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  1. I use Revell Plasto (amongst others), a kind of old school solvent based filler, probably no different to any other solvent based filler if I'm honest but it's easy to get this side of the pond

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    Not sure if this should be in paints, rumourmonger (but it's not a kit) or somewhere else. Feel free to move it mods.

     

    Newsh is the name.

     

    Is it just a glorified thinner? Not by the looks of it, but it's certainly interesting, almost looks like a Flory wash application.

     

    Great for 40K etc,  a bit clumsy for fine engraved panel lines though?

     

    https://youtu.be/Gqo8I2UCaWA?si=8JZQ4B-ULIQzpAY3

     

    real world test

     

    https://youtu.be/YqThV2Q1EG0?si=ejq9bRIujflUT9wV

     

  3. 2 hours ago, Armorrich said:

    Very cool!!! I like your method of just depicting/displaying particular turrets. Very well done.

     

    It was done out of neccessity but I've got to admit, I'm kinda taken with it too.

     

    It would be cool to have a selection of turrets showing evolutions. eg sherman turrets from the early 75mm all the way through to the M51.

     

    Mind you, it'd be hellish expensive wasting the rest of the kits, although I'd have the benefit of avoiding the running gear/tracks. :)

     

  4. 1 hour ago, Old pro said:

    I did read somewhere that the black Garfield was a proposed scheme that was rejected

     

    Yeah I mentioned that in my original post. Maybe if you spotted it somewhere else, if so there's another thread somewhere I haven't found :S

     

    9 hours ago, Orso said:

    I would't take to much information from the kits.

     

    Agreed. I wouldn't trust Esci to get it right, although the kit was released in their prime era, when they released good quality stuff. Hasegawa on the other hand, I kind of would expect them to get it right but they might have just copied the Esci kit.

     

    I know Verlinden produced Garfield as a rub-down decal.  So did they just copy Esci and/or Hasegawa or did they have independent info?

     

    There must be an image somewhere (otherwise the decals wouldn't exist), my guess is it's buried in a book or magazine rather than being on the web.

     

    However the model's done and this thread exists on the interweb just in case someone else is as weird as me is trying to find the info :mental:

  5. Bit of an update on this thread ... more for web posterity just in case someone else comes across this thread while trying to search for the same info.

     

    After more searching on the web, I can't find any other info regarding the Garfield Abrams, although I'm convinced there must be pics out there ... somewhere.

     

    The only pic I've found is the black Abrams Garfield scheme being tested for CAT 1987 (listed in my first post). I've also looked at the Hasegawa 72 Abrams instructions and that lists Garfield in CAT 1985.

     

    Also, the black Abrams has a number (not sure if it's a company or individual tank) that is different to the Esci or Hasegawa Garfield Abrams. So it looks like the kits decals may cover Garfield in CAT 1985 and the black Abrams is 1987-ish.

     

    "Bill the Cat" abrams CAT 1987 (covered by the Panda kit in 35th) has the cat on the left turret cheek and a company/regiment symbol on the right cheek. Garfield only appears on the right cheek and has no other markings, that suggest to me a different year.

     

    But .... I also found another Abrams in CAT 1987 which had a cat on the right cheek only, so who knows.

     

    The evidence seems to point to the kit decals (Esci 35th and Hasegawa 72nd) covering CAT 1985. In that case it seems possible that (being 2 years earlier) the Garfield Abrams didn't have the rear turret bustle and that would explain why both kit don't include it. By 1987 (as Old pro wrote above) most M1 IPs had the rear turret bustle.

     

    So, my guess is Garfield didn't have a rear turret bustle and took part in CAT 1985. The regiment then tested the Garfield Abrams in the black scheme just prior to CAT 1987 but decided against black. And maybe it didn't go to CAT 1987 at all.

     

    And now a word about the Esci 1/35 decals. They're crap. But I kind of suspected that beforehand. Using the black Abrams as reference, Garfield should be orange and the kit has coloured him yellow, he also seems too small. The Canadian flag zaps are also too big and the 2 yellow barrel rings are way too short.

     

    Once I knew the decals were wrong, there wasn't much point in banging my head against a brick wall trying to make an accurate Abrams turret, so I just built it straight from the kit, see here.

  6. I'm a Garfield fan and I want to build a collection of subjects with Garfield noseart. I started with the Hercules (see here) and then after that I stumbled (by chance) on the Esci 35th Abrams kit (with Garfield decals) that was in my stash while looking for something else.

     

    Problems began when I started looking for info. Garfield's Abrams is an M1 IP (the version before M1A1) and there's also a kind of hybrid M1 IP with parts of an M1A1added so this complicated matters.

     

    I posted a request on Coldwar Armour for info about the Garfield Abrams (see here). Nothing much came back, which isn't surprising as it's a bit of a niche question.

     

    Anyway, while researching I discovered that the Garfield decals are wrong in a lot of ways (see my post in Coldwar) so in the end I just decided to build it. And as my plan is just to show show the noseart, I only built the turret and mounted it on a black circular base (I ended up using a slice of Airfix's Space Shuttle main tank!)

     

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  7. I've thinned Galeria matt with IPA, water and UMP thinners and generally I've had no problems. In fact i can't decide which is the best, they all seem to work.

     

    However, the last time I used it I did notice a few white spots but that's the first time it's happened to me

     

    And I've probably thinned it more than 25%. If Colin's right I may have a problem in the future .... :S

  8. Yeah, Bill is on the front left of the turret and the company/brigade/army badge on the front right, whereas garfield is on the front right and nothing on front left. Also Garfield has a canadian flag on the barrel (in the Esci kit) which was apparently a zap.

     

    That makes me wonder if a different cat logo was used each year, I just assumed each tank had a different cat character. I've seen it said elsewhere that garfield was also 1987 but I'm starting to wonder if that's wrong.

     

    I'm convinced other has to be other pics of Garfield somewhere, maybe they're buried in an Abrams books rather than on the web. In which case I'm probably out of luck.

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    I'm building 'just the turret' of the Esci 35th Abrams Garfield 'Laze and Blaze' tank. Esci have released these markings in 35th and 72nd, AMT (using both the Esci kits) and Hasegawa in 72nd.

     

    The Esci 35th kit: https://www.scalemates.com/kits/esci-ertl-5020-m1-abrams--653510

     

    Garfield was an Abrams M1 IP but according to info on the web, the tanks were upgraded with some of the M1A1 changes prior to competing in CAT 1987. One upgrade included the rear turret bustle.

     

    None of the kits released have the rear bustle but this might be them just making mileage out of an early mould Abrams. I've only found 1 pic on the web which is inconclusive regarding the rear bustle, sadly it's on facebook :(

     

    https://www.facebook.com/photorecon101abn/photos/a.419915261412824/421063174631366/?type=3

     

    The caption reads: A Black M1 Abrams? This is a 3-64 Armor M1 that was painted black with gold stipes and markings as a proposal for a paint scheme for the Canadian Army trophy Competition, 1987. It was rejected.

     

    So has anyone else come across any Garfield Abrams pics? If so, can you confirm if it had the rear bustle? My theory is if Garfield did go to CAT 1987, I can't see the US Army not updating it with a rear bustle.

     

    However, I'm wondering if Garfield never went to CAT 1987 but was just used as a black paint test mule for the US Army. If model companies have released a kit of this tank, surely more than 1 image exists somewhere?

     

    Can anyone can shed any light on this tank?

     

    TIA

    Neil

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