Yet more modern , for the 1970's armour sent to the Uranium mines to defend against the communist backed insurgents. The mine companies, and indeed some in the M.O.D  thought sending cheiftans to Africa was a bit overkill, but their was method in their madness, as a future skirmish with T-54's and T-55's soon proved their viability.
The kit is the Takom 1/72nd scale Cheiftan MK.5, awkward and and too many fiddly bits and PE for my dodgy fingers to cope with, hence a few badly fitted bits, broken bits, and a part that wasn't there in the first place. I don't think I will bother getting any more Takom tracked armour, as I struggle to do it justice.

It's a beautiful looking little kit, though.

Your problem may come down to what else is available, Takom produce a really good range of 1/72 armour.

At first, I thought those photos were of them in a diorama of the uranium mining area

Quote from: Old Wombat on November 18, 2023, 12:43:07 AMIt's a beautiful looking little kit, though.

Your problem may come down to what else is available, Takom produce a really good range of 1/72 armour.

I have a twin set of Russian tractor units in the stash too, I can't remember what they look like inside the box, hooefully they will be easier to build , he says.

 

I've not built 1/72 Takom armour.  But if the parts breakdown is anything like their 1/35 they will be insane.

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I've not built 1/72 Takom armour.  But if the parts breakdown is anything like their 1/35 they will be insane.

they have plenty of parts, but nothing in comparrison to Vespid, seriously parts overload on their Centurions.

Quote from: chrisonord on November 17, 2023, 03:27:16 PMThe kit is the Takom 1/72nd scale Cheiftan MK.5, awkward and and too many fiddly bits and PE for my dodgy fingers to cope with, hence a few badly fitted bits, broken bits, and a part that wasn't there in the first place. I don't think I will bother getting any more Takom tracked armour, as I struggle to do it justice.

IBG are similar. Some of their kits have loads of small parts and tiny etch whilst others, the Crusader variants for example, are quite simple with one piece running gear.    Shame because they do some really nice WWII era stuff.  "First to the Fight" do a nice range of early WWII armour and artillery but I've no experience of those so can't comment.

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Quote from: chrisonord on November 17, 2023, 03:27:16 PMThe kit is the Takom 1/72nd scale Cheiftan MK.5, awkward and and too many fiddly bits and PE for my dodgy fingers to cope with, hence a few badly fitted bits, broken bits, and a part that wasn't there in the first place. I don't think I will bother getting any more Takom tracked armour, as I struggle to do it justice.

IBG are similar. Some of their kits have loads of small parts and tiny etch whilst others, the Crusader variants for example, are quite simple with one piece running gear.    Shame because they do some really nice WWII era stuff.  "First to the Fight" do a nice range of early WWII armour and artillery but I've no experience of those so can't comment.

I will know to avoid their stuff then Chris. Thanks for the heads up.

Quote from: chrisonord on November 18, 2023, 08:12:10 AMI will know to avoid their stuff then Chris. Thanks for the heads up.

Ask Nick about their Scammell. It's a beautiful kit and he's done a great job with it, but the size of some of the parts    and you don't even see a lot of them unless you pick it up.

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Quote from: chrisonord on November 18, 2023, 08:12:10 AMI will know to avoid their stuff then Chris. Thanks for the heads up.

Ask Nick about their Scammell. It's a beautiful kit and he's done a great job with it, but the size of some of the parts    and you don't even see a lot of them unless you pick it up.

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Quote from: NARSES2 on November 18, 2023, 08:22:32 AM

Quote from: chrisonord on November 18, 2023, 08:12:10 AMI will know to avoid their stuff then Chris. Thanks for the heads up.

Ask Nick about their Scammell. It's a beautiful kit and he's done a great job with it, but the size of some of the parts    and you don't even see a lot of them unless you pick it up.

the vespid  centurions are like that. Alot of detailed small pieces go into it only to be covered up with something else, also too many parts to make something that ends up falling off and going missing.

Just put the second colour on the Chieftan, went silly with the green, but it will do, I can always overlap the earth when that goes on.

Looks good. Just say that the guys with the spray guns were using different pages from the official Chieftain Colouring Book 

Quote from: NARSES2 on November 21, 2023, 06:24:45 AMLooks good. Just say that the guys with the spray guns were using different pages from the official Chieftain Colouring Book 

   

That's looking great Chris 👍 👌
Lovely work on this little beasty 😄