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You're off to a nice start. Are you planning any AM with go with the build?

Another early birthday gift, this time from a good friend.

At least it still fits in a closet.

Neat looking paper Panzer there Ralph. The turret sure looks tall on that chassis. Carl

Talk about getting into your work. That's pretty awesome there Jeroen.

We've had Sunny for almost 5 years now so more of a new bench companion. He hasn't stuck around my bench in the past. Mostly just walked over stuff and then climbed onto the shelves. This is new behaviour for him so we'll see. In actual bench news, I've started tinkering with the ZM 109 I started a while back. Around when it came out.

Started a new project in 1:1 scale. Not being good at painting eyes, I'm thinking of this pose instead.

Thanks guys! It's actually August 4th so a few more days to go.

An early birthday gift to myself. This just came out last week so I ordered at our local book shop. I do like the big guy for some reason.

If it's anything like their Sherman V Firefly then it certainly is. Nice choice Dave, smushed box and all. Oddly, for all the Sherman's I've built (about a half dozen) I've yet to do an American one.

Some nice progress there. For the tracks, Tamiya suggests XF-84 Dark Iron which looks closer to the colour in the pics that @DocRob linked to. Certainly a lot better than Rust.

Nice assortment there Paul. The egg girl with the Cromwell looks great too.

Lovely work there.

Those rads look absolutely fragile on the front there. I'd be afraid to handle it after attaching the pair of them.

Looks fantastic. A bit more work than an OOB build but definitely looks worth the effort. Carl

I started the Takom M29C Weasel kit shortly after it came out. The tracks and running Gear were a complete mess. The parts were too small and the alignment pins were too shallow to get things lined up properly. Then the link and length tracks weren't a great fit either. Then FC Modeltrends came out with a one piece track and running gear 3D printed set. I carefully ripped off the kit stuff and after removing the FDM parts from the print supports, I glued those on. Much better. Now I might have enough encouragement to finish the build.

Hopefully they sort you out with a replacement.

Some fantastic progress Rob. Great solution for the exhaust springs. I might have to look into the MFH belts as well for some of my other kits. Carl

This looks to be a nice kit. A great assortment of AM for it too. Carl

I've been working on this over the last couple of days. The original paint scheme in the various greens have me the idea to do it in a splinter scheme. I'm going to weather this a bit more. @Martinnfb suggested adding a winter wash to it. So that might happen next. Probably with a bit more battle damage too.

Really nice looking radial there Martin. Suitably grimey.

Looks great. I really like the finish. Carl

Just catching up on your build Rob and it looks fantastic. I've been running into static issues with my models recently as well. Washing the parts has helped there for me as well.

Well I guess it was my turn to take one for the team.

Of course, I just started converting a Kotare Mk I into a PR Spitfire. Can't wait for an OOB PRXIX. Carl