Marpek's HL Leopard 2a6

by Marpek Sat 21 Sep 2013 - 19:42

Wat time isit...its unboxing time!

Marpek's HL Leopard 2a6 20130910

by Sabretooth_aw Sat 21 Sep 2013 - 20:50

Nice! Tai sheng also carry a few M1s....

by Marpek Sun 22 Sep 2013 - 10:02

Sabretooth_aw wrote:Nice! Tai sheng also carry a few M1s....

But that is abit toy grade... dun worry, Hoben coming out hobby grade M1 plus originated Leopard 2!

by boolean21 Sun 22 Sep 2013 - 18:07

looking forward to the SGC Tankies meet!

by Sabretooth_aw Mon 23 Sep 2013 - 10:11

So you all playing modern or WW2 era? Technically speaking....onli the WW2 tanks actually met each other in real battle. So there is a sense of historical eventful encounter when battling them. And you can put tons of tank riders, pails, wires, ammo boxes, extra armour plates like how they were done during WW2.

by Marpek Mon 23 Sep 2013 - 22:55

Sabretooth_aw wrote:So you all playing modern or WW2 era? Technically speaking....onli the WW2 tanks actually met each other in real battle. So there is a sense of historical eventful encounter when battling them. And you can put tons of tank riders, pails, wires, ammo boxes, extra armour plates like how they were done during WW2.

Quite true... modern tank warfare only happens in the east or middle east mostly, but just lack of the models to choose from, eg. Walker bulldog, the Super Sherman or T55's around in the market if im correct. If Tam or HL can come out with the M48, M60, M1, Challanger and T62 or 72 will be awesome, but nothing beats the Merkava...Then we will have Vietnam war or the Middle East war to game with. There's just too much ww2 era tanks now.

by Geoff Tue 24 Sep 2013 - 1:07

Leopard 2A6 service in Afghanistan and the Leopard 2A5 in KFOR

Marpek's HL Leopard 2a6 Leopard2_77stor

Marpek's HL Leopard 2a6 Leopard-2a5_6large

by Zax13 Tue 24 Sep 2013 - 6:19

only saw that M-Chassis once only... Sad

by boolean21 Tue 24 Sep 2013 - 9:42

Zax13 wrote:only saw that M-Chassis once only...

think the m-chassis didn't survive the crash...
got written off... and should be used for destruction derby - tankie style! Very Happy

by Sabretooth_aw Tue 24 Sep 2013 - 11:32

HL gt a china tank..ztz99. tats about it... bulldog belongs to the vietnam war and super sherman is old tech liao. Think Tam super lazy go use their sherman platform to do super sherman. But there are the russian! Still WW2. Usually when we play, we usually move away when the tam leopards come. They too much advantages...

by Sabretooth_aw Tue 24 Sep 2013 - 11:36

The MG42 is so reliable that they are still using it on their leopards since WW2!!! SAF should follow too instead of our coxial.....

by **oceanic** Wed 25 Sep 2013 - 8:45

nice! poisonous man!

by **Wrigleys** Wed 25 Sep 2013 - 23:17

Tank meet! tank meet!

by RTECH Thu 26 Sep 2013 - 19:27

Poison king strikes again !

by **Harakiri** Fri 27 Sep 2013 - 0:05

by Marpek Fri 27 Sep 2013 - 0:23

Geoff wrote:Leopard 2A6 service in Afghanistan and the Leopard 2A5 in KFOR

Ohh...din really noticed that. My bad... mostly sees only M1s snd Challangers in the desert. Hmm, aint NATO worry bout another Afica Corps comeback???

by Marpek Fri 27 Sep 2013 - 0:29

Sabretooth_aw wrote:HL gt a china tank..ztz99. tats about it... bulldog belongs to the vietnam war and super sherman is old tech liao. Think Tam super lazy go use their sherman platform to do super sherman. But there are the russian! Still WW2. Usually when we play, we usually move away when the tam leopards come. They too much advantages...

Haha... Leopards too fast and furious??

At least Hooben coming out with the M1, but kinda with affordable price...cant wait to see the actual kit.

by Marpek Fri 27 Sep 2013 - 0:32

boolean21 wrote:
Zax13 wrote:only saw that M-Chassis once only...
think the m-chassis didn't survive the crash...
got written off... and should be used for destruction derby - tankie style!

Dun like dat lah bang.... like boo said, that one and only meet is the smallest car (1/12th ) and kena bullied by the rests till now scared scared... Embarassed

by Marpek Sun 29 Sep 2013 - 19:04

Some little progress...

With the help of commandant Boo getting the hardwares for ir system, managed to find time to do the little conversion..

Marpek's HL Leopard 2a6 Img-2011

Huge turret!
Marpek's HL Leopard 2a6 Img-2012

IR Led route...
Marpek's HL Leopard 2a6 Img-2013

Some fresh nato green pain to camo the wires and straw...
Marpek's HL Leopard 2a6 Img-2015

Now comes the IR reciever. Plan is to mount it into the tank comander's cupola which will need drilling of 3 pin connectors exit slot and 2 holes for the recicver locating pins...

Marpek's HL Leopard 2a6 Img-2016

Finished product!
Marpek's HL Leopard 2a6 Img-2017

It sits pretty low currently, and commandant Boo accuses me cheating! Laughing

by Marpek Sun 29 Sep 2013 - 19:22

Next up... weathering!

Always dun feel good with scale military vehicles having fresh clean paint without some form of dirt on them.

I skip the washed and rust proccess coz didnt want to make it too dirty this time ( im lazy actually, tank is huge! ). I just used enamel earth tones and with a little silver here and there to make it have that dusts metal look...

Before...
Marpek's HL Leopard 2a6 Img-2018