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M-7 Priest
11th Regiment Royal Horse
Artillery, El Alamein, 1942
A tale of discontinued
models, hard to find
accessoriesand luck.
By Vince Pedulla
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with is worthwhile.
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like a truck.
the supports.
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canopy supports, and the late-version
A light
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supports,
but it worked
out nicely. The rest of the gun is all Italeri,
detailed with some bolts per references. I
could have added a lot of detail to the
drivers compartment, (and kind of wish I
had) but it would have been hard to see.
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the bottle of liquid mask says not for use on water-based paint
worked very well and cleaned up easily. This time I sprayed the
I started with something new, the Tamiya lacquer spray cans. I
base coat, then masked the yellow and sprayed the brown and
After
After drying for several days, I lightly washed the whole thing with
they dried for several days, I brushed on liquid mask over the
Raw Umber oils, and drybrushed with Humbrols and oils, picking
brown and grey, intending to spray the yellow to create the hard
out details as needed, such as the tools and fittings, gun breech,
recent models have ended up too dark and dingy. Instead I pick
out details and keep the washes very local. I also use artists
scrubbing the paint off. Thats when the mask came off.
and battered paint jobs, I decide to try my version of it, which was
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I used accessories
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