Leopard 2 A4
By: Marco Preto
Manufacturer(s): Revell
Modifications: Scratched smoke grenade launchers, front hull toe hooks and spare track link brackets. Hollowed the gun barrel. Hollowed the front headlights (latter they were filled with several coats of Humbrol clear fix).
After-market parts: P.E. set from Extratech.
Description: This model represents a vehicle of the Federal German Army, during exercises at Camp Merrion, Pembroke, South Wales, during September 1996.
- Judge 1
- Building is good with correct use of PE parts.Painting is good but I do not understand if was done with brush or airbrush. Weathering lack of pinwash; more of it with a selected drybrush work would improve the model. I have the impression that drybrush was done on general model, also in flat surface
- Judge 2
- A generally tidy build with some added detail. This area is slightly let down by a number of 'steps' visible in the L&L tracks. Paintwork looks pretty good, with a suitably complex camo scheme, one or two of the green areas seem a little large. Detail painting is satisfactory, but the national markings are very obviously out of register and should be replaced. Weathering is very mixed, with some good effects like the rain streaking, but used in a strange fashion. The individual streaks look a little too strong and too isolated as the effect is not carried over to adjacent areas where it might be expected. The mud is not convincing and looks like an afterthought, while also obliterating interesting detail in the running gear.
- Judge 3
- The general build is good and the photoetched parts have been applied well. The paint finish is quite good, although the dusty weathering looks a little bit stark. Some shadowing, with pin washes for example, would give stronger character to the finish.