PanzerWomble

Waiting for paint to dry ....

@BlrwestSiR Such a lovely cat . Those wheels look ripe for a case of “lets push this off the desk and see if it bounces…..and what about this one …will it bounce? “

@KevinM wins a prize

Good result and nice photography too

Profipack rocks

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