11th hour A10 cruiser

[AdrianMF]

Hello All,

 

Well I've just got back from a trip and I remembered that this finishes today and I bought a Milicast A10 to build here...

 

Customer service is great - I got a hand written note with my order. The moulding is AMAZING. Short run but the detail, sharpness and level of integration is terrific - I certainly won't be gluing any link and length tracks together:

 

The shackles have broken off in transit but they are relatively easy to repair. The front ones go under the turret so had to be shortened later:

 

Bit of reconstruction required on the tracks and sprocket wheel:

 

Didn't take long to assemble:

 

Underccoated with Hu32 then painted in Hu86:

It looked a bit dark and green for an early war tank. The Airfix 1/32 17 Pounder instructions call out Hu 253 for the green colour, so I tried that. I think I'm happy with the colour now:

 

I still need to add the dark green splotches, paint the tyres, tracks and details, and weather it. When I started this morning I genuinely thought I might get it all done today - I'm sorry to not finish the build in what was a very interesting GB theme. I will post how I get on in the Armour section here.

 

Thanks for looking,

Adrian

[Black Knight]

The detail on that is amazingly sharp.