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After a rather fruitful Christmas modelling wise I decided it was high time to start chipping away at the pile I had acquired over the festive period. The Eduard Samurai set and the 109 have been stored in the ever growing pile, and with the intention of starting the 1:144 Lightning later in the year it is the Tamiya Matilda that will be he subject of this thread. I might add that this was a present bought for myself... by myself. This would also have the added benefit of coinciding with my IPMS branch group build for the start of the year; the subject of which was desert warfare. Being a vaguely recent kit from Tamiya it of course slots together in the usual fashion and even features some cast texture on the hull and turret. This was to be my first time using link and length tracks and for all I was a bit daunted by this prospect the process actually went relatively smoothly. owing to the fact that the Matilda has track armour/skirt I decided to work a bit smarter and opted to just model the tracks that were going to be visible. After a small amount of test fitting this turned out to work perfectly and means that unless you're a small child or Bilbo Baggins you don't really stand much of a chance of up skirting this beauty. The rest of the build followed in the regular Tamiya fashion. I left most of the tools and gizmos off of the hull to help with painting later. In the next instalment im going o be painting this one up in the blue desert wonder tha is the caunter camo sceme, so rest assured lots of masking is on its way. Until next time JC
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This one is finally over the finish line. Build log can be found here: https://www.britmodeller.com/forums/index.php?/topic/235106243-matilda-ii/ Cheers! Kristjan
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Hello again, here are a few pictures of the Matilda, completed recently. I haven't made this as an exact unit representation, rather a practise for working in 1/35 and trying to make it look used and battered about . These days I have trouble making anything smaller that that scale! Model was spray painted enamel desert sand and worked on with pastels and other medial, e.g., pencil lead 6B etc. I make the top look as though oil has ben spilt and walked all over. TAMIYA model goes together quite well. I see in the pictures I need to practise doing washes much better, to get it to flow into folds and gaps. Model mounted on matt felt ,2 stops Unser exposed , top and side lit with LED torch.