My Shinhoto Chi-Ha 1:25 ModelHobby build

**Johnny** · #1 07-03-2007, 03:12 PM

Hello all!
Some of you know me and knows what I'm building right now, but just to be the first to post in this new forum.....I'm posting my buildthread of the Chi-ha here also.

The frame was made of lasercutted frames....call me lazy or anything else, but I choose lasercuts anywhere available since I'm not able to do a straight cut (joke)
The frame was staright forward all the way.Every part fits 100%

Then I jumped to the skinning part.A lot of parts to cut and bend,and evey part fitted 100% again.Even the camo stripes connected right on the spot.

**Johnny** · #2 07-03-2007, 03:13 PM

Before adding the top skin I cut out all the small stripes in the air inlets and made a black net underneath.I did this since I wasn't happy with the printed "holes" in the airinlets.

Then I put on the rest of the skins.

**Johnny** · #3 07-03-2007, 03:14 PM

Rear and front closeup

Continues thursday night when I'm back at work.
Tomorrow it's a new fishing trip

See ya!!

PS!!
Really stupid with only 4 pics allowed in each post.....

**cgutzmer** · #4 07-03-2007, 03:30 PM

Thats a pretty nice build for a guy with only 10 posts - have you done this before? heh heh

Stellar as always!
Chris

**Clashster** · #5 07-03-2007, 06:23 PM

Love watching you work, Johnny! Great start! Good luck with the fishing - hopefully you'll land a couple of whoppers!

**cjwalas** · #6 07-03-2007, 07:01 PM

Beautiful and inspiring work as usual! And good luck fishing!
Chris

**Johnny** · #7 07-05-2007, 08:23 PM

Thanks guys!!

The turret was to be made tonight.

Frames from Draf made it quick to assemble the structure.

Adding the skins was easy.Every part fitted 100%

The hatch was made of several parts.3 parts made the bottom structure.and 13 parts to make the top.

And we have a turret.

Some closeups.

Placed the almost finished turret on top of the hull.

There are a few items left on the turret,but I'll wait with those details til the end since I have a nasty habit of making small fragile things fall off....

**Clashster** · #8 07-05-2007, 08:55 PM

10 pics, Johnny! Your wish became reality! Great build! Love armor, love your builds! Thanks for the update!

**member_3** · #9 07-05-2007, 10:28 PM

Excellent build! Laser frames are worth every penny (or Euro or zloty) as far as I am concerned. Does this model have a laser-cut track option?

**Johnny** · #10 07-06-2007, 04:35 PM

Hello Ron!

This model is equipped with lasecutted tracks

You can check out Draf's site here
http://www.drafmodel.pl/nowosci.asp

A lot of laserparts to a lot of models!