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Some more items today:

 

From Amusing Hobby, their ARL-44 France Heavy Tank (35AO25) in

1/35. An obscure French tank that went from adoption to being a range

target in just a few years. My first Amusing Hobby kit, it looks pretty good.

It is nicely molded, and comes with photo-etch, and working individual

track links.

     Also, from AK Interactive their Weathering Pencils For Modeling.

I've been eyeing these for a while and finally found some at a reasonable

price. I thought I would give them a try. There's 37 pencils in the set and

they can be used dry or with water.

      And yes, another set of Friulmodel tracks. This time, their ATL-193 for

FCM 36 French  tank.  I bought these for the ICM kit as the kits' rubber

tracks.....not so good. I posted that kit on this thread, along with other kits

back on March 11. The kit is otherwise very nice....although the two paint

schemes look daunting.

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Had another slide in under the radar today!  I’ve learned to shut off all the ring doorbell notifications when I’m expecting a package. LOL!  
But what’s this?  An F-14 Tom?

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Is this a short Tomcat?  
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Well, from the front it resembles a Tomcat! 
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Oh man…all that resin goodness!

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Cannot wait to start this ugly ass gutless Cutlass beauty! 
 

A big thanks to Carl for thinking of me when he decided to liquidate it from his collection.  

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16 minutes ago, ScottsGT said:

Had another slide in under the radar today!  I’ve learned to shut off all the ring doorbell notifications when I’m expecting a package. LOL!  
But what’s this?  An F-14 Tom?

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Is this a short Tomcat?  
IMG_1604.thumb.jpeg.2506a54fb055ba549c0483d9883f83a4.jpeg

Well, from the front it resembles a Tomcat! 
IMG_1605.thumb.jpeg.ff294589188856d6e0e05d803d7885a7.jpeg

Oh man…all that resin goodness!

IMG_1606.thumb.jpeg.39c1fdd2ad202c37d2ae0d6a16237096.jpeg

IMG_1607.thumb.jpeg.063b9571cebf18b17d38d6a11e9760ed.jpeg

Cannot wait to start this ugly ass gutless Cutlass beauty! 
 

A big thanks to Carl for thinking of me when he decided to liquidate it from his collection.  

Woohoo! Glad it arrived safely. If postage wasn't so expensive I would have sent the Tomcat box intact just to have some fun. 

As it is, the Cutlass probably isn't much more work than building a Tamiya 'cat.

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6 hours ago, belugawhaleman said:

Some more items today:

 

From Amusing Hobby, their ARL-44 France Heavy TankTank (35AO25) in

1/35. An obscure French tank that went from adoption to being a range

target in just a few years. My first Amusing Hobby kit, it looks pretty good.

It is nicely molded, and comes with photo-etch, and working individual

track links.

     Also, from AK Interactive their Weathering Pencils For Modeling.

I've been eyeing these for a while and finally found some at a reasonable

price. I thought I would give them a try. There's 37 pencils in the set and

they can be used dry or with water.

      And yes, another set of Friulmodel tracks. This time, their ATL-193 for

FCM 36 French  tank.  I bought these for the ICM kit as the kits' rubber

tracks.....not so good. I posted that kit on this thread, along with other kits

back on March 11. The kit is otherwise very nice....although the two paint

schemes look daunting.

DSCN1472_kindlephoto-53571722.jpg

DSCN1473_kindlephoto-53465020.jpg

DSCN1461_kindlephoto-53533152.jpg

arl-44_3_kindlephoto-55066619.jpg

"ARL-44 France Heavy TankTank">>very interesting beast😮. If char B was tough tank to destroy what would be needed to knock down this one?🧐

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5 hours ago, ScottsGT said:

Had another slide in under the radar today!  I’ve learned to shut off all the ring doorbell notifications when I’m expecting a package. LOL!  
But what’s this?  An F-14 Tom?

Butcher, another slice of Tomcat, please :D.

Cheers Rob

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14 hours ago, belugawhaleman said:

Some more items today:

 

From Amusing Hobby, their ARL-44 France Heavy TankTank (35AO25) in

1/35. An obscure French tank that went from adoption to being a range

target in just a few years. My first Amusing Hobby kit, it looks pretty good.

It is nicely molded, and comes with photo-etch, and working individual

track links.

     Also, from AK Interactive their Weathering Pencils For Modeling.

I've been eyeing these for a while and finally found some at a reasonable

price. I thought I would give them a try. There's 37 pencils in the set and

they can be used dry or with water.

      And yes, another set of Friulmodel tracks. This time, their ATL-193 for

FCM 36 French  tank.  I bought these for the ICM kit as the kits' rubber

tracks.....not so good. I posted that kit on this thread, along with other kits

back on March 11. The kit is otherwise very nice....although the two paint

schemes look daunting.

