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I'm calling my Mark 1 Female completed. I decided to just experiment and wing it on the weathering. On what you can see I did a lightened wash, not really a filter. I air brushed a lot of the darker weathering like on the very bottom of the side. Did brown tan and black pigments some dry...

I did the brush painted black between some of the areas like the example on the Takom box and assembled the main body. I'm going to do some more weathering but not exactly sure how. I'll think up something and take a swing at it. Probably a light filter of brown to help unify everything and then...

Gary, looks super to me. Going to try copying you track weathering in the next couple days. Okay so from what I read these tanks only had camo on the front, cab and sides. That is whay I did it in pieces. I used the masking putty from Andy's HHQ. First time I tried it and I love it. I primed...

I've had shakey hands sinse I was a kid. No need to stop maybe just time to switch techniques. You can bring out panel lines and rivets with a wash or filter covering the whole thing and instead of individually painting the rivets you can get pretty much the same effect with a dry brush of...

I got my sponsons done and mounted and the brass screen attached to the roof last night. The roof isn't attached, I don't want to try painting through it. I will be doing priming and base coat tonight hopefully.

My favorite part about building armor is it's pretty much never too late, and there is no right or wrong. I think the red and white looks really good for a heavily worn presentation. I would just touch up the mufflers and red run across the rear then chip and scratch the green to kind of match...

I have the Meng vesion of the Whippet on the shelf. Looks like a lot of us have a whippet in the stash.

Definately a boatload of extra parts in these Takon Kits the Female is even worse than the male because it has a lot of the Mark 1 Male parts in it. I've built everything except the sponsons on my Female version now. It was a lot easier to do the second time around, and I wasn't taking any...

Thanks for the compliments guys. I'm really impressed with the Takom kits, but if I had one suggestion for them it would definately be that they not do so many flat sheets that all have to be fit together If they even molded two ar three todether it would be a lot easier to keep things aligned...

GEG64 thanks for the compliment. I've been trying to pull back on the weathering myself. I've had thast tendancy to go way overboard in the past as well. Heavy weathering looks neat but IMO there probably weren't that many vehicles that got totally beat to peices before they were retired or...

Well; being as you haven't gotten any answer yet, I'll tell you a little I know. I would glue them on and paint it all after the fact with glue together tracks if the tracks are still relatively accessible after glueing on. Typically, I would build the tracks in sections and wrap them around the...

These are pretty easy to build IMO. I have the Meng version of the Whippet. It's tempting to build that one next. I'm on a WW1 armor binge now. I managed to collect 19 WW1 armor kits. Most are armored cars, but had to get one of each of the main tanks I saw. I did my interpretation of...

I need some of those thumb guards. Been there more times than I care to admit. Off to Amazon! I did get my brown paint and decals on last night. One of the coolest things about living in the desert southwest is paint dries in a flash. Airbrushed paint in about 15 minutes and gloss and dull coat...

I broke out the spray booth last night and played around a little. I opted to go for the zebra style black and white priming on this one. There are so many different ways you can go about painting these things, This is Tamiya Nato Black and Vallejo Gull Grey Primer. I get a kick out of doing...

I finished the basic kit assembly. As I mentioned in the last post I'm not using the rear steering wheels or sponson cranes on this one. Here's how it looks now. It'll be time to get out the spray booth after work tonight.

I have a Takom Mark IV kit with a full interior. I'm planning on using the sponson cranes and trailer with that model to made a diorama with the sponson removed. The guns are so nice it is a shame to hide them but it would be a huge project to scratch build something for this kit. I'm planning...