1/72 Academy Challenger 1 Mk.3 "Digital Fantasy"

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1/72 Academy challenger 1 Mk. 3 = This build was inspired by photos of an experimental digital camouflage scheme painted on a Challenger 2 and depicts what an early prototype scheme might have looked like on a Challenger 1 Mk.3 – which to the best of my knowledge, never had such a scheme applied to it – thus the “Digital Fantasy” aspect. It was accomplished using rattle cans (no airbrush) and required the cutting and masking of many hundreds of tiny little pieces of Tamiya 1mm masking tape which were applied with tweezers and a toothpick. This is what the tank might have looked like, in more or less pristine shape, from the paint workshop prior to field testing. The turret antenna, beacon light, and vision ports forward of the commander’s hatch were scratch built, and I filled the communication cable spool with fine black thread. Binary artwork was turned into a CD label, which was then applied to an actual CD and mounted onto the wooden base. A protective clear CD blank was applied over the CD. The circular wood base was purchased unfinished from a craft store and then sanded and painted semi-gloss black.

[PappyD340]

Looks great!

[Jim B]

Great looking Challenger.  Well done.