GusMac

Bit of oversharing there me thinks!

Lovely work again Cees. Given this is 48th scale the detail is outstanding.

Very sad and condolences to all. Tragic to lose their lives helping others so far from home. As Jeff says, something must have gone seriously wrong. C-130s are generally pretty much bombproof in terms of reliability.

There are advantages to living in the frozen north of Scotland sometimes. The most venomous things we have around here are bees, wasps, both summer only, and one of my wife's sisters!

Very sad. It's not been a good month so far with this following Neil Peart. Two brilliant polymaths both gone to brain diseases! Life throws up some real shitty ironies sometimes! Farewell Mr Creosote

'They' are out ta get ya Ernie!!

I'll be watching with interest Phil having just got this from Ernie in the raffle. Same as yourself, it's my first WNW kit so I'm looking forward to seeing how you tackle it.

Just arrived today courtesy Ernie and the Christmas Raffle. First WNW kit I've had and after a quick look I see why everyone raves about the quality. I think I'm going to practice rigging on my old paint mule before I risk butchering this!

Thanks Dale. I'll see what I can find and I may be back in touch.

Those really do look like something my son used to knock up with his Lego when he was little!

Thanks Dale, that's very useful.

Thanks guys.

Those sanding sticks look really interesting Dale. Is that the only range of sizes available or do they do different combinations? Thanks, Gus

Lookin' good Dale!

Some great colour reference photos there. Nice effect with the putty on the tank.

Weird experience last night!?! I have a Pinterest account which I rarely use but which I do use to store reference photos for builds. I went on last night and one of the recommendations as I'd been looking at Greek aircraft was a photo of my own build lifted from this site! Very disconcerting!!! The interweb can be a very odd place.

Stunning work on something so fragile Rick. Hope you have somewhere safe to display it.

Got these as part of my Christmas from the kids and it got me thinking in a couple of ways. I always try to learn a new technique with every build and I've also been contemplating what Hubert, Ernie and others have been saying about only building things with camouflage. Also, some really inspiring builds that Micha (elmarriachi) posted on here about a year ago. SO...... I got this and my CHET build is going to take a sharp left turn. Instead of a Greek military one carrying the Meng AMX-30 it's going to be a beaten up, rusty civilianised one carrying a nice dusty, dirty digger! Best thing is it's all out of my head so I can't pressurise myself on getting it to exactly match a particular reference or picture. I'm hoping to have some fun with it anyway.

Iconic and in some ways it still out performs it's successors. However, it's had it's day now. Always felt it looked like the bastard offspring of a Starfighter and an EE Lightning!

That's a hoot Jeff. Good to see Dusty Hill from ZZ Top is still working too!!

The quality of all the painting is astounding but the figures are just the best I have ever seen.

Lovely work Danny. It certainly looks a darn sight better than the Trumpeter 1/32 scale 21.

I love this idea. Perfect for its function. Ikea does tanks!

Very sad to hear that. Far too young.

Happy New Year to all. Hope ye survived Hogmanay with livers intact!