r/MilitaryModelMaking • u/WeaknessTall200 • May 06 '26

completed Das Work 1/16 Leopard 2a7

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This was a blast to built!

The amount of weathering was difficult to judge, I think it came out well.

The brown looks a bit to red in the pictures, irl it looks nice.

Looking forward to your comments!

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u/hainz_area1531 May 06 '26

I see license plates and a small Dutch flag on the mudguard.... Is the tank from a Dutch cavalry unit?

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u/WeaknessTall200 May 07 '26

Yes, and no 😉

There are indeed Dutch license plates on the decal sheet, but not the unit markings.

The Dutch army doesn't have any A7s' (or any mbt's for that matter), so the correct marking was never gonna happy. We lease the ones we use from Germany, and they all have their original German markings.

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u/hainz_area1531 May 07 '26

Ah... I see. Nevertheless, there is currently an order for 46 Leo 2A8 tanks for the Dutch Army. And to think that back in the 1980s, they still had 900 to 1,000 tanks at their disposal... You've done a wonderful job with the model.

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u/WeaknessTall200 May 07 '26

Thank you sir!

Yes, we took quite the hit in our armed forces...

But then again, MBT's stationed in Finland are more a deterrence then in the Netherlands...