Anything that restricts main gun traverse is a bad idea on patrol - I vote no junk. Pile it on fenders and glacis, or hang it on the basket instead.
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Looks like no junk in the trunk then as I want to do a nice base for this model in a road patrol, convoy escort setting. Thanks all!
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The Model B is in primer and I got a start on the Takom tracks, planning to use them on the Magach. They go together fairly nicely, but I’m three hours into them and have 53 links assembled. Whew.
IMG_3905 by Russel Baer, on Flickr
IMG_3906 by Russel Baer, on Flickr
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Really like that stowage … looks very realistic as per the images 
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Wow! That Model B really looks loaded now that everything is one color. Good luck with those tracks!
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The primer pebbled pretty bad, my fault entirely, so after going over the bad areas with a worn-out Scotchbrite pad I put some Vallejo US OD on, from the rattle can. That was followed with a wash of Vallejo olive green, then I blocked in the major other colors and sealed it with clear flat.
IMG_3910 by Russel Baer, on Flickr
I’m poring over pics of tanks with sandbags added now to get a feel for their color. Unfortunately the few color pics I have don’t really show them well so I’ll probably go for a raw burlap look. That’s why they’re brown now.
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Our Hessian ones lose their colour and fade pretty quick when they are full and just left out in the elements for prolonged periods … It’s looking super good though Russ
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Working on the sandbags, doing some other detail painting. It’s coming along but will never grace a contest table, that’s for sure.
IMG_3911 by Russel Baer, on Flickr
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I think you are selling yourself a bit short there Russ. Its looking great … and the sand bag colour variations and shading/shadows are really good … nothing wrong with those or the build itself
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Russ if it comes out like any of your other builds, it deserves to be on a contest table.
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I appreciate it guys, but what doesn’t show in the pics is how pebbled a lot of the paint still is. I will dirty it up a lot in an attempt to hide it, but it’s very obvious in a lot of places that I can’t cover up. No worries though, it’ll still look the part.
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I’m still at it, but I hate painting and get really slow when that’s all there is to do.
IMG_3913 by Russel Baer, on Flickr
IMG_3912 by Russel Baer, on Flickr
Doing my best not to get sidetracked, but I confess to having another M48 hull in progress.
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Double the fun 
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Mr. Baer:
This is very nice work. I’ve been kind of stealth-following this thread, and it is fun to watch your work come together. In the picture above with the base-coat on, I was struck by your work on the gun mantlet cover on the Israeli tank: even the little cover for the gunner’s telescope hanging down under the aperture. Very nice.
One thing regarding the markings on the Vietnam-era M48A3 . . . normally, the tank number (“C-29”) would be on the other side (the LEFT side of the tank, viewed as if sitting in the driver’s compartment), and the unit designation on the right — so, again, normally, the vehicle bumper numbers would be switched the other way ‘round.
Also, the unit marking seems to me to be . . . suspicious. 3rd Squadron, 4th Cavalry was definitely NOT a squadron from an armored cavalry regiment, so the use of “3/4 ACR” strikes me as incorrect. I would expect to see that rendered as “3/4 CAV” instead (with the caps as written). I imagine that the decals you used were designed that way, and so . . .
OK, that is all. Again, very nice work on both of these tanks. And thanks for this on-going blog; it is fun to see this all come together.
Mark
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Thanks Mark. The mantlet cover on the IDF tank is from DEF Model, part of their Magach 3 conversion. As to the markings on the Model B, I copied a picture, which I’m guessing shows improvised markings due to the sandbags laid all over the glacis. Other than that, I plead ignorance.
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Mr. Baer:
Well, there you go! That is why photographic evidence always trumps everything . . . 
I think this is great work here, and again, thanks for letting us share in this process. It will be fun to see these finished.
Mark
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Both models look great. I have always enjoyed your scratch detailing and work in progress pictures.
Cheers,
Ralph
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Continued outstanding results Russ, I see that 3rd hull hiding in the background!
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Tee hee hee, says the snickering mad scientist… I promised myself the other day to build one of my newer kits, as out of the box as possible, but then I looked at the two Tamiya AMX-13 kits in the stash and the Heller AMX 13 VCI that I bought for the upper hull and got that urge again. Do I need a reality check? Intervention?
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I’m afraid you have AMS Russ…there is no cure.
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