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Ditto, and maybe Paddy and some of the Euro folks can join.

Hey it's your lathe, do what you want with it. I just did some prep work on the 75mm Pak 40 shells to get them a bit smoother with my lathe. Have not decided how I am going to lock the shells to spin them and turn them as I am going to do it between centers. (I will let you figure out what I...

Looking really good John. Glad you hit the finish line on this.

Sometimes the fix and redo turn out better than it would have otherwise. Looking good John!

Looking really good. The dualies on the front are over the top. That beast would be hard to steer.

Turned out quite nice Bob!

Someplace (I have, I think) a photo of a Sopwith camel or Eindecker that is from the period that showed the discoloration and dirt accumulation from the castor oil. It was all over the front, but mostly the underside and going out partway on the underside of the wing. It also went most of the...

At most you would see one bullet coming out of a gun. Remember that they are each moving very fast and there will be a lot more space between bullets than you have room in your dio.

You did an awesome job making a silk purse out of the Trumpeter piece of pig poo. I have several Trumpy kits and the two that are in process have needed so much work to get them corrected that they are close to scratch builds so I understand what all you had to do. Really excellent work. Keep...

@Piet Thanks my friend! The slightly different view point really helps.

I have solved silvering in an applied decal by taking a new sharp #11 blade and lightly pecking micro holes all across the silvered area. The holes just need to pierce the decal and usually when done right can't be seen especially once the flat coat is applied. Then I will take some Solvaset...

Andy had these two booklets on sale for $10 each, and I managed to find a kit of the 1/16th scale VW van in blue. Funny thing is I had a 1959 VW delivery van that looked just like this back when I was married to the first War Dept. I couldn't move it to storage so she ended up with it and...

I am mainly using that last photo as a reference for paint wear and where there would be a little rust. There would not be all that much rust, but paint could get worn off in certain areas (like the spades) and there would be accumulations of dirt in areas from being moved and such. Just going...

Thanks Greg! O.M.G with the paints!! It would not surprise me if those were actually the old Testor's MM paints with more colors added. A whole lot of the names look VERY familiar. Getting the shield all reworked took a lot of work especially since it had already been assembled and them broken...

I am going to use this photo as one of my wear/weathering references.

Time for another update. I have the corrections to the shield done and it is all in paint now. Next step will be weathering with all that entails. With such a large scale the details become more noticeable and it becomes more problematic to get those details "just right". I have some things...

That is what I have been doing and it seems to be working fairly well.

Yeah, I usually sit and watch/listen to a movie or audio book while doing something like this. It's a pain in the can, but part of doing tanks. The half tracks will have a bunch of this to do as well. Oh and been checking in with Andy's on the M3. He posted that the shipment with the kit had...