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Modeller Build Logs

M47 Patton at Suez

By Paul Roberts
Started: Jan 28, 2005
Updated: Oct 23, 2005

My local club is having its yearly club contest in January and, in typical fashion, as of December 26th, 2004, I didn't have anything built. Again. I was determined to have something this year for the "Cold War" armour theme and as Korea was specifically excluded, I went huinting through the kit stash for something that I could build out of the box and still be happy with, rivet counter that I am.

My eyes settled on the old Italeri M47 which I had always heard was a great kit. Good choice, I thought, but what scheme other than European OD Green??? Who used these puppies in the mid 50's? France! At Suez! And thus started the 4 week build for the contest.

Introduction Chapter 1 - Its all about the texture... Chapter 2 - Texture II Chapter 3 - Casting Numbers Chapter 4 - Casting Numbers II Chapter 5 - Turret Texture Chapter 6 - Turret Texture II Chapter 7 - Turret Texture III Chapter 8 - Hull Texture I Chapter 9 - Hull Texture II Chapter 10 - Texture Variations Chapter 11 - Ready for the Fiddly Bits Chapter 12 - Ready for Painting - 1 Chapter 13 - Ready for Painting - 2 Chapter 14 - Painted and decalled Chapter 15 - Turret close-up -01 Chapter 16 - Turret - 2 Chapter 17 - Mantlet Cover Chapter 18 - Hull Front Chapter 19 - Finished! Chapter 20 - All Done
[Discussion]

Chapter 4 - Casting Numbers IIJan 30, 2005
This is a slightly different approach for the cover over the gun mount. Here I just glued the numbers directly to the kit. Just another way of doing the same job.

I wish the kit had different sized numbers on the sprues as it limited my ability to add these little details, but there you go, you can't have everything.


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