Merkava 3 Baz Meng 1/35

[rbaer]

Liquitex link:
www.liquitex.com/naturalsand/

[wbill76]

Nice progress on the anti-slip Heico, ought to look the part under paint just right.

[heico]

Wbill, thanks. My thoughts exactly. Im guessing that this will look sweet when finished.

[bullardino]

Dec 31, 2013 17:39:31 GMT -5 rbaer said:

Liquitex link:
www.liquitex.com/naturalsand/

I've seen that at my local arts store, think I'm going to get one

Heico, great progress so far

[heico]

I went on to the masking of the hull today.




And then I did the anti slip coating layer on the turret. 

[bullardino]

The antiskid looks nice, coarse the right way

[deafpanzer]

Looking good... can't wait to see the result.

[heico]

Thanks guys, first i will do the hull followed by a layer of paint to 'seal' the embossing powder.

[heico]

Thanks Dicky, i think this is the best option for IDF anti-skid. Maybe i will try the chinchilla once again on some other model, but i'll probably will come back to this because it looks much better. For now im just curious how many vehicles i can do with one bottle of embossing.

[rbaer]

Oh gawd, another IDF kit to add to the wish-list. Got a link?
Heico, I like the anti-slip, looks good.
Dicky, you're right, seems like whatever the IDF uses, it comes off in big patches. It also looks like if one were to fall and "slip" on it, it would remove skin.
I actually have the Liquitex applied on the inside of the rear door of my fitter rig (saw some in a pic, so it's really there on at least some of them) and it's looking right. I should put a wash on it and get a pic. The medium itself is clear, very difficult to see it when it's applied. I'll be mixing a little paint in the next batch. Application is a little unusual too, I'll go into detail on my build thread.

[heico]

Jan 20, 2014 15:44:55 GMT -5 @dickyf said:

Interested to see Academy have announced a 'new' version of the Merkava 2D for 2014 release too

Nooo!! you are sh!ttin me?! Bought the Legend conversion set a while ago...

Probably going to be a bashup of old Academy Mk.2 parts with some new plastic coming from the Legend resin plans then. Just like they did with the Magach 6B Gal Batash. 

I was hoping (and still am) that Meng will do one.

[heico]

It will be a lot cheaper than the Legend set, gotta tell you that...

I mostly don't care about small 'mistakes' in a kit. Every kit has it's flaws, and i personally would drive myself nuts if i tried to fix every mistake. But i do want the 2D in plastic too. Visually the most attractive Merkava to me.

But where did you read this? Im curious now

[heico]

I found this: www.idf-modelling.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=75&t=4198

[wouter]

nice work Heico, must have had a monks patience to do all that masking ey! Texture looks cool. And glad to see progress here

Cheers

[heico]

Thanks Wouter! 

Motivation was high so i did the hull too today. After that i sealed it with brown and peeled of the masking. This was actually the badest part of it all. This picture gives an idea of the parts that got masked allthough i did peel of some masking before painting. This didn't go well at all places, some of these were repaired and some others were left that way as to simulate the wear and tear (did i spell that right?) like it would for real.



The next steps will be the adding of the small pieces i left of for the antiskid and i still need to figure out for myself if i will put the roller in front of it or not!

[bullardino]

I like the antiskid appearance, Heico. The merk looks great, and with some paint on it'll be even better

[heico]

Thanks Bullardino, im getting there With a little bit of luck maybe even this weekend when the wife is away

No stopping me now, i went on this evening. I had a small 'WHY' moment looking at this part for the smoke dischager (attachment). Such a ejector mark, why not on the other side and nobody would notice it ever again. No biggy though...



The left smoke discharger ready to be placed. 



And an overview (again) now with some smaller parts added, also the basket is now attached. I had to glue in 2 pieces of sprue because the construction was pinching too much and otherwise it wouldn't fit. Forgot to take a photo of this but now it's attached. The ball and chain is now on and you can see the coaxial mount lying on top.

[wbill76]

Nice work on the anti-skid and details!

[wouter]

Nice work again indeed. I can feel your pain on the ejector pin mark, I have had that moment a couple of times with the Stryker...

wear and tear was spelled correct btw

Keep it going, looks bad ass!

Cheers

[Deleted]

looks great like that anti slip

[heico]

Thanks guys! Im fairly positive myself too! And that doesn't happen all that often

[heico]

Well, the Merkava is finally ready for it's paintjob. The roller definitively wont go in front of it, the reason is that im secretly waiting for a Puma to come out (and if it wont come out i'll go for the conversion set) and i want to put it in front of that. The puma being so low profiled will probably look cool extented with a mine roller. Just take a look at these pictures and hopefully you can agree with me.





Had some work for a few smaller pieces, a part that went missing had to be made. The cables for the smoke dischargers didn't do what i wanted them to do. Also a few ball and chains broke of. Luckily i had the option earlier on to make the basket look full or empty and therefore you had two different sets of baskets which had the ball and chain on. Just cut these of and put them on this basket. Also ive been busy with the hanging the towcables, Meng would like you to hang them up with copper wire. I wanted something else cause i saw how they did it on some pictures.



And that is what it was to be, everything is in its place now or otherwise lying await for the paint to be put on. This is what will happen next time.

[bullardino]

This is looking great Heico

As Dicky was saying, looks almost complete and then you see that load of things that need to be added...

[heico]

Thanks guys! 

Jan 25, 2014 16:17:35 GMT -5 @dickyf said:

 

Great work so far dood!

You probably don't know that 'dood' means 'dead' in Dutch

[Leon]

Looking really good Heico.

[wbill76]

I can understand why you would want to save the rollers for the Puma, that would be very mean-looking combo! Nice progress on the Merk heico.

[deafpanzer]

Dig the actual pictures... it will be very helpful for anybody who wants to build one too. Beautiful work!

[heico]

Thankgs guys!

I have a lot of pictures of Merkava's, so much i have allready separated them in 1,2,3 and 4. Won't be all that long now till i will be separating them in A, B, C or D

[heico]

Simple step, but took some time. It's black now!

[rbaer]

Almost a shame to put paint on such a nice build......