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Progress on the beast - it's been getting some work off and on in the background. Upper and lower hull are joined together and almost complete. Will be starting in on the turret soon.

Any better?

John ... you never cease to amaze me with the speed you chuff these out ... Waiting for your first 24hr build lol Once again ... awesome work! Rog

I have one. Let me see if I can locate it.

Aah another Bellows Squadron Aircraft !! Looks great

Grey Matter had a nice resin conversion but I haven't been able to locate one. I guess a Trumpeter "F" could work as I could take the "F" nose and graft it on a Hasegawa kit. 🙂 PM me if you can help. Thanks.

Bored with aircraft ... I bought this 31 year old 1994 Tamiya kit a while back on the cheap. It was missing decals and the tracks, but it is one of the few Steel wheel models available ; being too tight to fork out for the Dragon one ..and RFM hadn’t done theirs yet …although I have one now . Was going to punt this one on but decided to have a dry run for the RFM later ....and... it's a Panther ... The wubber twacks were no biggie, having built numerous Tammy Panthererers TBH they are pretty dated, a shade too short and getting a realistic sag involves a lot of superglue ..so typically I replace them with Fruils anyway because I don’t value my fingertips much Not many parts, the shape is good though. 24 or so steel wheel Panthers were produced at the MAN works in September 1944 as a trial. For some reason they never went ahead with the production swap and the few produced got sent to the LSSAH ..later ending up with KG Peiper and used during Watch am Rhein. Numerous pictures show six 2 Koy vehicles abandoned around La Gleize and Stoumont …hence my interest. The Duel in the Mist books can give you more details . Panther '211' with 'Steel road wheels' of SS-Panzer Regiment 1, was lost near Stoumont's Railroad station during the Battle of the Bulge, one of the three that got beat up by US 90mm AA guns as they rounded the corner on the way to Awwaile. If you go there, there is a road marker showing the limit of the advance. Ater the battle they were looted by the locals, so pics don’t reflect as they were on the 19th Dec 211 was assembled and completed by MAN (Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg) in September 1944. Panther Fahrgestellnummer 121047 was issued to the second company of SS-Panzer Regiment 1 and given the tactical number '212' on the port side before this was corrected to '211' to match the number on the rear and starboard turm sides It was commanded by SS-Untersturmführer Hubert Kaufmann, who was born in Kufstein (Austria) on August 2, 1919. Hubert was severely wounded at Vesprem, Hungary and died 19 or 20 April 1945 at Straubing (Germany) aged 25, and later buried at the War cemetery in Straubing. laterz

Looks great, thanks for sharing. Rod

Very cool! Rod

Thanks Carl. Nice comments from my fellow modellers makes it all worth while. 🙂

Thank you Dennis. I'm glad you like it. 🙂

Thanks Kevin! 😀

Great looking Zero John. Carl

Beautiful work John, likes it. Cheers Dennis

Why do you need a Kotare 1/48 Halifax, when there is a « perfectly good » Fonderie Miniature kit available ? 😂 Hubert

Well. I didn't see this coming. I like the incentives they are offering. Very enticing. But I don't want a Halifax.

That looks really good John and you capture the sheen.

Something different. K48501 Kotare 1/48 Halifax Mk.II -EXCLUSIVE LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION

The tail surfaces are in place and working on the wings. The MGs in the fuselage were a chore to get in place. I should have done more testing fitting before closing up the fuselage.

Done. https://forum.largescalemodeller.com/topic/20808-tamiya-a6m2-completed/

I'm calling this one done. Painted with White Ensign, Testors, and MRP. Seat belts are FineMolds. This particular a/c was crash landed in a swamp in New Guinea and it's remains, as far as I know, are still there. OOB build except for the belts. 🙂

Up on her legs. Also made a new acrylic base with the Matlask base name changed to the properly spelled ‘Matlaske’. It still has it’s blue protective film in this pic.

Innovative stuff, looking forward to seeing how it progresses.

oh boy, thanks for sharing! I counted at seventeen of those Matchbox kits that I built as a kid in the 80s. I still have a few left in the display case. Many have been lost to the "anti aircraft artillery" strikes (i.e. bb guns) The tanks with the bases were especially cool. Fond memories

This is one of my builds: