Centurion Mark I

[General Zod]

Here she is  The unit ID is Guards armored division,Irish Guards RTR,B squadron

The markings on the hull front and rear are from Accurate Armour The T number is from an old Verlinden dry transfer set The turret markings are Archer dry transfers

[Captain Canada]

Nice one ! I absolutely love Centurions...is it real ? And what scale ?

Cheers !

 

[nev]

Nice.  What kit?  

All it needs now is some weathering and a nice diorama    

[General Zod]

Captain Canada and Nev

Thanks for the comments It's 1/35 The donor kit was the AFV Club NATO Centurion The resin conversion is Cromwell Models from Scotland The Mk I never saw any service during the war
It was armed with a 17lbr The first 10 had a 20mm coax After that a 7.92mm MG The coax was able to move independently from the main gun

The what-if factor for me anyway is that is was part of XXX Corps on the advance to Arnhem as part of operation Market Garden

I think this tank would have scared the crap out of the Germany army at the time  

[General Zod]

Here's the Centurion Mark I finished It has markings for the Guards armoured division,Irish Guards RTR for operation Market Garden,the invasion of Holland in 1944

AFV Club NATO Centurion as base kit Cromwell Models resin conversion I think I went a bit overboard on the MIG pigments













 

[Captain Canada]

Hey......that's only six photos ! We've been robbed !



What a beauty. One of my all time favourite tanks. Nowt wrong with the weathering...just looks dirty ! You might think you've over done it as it's just sitting on the worknench. If it was on a dio base it would blend right in.

 

[PanzerWulff]

no problems with your weathering here I'm of the opinion Armor should be Grungy messy and MEAN. your centurion looks ready to go on safari (Hunting Tigers that is )
"Panzer"

[Jeffry Fontaine]

Chad,

Just wanted to let you know that I merged your original thread with this thread so you could have some continuity and all of the comments and images would appear under one thread, it makes it all that much better for us to see the progress as well as the finished model.  

By the way, nice work as usual!  

[Captain Canada]

Good one, Jeffry !

I didn't think they served in WWII. Is the unit a real one as well ? That's something I'd like to know more about, post-war UK tanke units.

 

[General Zod]

Chad,

Just wanted to let you know that I merged your original thread with this thread so you could have some continuity and all of the comments and images would appear under one thread, it makes it all that much better for us to see the progress as well as the finished model.  

By the way, nice work as usual!

Thanks Jeffry

Thanks for the great comments y'all It was fun building an Allied what if  

[General Zod]

Good one, Jeffry !

I didn't think they served in WWII. Is the unit a real one as well ? That's something I'd like to know more about, post-war UK tanke units.

Captain Canada

The tank itself did not serve during the war

The unit itself did though  

[Jetfixer]

SWEET. thats a great looking afv. not being an AFV nut I wouldn't have known its a whif.

All the best.

Greg

[nev]

Great stuff! B)

As for the weathering, British tanks in the Normandy breakout were VERY dusty - charging along bone dry diry tracks in the height of summer does that

[General Zod]

Thanks Greg and Nev  

[BlackOps]

WOW! I missed the initial post on this one, very nice