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Leopard A4 Tank Restoration 3 years 2 months ago #64104

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The Leopard arrived in all it's dirty glory

I knew it would be bad but Geez

The glue is terrible and everywhere but it's all salvageable

First step will be to remove as many of the accessories as I can then strip the paint off

I was aware it had a set of metal tracks but it came with second set also

If you can't fix it with a hammer, you've got an electrical problem mate

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Leopard A4 Tank Restoration 3 years 2 months ago #64150

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Got to stripping off the accessories that wanted to come off

Then put it in my media blasting cabinet and spent about 30min working on the top section

Sometimes you get lucky with the type of paint the previous owners have used and sometimes you don't

The type of paint used here although ugly has actually adhered well so this is just gonna take some time

I think of it as time out and like the finish on the plastic from blasting, Really it is lightly keying the body ready for new paint

If you can't fix it with a hammer, you've got an electrical problem mate

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Leopard A4 Tank Restoration 3 years 2 months ago #64164

larbut Offline Owner Posts: 4092 Likes received: 1423	You have a lot of work ahead of you, Andy! Project looks promising! Signature now gets correct formatting if you edit it in your Profile. Use normal BBcode if you want. www.tamiyabase.com was formatted automatically.
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Leopard A4 Tank Restoration 3 years 2 months ago #64184

AndyAus Topic Author Offline Moderator Posts: 5068 Likes received: 3310	larbut wrote: You have a lot of work ahead of you, Andy! Project looks promising! oOh yes this is a beauty If you can't fix it with a hammer, you've got an electrical problem mate
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Leopard A4 Tank Restoration 3 years 2 months ago #64185

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Made some great progress today managing to remove most of the accessories and side skirts before finishing media blasting the main top section, I did damaged a section on the left rear but saved the piece and have already started the repair. A lot of the accessories were attached after paint so that glue came off with the paint but all along the side skirt fixing will need a fair amount of work to clean ready to reattach.

If you can't fix it with a hammer, you've got an electrical problem mate

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Leopard A4 Tank Restoration 3 years 2 months ago #64186

stingray-63 Offline Moderator Posts: 14523 Likes received: 5356	The blasting gave a nice result. rcmodelstory.over-blog.com/
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Leopard A4 Tank Restoration 3 years 2 months ago #64187

AndyAus Topic Author Offline Moderator Posts: 5068 Likes received: 3310	stingray-63 wrote: The blasting gave a nice result. Thanks Flo, Yes removing all that old paint has already transformed it If you can't fix it with a hammer, you've got an electrical problem mate
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Leopard A4 Tank Restoration 3 years 2 months ago #64191

stingray-63 Offline Moderator Posts: 14523 Likes received: 5356	Sure! And maybe it could give a texture to. I don't know wich result it give. rcmodelstory.over-blog.com/
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Leopard A4 Tank Restoration 3 years 2 months ago #64272

AndyAus Topic Author Offline Moderator Posts: 5068 Likes received: 3310	Took a break from blasting and finished cleaning up the edges on the upper hull and side skirts so I could bond them back together, Considering the condition they were in from the original gluing I am very happy with how they are coming along If you can't fix it with a hammer, you've got an electrical problem mate Attachments: The following user(s) Liked this: stingray-63, Al
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Leopard A4 Tank Restoration 2 years 7 months ago #68303

AndyAus Topic Author Offline Moderator Posts: 5068 Likes received: 3310	Well some progress on this today Made the missing left front corner (still more to do) then cleaned and refitted the accessories to the upper hull, Starting to look a lot better already If you can't fix it with a hammer, you've got an electrical problem mate Attachments: The following user(s) Liked this: stingray-63, Al, blakbird, Lemsko, jord001, Ducksnuts
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