DSCN1472_kindlephoto-53571722.jpg

DSCN1473_kindlephoto-53465020.jpg

DSCN1461_kindlephoto-53533152.jpg

arl-44_3_kindlephoto-55066619.jpg

Paul

Nice buys for sure. I've been thinking about the weathering pencils for a while and would appreciate your feelings and thoughts on them after testing them out. Then I would make a decision on whether or not to buy a set.   

 

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26 minutes ago, Peterpools said:

Scott

Holy smokes, what a haul for sure: A Tamiya Tomcat and a Fisher Cutlass. Sure hope you are planning to have them cross the bench pretty soon.

 

Hey Peter, just a slightly used Tomcat box used to ship the Cutlass.  
I’m thinking the Cutlass may push back the Me 262 and Stuka I was going to do next.  It’s starting to look like it’s going to be a slow build year with the wife’s health issues going on, so I might as well make it quality time for a unique build. 

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1 hour ago, Peterpools said:

Nice buys for sure. I've been thinking about the weathering pencils for a while and would appreciate your feelings and thoughts on them after testing them out. Then I would make a decision on whether or not to buy a set.   

I like the pencils a lot, Peter. I have the same set and use them on regular base. You can use them dry for highlighting, where some colors adhere better than others to the plastic. Where they really shine is dampened. You can produce a kind of multi color wash or panel line effect.

Here are some pictures of my 1/20 MAK AmmoKnight, where I used the pencils dampened for interior weathering.

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Cheers Rob

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1 hour ago, DocRob said:

I like the pencils a lot, Peter. I have the same set and use them on regular base. You can use them dry for highlighting, where some colors adhere better than others to the plastic. Where they really shine is dampened. You can produce a kind of multi color wash or panel line effect.

Here are some pictures of my 1/20 MAK AmmoKnight, where I used the pencils dampened for interior weathering.

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Cheers Rob

Thanks Rob.

I was wondering if others used these and their opinions of them.

By the looks of it they work well.

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On 3/24/2024 at 9:36 AM, DocRob said:

I like the pencils a lot, Peter. I have the same set and use them on regular base. You can use them dry for highlighting, where some colors adhere better than others to the plastic. Where they really shine is dampened. You can produce a kind of multi color wash or panel line effect.

Here are some pictures of my 1/20 MAK AmmoKnight, where I used the pencils dampened for interior weathering.

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Cheers Rob

Rob

I'm pretty sure I remember this build thread and now knowing and remembering how the weathering pencils work, I'll absolutely be buying a set. The effects are brilliant and I need to develop a creative hand as yours. 

Thanks for the info and photographs. 

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16 hours ago, ScottsGT said:

Had another slide in under the radar today!  I’ve learned to shut off all the ring doorbell notifications when I’m expecting a package. LOL!  
But what’s this?  An F-14 Tom?

IMG_1603.thumb.jpeg.bf0f4b51eed486a31722503f7a04db63.jpeg

Is this a short Tomcat?  
IMG_1604.thumb.jpeg.2506a54fb055ba549c0483d9883f83a4.jpeg

Well, from the front it resembles a Tomcat! 
IMG_1605.thumb.jpeg.ff294589188856d6e0e05d803d7885a7.jpeg

Oh man…all that resin goodness!

IMG_1606.thumb.jpeg.39c1fdd2ad202c37d2ae0d6a16237096.jpeg

IMG_1607.thumb.jpeg.063b9571cebf18b17d38d6a11e9760ed.jpeg

Cannot wait to start this ugly ass gutless Cutlass beauty! 
 

A big thanks to Carl for thinking of me when he decided to liquidate it from his collection.  

Good one Scott !

Which reminds me I have to finish mine when life issues will give me a rest …

Hubert

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19 hours ago, FullArmor said:

"ARL-44 France Heavy TankTank">>very interesting beast😮. If char B was tough tank to destroy what would be needed to knock down this one?🧐

Thanks. This tank had good armor, great gun, but terrible transmission and drive train reliability issues. It used captured ww2 German Maybach engines and

in total....only about 60 of these tanks were made. Anyway, I think it was

really a cool-looking tank. Its use of the Char 1 bis type tracks makes it really stand out ,I think, and I'm really looking forward to building this one!

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2 hours ago, PanzerWomble said:

Gonna be 1:1 scale for the next few months 

... and after that, 1/12? :D. Nice bike, with a air cooled engine, you don´t see that very much nowadays. I had a Suzuki GSX-750 once, a naked bike, which  really liked, until I changed it for a KTM SM 950, but that was a different breed.

Cheers Rob

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I picked up a couple kits at Heritagecon this past weekend. 

I've been looking for this Jeep for a bit. Not many on the ground here. Andy's HHQ had a booth at the show and it was almost half price so hard to say no. 

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I'm hoping to do it as a British one with some extra MGs mounted on it. We'll see what I find. Would love to do a commando version. 

Next up is another harder to find kit. 

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Yes ,I have one started already that I need to get back to but I want to do this one all folded up. It'll make a nice contrast to the first one which will be all clean.

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