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| A pair of Hobby boss Leopards; a standard Canadian leopard and a barracuda leoprad | |
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| f4sooty | May 30 2011, 02:13 PM Post #1 |
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For this thread I am building the Hobbyboss Canadian Leopard. Here is the kit:  First i made the road wheels, sprockets and Idlers. They all consisted if three parts, two halves and a polycap.  The rollers wer then attached to their mounts  The suspension etc was then added to the lower half.  I then sprayed the lower hull with Tamiya Nato green, I was half way through when I realised I hadn't added the belly armour.   As well as the standard Hobbyboss Canadian Leopard, Over the last few months I have been gradually assembling another Hobbyboss Leopard only this time I used a conversion set by Blackdog to upgrade the Leopard to one with Barracuda Mobile camoflage System. Here is a description of what the camo netting is. MCS is designed to protect armored vehicles during movement and in combat. The system utilizes different materials, for camouflage in the visual/near Infrared, thermal, and radar wavebands. Further enhancement of the system includes the application of heat transfer reduction materials, to conceal the heating of the vehicle by solar radiation. The general approach of the MCS is to hide glossy or flat surfaces into non-glossy 3 dimensional surface structures, with color and near infrared values similar to the environmental condition of the region. Significantly recognizable parts of the vehicle, such as turret shapes and gun will also be concealed with contour disrupters. An ideal camouflage will also obstruct laser reflections to affect the enemy's range measurement accuracy. The thermal and radar camouflage contributes to the elimination thermal or radar locking of heat seeking missiles and obstruct and disrupt target detection and tracking by ground or aerial weapons. Radar camouflage will also eliminate the detection by synthetic aperture radar The conversion consisted of a new resin turret and new upperhull. I used a hobbyboss leopard as a donor kit. i have just finished the conversion and will show you how I go about painting and weahering it. Here is where I am up to   Therefore this thread will be following me building the Hobbyboss Leopard OOB and then I will paint and weather both of them. All comments and advice gratefully recieved |
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| cookie | May 30 2011, 04:04 PM Post #2 |
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I'm liking the amount of modern armour popping up at the moment, especially the leopards, I think thats going to have to be high up my list of to builds. looking forward to seeing this one! |
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| seanrgb | May 30 2011, 04:08 PM Post #3 |
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Lovely stuff Stevie 
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| Nemesis | Jun 2 2011, 07:12 AM Post #4 |
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Good progress Steve, the BB set looks interesting how much was it if you don't mind me asking? HB Leopards have had a bad press, what are your impressions of them, do they stack up well against a Tamiya Leopard? Regards from the Swamp Eth |
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