Autoblinda AB41

Awarded: Silver

Users' choice

This gallery has 2.33% of the users' votes.

By: Hwang, Eun-ik

Manufacturer(s): Italeri

Modifications: None

After-market parts: None

Description: This is an Autoblinda AB41 from Itareli. It's straight OOTB. It's brush-painted with Tamiya Acrylic paints and weathered with oil paints. Its sharp details and tight fits are satisfactory but the unclear tyre treads and some missing rivets make me sad.

Judge 1: Nice and clean build job. Base color is very nice brushed! Decals are well applied. Weathering looks also nice, but the black rainmarks and the black wash is a bit too much for this desert vehicle. I like the dusty effects. Nice model, weathering could be more smooth.
Judge 2: Yes it is very sad about the lack of tyre tread on this kit as it's such a nice kit. You've done a great job putting it together with only a small gap where the armoured nose plate meets the side plate, front left side. The paint is very well done considering Tamiya paints are very hard to brush on with out brush marks. The dust on the road wheels is very good but I have to agree with the other judge the black wash and staining looks quite strange for a desert vehilce. The decals are well applied and overall this is a nice model.
Judge 3: Nice paint job for a hand brushing, some gap issues on the build. I like the weathering on the tyres & the weathering streaks on the hull & turret would look better using a mid brown rather than black for the pinwashes The exhaust looks a little clean compared to the rest. decals are well applied too.