Takom SANDF G6 Rhino 30/11 Project finished

Well that thing is huge for sure. It dwarfs the Chally even half built.....
You've done an excellent job so far, as always Pete.
Will be waiting for the next update!

Good lord, that is big .

Looking very nice Pete, the little white stuff additions are a great improvement too .

Patiently waiting for more sir .

It's a Takom one Jeff

That has got to be one of the COOLEST pieces of artillery EVVA!!!

Nice additions Pete

I've finally finished the laborious task of painting the camouflage on the model. I first thought of spraying & masking but in the end decided to hand paint the camo as the thought of all that masking sent shivers down my spine!
Mind you painting the pattern by hand was equally time consuming and it was not helped by takom's poor painting guide. Firstly it's tiny and very difficult to work out the placement of the different colours and secondly the pattern just does not look right. So using a mixture of my reference pictures and the guide I managed to sort out a decent pattern.

I used vallejo 70837 US field drab for the brown & 70889 US olive drab for the green. I've seen the brown on the real thing very reddish brown and also very light brown so went for the lighter shade. The turret stowage box was sprayed a reddish brown and the lower portion of the barrel was sprayed german grey. This is a feature very apparent in all the pictures I've seen and I suspect it's to do with the barrel recoil on firing. The models also had a coat of gloss ready for further detail painting.

It's a big bugger to paint so I took my time and painted the pattern in bite sized sittings.

Good Lord , now that really does look the whales wangers .

Excellent hand-colourificationing indeed Pete

cheers guys, it will darken down during the weathering stages and I've added no colour lightening on the camo colours, rather I'm relying on the weathering to add different tones to the camo.

11/10 if you ask me.

Awesome job Pete and I love the fact that you've shown that just as stunning a finish can be achieved with a brush as with an AB, this is gonna look so good when weathered and worn, SA doesn't seem to rank the hose down as essential a part of maintenance as others!