PanzerWomble

More SOD completion

Same horton ? It looked to be turning out well ?😳

Thanks buddy 😀

Hans is getting a telling off for leaving it there from the officer in that scene. 😀

German PK troops film an old WW1 French tank left abandoned in a field after the fall of France 1940. Hobbyboss Saint-Chamond, resin figures ….other stuff . Sadly , my old CheepyChingChong static grass applicator gave up the ghost after 7 years, so we will see how it's Gucci WWS replacement works next one .

Lots of "use the force Luke" jokes that there.

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.