I put this together when I needed a little break from a the decals on a wingy thing. This is trumpeter's kit of Brazil's homegrown MBT, it can be built as either a T2 or a T1 (only the gun is different, i think :? ) There is next to no information about this beasty, but the T2 actually beat out both the Abrams and Leopard2 in Saudi trials. Unfortunately the gulf war broke out and Saudi Arabia was forced to buy the Abrams in exchange for protection from the U.S.A. Sadly this meant the T2 never saw production and the company who made it went broke (they had had no backing from the Brazillian government for the project) 300 of the T1 were produced and are still in use in Brazil today. The kit is okay, detail seems quite simple, but the surface of the Osorio doesn't appear to be all that detailed anyway (hard to tell though there aren't a lot of photos around) The fit is a touch gappy but this is far from the worst kit I've ever seen. So far everything is put together:
I've also just add some texture using good old Mr Surfacer, I have no idea whether this is accurate or not, but I'm not really worried, I haven't got any good reference so I'm just going to have a play with this one. I'm thinking about doing either something like an MERDC/Greek Camo or a desertized tan andbrown scheme.
Tanks for looking
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