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Armor/AFV: Braille Scale
1/72 and 1/76 Scale Armor and AFVs.
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Leopold 1/72 Hasegawa
Gulumik
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Wojewodztwo Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland
Joined: September 19, 2006
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Posted: Monday, June 14, 2010 - 11:28 PM UTC
Hi,
I will start build with this model:















barkingdigger
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England - East Anglia, United Kingdom
Joined: June 20, 2008
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Posted: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 - 02:51 AM UTC
It's a fun kit to build - I did it twice. (Once in the early 1980s, and again last year...) For a 1970s kit the quality of the parts and the delicate engineering of the gun still amaze me!

Hope you enjoy it, and please post some progress shots.

Tom
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Ontario, Canada
Joined: March 23, 2008
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Posted: Tuesday, June 15, 2010 - 06:38 AM UTC
This one I will have to watch. The thing looks like it's going to be HUGE! I did the Karl years ago and that one was quite something.

Good Luck,
Jan
Gulumik
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Wojewodztwo Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland
Joined: September 19, 2006
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Posted: Friday, June 18, 2010 - 10:59 AM UTC
First step done:
PanzerAlexander
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Attica, Greece / Ελλάδα
Joined: February 17, 2010
KitMaker: 625 posts
Armorama: 608 posts
Posted: Monday, June 21, 2010 - 01:18 AM UTC
I'll be watching this build because I think it's going to be a fantastic model.

I have this kit and the Morser Karl from HobbyBoss but haven't found the courage to start them yet.

Good luck with your build.
Gulumik
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Wojewodztwo Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland
Joined: September 19, 2006
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Posted: Friday, June 25, 2010 - 12:52 PM UTC
next parts:

zinnat1914
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Poland
Joined: March 13, 2010
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Posted: Saturday, July 17, 2010 - 09:39 PM UTC
Zamierzasz zrobić z załogą?
Gulumik
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Wojewodztwo Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland
Joined: September 19, 2006
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Posted: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 - 08:28 AM UTC
my next progress the build:























Gulumik
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Wojewodztwo Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland
Joined: September 19, 2006
KitMaker: 192 posts
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Posted: Tuesday, August 24, 2010 - 12:59 PM UTC
Model is ready to paint:









Gulumik
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Wojewodztwo Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland
Joined: September 19, 2006
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Posted: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 - 09:40 PM UTC
first layer the paint:




Gulumik
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Wojewodztwo Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland
Joined: September 19, 2006
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Posted: Wednesday, August 25, 2010 - 09:50 PM UTC
and model finished:















slodder
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North Carolina, United States
Joined: February 22, 2002
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Posted: Thursday, August 26, 2010 - 12:26 AM UTC
Great build, great finishing. I was surprised at the detail of this model. The biggest dissapointment was the base. the level of detail is really bad compared to the rest of the kit.

Thanks for sharing.
orange_3D
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British Columbia, Canada
Joined: July 28, 2005
KitMaker: 602 posts
Armorama: 469 posts
Posted: Thursday, August 26, 2010 - 05:38 AM UTC
beautiful! I especially love the paint job around the wheels.
any figures to go with it?
Gulumik
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Wojewodztwo Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland
Joined: September 19, 2006
KitMaker: 192 posts
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Posted: Thursday, August 26, 2010 - 06:17 AM UTC
Model is finished - I don't plane put figures and base is only base not diorama or vignette
madmax5510
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Hunedoara, Romania
Joined: May 06, 2008
KitMaker: 354 posts
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Posted: Thursday, August 26, 2010 - 11:52 PM UTC
Gulumik...what can i say?

Huge kit but...great build, great finishing!!!
Thanks for sharing!

Dani
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Lisboa, Portugal
Joined: March 08, 2004
KitMaker: 343 posts
Armorama: 289 posts
Posted: Friday, August 27, 2010 - 05:27 AM UTC
This work is simply fantastic. Picking up the old HAsegawa Leopold and achieving this kind of result without using photo-etched parts or any other addons is amazing, you are reeeeally very talented!

I'm happy I found your site and your blog, your work is absolutely inspiring, I will follow it closely.

Thank you very much for sharing, I wish you all the best
Korpse
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Queensland, Australia
Joined: October 06, 2009
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Posted: Friday, August 27, 2010 - 02:31 PM UTC
Hi

great paintjob & weathering, it really looks like the real deal

cheers
Neil
guygantic
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Antwerpen, Belgium
Joined: August 19, 2006
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Posted: Friday, September 17, 2010 - 08:03 AM UTC
Fantastic this Leopold gun ! Great paint and weathering job !
Gulumik
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Wojewodztwo Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland
Joined: September 19, 2006
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Posted: Friday, September 17, 2010 - 02:39 PM UTC
Thank You
Braille
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California, United States
Joined: August 05, 2007
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Posted: Monday, October 11, 2010 - 06:03 PM UTC
Gulumik,

Excellent! I have this kit in the stash and wasn't planning on putting it together especially now with Trumpter's release. But after seeing yours I may just give it a try. After all it couldn't hurt. It won't turn out as nice as yours but I'll have fun building it. This is the second one I have seen posted here and now I can't decide which one of the two I like the most!

Thanks for sharing.
-Eddy
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Texas, United States
Joined: June 29, 2010
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Posted: Monday, October 11, 2010 - 06:12 PM UTC
Very nice, the subtle weathering is perfect for this scale mate
SGTJKJ
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Kobenhavn, Denmark
Joined: July 20, 2006
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Posted: Monday, October 11, 2010 - 08:50 PM UTC
Great build, Gulumik. Looks really nice and the weathering is great as already pointed out by others.

Thanks for sharing
panzerIV
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England - North West, United Kingdom
Joined: January 02, 2007
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Posted: Monday, October 11, 2010 - 09:35 PM UTC
hey gulumik
this is looking really nice how long does it measure out all together?
was there any fit problems with the kit? seeing as its the old 1970s kit.
will you be adding any scenery around it??
DUKWsinarow
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New Jersey, United States
Joined: October 08, 2007
KitMaker: 124 posts
Armorama: 100 posts
Posted: Monday, March 19, 2012 - 02:04 PM UTC

Quoted Text

Great build, great finishing. I was surprised at the detail of this model. The biggest dissapointment was the base. the level of detail is really bad compared to the rest of the kit.

Thanks for sharing.



Scott, Gulumik;

First of all, I want to tell Gulumik that I’m very impressed with your model of the K5(E) and want to emulate it.

I recently received one of the Hasegawa K5(E)s and am currently trying to track down pictures of this gun during her trip from New York to Aberdeen in 1944 so that I can attempt to copy this prototype. Of course, if I am unable to find photos of this gun during that trip, I can always extrapolate her appearance and condition from her post-capture photos and subsequent photos of her after her arrival at the APG.

As for this issue you guys had with the track bed, I’m going to avoid this by equipping the model with 1:64 scale wheels and making her a functioning ‘S’-scale train model.

I’ll post photos once I get started (next weekend or the weekend after…)
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