Tauro A7V in progress ...

Captain Canada · July 29, 2015, 05:12:37 PM

Looks rather sinister now me thinks !

jcf · March 30, 2017, 10:47:22 PM

It lives!

Latverian Armoured Corps aka Doom tank, as in Doctor Doom.

Flag and crest to come.
Vallejo acrylics brush-painted over airbrushed Vallejo grey primer, green sanded back for 'used' look; mix of Vallejo satin varnish, black, Vallejo thinner and water used for wash, SNJ aluminum powder used for highlights.

zenrat · March 31, 2017, 01:30:45 AM

The mobile pillbox approach to armoured warfare.
Looking good Jon and your bench looks to have struck the perfect balance between clean, clear work area and swept aside chaos.

NARSES2 · March 31, 2017, 07:14:38 AM

Quote from: zenrat on March 31, 2017, 01:30:45 AM
The mobile pillbox approach to armoured warfare.
Looking good Jon and your bench looks to have struck the perfect balance between clean, clear work area and swept aside chaos.

Not even sure it could be considered mobile

It's always struck me as a strange beast and they didn't build many. Would have been suitable for defending a cross roads in a city or similar though, especially given the nature of all those "small" conflicts in 1919.

Nice one Jon

kerick · March 31, 2017, 07:47:14 PM

Looks like something a Jawa would build.
Nice work!

zenrat · April 01, 2017, 02:59:46 AM

The exhaust looks very susceptible to potatoes...

chrisonord · April 01, 2017, 12:33:04 PM

I suspect only time lapse photography would see this thing actually moving. It just needs a bag of coal and some logs on a trailer behind it.Very cool build though and not something I have seen done before either.

Chris

jcf · April 01, 2017, 12:53:09 PM

Thanks folks.
I'll be adding Latverian flags and a Doctor Doom crest/shield to it.

Cheers.

Captain Canada · May 06, 2017, 10:17:47 AM

What a cool looking machine. Like a rolling row house....with guns !

Mossie · May 06, 2017, 10:45:27 AM

Nice work John. I've got one of the small-scale Emhar kits on the go at the moment, nearly finished, real world.

Quote from: Captain Canada on May 06, 2017, 10:17:47 AM
What a cool looking machine. Like a rolling row house....with guns !

Handy if you live in a rough part of town!

Joe C-P · May 29, 2017, 01:47:52 PM

Brilliant! Until it runs into a "sleeping policeman". Or a small pothole. Or an unfortunate squirrel.

Let's see that promised finished project! DOOM demands it be finished!

jcf · June 19, 2017, 09:48:26 AM

The tank will be marked with Latverian crosses, a rework of a Latverian flag .svg from Wikipedia.
No, they aren't in the comics, I made it up.

jcf · August 05, 2017, 02:27:13 PM

Home-printed decals fought me, other side is silvered, seems I didn't get it 'glossy' enough
first time around for this particular brand.

I may go back and add more weathering/wash because getting the thing even enough to
sort of work for the decals kinda washed out the chalks.
So it goes.

zenrat · August 06, 2017, 04:05:22 AM

It's hard to believe that this is mostly a RW build. It's such an improbable looking machine.
What were they thinking?

Good job. I'm confident you will conquer your decals.

NARSES2 · August 06, 2017, 07:59:01 AM

It does look good and echoing Zenrat I've always struggled with how they came up with this design ? No wonder they prefered to use captured British tanks. I presume they used captured Renault FT's ? Can't remember seeing any photos though.

I've seen some drawings and models of "Heer 1919" projects and they look quite modern which makes the A7V look even more

. Not sure however how many of those I've seen were real projects ?