Customized 1/72 M113

Gunner · Post by **Gunner** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 12:26 pm

Since there's an almost complete lack of decals for 1/72 armor, unless you buy a kit just for the decals, I decided to use some aircraft decals. I went through my local hobby shop's decal box and bought the ones with art that caught my eye.

This is the first one I finished...

Removing the old markings was easy. A few rubs with a q-tip soaked in non-acetone fingernail polish remover and the "Booze Hounds" was gone. I washed with fresh water, cleaned the surface, coated with clear gloss lacquer, used micro sol and micro set, the applied dull coat lacquer after the decal had a chance to dry.

I still got a little silvering under the decal, but I'll add some weathering to cover that.

Tshintl · Post by **Tshintl** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 6:33 pm

Very nice. 1/72 armor decals are made by several companies

Aleran decals, Archer decals, and Fingerprint Designs all make them and have a fairly comprehensive list. There are 1 or 2 more companies but I can't recall their names at the moment.

Gunner · Post by **Gunner** » Mon Sep 03, 2007 8:45 pm

Not to nitpick, but neither Aleran nor Fingerprint do anything but WWII and Archer does OIF, but doesn't do ANY Vietnam era decals (and only Arabic decals for a 1/72 M113), so I stand by my original statement.

Jagdpanther · Post by **Jagdpanther** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 2:05 pm

Very nice!

ChairmanMilo · Post by **ChairmanMilo** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 2:12 pm

That's an Easy Model M113, right? Relatively affordable to experiment with

Looks great - although I thought the original nickname of the track was pretty funny.

Gunner · Post by **Gunner** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 7:12 pm

Yes, its an Easy Models M113.