Tamiya-1-35 Carro Armato-M13-40

[rwsmith14]

My entry into this GB is the/tamiya-1-35 Carro-Amato M-13-40 Italian Medium Tank. present plans are to build the Captured Australian vehcle. That's the whole reason I bought the kit Just love the Kangaroo decals.. we shall see.. the figures look quite good. so Italian it might be.. decisions, decisions, decisions !!




I'll be using "The Desert" base from Reality in Scale

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just 90 mins of work:

this kit is just falling together, like most tamiya kits. it comes with a metal barrel and a small PE fret but it's not referenced in the instructions.. the length and link track links are not bad.. they look good and go together easily. I willl not permently attach the upper and lower hulls unitl after the painting stages to allow me to paint the tracks without any interrence

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Finished the tracks and installed the smaller parts on the hull.. Primed with Ultimate Black primer.. ready for base coat of paint

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Painting is complete. Post shaded with a ligther base color, glossed and decaled. on to weathering

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primed then a preview of what's to come. not sure how I will orient the vehcle yet

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just about complete with the "Build" a few more little bits to get completed.. she ready for wash and weathering sorry for the worse then usual pics my camera died and I'm using my tablet

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Pin wash is complete.. just a bit of cleanup to do.




ready to weather the tracks

[MassterOzymandias]

Great wash. Keep it up, Robert!

[rwsmith14]

Update on the M13/40 after reading more on the Australian use of this vehicle , when captured from the Italians they were actually green so I over sprayed it in RAL7008 to give it a green hue . Gave it another wash and "chipped " it. Next up will be to give it a desert dust appearance . Painted the base still need to get the right color of sand down not happy with it right now