Tamiya BT-7 Model 1937

[Philipp Gross]

Woohoo! Fast Tank mini group build!

My Model 1935 kit has marking options for the same unit, with the same cross on the turret...might do just the same

Philipp

[Shawn Ramsey]

Nice finish Philipp and a nice start Raoul.

Shawn

[Greg Beckman]

Philipp, really nice in Yellow and the picture with the driver in there is WOW.


Raoul, Yeah....4BO!!!!!

[Philipp Gross]

Thanks Shawn & Greg! I knew it was all a matter of getting used to My other BT-7 will be green, I promise!

The poor sod in the driver's seat is still figuring out which lever makes this thing go

Philipp

[Steve Kubik]

Nice work, Philipp.
SOme day, I'll do one of these.

[Rob Matthews]

Gord Lord Fellas - Is there NO stopping you

Excellent work

Rob

[Philipp Gross]

First day back at work today after the ear troubles, so don't be surprised if my build speed drops slightly

Here's an idea concerning said diorama base - what do you think?



"Move it over there"
"Jawohl!"

"...uh...how?"



Philipp

[Rob Matthews]

Neat and effective.

Rob

[Philipp Gross]

Then it's time to give Mr. Pointing Officer Guy some paint at long last

Philipp

[Raoul Kunz]

Very nice little base Philipp and at long last a job for Mr. Pointing Officer Guy!

Meanwhile I've been busy finishing the build and starting to paint the '37 model BT-7 -

First step: finish build =>


Second step: various greens for some colour modulation (I skipped the base coat of grey here, it's...grey )=>


And then it got complicated... The air recognition stripes turned out slightly problematic simply because the turret already has a lot of the offending detail moulded on (and it's very nice, no question, but it makes masking really annoying... ).
This led to roughly four to five steps of masking the stripes, re-masking the blotched components or "invert-masking" ( ) the white stripes in order to repair the "three greens" that form the base... but now it's more or less done .




Best regards

Raoul G. Kunz