Then the decals were added and left overnight after using micro set and sol. Then after the decals were inspected and found to have settled nicely, another coat of alclad aqua gloss was added and left to cure. To start the weathering off, I mixed some black and brown clay based wash and added in some thinners. I used this as a pin wash. This was Then cleaned up and the whippet received a matt varnish ready for the next stage. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hamden Posted February 14, 2016 Share Posted February 14, 2016 That looks stunning! Roger 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FrancisGL Posted February 14, 2016 Share Posted February 14, 2016 It is running superbly, cheers.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HansReggelsen Posted February 14, 2016 Share Posted February 14, 2016 A single colour scheme can be tricky to give any dept and 'interest', but you've really gotten both! Can't wait to see it in a finished state! So...enough sleep - get on with it - we're waiting! Cheers Hans J 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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