Leopard 2 - Company command - Team Yankee - Battlefront

Hello everyone!

I recently tried my hand at painting a Leopard 2 from Battlefront, for their new game Team Yankee. When Team Yankee was released I was pretty stoked because I thought it would be cool to possible assemble a little Danish Force (If they ever decided to make it), but in the meantime a modern german tank force would suffice! :-D so I bought the German start set with 5 Leopards and 2 helicopters (The name escapes me).

I really love the design of the Leopard 2, it is with out a doubt my favorite modern main battle tank, and it was really cool to paint one. It's been a while since I painted a modern tank (and the last time I even painted it as a WW2 one... ).

Anyway enough talk, time for pictures! enjoy.

  

  

  

  

C&C is more than welcome, here, Instagram or Facebook :)

Until next time!
Chris

Alternate Future Leopard 2 - Basicly Done!

'Allo 'Allo

So I mounted the commander now and well I guess it's basicly done now, might just give it another matt coat to seal everything in nice and tight, but otherwise I don't really have anything planed.

Oh yes! maybe add the tow cables if I can get them painted properly...(Stupid string shit).

Hope you've enjoyed it :-)


Chris

Alternate Future Leopard 2 - Slightly more finished!

Greetings!

So I managed to get some more work done on the commander and a bit on the tank itself, just a few minor things but still have a few things to do before I'm ready to call it totally finished.

The commander is basicly done, just need to give him a proper matt coat and install him in the turret.

Got a few things fixed on the turret aswell, tried my hand at some simple kill rings, turned out ok'ish, probably need to redo the sod on the barrel.

Until next time!

Chris

Alternate Future Leopard 2 - "Finished"

Greeting everyone!

So I figured I'd better try to get this project finished, so for the past week I've been working on it after work and whenever I had time to paint a bit. I think it turned out fairly ok'ish, but I think it's quite clear from the pictures that I mostly paint 1/100 models and figures :-p

I tried a few new things since the last time I painted a 1/35 vehicles (My panther) some worked out, others could have been better some fucked up and had to be redone from scratch. 

But overall this project have been a blast! was so much fun to paint this modern beast in the same way that its predecessors might have looked. I've ordered a pack of modern german soldiers from Trumpeteer and I'm planning on doing them in the same theme as this, just for shits and giggles.

Well! time for some pictures. Please keep in mind that I don't usually do 1/35 figures or vehicles (or atleast it has been a while) and if you have anything to critisize about placement of stuff or similar, be prepared for the answer "alternate future vehicle" :-p

So while the tank is basicly done, I might do a few touch ups (like the antennas, chips etc.), the commander isn't quite finished yet. First time painting Pea Dot pattern from references and hopefully it won't turn out to shitty.

I hope you've enjoyed the pictures :)

Stay tuned for updates.


Chris

Alternate Future Leopard 2 - Update

So I've had the time to get a bit of work done on  this beast. if you haven't seen the first post I made then go ahead and click here.


Here's some images of the current progress. Still a looooong way to go, but pretty happy with the outcome so far, even though the ambush dots could have been better someplaces.....I really need a new better airbrush.

Hope you like it :)

Alternate Future Leopard 2 - Hobby Boss - 82405

 Greetings!

So let me try to explain....one day I had this weird idea pop into my head "hmmm wouldn't it be fun to paint a modern german Leopard 2 like it's WW2 counterparts", and well like you might imagine it took of from there. Since I knew it was possible to  purchase a 1/35 Leopard 2 for basicly free on the interwebs, that's just what I did. I paid the price of simply 12.6€ (16.2$) and in my mind that's quite good value for money.

Overall the set is quite decent and the instructions are also pretty good most of the time, but I did run in to some fitting problems here and there (not a lot though!) but maybe it was just me being impatient (I don't really like the assembling process that much, I just look forward to the painting part :-D ).

So far I haven't that much more than building it, priming it and then laying down a simple sand,brown, green camo on it, but I'm thinking I'll do an ambush pattern on it, so still need a lot of small dots....but that's for future me to deal with.

Let's have some pictures!

Here you can see the finished tank, build straight from the box. I then primed it white and tried my hand with some simple preshading I belive it's called, not something I'd done many times before so was fun, might have gone overboard some places but who the hell cares.

Then I did the Dark Yellow layer, followed by Olive Green and Nato Brown (all from Tamiya). I did try to highlight the camo slightly, so I started out with dark colors and then tried to lighten them, could have been better but again who cares, there's a first for everything.

 Next up is the dots, and then some washes and all that stuff, I'll get to that later.

Stay Tuned for more progress!