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Nice pair of kits Gaz! Missed out on those from HLJ. But I did get this on sale from Great Hobbies here in Canada. For $41 CAD shipped, it was hard to say no. I also got a couple more kits. Another for me: As tomorrow is the last day of school for the year I picked these up for my boys. Hopefully they'll like them. Carl

Thanks Mike!

A very nice looking Tiger Mike. Makes me want to work on my Dragon one. Carl

Really nice build so far Gaz. There's something about these German 8 wheelers that's so cool. Carl

Thanks Mike! Here's the pics I managed to take. Here's a size comparison with the Dingo I finished last month.

Just remember to take them out of your pockets before you do the laundry. They make a right mess in the dryer.

Proof that the Jagdpanther did not eat my Sherman for lunch. I joined the upper and lower hulls together. In trying out the rubber band tracks, I noticed they can't be glued together so I'm going to use AFV Club tracks as I have them on hand. They're only three parts per link so should only take a year or two....

Not a bad idea. Thanks for the suggestion.

Thanks Rob! He didn't eat the Sherman, just a love bite. Thanks Gaz! The box is supposed to be the wooden jack box but the wood effect is a bit too orange. I might try to tone it down. I didn't think about annealing the wire until after I had glued on the ends like you did. Maybe next time.

Great progress Ernie. The silver looks good and glad to hear it passed the tape test. If you run out of the MM stuff, this might be another option for you. Carl

Happy birthday Ernie!

I got the bogies assembled over the weekend. I used the fixed plastic spacers instead of the foam ones as the rubber ones let the bogies at the end curl up with too much track tension. Once dry, I glued them to the lower hull.

Rob, I'm still learning to like olives so my martinis tend to be neat. Thanks Phil! I like having the mix of road wheels on my Shermans and it's been something I've done on most of them.

I finally painted and added the tools to the Jagdpanther. I couldn't get the tow cables to work for me. They're wire and I couldn't get them to fit suitably so I left them off for now. I gave the model a coat of weathering powders and with that, I'm calling it finished.

Thanks Mike!

Thanks Martin! I always wanted to build the Dragon one when it first came out but never got around to getting one. Then the Meng kit came out and I decided to try it instead. Thanks Harv!

So very nice John. I'd have a hard time doing any weathering to it too.

Indeed it is.

My last one was last year. The Tamiya kit with a slat wing conversion. Here's the one before that:

I'll have to try it again. My first attempt did not get me happy results.

Maybe we can convince Hornby they need to downscale for us. Since Airfix won't ever do 1/32 aircraft, they could use it to launch a new brand ....

Let me try, emphasis on "try", to finish some of the other kits on my bench first and you have a deal.

That's great news! Thanks for sharing. KASL is coming out with the counterweight used on the F-5F as well. Carl

I'll be along for the ride. Can't have too many F-4s. If it's any consolation Harv, I started my F-4G conversion about that long ago and I think you're further along than I am. Carl

It's technically my bench but definitely my son's model: Edward is using my Eclipse to paint his dino model with Model Air paint. He has fewer runs in it than I sometimes get.