As a final project in Wars of the 20th Century.  We had to to do something to do with Wars of the 20th Century.  I chose to do a model of an American tank (however said model was made in Japan).  He OK'ed it as long I did a short paper along with it on the history of that tank.  Which I also did.  I got an A on the Final ^_^.  90% of the work on this model was up at my apartment.  I started a the chassis back at home the week I got it.

       As for the making of the tank.  This was without a doubt the most complex model I had done to date.   Unlike the most of Gundam and Zoids models I had worked on this was a glue and paint affair.  Much like my older Gundam and Macross kits (which are largely unworked with).  This model had a great number of small parts (many of them small enough to keep losing in the carpet).  I used craft paints for the local Wal*Mart (which worked very well).   I also used my glue pen.  The building although complex and time-consuming, was fairly straight forward.

      Choosing colors was basically a no-brainer.  At one point, I dropped a screw and lost it, in able to find a replacement I used part of a toothpick (thankfully the part was inside the chassis) and worked out just great.  I mixed slightly darker greens for grill work and some other details to bring them out and it really made a difference.  After admiring the work for a while I had to weather the the model to make it look like it was traveling in winter .

     I started with some very diluted white on a few parts,  it looked OK,  then I tried powered pastel chalk with a paintbrush.   I think that turned out MUCH better.  I used white on the top and in the tires to simulate a light dusting of snow and some in the tires from going through the snow.  After that I used black and grey in the gears and near the cannon and guns to simulate wear and gunpowder and that also did pretty well.

    After that I went to work on the base/diorama for the tank.  (see "Related Links" below)

    Sorry about the crappy images.