Paulster

Prayers and thoughts to all of our Canadian friends and Allies. Feel your pain and got your back.

Have been eyeing the Meteor since it came out. So far have been real successful in not getting it. Am surprised how long it took for these to be released.

Adding stowage and such. Stowage vendors are too numerous to remember muchness list. Rear stowage rage is built from a left over pioneer tool rack. Added a few "wrinkles" to the kits seat cushions before installing into armored buckets. Attaching the small little do-dads. Older (1993) pe really thick. Had to anneal almost everything for it to bend smoothly. Saw a photo of a M6 with a field manufactured .30 caliber mount. So i followed suit trying to mimic the crude nature of it.

Used .015 lead solder for the headlight wiring. Wind screen was toy like over width. Sawed apart to resize. Drive shaft was too short. I'm sure I did something wrong here. A little styrene rod to the rescue. Used the kit seats cushions and shaped them to fit the Eduards armored seat shields. Lead foil is formed to make a canvas windshield cover. Did this so I wouldn't have to scratch build wiper motors or blades.

Started this a couple of years ago and shelved before I gave it flying lessons. This is the 40+ year old Italeri/Peerless kit. This vehicle's destiny was utter failure. Packing a 37mm AT gun, it was equivalent to throwing tennis balls at German armor in North Africa. Based on the Dodge WC 51/52 chassis, it had lacked any armor except the "splinter" shield around the M1 37mm gun. As stated above, this kit was first molded in the late '60's and then released by 3 or 4 different companies since. It defiantly shows it's age. The only kit dedicated aftermarket set was a pe set manufactured by Eduard back in 1993. After about 4 months of searching I found a set in Australia. This was produced when pe was in it's infancy. Frets are very thick. So…..getting my hands on anything WC 51 related and digging deep into my spares bin, I jumped off the cliff. Wheels are just sitting loose to see if by chance they all touched. Of course they didn't. Used a steel square to draw our mounting points for the windshield rests. Little bit of coaxing to get the hood to line up. PE rear bumpers, pedals and dash installed. Forming the tie down hooks. Pencil to show size.

​Beautifull build. Beautiful photography

Nice scratch work. Aluminum foil?

Even I might be interested in that. (Don't fall down Mike)

Should be great. Airfix has returned with a roar. This tread head waiting for the new mold M103A2.

​Great attention to detail. Informative and inspirational. Scatch built the gun site for my G55, I feel your drive.

​As much as I dislike Paul Allen's view on the Second Amendment and the millions he throws at foundations to destroy it, he's right here. He bid, he won, he paid. It is rightfully his.

Nice build. Appears to

Can't have too many books.

"Fun" is the name of the game. Looking forward to it.

Looking forward to a WIP of this one. Not from me mind you.

Mr Hobby makes it. H29.

​$55…..ouch!!!

Here we go again! Can't wait Tom.

Extraordinary use of colors. Something really different and eye catching.

Uummm..does..uum…..you know who know about these kits??

Damn……gotta finish mine.

What he said.

Nice save.

Of course he does. Just send it to him and bill him.