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Well done! Curious, ...how would you rate this kit? I'm a Tamiya fan.
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18 minutes ago, GusMac said:
Rest of the World - sloping armour is the way to go to maximise protection
The Brits - nah, just make it bloody huge and it'll be fine!
Looks like someone has left the cork in the end of the barrel as well.
I was thinking of adding the cork during the build...It's clear the box art was
inspired by the photograph.
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Looking Great Carl!
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This arrived yesterday.....
Another Amusing Hobby offering.
This time their; Fv4005 Stage 2 Self-Propelled Gun (35A029) in 1/35.
Looks like a great kit of a unique vehicle. Only one of these exists and
is currently under restoration. It had an 183mm gun. Anyway, I'm starting
to like Amusing Hobby's off the beaten track subjects. This kit
Includes individual link tracks and working suspension. It looks
well-molded with some large sturdy components.
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Great looking Mosquito John!
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I have that big Takom Jeep in my stash. It looks like a pretty good kit with
great detail. Looking forward to your build.
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The replacement for my ruined Takom SMK build
arrived this morning. I'll be more careful this time!
I was lucky to find one at a decent price.
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Just found this.....A bit like the Krupp Raumer.
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10 hours ago, Peterpools said:
Looking mighty good and hopefully the SMK is on the back burner and scheduled for repairs down the road.
Well Peter, the replacement Takom SMK arrived today. I'm going to something a little different with this one. The most common picture
of this tank shows a clean tank; no tools, cables, or storage boxes. These
items added by Takom seem spurious... It's possible that these were added
when this tank was sent to Finland where it was disabled by a mine and
later recovered. I will however add the star decal We'll see. I'll use PVA to
add the photo-etch this time!
Thanks;
Paul
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1 hour ago, PanzerWomble said:
Gonna be 1:1 scale for the next few months
Very nice!
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Thanks for posting. I would like to attend such an event.... I'll have
to check if any are nearby. Lots of interesting builds! The snow blower
build made me chuckle! It's cool that you met with Andy. If I had met him ,
I would have suggested a big-scale M3 Lee for his next release, but hey, that's just me.
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Well, after the SMK fiasco......I started another kit build.
The Tamiya Churchill.. An ancient kit, it has required some putty
on the turret but has, so far, been a quick build.
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19 hours ago, FullArmor said:
"ARL-44 France Heavy TankTank">>very interesting beast😮. If char B was tough tank to destroy what would be needed to knock down this one?🧐
Thanks. This tank had good armor, great gun, but terrible transmission and drive train reliability issues. It used captured ww2 German Maybach engines and
in total....only about 60 of these tanks were made. Anyway, I think it was
really a cool-looking tank. Its use of the Char 1 bis type tracks makes it really stand out ,I think, and I'm really looking forward to building this one!
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1 hour ago, DocRob said:
I like the pencils a lot, Peter. I have the same set and use them on regular base. You can use them dry for highlighting, where some colors adhere better than others to the plastic. Where they really shine is dampened. You can produce a kind of multi color wash or panel line effect.
Here are some pictures of my 1/20 MAK AmmoKnight, where I used the pencils dampened for interior weathering.
Cheers Rob
Thanks Rob.
I was wondering if others used these and their opinions of them.
By the looks of it they work well.
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Thanks for posting.....I always liked the Brewster Buffalo!
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Great progress Carl! Can't wait to see it lighted up!
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Some more items today:
From Amusing Hobby, their ARL-44 France Heavy Tank (35AO25) in
1/35. An obscure French tank that went from adoption to being a range
target in just a few years. My first Amusing Hobby kit, it looks pretty good.
It is nicely molded, and comes with photo-etch, and working individual
track links.
Also, from AK Interactive their Weathering Pencils For Modeling.
I've been eyeing these for a while and finally found some at a reasonable
price. I thought I would give them a try. There's 37 pencils in the set and
they can be used dry or with water.
And yes, another set of Friulmodel tracks. This time, their ATL-193 for
FCM 36 French tank. I bought these for the ICM kit as the kits' rubber
tracks.....not so good. I posted that kit on this thread, along with other kits
back on March 11. The kit is otherwise very nice....although the two paint
schemes look daunting.
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18 hours ago, PeteinLincs said:
Thank you. I' took some pictures in the mancave today. I'll hold off on posting for now though.
In the meantime, if anyone wants to see how I built the machine above, Scoot over to Britmodeller.com and search, Headless Chicken. Sturmdohle
Cheers
Saw your build on Britmodeler, great work!
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1 hour ago, PeteinLincs said:
New member here and I've been asked to post some of my previous builds.
They're mostly Machinen Kreiger or Star Wars, with the occasional Muscle car. Which section should I put them in?
Thanks, Pete
Good question. A Sci-Fi section might be a welcome addition. I recently
Purchased some Sci Fi kits, mostly War of the Worlds related and wondered
where I'd post them...that is, if I ever make them! BTW....Welcome
to our forum!
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23 minutes ago, BlrwestSiR said:
Paul, sorry to hear about the CA spill.
Any chance you can use debonder to clean it up? The CA shouldn't have done any damage to the plastic unless it kicked off thermally. I had that happen once when I put a dropper full of CA accelerator into the CA bottle by accident. The bottle got really hot and smoked. Then it hardened into a solid lump.
Thanks Carl.
No, I don't think using debonder will be worth the effort. Plus, I did something perhaps really stupid by spraying it with accelerator after
Trying to wipe the glue off.... It did seem to remove some glue at first before hardening into a real mess. Kind of serves me right as I was getting
frustrated and irritable trying to glue the engine screen shown in my picture.
I should have put the model aside....cooled down a bit. Instead I became
careless, an invitation for accidents. Anyway, I ordered a new kit at a good
price and I'll try again. Until then, I'll start a new kit. I'm looking at Takom's
Little G13 Swiss Hetzer.
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Lots of choices here to look into....
I drink Becks mostly (now US brewed) And Guiness Extra stout.
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Well, disaster today.....on the SMK.
While trying to glue on a part with ca. An entire capful of CA dropped
On the model destroying the kit.....As I See it this kit can no longer be finished. I see no way to remove the CA spilled all over the back of this
Model. Perhaps the undamaged parts, wheels, turrets etc can be used on
a new kit.......Mad As Hell!
Addendum: I just ordered another SMK kit from Scalehobbyist.
Oh well....Hell.....Tomorrow is another day. By the way ScaleHobbyist has these for $46.00...A good price, I was lucky to
find one.
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Figure really looks great! The leather effect on the jacket is
spot-on!
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More work on the SMK
Construction work mostly done.....painting in near future.
Some minor putty needed in a few places, but otherwise went together well.
Tiny transparent vision blocks a pain to put in place. I will not be using the
kit tracks, but will instead be using Friulmodel tracks. A big, odd-looking, tank this one!
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I see Meng is keeping current......
A new Merkava 4 with the protective screen over the turret as seen
in the Gaza conflict.