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Condolences to you and Joy, family always come first........

Danny, that’s a large amount of PE, you’ll be cross eyed before you finish......looking good....

Carl, it looks like Miniart are going to release every variant of the Lee / Grant, are you going to a log, not sure on scheme yet.....

Thanks Jeff, AFV’s are pretty straight forward, good thing is you build and then paint.......

With the F4J and Ships Camel at finishing stages and associated trials, it was time to do some building. Had the M3 Grant for awhile in the stash. The Lee / Grant story is well known but I didn’t realise a Lee had 7 man crew and the Grant a 6 man crew. This will be my second Takom and is well engineered with little to no flash. Starting with the running gear, for each there are 17 components, two of which are the bolts to be shaved off the sprue and positioned. There are six of these so a little consuming but they build up beautifully. The only AM I’m adding is the RB 75mm M2 and 37mm turned barrels. The Tiger build burnt me out with PE, although Takom do supply a small amount......hoping you guys enjoy..... Differences between Lee and Grant, photo sourced for information only......Grant left, Lee right.

Pretty perfect Harv

I’m going have to get myself a M50 to add to my Sherman collection, love the camo....

Nice build, I’d say that was factory fresh.........

Just mind the electric and water pipes behind .......I was putting down an oak floor on battens, I skinned a water pipe by thousands of an inch, took me 3 hours to mend it because it had been laid into the screed.........

Unless the guys up scaled them, then I think it’s called smoke and mirrors with a lot of perspective thrown in.....

Happy birthday Martin, have a happy, joyous day.......with a few .................

Very tidy build, I think this is the first time I’ve seen this built up.......congrats

Very nice, hope my Camel comes out half as well......congrats

Absolutely stunning, congratulations

Paul, this is the AK Camouflage Elastic Putty, just form the pattern and spray....... remove the putty, roll the putty in your hands for a couple of minutes and re-use for the next camouflage.......

great first show and tell, congrats on a beautiful build.......

Real departure from the norm, are lengths of rail bed also included?

Anything new, Hubert?

Thanks John, it’s been thirty years since I built a Spit and that’s to long. I’ll start a new folder to squirrel away your images.......

wow great opening WIP, amazing attention to detail.......looking for to more........

Those belts look real, never knew the seat was a red oxide colour. Looking as good a ever......

Tim. This is also a good research site, it lists modifications and when they happened plus a plethora of other information...... http://www.alanhamby.com/tiger.html

I thought I’d seen it all.........a Hansa-Brandenburg W.29 just went for £632.32 on eBay........That’s 780 US and over a 1000 CAD....... that is IMHO insanity...........But who am I to judge........

Thanks Jeff, starting any minute now

Didn’t Tamiya also do a 1/25th armour range as well? I’m talking early 70’s.....