PanzerWomble

6 hours of drilling & pinning later ....however no vinyl tracks will ever look this good

Sorry My bad , i was skimming through and misread it as one of Martins builds 🫤

Needs a cat !!! Oh and I missed your 109 as on hols, it looks really good .

Will he be flying the Horton ....?

Very steampunk , bit like the St Charmond . Terrible off road performance by all acounts. They made a bunch of replicas on BMP chassis for the 2019 remake of All Quiet on the Western Front ....slow but scary

Bit of inspo for you Rob - pics I took at Saumur in 2019 Not much inside .

Base paint down . Let it dry , correct tomorrow .

Concise and accurate history of the battle

You're right there's not much to it TBH , no need to make Zimmerit either !! A couple of days work then sell it on . The Ryefield one I'll build later will be a more interesting build . If i wasn't so obsessed with KGP I probably wouldn't have pressed Buy it Now 😀on ths old relic . Meng make a good Panther as well if the subject interests you .

Drilling out Fruil track links and building tracks is as much fun in 1/35 as it is in 1/1 .

Aah another Bellows Squadron Aircraft !! Looks great

Bored with aircraft ... I bought this 31 year old 1994 Tamiya kit a while back on the cheap. It was missing decals and the tracks, but it is one of the few Steel wheel models available ; being too tight to fork out for the Dragon one ..and RFM hadn’t done theirs yet …although I have one now . Was going to punt this one on but decided to have a dry run for the RFM later ....and... it's a Panther ... The wubber twacks were no biggie, having built numerous Tammy Panthererers TBH they are pretty dated, a shade too short and getting a realistic sag involves a lot of superglue ..so typically I replace them with Fruils anyway because I don’t value my fingertips much Not many parts, the shape is good though. 24 or so steel wheel Panthers were produced at the MAN works in September 1944 as a trial. For some reason they never went ahead with the production swap and the few produced got sent to the LSSAH ..later ending up with KG Peiper and used during Watch am Rhein. Numerous pictures show six 2 Koy vehicles abandoned around La Gleize and Stoumont …hence my interest. The Duel in the Mist books can give you more details . Panther '211' with 'Steel road wheels' of SS-Panzer Regiment 1, was lost near Stoumont's Railroad station during the Battle of the Bulge, one of the three that got beat up by US 90mm AA guns as they rounded the corner on the way to Awwaile. If you go there, there is a road marker showing the limit of the advance. Ater the battle they were looted by the locals, so pics don’t reflect as they were on the 19th Dec 211 was assembled and completed by MAN (Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nürnberg) in September 1944. Panther Fahrgestellnummer 121047 was issued to the second company of SS-Panzer Regiment 1 and given the tactical number '212' on the port side before this was corrected to '211' to match the number on the rear and starboard turm sides It was commanded by SS-Untersturmführer Hubert Kaufmann, who was born in Kufstein (Austria) on August 2, 1919. Hubert was severely wounded at Vesprem, Hungary and died 19 or 20 April 1945 at Straubing (Germany) aged 25, and later buried at the War cemetery in Straubing. laterz

Revell re popped a few , i remember how novel they were at the time coming with a base 😀

Ditto, I recieved the 32 scale Lysander from my fave uncle one year and being amazed at just how big it was , although I think the canopy sections really gave me issues . All painted with a hairy brush aged 12!

Matchbox AMT Catalogue from 1979/80 . Kits probably designed so blind people could orientate the parts using the huge trenches for panel lines. Enjoy ..or not .

Aha ! Thanks Tbh I sold mine , that canopy put me off 😳

Saw this ...I paid £60 for a second hand one . No relationship to the seller other than I've bought of his shop before

Cheers I've done their 1/32 Glad , and bought another for my stash , WOT6 truck was good, Mercedes W124 I'm on with and it's ok ....the 1/48 HS 126 I binned as the engineering drove me nuts , and TBh this Ju88 was a nice kit but I just didn't gel with it . Can't put my finger on it TBH , I'm sure it's just me , but I'd take a Eduard over ICM aircraft where possible . If I'm honest I can't stand the new releases from Airfix either ...disappointing builds to the point where I stopped buying them and sold off the unbuilt ones I had . I had pre ordered the Stalwart in a late night burst of enthusiam..then cancelled the order ...and seeing the reviews felt justified .

I personally think although XF21 may matche paint chips ..., but looks too dark scale wise . A lot of those old Tamiya shades were developed a long time ago, & based on museum restorations themselves quite dodgy as anyone building an old Matilda tank will attest . 😀 Theres a train of thought that says the colour was more Eua de Nil .

Bought as a mule to try multilayer chipping using ATOM paints and odourless thinners ( yes -it is a thing put down the hairspray ) Mr colour silver, then zinc chromate then the blue . Sandblasted corsair fits the mould . More like this I think . Not bad details or fit for a $20 kit. Had to make some seatbelts...no dramas...& so thats three of these for one of Magic Factorie's new Corsair (I'm sure it's lovely really) Pretty battered .... The man himself . 3 DFCs and a Navy Cross.!!..shot down 13 aircraft, retired as a Colonel and lived a long life , passing away aged 84 .

ICM make nice aircraft kits ....but for whatever reason I never enjoy building them . Ju88 , Tamiya paints, then agin with ATOM paints . , probably the last time I'll Tamiya them on an Lufty aircraft, they are so out for RLM colours. Masking fluid for chipping ....not again ICM decals not great should have masked instead . Canopy masks from Eduard bled under , meaning I had to redo all the glass with spares from the kit . Urghhhhh .... & when you finish it and then have to replace the canopy.... Finis Laterz PW

Personal pet project for me , building aircraft that flew from Plymouth in the war. Gazza once said 'someone has to love the Typhoon' ....I know what he means . 193 formed at Harrowbeer in Jan 1943 , known oddly as a "Brotherhood of the Bellows" squadron ...in that the aircraft were partly funded by ex pats in Brazil . The airfield only lasted 4 years, a lot of squadrons passed through , and eventual was abandoned in 1946 . As a kid knocking around the old dispersal pits was fascinating , although with now a relatively active preservation society much more info is available than it was 40 years ago. ATOM paints , custom markings minimal weathering for a new aircraft At the presentation with the Barazilian Ambassador....apparently it was so wet and foggy in January 1943 they did a 'taxi by' rather than a 'fly by,' with one aricraft clipping the press car with it's wing ...oh dear. Concrete runways were removed to stop unauthorised landings, but the site is still clear with the old control tower now a cafe and open fields . A polpular sopt for learner drivers ! Micheal and Lucy run the Centre and have a lot of artefacts as well a nice cake ... Some links The Tea room Preservation group site Laterz PW

Not so much bought as made ,a paint stand to do OPR & what is OPR ? I took lessons from Mike Rinaldi on this technique via his Patreon , and believe it is one of the most powerful techniques to learn, after being recommended by NMAYHEW on this forum (cheers !) In another note , I see Martin Kovacs has finally noticed oil dot modulation in his latest video , which is similar but less controlled ....and about 7 years after Evan at PM36 was making videos about it ...nothing new huh ?