Kit's Suez Centurion (Ace #72426) ** FINISHED**

[Kitaholic]

Placeholder for my Centurion build. Starting soon

[iggie]

Excellent! Good to have you aboard Kit and with a classic example of British armour too!

[Kitaholic]

Box and sprue shots





Will be starting this after SMW, got the week off so should make good inroads

[iggie]

That looks a very nice kit Kit, whose is it?

[Kitaholic]

Ace, bottom right of the box. Title amended , my bad

[Dazzled]

Nice looking kit mate.

[MDT]

Nice choice! classic Tank.

[Stuart]

Great looking Tank that.

[gnomemeansgnome]

Wow, after building one Ace model you still want to build another? Aye yee yee. But the Centurion is great subject material.

[Kitaholic]

Wow, after building one Ace model you still want to build another? Aye yee yee. But the Centurion is great subject material.

It's my masochistic streak shining through

[Kitaholic]

Started work on it now

Parts required to do one suspension unit ( 6 of these to do )



Units for one side done



So far fiddly but not difficult

Starting main hull today

Thanks for looking

[iggie]

They certainly turn out to be neat little units, keep up the good work!

[Kitaholic]

Cheers iggie

Parts for the lower hull



Lower hull together. Not a bad fit but a bit of fettling to do, especially the 3 spacer parts on the rear hull, about 2mm came off them.



Parts for the deck.



Hull done now, a lot of sanding and test fitting to get the deck on



Parts for the turret



Turret together, a very good fit, if a bit fiddly ( need 3 hands )



That's it for today, company round tonight so beer in the fridge and the chilli is on

[MDT]

Nice progress. Thought that multi-part upper section could be a possible awkward fit but it looks great.

[JamesPerrin]

Rather timely, I had been scowering SMW for an Airfix Centurion, for a sensible price when I came across the Matador Models stand, that had a large number of Airfix AFVs but no Centurion and recommend the ACE kit, however I wanted one in 1/76 to add to my range of British cruiser/main tanks and so pick up their own MkIII, at £20 it was more a bit more than I was going to pay for an Airfix kit (Ian located a couple at £15!) but has the advantage of being accurate. Will follow this with interest not the least because mine doesn't come with instructions!