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M7 Priest from Argentine Army
Vesalio
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Argentina
Joined: April 27, 2016
KitMaker: 19 posts
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Posted: Sunday, September 16, 2018 - 10:12 AM UTC
Greetings to all forum members. I show you what I've been up to lately. I wanted to make one of the M7 Priest of the Argentine Army in its modernized version. 6 of these vehicles were bought at the end of the SGM.
In this photo you can see the six vehicles in an old parade photo:

At the end of the 1970s they were withdrawn, but in 1981 it was decided to modernize them. This was done in TENSA's workshops. The electrical installation was renewed, the original engine was replaced by a Deutz diesel engine and the howitzer was also replaced by a similar one but in better conditions. The caterpillars and wheels were also checked.
Finally it was painted in a bicolor scheme.
At present all were removed from service.
Some models were preserved, like this one that is in the Museum of the Argentine Army:

In order to make this model I used the Revell kit, which is the closest to the Argentine model. To be able to detail the kit correctly I had to use scratch and pieces of other kits, mainly of Dragon. For the wheels I used Tamiya and Dragon kits. The boogies are a mixture of two different variants of the support arm of the return wheel. The Revell tracks are very bad, and to replace them I got the Bronco tracks, link by link. The model is finished, and I did some color tests.
I hope you like it. Any suggestion is welcome.
Greetings.

















tangodown
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New Brunswick, Canada
Joined: August 08, 2018
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Posted: Sunday, September 16, 2018 - 11:36 AM UTC
Looking good Juan! I'll be following this one for sure. Keep up the great work.
chefchris
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North Carolina, United States
Joined: February 06, 2006
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Posted: Sunday, September 16, 2018 - 11:45 AM UTC
Great work! You made that academy kit your beeyatch
bat-213
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Joined: December 30, 2011
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Posted: Sunday, September 16, 2018 - 12:19 PM UTC
you are doing on the build very nice
Petition2God
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Joined: February 06, 2002
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Posted: Sunday, September 16, 2018 - 04:37 PM UTC

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Great work! You made that academy kit your beeyatch


I thought he used a Revell kit.
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