PanzerWomble

Nope , but I didn't join the Kotare cult TBH . This screams 'cash flow issue' in their business to me , or their distributors were luke warm on a Halifax selling well , or a Stirling for that matter . If market research showed a strong desire.... one of the larger Chinese manufacturers would have done one by now I'd suspect . I wish them well with it though .

Changing plans , the brown brick retruneth .

@Martinnfb I do wonder to what she was referring .... that doesn't spark her joy 🤣

Called a rigger brush probs size 0 . Common artists brush

Since switching to 100% water based paint i get this issue far less as running IPA through afterwards dissolves it very quickly, and once in a while things like nozzles get a soak in toluene -cellulose paint thinner as it really eats the residue . Kills the orings quicker but they are cheap .

Love the scheme …. Used to smoke the cigs 😪 and have repainted so many bikes in black with gold wheels itbecame a micktake meme among my mates… . who says 200kmh cigarette adverts were bad for children 😀 i admire you taking such such an old kit, but reckon you will nail it as usual !

Cheers Rod , I appreciate that 😀

Very happy days "Hello Canadian infidels " Side note I've been reading this book , which is rated as one of the best accounts , TBH having read a lot of Beevor , I'd personally agree . Once you get over the "they were both awful regimes" it's quite fascinating Saddam made the same mistake as Hitler with Russia ....opponent much larger but isolated globally for allies; their army in disarray because of the post Shah purges .... so a quick Blitzkreig to get Arab southern lands back and rob Iran of oil exports ..It was never about defeating Iran . However the Iranians fought back and the Arab populace didn't rise up . Oops. Two years later he is back at the border and sueing for peace with the UN, however Iran blocks this by demanding his removal ( as is distracts from it's own civil war over the rise of clerics in government , Kurds, ex Shah forces ).. and continues the war for another 6 years in a bloody border stalemate . Out of arms they revert to using "cheaper" child troops ( est 20% of their forces) for human wave attacks and 'mine clearing by warm body' exercises....Which when faced by these mass attacks leads Saddam to release the gases . Who supplied arms and money to who is a whole other story but basically no one came out well . Phew Finally the ability of T62s to wipe out Chieftains was panic fuel in the UK / Nato and lead to a hasty uparmouring of the old smoke bucket with Stillbrew armour on the MK10/11s ....and developing / buying the Chally 1 which was originally for the Shahs army .. "it's safe behind our tank ..probably "

This is the 01 version in wartime , same loco type but only 2 steam cylinders , the 02 version had 4 initially , black running gear ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DRG_Class_01 & No I'm not a train spotter ...

Think 1980s, thick parts, a lot of moulded on details , two colour plastic (again?) , sprue gates that need bolt croppers to cut through . Fit was ok TBH, it's a 2003 tool . And yes in the 1920's when these were made, and on post war restorations, the wheels and chassis were painted red , it varies in opinion if it were the bright signal red in restored ones, or more of a red oxide colour ...and the wartime pixs.?..hard to tell . Were trains repainted in 1942/3 or were they just working the life out them as quickly as they could so everything faded to black/dirt in six years ? The pic in the above post ...those wheels don't look red to me

G'dammit ....how did I get this so wrong 🙄? Must have been having eine Brain Fahrt ..it's not like I didn't have this picture in front of me ...nor is my German that bad ...doh.

Not overly productive , just finally got around to a photo shoot . I may have accidentally bought the wrong M47 for another project ...er...um ..so had to do something with this diesel one. Early days in the Iran/Iraq war , the Iranians were hard pushed to defend Abadan with whatever was at hand. This M47 belonged to the 37th Arm'd Brigade which was wiped out in the defence. Sommit different Laterz PW

"Do something different " has been the thought in 2025 . Can't say this really peaked my interest, but trying to clear up stuff I've parked and ignored this year.... not much you can do with a black tube in the end 😆and the details are very "Revell'y " 🤮 Remnants of a last minute dash to the "National Redoubt" in May 1945 maybe , worn out loco and no coal left ? *spelling corrected on tender...ahem ...thank you for pointing it out Doc 😀 Laterz PW

Cheers Mike , that's kind of you . One thing about doing derelict dioramas, you can kind of 'make it up as you go along' 😀

Built for a GB on TOS . Albania retired all it's fixed wing assets late 90's , tried selling them , few takers for worn out 1960's stuff . They sat rotting away until most were scrapped . Apparently 500 tanks went the same way . "Bad Mig" , more like 'dead Mig' ...idea inspired by TIM The Imperfect Modeller, an Aussie fella you may have come across , his works is on Scaleymates. $15 kit , zero AM, everything out of the spares box/ scratched . Cheers PW

Cure Mark Novak or CNArsenal on the 'tube

it's the old Merc I've been searching for ! Diopark only released them once 10 years ago .

Prestonedward = "Pre Stoned Ward" .....AI bot

Very sharp I balk at stencil within stencil

Nice work, and good to see stuff actually tied onto the tank or retained in frames.... rather than appearing magically "stuck with magnets" 😀