Some of you know I've been in the works on this the last 2 weeks. Some of you don't known at all, and that's alright, that's why we have this
Back in March after ECCC I decided the Assault Tank would be the next big kit to work on after my RC was done. Well the RC has been submitted so it's time to move onto here! I did as much research as I could and decided that the old Sean Field's 3D Print files were good enough to start my journey on something we don't see much at all in our Garrison.
Since my 3D Printer is in the hands of a friend to keep it maintained, I've had to send him filament to get the job done. Thankfully he's been kind enough to use multiple printers at his disposal to give me my first week of prints before he went on vacation.
After a lot of sanding and spot putty, I started to feel pretty good over how it was starting to shape up. Most of the lines were filling at this point and after a few rounds of filler primer and more sanding I felt confident it was time for the paint application. Luckily Blick had a good supply of what I needed after a failure by Amazon to provide me the correct paint and won't let me exchange or return.
Which brings us to this area here, a finished Shoulder bell, one of two as the second is in progress of being printed.
Next I moved onto the forearm and the hand plates...
Again, a dry rough sanding to fill in the lines with some medium grit paper
and the putty process begins. while that dried I started the hand plates
The hand plates are made from PETG which my friend wanted to experiment with. Basically telling me it's the equivalence of hips. It certainly feels like and yet strong, but it's taken a lot of sanding and filling to get to the point of primering and painting. But I did it!
At this time, I got a good dose of primer on there filling in areas and it's getting fairly smooth. I need to thoroughly get into those recessed details and try to even them out a bit. There were a lot of gaps from the print job so it's been hard to fill them correctly and sand them due to it being a tight area. I'll probably have to do this by hand.
So far, that's it. I'll have the biceps, a forearm and shoulder bell this weekend to work on so I'm hoping in another week I'll have the arm portions complete.
