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This is a Galaxy Leclerc kit. This one is built straight out of box. All I did was to put on some tracks from Esci's Leopard 1 and make some decals. Now that I have found some more information, I might rebuild it (sometime?)
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| This is a Galaxy Leclerc kit. This one is built straight out of box. All I did was to put on some tracks from Esci's Leopard 1 and make some decals. Now that I have found some more information, I might rebuild it (sometime?) |
Revell came to my rescue so I didn’t have to convert another Galaxy kit.
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| Instead I bought the RT-6 upgrade from Blast Models to the new Revell 1/72 Leclerc T.5 kit. It consists of a new piece of the rear part of the turret roof with an air conditioner. You just cut off a piece of the Revell roof and replace it with this resin part. It has very fine detailing and had no pour bloc that had to be removed. It just needed some very minor trimming to fit. |
| I found some pictures of French Leclerc’s training in the desert, so I decided to build my model as one. I needed to make some camo net for this and thought that I would go the same route as on my German Leopard 2A5. But this time I used tea leaves that was finer grinded. I tried to do this on free hand, but I found that too hard, so I found another way to do it. I cut cigarette paper in the pattern of the net and glued this on with ordinary wooden glue (white glue). When dry I glued on the tea leaf’s, with the same glue. |
| Later I decided on repainting it in standard camouflage with a desert camo net for some contrast. |
When France sent their Leclercs on an UN mission in Lebanon I wanted to build one more. So another Revell kit with Blast resin.
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| Later I decided on repainting it in standard camouflage with a desert camo net for some contrast. |
| Stockholm May 22, 2005 |  |
Updated February 2, 2020 |
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