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cool! It one of the first release!
My father is collecting tamiya's tanks. He owned 4 models of themes. He has 1 king tiger full options, 1 sherman, 1leopard full options, 1 tiger first released the last one in France.
good luck for restoration.
First released are the better constructions

Oh, nice. I hope this thread will come with alot of restoration steps. I have never seen a build thread on a Tank before

Doesn't get much cooler than building a tank.
It would probably be a perilous area for myself because of the temptation to go all out building one.

Thank you for the kind words guys.

I've been working very hard at the Leo.

Cleaned up the chassis and put it back together.

And the upperhull has got most of it's details on it..

On it's way are the H-parts and the turret rotation systeem of his big brother the 2a6..

Photo's :

(before cleaning)





After:


And the upperhull:

Why resist Edou ?
It is a real pleasure to build a tank. If you have enough money....

In the end it's expensive yes./.

But if you do the same as i did it's much cheaper than buying a full-opt. tank.

I've bought the chassis for 70 euro's
And after a while i ordered the body-parts off ebay.

And yesterday i bought the electronics to control the turret. (also on ebay)

Just doing it in steps makes it allot easier to afford.

And the fun thing about this way of building a project, is that you learn very much about the model..
Because of the research, + to see how other people did those things.

Spitfire felicitationsssss
Personaly, I prefer buy a full car or other. Because I test the restoration part to part and I stop it. I had a 959 wich can run with a few restoration but it was so expensive that I sent it for 31

Spitfire wrote:

Just doing it in steps makes it allot easier to afford.

That would definitely be the road to take...
But imagine how endless a project it would become when you look at my DF-01 quest!