Japanese Tank Rescued from S-O-D

[papajohn97]

I love WWII armor models but have little experience on them and have struggled on the few I’ve tried, a Tamiya Matilda and this one, Dragon’s 1/35 Type 95 “Ha-Go”. I purchased a four bottle MIG early IJA acrylic paint set to try to reproduce the cover scheme. I worked on this last year, screwed up the tracks and threw it back in the box and on the shelf (of abandoned builds, dreams and general doom). I was bored this afternoon waiting for paint to dry on a P-38 build and pulled this little tank back into the bench and patched it together and touched it up with my new favorite paint, Tamiya XF-84 “dark iron”. It won’t win any contests but I’m glad I rescued it from the shelf. My favorite modeling subjects are still autos and aircraft but I enjoy getting out of my comfort zone now and then and stretch my abilities on a ship or tank.

John

 

[Jim B]

Nice looking Type-95.  Well done.

[cobraman]

Nice little tank.

[Faust]

Man, that's looking great!

If that's what you can do outside of your comfort zone, then the congrats is due double! 

Japanese tanks are just so abjectly pathetic. Only Italian armour is worse, and I love both subjects! 

[PappyD340]

Looks great!

[the goon]

Very nice.

Mark