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It would have hidden it.
Another starter kit from Lidl, this time a Sherman Firefly, fresh from the factory...
Adventures in painting...I'm going for a "bleached in the SEA sun and washed with liberal amounts of salty water while sat on the arse end of the Intrepid"...Yes. Obviously it's going to be VA176, yes obviously the MiG killer, and yes Obviously with the toilet bomb...Who do you think I am? I hoping that while it does look a bit OOT right now, after a couple of coats of varnish, some weathering and the decals on, it'll tone down a bit. If not; I'll know for next time, right?
Is that the Hobby 2000 kit? I've got one in The Stash.
It is, the ex-Hasegawa 1/72 scale. It's showing its age a bit, a few bits of flash, some fit issues around the fuselage and wings, and that hard unforgiving Hasegawa plastic all present. But the decals are nice, there's masks included and the shape is about right (if you don't look too closely) Easy build as well - apart from endless amounts of munitions
Sounds like the same one. Will have to check if I've got the toilet included in my kit.
I do like Hobby 2000. A proper top opening box is always appreciated!
https://www.scalemates.com/kits/hobby-2000-72062-a-1h-skyraider--1439117
Cromwell tank (again from Lidl)
You are battering through these!
Yes, I've got a Tiger tank on the go at the moment.
I'm also building a Tiger 1, well I've opened the box anyhow. Its the Tamiya mid production version and I'm going to give it the full Zimmerit and battle damage treatment!
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Yes, I’ve got a Tiger tank on the go at the moment.
If you fancy something bigger for not much more you can pick up 1/35 Tamiyas starting at about £15 off Jadlam.
If you fancy something bigger for not much more you can pick up 1/35 Tamiyas starting at about £15 off Jadlam
Sounds good.
battle damage treatment!
Be interested to see how you do this
Oooh, an AS90. BITD that seemed so modern "Artillery System for the 90s" seems rather dated now though.............
Any German armour experts in the house? Mid production Tiger 1 specifically. And it'll be overall Dunkelgleb with field applied Olivegrun and Rotbraun camouflage.
Would they have been red oxide primered then Zimmerit then Dunkelgelb or would the have done topcoat then the paste? I understand the Zimmerit was applied in the factory. If the Zimmerit was chipped off what colour would you see underneath do you think?
That's a question for the Britmodeller forum! They like that sort of thing.
A1-H NE572 Paper Tiger II of VA-25 USS Midway 1965 Yankee Station. The "Toilet Bomber". There are two stories about the choice of munition. Once goes that it was a protest about weapons shortages, the other that commemorates a bombing milestone. It's a big kit for single seater, in 1/72 scale its more the 4.5 Thin glues long and has an over 5 thin glues wing span. I've totally no room for this thing anywhere.
Any German armour experts in the house?
What I know about German WWII armour can be written on a very small post-it-note labelled Nick knows shit all about German Armour, sorry
My research tells me that most of the war they were red oxide followed by overall dark grey (Dunkelgrau) which changed to tan (Dunkelgelb) in 1943. They were sent out with two tins of pigment, red brown (Rotbraun) and dark olive green (Olivgruen) that the crews could mix up in the field and apply their own camouflage pattern so you'll never see two Tiger 1's that look alike!
The only thing i haven't been able to find is if the Zimmerit was applied before or after the main colour.
Hope that helps 🙂
That's a crazy looking thing!
like the tracks and wheels though 👍
I think I did say I wasn't going to do any more PE in 1/72 kits...Yeah, about that.
It's 'sort of' fun in a slightly masochistic way.
like the tracks and wheels though
Thanks. Looks a lot better now it has dried.
A lot of it will be hidden behind Jerry Cans that also contributed to the armour. The logic being that if they caught fire the fuel would leak and set light to the ground, not the tank.
Not a big fan of tanks that are caked in shite. In a lot of cases it doesn't scale very well. Not that I'm an expert I hasten to add.
I'm much more of a slightly dusty sort of chap.
I don't have the eyesight or fine motor skills for PE ☹️
No idea if that link will work, so may need a quick edit.
Some amazing paint work on this thread, and that's just looking at the last few pages.
My 9-year old has just got into airfix/revell, quick learning curve about the need for tweezers, sandpaper etc but I've been really impressed with his skills. He's got a few paints from war hammer figures and I think he's done an excellent job on this Comet Mk1 (although I'm taking credit for getting the transfers on!)
Thats some great cockpit detail Nick.
Good work by your son on the Comet, Jim.
My latest. Bf109 F Trop-R5 of 3-JG27 Murtuba, Libya Feb '42. Obviously if you choose your theme to be "desert Luftwaffe", you pretty much end up looking at pictures of Hans Joachim Marseille's various 109Fs. There's any number of variants of the basic scheme you can end up doing, there's endless reference photos, some showing a red (probably primer) tail, some with white wing tips, some without...You can pretty much choose whatever. Marseille was one of the few Luftwaffe 150+ aces whose kills came almost entirely fighting Western allied pilots from the RAF, Empire, and USAAF air forces. Some of his kills are disputed now though, but shouldn't distract from the fact that he was an amazingly skilled fighter pilot. Interesting fact; He was shot down twice by the same Frenchman; Sous-Lieutenant James Denis who was flying with the RAF.
It's the Eduard 1/72 kit, which comes with a couple of sprues of PE, most of which was used...Can you tell? No, no you can't. I shouldn't bother with it really haha. Nice kit, a bit 'over' engineered if I'm honest, but also I didn't have to use filler anywhere. so you pays yer money...
Lovely build.
Hans Joachim Marseille is in a few of James Holland's books and sound's like an "interesting" character. I won't give any spoilers!
Incredible detail on the cockpit Nick.
Just finished a Tiger. (can't find the insert image button)
The only thing i haven’t been able to find is if the Zimmerit was applied before or after the main colour.
Give the Tank Museum a bell? They have a good Tiger collection: archive@tankmuseum.org
Nice little Tiger. Even teeny tiny it's a menacing shape.
Agreed, must have been terrifying in real life. I once had to direct a chieftan tank over a bridge and had to fight the urge just to run away, it had a very scary looming presence.
Fw190D-9 StabII/JG 6, Furth, April/May 1945. By this point Nazi Germany's aircraft production was almost exclusively fighters (defence) , so lots of different manufacturers were making bits of airplane, the sub-assemblies (wings and engines made at the Junkers plant) were then bought together at the Focke Wulf factory at Marienburg. Surprisingly, they were still able to make 1500 of these planes from August 1944 to the end of the war, although the didn't really have the pilots to fly them, so it was a waste of time, and planes that did take to the sky were almost invariably shot down immediately. This particular plane was one of a handful found intact at the very end of the war.
That looks really cool. Are you pleased with it?
Agreed, must have been terrifying in real life. I once had to direct a chieftan tank over a bridge and had to fight the urge just to run away, it had a very scary looming presence.
Agreed! Bloody big lumps of metal.
If you've never been, the Tiger display at the Tank Museum is brilliant.
Been to the live show down at Bovington, and even just in their arena; the clanking and squeaking and noise of a tank is enough to give you the willies, I can't imagine what it must have been like to see one of those things coming around a corner in Normandy 80 years ago.
Wet bank holiday progress on Trumpeter AS90.
Tamiya extra thin for scale.
Picked these up from a local auction. The frames are metal, but the wheels are moulded, so need to figure out a way to make 1/9 scale spoked wheels.
Will be a retirement project.
