Meng 1/35 Gepard A2

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Meng 1/35 Gepard A2

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Hi guys,

Finished this one up over the weekend, its Meng's Gepard SPAAG in the A2 configuration.

The scheme is (supposedly) one used on a vehicle tested in Cyrpus. As such, it's weathered to show light wear with ingrained dirt covered by lots of dust. As anyone who has spent time in Cyprus will know, it doesn't rain that much and vehicles (at least civilian vehicles, I assume the same for military) don't tend to get washed that often.

The kit went together beautifully, the only issue was the tracks. Each link is made up of 5 components, 4 track pads (inner and outer) and a link. The pads weren't too bad as they only had 1 connection point each (still 340 of them though!), but the links were incredibly fragile and had 5 connection points each!

Anyway, on with the pics. :)

Cheers,

B

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Very nice mate, you don't see many of these, really like the weathering you've struck a good balance for a modern era AFV :th: :clap:
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Cheers mate. :)
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Very very very nice !!!! :jd: :cheers2:
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Cheers. :)
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Wow, very nice finish. Very very well done!
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Very nice
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Looks awesome, well done
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Cheers guys. :)
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