PanzerWomble

Ok I'll admit it I am a Chieftain junkie .... Some useful books George Forty's 1978 book is still pretty solid , looking at development and deployment up to the Totem Pole upgrades ( MK6) Haynes' book is a loose copy somewhat updated as it is written 15 year after the tank retired . Some nice pix and stories Dunstan's book is somewhere in the middle , it's a collection of Osprey works , which have their merits and failings. If you want one book for post war tanks for a modelling reference this is a good contender

Time for another Chieftain but not the long toothed Tamiya one from when they were new in service . I speed built one of those on here in 48 hours or so as giggle a few years ago. RFI here if you're interested No , despite claiming to be mostly an armour modeller I seem to spend a lot of time build quarter scale aircraft ....so whilst finishing the blasted cat thing ..I'm going to do a new Chieftain , one of Takoms MK11s . And very nice it looks too . Tooling been around a while 2015, and this has sat on my shelf for three years since buying it during '21 lockdown for an exorbitant price. Since Meng also brought one out, they should have dropped in price ...but haven't. Stillbrew armour is unique to MK10's and 11's and the models thereoff . So you can only make a 10 or 11 , which was UK only . Seeing Iranian Chieftains getting armour penetrated in the Iran/ Iraq war by T72ms scared the UK into coming up with a quick fix. This was basically concrete and rubber overlayed over the existing turret front armour, hopefully able to stop kinetic penetrator rounds fired from T72 . They knew Chobham was on the way , but in 1980 it was still a few years off.

Since ditching the rug in my study and just working with wood floor below me , the amount of stuff I loose has reduced a heapful. That carpet monster is real man !

Nice one , I love left field builds . Never built anything commercial or even "diggery". 😆 I have built the 1/48 Eduard Mig 21 ...she's a doozy when you get around to it .

I don't believe that 1/72 is really proper modelling (to me anyway) so let myself of the hook with cheats like that. Although having seen Kris's biplane might have to change my attititude

I cheat on small scales and use Sharpie pens instead of masking n painting

Menacing lil aircraft , interesting scheme ! Be a lot of napalm in that drop canister !

Looks great , interesting colours from the standard metal or drab . I like flory washes on NMF , don't use them on much else . Congrats on not producing a tial sitter !

Getting my motivation back , and fed up with looking at this languishing . enjoy ! WIP here

By hook or crook or late night stint lol !

Great vignette Brad , looks fine on the little base .

Better than the old Bloodhound kit I'm guessing ?

Still fighting this thing . realised the blue on the decal sheet didn't print properly ..so had to mask the national markings and spray more . And the rest of the decals are like the clonk I bought from Peddinghaus once ...turn to rubber/ chewing gum when wet rather than a nice film . It will be finished for next Saturday though

Re the static grass , best bit of advice I read was not to create "lawns " , as they rarely look good. After that I went for spotting the glue on the base (I use mod-podge as it dries matt) , and static grassing over the top so it looks worn out etc . Bit like weathering start with less and keep adding till your happy. Never made a lawn since !

Looking good , amazing detail ZM packed into a 1/48 th model . I need to pull out my Tamiya F4b and see how it compares.

Thinking this in Palestinian Service garb , mine won't be close to Sandbaggers but game for a go .

love 1911s

Muad'ib .....Lisan al Ghaib

Field of 'Tooms ....if you build it ........they will come ....