Hi all gentlemen, ok, here I just had fun, the scene is set in Berlin, English sector (obviously) the early 80s period, the kit is the old Tamiya mk5 (actually a mk3 so please don’t care about the tank version) but I had the desire to make a Chieftain with the famous Berlin Brigade camo. The set, the street really exists, I took as a reference a photo that showed a Centurion in the 60s I think, so I said to myself: “if there was a Centurion at the time then in the early 80s there could be a Chieftain”, I checked the road with google maps to understand how it had changed over the years and then I imagined how an urban development would change it, leaving the tram tracks now disappear, but perhaps still present at the time, in short, a sort of “what if” but not too much. I wanted to set it in winter (I love winter), I liked the idea of making a cold day, I also checked the weather in those years to be sure it had actually snowed, and yes, it did snow. The figure on the sidewalk, a student, is a modified German infantryman with a warrior head to whom I created the thick hair typical of the boys at that time, I checked the photos of the time, and the Eskimo was recreated with epoxy putty .
For the rest I leave the pleasure or the displeasure to you by watching the pics
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) cleaned and then reassembled as if it were almost a new kit. Regarding the colors, when I did it I didn’t have the specific set and so I created them with what I had at home, a mix of light gray and light blue for the base, white gray from a Vallejo german set color and mix of brown tone, once dryed I did a drybrush with oils on the base color with Mig 502 german gray highligt, and on white with Mig Faded U.N. white, while on the brown I used an acrylic brown from Agama, after which I proceeded with a selective washing with oils and True-Earth products, while for the mud and dirt in general I used the liquid pigments of the lifecolor and for the various streaking I used oils with light passages, on the engine compartment I made abundant passages of liquid pigment for the dust / mud (it is known that the snow is very dirty), and Grease and oil of true-earth for the oil patches, all to simulate engine failures, very frequent with Leyland engine in that period. The few decals present were costumized by downloading the logos I needed from the web. The Marksmann radio box, on the other hand, was added later, no I had noticed its presence, I built it with plasticard and to insert it without damaging the color made I used epoxy dyed with pigments to recreate right color on the weld that also acting as a glue to fix it to the turret, even the gun has undergone a slight improvement, in the lower part I added the heat protection with a foil of epoxy, effective when the gun is fixed at 6 o’clock, and recreated the cloth that covers the slot at the junction of the fee with the turret, absent in the kit.
