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My wife gets tired of the crime, too. But if she gets a chance to put on music... I'm doomed to some stuff I don't mind, and some feline wailing when she plays stuff by her favorite feminine artists. I call is "Dying cat music". Honestly... except for Abba (who I don't like a whole lot) I don't much care for female lead vocals. RE: Cooking shows.... I might find myself too interests in them...lol

Heh... more advertisement to never buy this kit. What a shame. Keep up the good work!

I'm glad to see the cowls close up nicely. I hate it when they don't. Looking good!

I like a bit of Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich, myself.

Interesting! Might have to look some up. I think my last exposure to any folk music was in elementary school where we had an hour of singing with the music teacher for a few years. That was American Folk music. There was no singing about battle, plunder, and the other Viking staples...lol

Thank you, Jeff!

Thank you Rob, Curiously... how is it overly white? I have a lot of photos of real-life StuG's much more white than mine. It's not really done, yet... I have been contemplating chipping up the snow a little bit more with the hull colors.

Rest in peace, friend!

Thank you, Kai!

Usually, I listen to crime TV while building models. But you can only listen to human suffering and human monstrosity so much... I'm over pop music, and have listened to 'my music' so much.... my music is classic rock... more British than American... ....I've listened to my music so much that the only time I listen to it anymore is is when I'm in the ute. So today I started my modelling time with some Wagner.... Die Walküre. ...and finished up with a few Pavarotti concerts. Anyone else here listen to classical music?

Bringing many elements together, I present the closer-to-the-finish project. All that remains is to mate the suspension to the tracks and the tracks to the base all via either mud or snow. I think mud will be easier. I tried to see if I could get the gunner's good eye through the gun shield aperture. Here are a couple topside close-ups. Mainly to illustrate the crew and work done on the tracks to show where contact and friction have bared the metal in different ways. Today I went searching for MG 34 buttstocks. They all look much darker in current photos. But that is understandable. Most stained wood will darken over time. heh... I didn't realize that so much of the inner drive sprocket would be visible... silly me!

Excellent!!

Glad to see you back at it! Sherman looks good! Can't wait to see your bocage.

Now, Tamiya.... do me a favor and pop out some 100-series fighters. Color me strange... but I prefer my jets in foil with less of that messy painting to worry about. I've got their MiG 15 Bis in the stash waiting for my next foiling urge.

A good week for me... two kits and two books. The two kits finally bring the world of Bronco to me. AFAIK, neither AFV is modelled by anyone else. The Marder II has moved up to 'next' in the build queue since I can't seem to get everything back into the box well enough to close it totally. And... I been buying up German soldiers, sailors, and airmen's memoirs as fast as I can find them in english. Most, courtesy of Book depository. I've bought a bio on Hartmann even though he hasn't penned it himself. Like many American's, my knowledge of WWI naval stuff is pretty vague except for Emden, Jutland, the U-boat war, and the hunger blockade. So, finding a book by Reinhard Scheer became a must have, once I knew it existed.

Those missiles and rails look great Peter! The seats look pretty special, too.

Certainly ugly... but not beyond your skills, Kai.

Thank you! Yes... it's one you sent me.

Good luck getting your new job, Mark.

Nice work on the office!

Looking good!

Thank you for the info! The Tamiya clears are just too potent... or whatever the correct phrase is for too-color-intense. Truly, the best use I found for Tamiya orange is to "stain" the frame area of the base for my Großer Kurfürst base. It is true... if you mix blue and orange, you do get brown... but again... too strong.

Not yet. I spent a little modelling time with the StuG figures after work. Will try some stuff on my paint hack when I have a little time.

Thank you Kai! Were you wanting a picture of the Tamiya yellow on plain wood, or were you asking for pictures of the real thing? I have contemplated trying to find images of real cockpits from the period. However... here is the problem. Many stained woods darken with age. In 100 hundred plus years huge difference could occur. So, even if we found an un-restored Albatros... the color of the wood would be deceiving. Thank you. Phil! Much of the building was done over time. All I really accomplished this weekend was the upper-engine work. Rob, Thank you! I will look at the AK colors. FWIW... the color I want is that yellow stripe going right down the center of your test area in the upper zone as it appears. I am just about out of Tamiya clear yellow. So, it may be perfect time to try the AK.