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Well seeing as I'm hosting I think its about time I actually commit to build something for it! After a great deal of thought (right up to the last minute) I have decided to build a HobbyBoss 1/35 Leopard 1A5 but with a slight twist as the options in the kit didn't really inspire me a great deal. I have a Revell Leopard 1A1 in the stash too which has markings for a very nice looking Norwegian one in a 4 colour splinter camo scheme which looks very nice indeed and when looking at pictures of them I found some even better ones with winter camo applied over the splinter. So why not build that one? Well I have a good reason to build the HB kit as it was a gift, so after more digging I found pictures of suitable 1A5No's (33 ex Bundeswher tanks complete with applique armour unlike most Norwegian 1A1's that were updated to 1A5 standard) so that is what tipped the scales, HobbyBoss it will be! So onto the kit itself, starting with the obligatory box top picture; The box is packed with plasticy goodness; Including a very nicely moulded turret; As you can see though it is moulded with the attachment points for the extra applique armour as fitted to German 1A5's but not all foreign operators which is why I am building as one of the Ex German examples supplied to Norway. And lots of individual links! they're moulded in one piece though (unlike the nightmare that @PlaStix is having to deal with on his HobbyBoss build), whether they fit together though remains to be seen! There's also an etched fret and wire for the tow cables; And finally a picture nabbed from t'internet to show the kind of result I am hoping to obtain; Really looking forward to getting started on this! Thanks for looking in and as usual all comments and criticisms are gratefully received. Craig. 🇺🇦
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Well, as Craig points out, it's the start date, so here's the start of my build of Revell's version of Italeri's classic Leopard 1A4 (Revell H-2126) I'm actually in the Go Large or Go home build, but I'll put that on hold for this build which (I hope) won't take too long…. I want this to be the early all green Bundeswehr scheme, which brings up the first question, what colour should it be? Tamiya's own version calls for olive drab, but some pictures of newer, cleaner machines look more olive green. Was this something similar to the B-17? The colour faded a lot? Onto the unboxing: Box itself I like that arwork- I'll probably aim to build to look something like that No false starts (seriously if I had the tracks to build I would have done those earlier) Box contents - looks complete, except instructions - not bad for 12.99 on eXXy The parts look really nice, hard to believe this is from 1977, I reckon it will be more or less an oob build, I may make my own antennae No track assembly - they're already done!!!! Whoops, Scalemates doesn't have the instructions, but it does for the Italeri version, phew! Off to the wash... -
Some days ago @BillS called backdating the Revell #03115 Leopard 1A5 to the early Leopard 1 standard a "relatively straightforward conversion". Has anybody done this already? Or could somebody just outline the scope of work necessary to build an early 1970s Bundeswehr Leo 1 from the outstanding Revell kit mentioned above? Cheers Michael
