1:35 RFM 5062 Challenger 2 Build

[iwatajim]

Well done Cats! Looks great with the dozer especially. I may be finished this time next year with mine, must stop procrastinating!

The badger would be a great project. There is a construction review on The Modelling News, looks to be a good kit;

Construction Review: 1/35th scale FV 217 Badger from Amusing Hobby

Cheers, J.

[Catsrcool]

Thank you and thank you for the link.
I like the articles on Modelling News but unless I am missing something obvious how do you search for a specific model?
I have only ever found links by Googling reviews for xxxx model and sometimes it pops up.

[iwatajim]

No worries. There is a search box about halfway down the home page, on the left hand side. Although the badger is still one of the featured reviews on that side of the page.

Cheers, J.

[BootsDMS]

'Love this Chally; really looks the biz!

I always thought the so-called “Badger” would look good in a sort of trials in the Middle East scheme - sand over Bronze Green or such; oh, also a Cent cupola but with such a model one could let one’s imagination run riot. 'Hope you track one down (no pun intended) and the subsequent build.

[SSGToms]

Outstanding finish; excellent weathering on an excellently executed model.

[Armorsmith]

Wasn’t too keen on this one at first but seeing the finished build with the weathering has brought me around. Really like the splash effects.

[JoseCesar67]

This is great work!

[Annette_Dominic]

Is this a what if paint scheme?

[Johnnych01]

No, its based on various RTR Chally2s which are fitted out in this scheme.

[cabasner]

@Catsrcool

The AA dozer blade was easy to clean up.
Mine has a broken web on the back of the mud guard so I am waiting for AA to replace it.
The fit for resin between the parts of the dozer assembly is not bad.
However it was designed to fit the Tamiya CR1 & CR2 and the fit leaves a bit to be desired.
The slots in the back of part of it are supposed to go over the towing brackets without the towing hooks.
Tamiya or RFM made a mistake with the locations somewhere as the centres of the towing brackets on the kit and the centres of the slots is something like 4mm out in total on my example.
The only way I am going to get the part to sit correctly is cut the towing brackets off.
There is also a gap between the sides of the mounting arms on the upper hull and the brackets.
If you look at the video above closely you will see that the dozer blade bracket on the upper hull mount/pivot points have prominent red coloured lifting loops which are missing from the AA resin.
I can only assume that was a later addition after the resin one was mastered?
Finally I missed the lights error so now will have to live with it but thank you for pointing it out.

Hey Cats, it’s been since January since you wrote the above, and I’m guessing you won’t remember enough details to either agree or disagree with me, but I, too, have the Accurate Armour dozer blade. I have yet to get very far on my Challenger build, and have not even glued the towing brackets into place. But just doing some dry fitting, I would guess the ‘off center’ situation is closer to 2mm total, instead of 4mm, and I think I’ll have a choice of either leaving off the brackets, or slightly carving 1mm out of each of the ‘slots’, which will then allow the brackets to actually be glued in place. I’m hoping it works out this way for me.

[Catsrcool]

Good luck with your build.

[Bison126]

For some reason I have missed this great and informative thread.
The finish is brilliant.

Olivier