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That mast looks brilliant, Rob! Can't wait for more.... but sounds like I'll have to.

Thank you, Martin! Great photos. Not so sure about bits of flesh on the breech, though. The slightest fleck of pink I could deliver would probably equate to half a human tongue.

Hello friends. Despite a lot of work, I have little to show. For instance, here are the dudes all primed in Tamiya paint. \ The first coat of gray enabled me to see all of the mistakes. The most of which I scraped off with a hobby blade. Then I resprayed them. I spent a lot of time creating shells and expended powder canisters. I still have a lot more to create. Luckily sources aren't lacking, and except for some coughing and sneezing, I'm getting better. The rifle stack was harder to make then I thought. And I still have to put slings on the rifles. I'll let the paint on the figures harden overnight. Then I can start applying base colors tomorrow. I also got the main paint down on the howitzer. There are 3 shades of gray used, but it is hard to see them on camera. Happy modelling!

Really.... when we order anything it's a gamble. I had a courier stop in front of my house friday... walk to the back of his van, open the door.... root around and then get back in the van and drive off. So my parcel must not have got loaded. ... I had received an e-mail notification that my parcel would arrive that day... But now I have to wait until next week. Were I not on holidays at the moment, I'd be wondering if the porch pirate got my decals...lol

They look pretty Nice, Gus.

Thank you my friend. Hopefully spray some paint tomorrow.

Sadly sleep is fleeting. My sinuses and throat are irritated. So, It's hard to unfocus.

Great quote! One for modellers everywhere.

Thank you, Peter. I'm still feeling awful. Getting very little done.

So.... with the figures partially modified... with all of their limbs now... I need to know what you guys think of the layout and flow.

Thank you, Rob! Very neat little song!

Yeah.... I've been trying to avoid buying a punch and die set.

Hey friends.... I feel like shit. But I've bhad another five shots of Bundaberg rum and can type at least. So.... Hiow to you make assault infantry not look like assault infatnry? You give them soft caps. Only in the USMC do that assholes make you wear your helmet 100% of the time. But here, a few miles behind the lines, our German artillerymen are happy to wear their soft caps. Rifles and helmets at the ready. f'... thouse five fresh shots are kicking in now! I used 'Green stuff' to simulate flesh and wool fabric. The German army were issued toques for cold weather. I used my toothbrush sander to sand the fully erect dude... heh... sounds like porn... both with the rest at some kind of stoop;;;; What you gonna do? I pretty much exhausted my stash of pre=43 soft caps. I hate dipping into unbuilt kits for parts. Green Stuff makes a great adhesive. But it's still easy to move around before fully hardened... I know.... we all have that problem.. So things I have to thing about... Helmet and rifle stacks... Ammo and powdah stacks... As well as fired canister stacks. Being an artielleryman is hard work.... but I know all about it. 0811.... that's the USMC designation for artillerymen or gun-bunnies as we have been called. If you can;t truck it... **** it. Fill in the rhymne brothers!

hahaha... I don;t need no dudes offering me cuddles. I'm a T&A kinda guy.

Hi Everyone. I learned this watching a Night Shift video. I can't take any credit for figuring it out myself.

Thank you, Peter. I don't see myself working on just models in the future. Doing 20 Tiger tanks and 40 109's seems awfully repetitious. Even when I was a kid, my dream was to build just one of every variant of every German tank of WWII. It's different when you have a story about a certain individual connected with the weapon, or some color scheme that just has to be done. Color schemes taken from ambiguous black and white photos make even this a jump into the land of imagination. I've held a long desire to do 18th century soldiers in a larger scale. BU\ut taking that first step in that direction is difficult. Here, I have taken a first-step... just a different step than I originally envisaged a few years ago. Making them is pretty easy. All you need is some thin aluminum. Pin vise. Small drill bit. And a rubbery eraser. Thank you Martin. Great little link! Having a cold on your annual vacation sux. Yesterday I got drunk twice to deal with the sinus pain. HopefullyI won't need to today.

Nice result on that mast, Rob! They say that the glue is often stronger than the wood.

Sorry for your loss, Carl.

Rob, Thank you for your post. I am glad you are enjoying the thread. As much as I like doing new things I didn't want to buy more figures for this build. Hopefully this is one step in the direction of sculpting my own figures.

Rob, I love seeing what you are doing with your lathe! The parts look great and will look great rigged up. Few things will be as cool as a tall ship on your mantel.... if you have a mantel.

Thank you Martin for the fascinating article. Who knew that so much interesting kit was still being used in our lifetimes! m. Sadly, a cold has set in. My sinuses feel like someone jammed a red-hot poker into them. To ease the pain I just had five shots of Bundaberg Rum. i feel better but typing is a chore as I feel like only a small sliver of my brain is availab le roe ready use. Yes... I have to keep retyping words. Anyway... I got more done on the Rommel figure. I madfe the buttons myself, punching them from aluminum sheet and fixing them with CA. I know... he's pretty rough. But for my first re-sculpture... I'm feeling pretty proud. His right hand was way smaller than his left... So, I used Magic Sculpt to make his hand bigger. Where was this shit when I wanted bigger arms and peck's to impress the girls? I used a knife edge to scuplt some knit lines into the glove. Then I had to rescult the midriff's of all of the former Tamiya assault infantrymen. Some will need buttons, but I need to wait for the magic sculpt to harden. Then I can add arms and heads.... And paint Typing when you'r f'd up is hard. So, I'll go for now. This is a new kind of venture for me and I have to admit it's fun. Type at you soon=ish!

Interesting! I wonder how in the hell they get ammo for it.

G'day gents and those who don't want to be called gents. I only did some minor surgery on this kit. Interestingly, AFV Club give you a full set of pioneer tools for making a dio where the tools are not attached to the piece. But that wasn;t my plan. I wanted to make a dio where they are in the process of firing without actually at the second of firing. Tomake this plausible, the aiming posts had to come off the gun. To do this required some gentle surgery. I just cut and drilled away the actual aiming posts, leaving their brackets ready to glue to the trails... one on each side. I also separated the ramming staff from it's brackets, too. Those I replaced with brass. And today, I completed the gun. Due to the complicated construction, I did a lot of priming before final assembly. I didn't want any of that yellow plastic showing up. There are only three decals for the kit. Two firing charts on the left of the frontal guard, and a large letter on the right. One of the cool things about AFV club is that they don't seem to simplify structures overly much. So, that once you have finished a vehicle undercarriage, or the lower parts of this field piece, you feel like you know the equipment as much as you can without actually reading a manual or applying a wrench. The next step was starting the crew. That white dude on the far side of the gun is actually meant to be Rommel. I needed him there because all of the other dudes are bent or stooping to some degree. The guy by the gunsight is just the right height to be looking into the eyepiece... which he would do after every shot to ensure that the gun was still laid on the aiming posts. -They still to that today, but have more modern aiming devices. And three of the other guys will be used handling ammo and powder. So... let's look at Rommel. In his trademark Afrika Korps feldbluse with riding trousers. Definitely out of place where everyone else is wearing winter great coats. So, I made him a great coat too. The back side looks worse, and I'll have to wait for the Magic Sculpt to harden before I can work on it more. I tried on the first go to use Green Stuff. It just hardened way too fast. I also have to make some shells, powder cartridges, and ammo crates. Should be fun... perhaps. That reminds me that I have some PAK 75 shells which can provide me with powder canisters if I can't get them right myself. By the way... Rommel isn't flipping you off... he's going to have a just-fired powder canister in his hands, savoring the warmth through his glove before he tosses it away.