ثعبان - Main Battle Tank WIP

[NSA]

So I've decided to distract myself from HMMWV's and try to do something eeeeeeeeeeeeeevil for a change.. so I popped open my PTE "Main Battle Tank" aka Chinese Mini-Type-98.

It's hard to find concrete stats on the Type-98, as it never made it to full production (They went with the Type-99 instead), but it seems to be maybe 1/19th or 1/20th scale instead of 1/18th.

ثعبان is Arabic for 'snake' and will be incorporated into my 9th Special Forces Group (Airborne) stories and customs as an al-Qaeda aligned group operating in Afghanistan in 2001/2002 and across the world.

Anyways.. Work in progress,

What it looks like after I stripped off the extraneous parts..

After a base coat. (and a cat).

Started darkening/dirtying it up.

More to come...

 

[pcsguy88]

Oooohh... tank painting is my favorite.

 

[NSA]

... and by HAND no less.. haha I don't have any fancy airbrushes...

 

[pcsguy88]

Shit, I use rattle cans for all my basecoats for durability.

 

[NSA]

That requires (A) rattle cans, and (B) going outside.. I'm lazy.. and my stuff is static so it aint getting much wear n tear

 

[K-Tiger]

Axillary fuel drums are NOT extraneous. In fact you should be running the fuel lines to them.

 

[xhairs]

looking good.

 

[Midget]

It's amazing what a coat of paint will do. It looks much better now.

 

[K-Tiger]

I gotta get one of these and work my black devil magic on it.

 

[Midget]

Are the treads static or do they move?

 

[K-Tiger]

They move, this isn't fucking Chap Mei or Hasbro.

 

[Midget]

Wow, now that's pretty neat.

 

[Rick]

Hey what's the thread count on those sheets?

 

[G.I.*EDDIE]

anxious to see how this turns out...i gave mine a base coat about a year ago and never got back to it...my plan is the berlin cammo scheme...black/blue/gray

 

[MAJOR BLOOD]

You do those by hand? I'm a rattler myself. Once mine gets unburied from the snow I'll have to try and put it together. I wanted to do a winter camo theme and completely dropped the ball. I'm impressed with the fact you hand paint those. I could not have the patience for that. I'm a different lazy.

 

[NSA]

Yeah it's always by hand.. And little brushes too! Haha I just don't have any other means.. So it works.

And by extraneous I meant it was removable, so I took everything that could be taken off before painting

I'm not going to do anything fancy, I have a couple wild ideas..

 

[NSA]

coming along...

 

[Mandingo Rex]

So is that the same tank that was at Big Lots that I was jabbering about stupidly?

It looks like shit factory, but a good simple paint job does wonders. I saw the Abrams at Target last night, but I just don't have room for the big bastard, however awesome it is. This one, though, you may have just sold me on.

 

[NSA]

Big Lots has two probably.. this one, which is called the "MAIN BATTLE TANK!!! OMGZORZ!!" and is based on the Chinese Type-98, and they also carry the "COMBAT TANK" which is a green tank based on the M1 Abrams.

Their Abrams is crap compared to the Target Bravo Team one (in details and quality), and I think it's only like $5 cheaper!

This one was $25 when I got it.. it does look like shit out of the box, now though I wish I had picked up a couple more.. it's... coming along nicely I think Should hopefully be done tonight..

 

[Mandingo Rex]

I hadn't really paid attention to the non-Joe 1:18 vehicles prior to joining this site, but that Abrams was pretty slick. Way bigger than I had ever realized it was in passing.

I'll have to swing by Big Lots again and see if that smaller tank is still there. I honestly have no space for the Abrams, but would love to mess around with a bigger tank than the MOBAT.

 

[NSA]

Don't do it! It's only a few inches shorter.. and it's basically the same price..

Let the size flow through you.. I can feel your size swelling in you now...

Wow.. okay that went from a funny star wars pun about scale to,.. an Eddie'ism. Eww an "Eddieism"? THAT sounds disturbing.

Anyway, just get the Bravo team ones, its one of the best AND cheapest real 1:18th scale stuff you can own.