Harry Callahan Posted April 18, 2021 Share Posted April 18, 2021 Hi friends Inspired by a visit to the Military History Museum in Dresden, I came up with the idea of recreating the Gepard flak tank on display there. Maybe you know the diorama already, i use it from my MAN 7-tonner dio. Long time we have just the very old Tamiya kit on the market, but suddenly almost to same time MENG and TAKOM released the Gepard, after comparision i choose the TAKOM one, coz in many model forums they said to me that the Takom one is better choice. So here it is, hope you like it. copyright by Wikipedia some day i want display it like the one in Dresden 25 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bullbasket Posted April 18, 2021 Share Posted April 18, 2021 Excellent job Werner, and really well photographed. Nice one. John. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stef N. Posted April 18, 2021 Share Posted April 18, 2021 Really nice job there. Painting and weathering are spot on and it's displayed very well. 👏👍 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carius Posted April 18, 2021 Share Posted April 18, 2021 Superb Gepard Werner, Excellent paint job and weathering. Cheers from Brazil 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VolkerR. Posted April 18, 2021 Share Posted April 18, 2021 Perfect job! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Callahan Posted April 18, 2021 Author Share Posted April 18, 2021 My friends Thank you so much for your kind comments, much appreciated.......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arnobiz Posted April 18, 2021 Share Posted April 18, 2021 Beautiful, and the building is fantastic too, great attention to small details! Arnaud 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
APA Posted April 18, 2021 Share Posted April 18, 2021 Really excellent job. Can't fault it one bit. 👏👌👍 Andrew 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vytautas Posted April 18, 2021 Share Posted April 18, 2021 You deceived me, so dishonest! At first, when I flipped through the photos, I thought that these were reference images of a real tank, and when I got to the last photo and didn’t find a model, and only then I realized that in the photos was the model, not the reference. Fantastic job! 👍 Vytautas 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keefr22 Posted April 18, 2021 Share Posted April 18, 2021 That's superb, cracking paint and weathering - and an excellent diorama too! And like @vytautas you fooled me too - I thought they were all pictures of the real one and had to study them carefully to work out which ones were the model! Lovely job! Keith 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sinhow Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 Looks real with the building and the background! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoftScience Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 Very nice looking job. As always, your weathering really looks good. I like the leaves!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark V Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 That’s fabulous, and a little scary to me. Flashbacks to an afternoon F-4 wild weasel sortie from Spangdahlem, probably in 1986. It was always difficult to find live radar signatures in Germany for the F-4G to hunt. We were tasked to find and simulate attacks on a Gepard unit on maneuvers. I forgot exactly where they were operating. The G found the Gerard’s and directed us, in the F-4E, to simulate a pop up attack on one of the Gepards. As we were climbing from about 250 ft above ground level up to about 3000 before rolling into the dive bombing attack I looked out of the left side of the canopy. I was looking right down the barrels of another Gepard watching the strobe light (I guess to simulate the cannons firing) as it tracked us. And saw 3 or 4 of his buddies spread out across the field. Yikes! I held great respect for those guys. Thanks for posting. You presented a truly outstanding model. 3 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Callahan Posted April 19, 2021 Author Share Posted April 19, 2021 8 hours ago, Mark V said: That’s fabulous, and a little scary to me. Flashbacks to an afternoon F-4 wild weasel sortie from Spangdahlem, probably in 1986. It was always difficult to find live radar signatures in Germany for the F-4G to hunt. We were tasked to find and simulate attacks on a Gepard unit on maneuvers. I forgot exactly where they were operating. The G found the Gerard’s and directed us, in the F-4E, to simulate a pop up attack on one of the Gepards. As we were climbing from about 250 ft above ground level up to about 3000 before rolling into the dive bombing attack I looked out of the left side of the canopy. I was looking right down the barrels of another Gepard watching the strobe light (I guess to simulate the cannons firing) as it tracked us. And saw 3 or 4 of his buddies spread out across the field. Yikes! I held great respect for those guys. Thanks for posting. You presented a truly outstanding model. Wow what a great story, very interesting to tell us your experiences with our Gepards, its a shame they are out of service already. Thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andy J Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 Awesome work my friend looks brilliant 👏. I may have to buy this kit and try to re create the scheme shown on the box art 🤔 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reforgermodeller Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 really nice paintjob and fantastic weathering, well done mate cheers Uwe 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Callahan Posted April 20, 2021 Author Share Posted April 20, 2021 Hi my friends I am very grateful to all of you for the nice comments and all the praise. But none of you (including me) noticed that the mirrors were missing hehehehe. I just attached it. Thank you.... 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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