RE: Another Tamiya Leopard
For those wondering about the antennas, both are dummy ones. The kit comes with 4 antenna bases. Two that are regular plastic and two that are the flexible plastic. In the above photos, I had taken some thin plastic rod and drilled holes in the tips of the bases. I then inserted the rod and painted them.
Not satisfied with the thickness of the ones shown above, I used the flexible plastic bases and took an old #10 guitar string and cut two pieces to length. These were then poked into the bases. To me they look much more like the real ones than the plastic rod fabricated ones. They also whip like the real ones, too.
A word of caution: These antennas are very hard to see and have NO end protection. WATCH YOUR EYES! It would be wise to make them removeable when working on the tank, or add some sort of protection on the ends that can be removed for pics, etc.
On the rear of the tank, I took a short piece of wire to make the camera antenna. I then repeatedly applied CA glue to form the antenna ball. It is bent at an angle into the camera housing so that it can be folded down out of the way when working on the tank (or when the gun tube sweeps across it).