All Righty ... What's on the bench today?

[lupanzer]

Beautiful works guys!...

Luiz

 

[jknaus]

Should be painting today.

James

 

[Tankbuilder]

Added cast texture to the turret of my Tamiya 35108 T-62 and to the turret of my AMT T-72. The T-72 has been a shelf queen for far too long and needs to be finished. At least now it will be done soon.

Cheers

 

[Duke Maddog]

Wow, there's some magnificent work being posted here! James I envy you having a Shilka. No one makes on in my scale still. Way to go man!

 

[Swordsman]

Wow, there's some magnificent work being posted here! James I envy you having a Shilka. No one makes on in my scale still. Way to go man!

I concur ... great looking builds ... I must get busy ... one of my Customers wants lights on his Bobber Caboose ...

Bachmann put the above ones on ... but alas they are non functioning ... So Off they come ... I will have to add wheel pickups for the electricity ... and scribed the board ...

Now I removed the offensive styrene ...

Not bad for a mornings work ... now off to change O2 Sensors on the truck ...

I'll get to the SMD's later tonight ... lots to do on my day off ...

 

[jknaus]

Nice
James

 

[Tankbuilder]

Added cast texture to the turret of my Tamiya 35108 T-62 and to the turret of my AMT T-72. The T-72 has been a shelf queen for far too long and needs to be finished. At least now it will be done soon.

Cheers

Took a couple of images ofthe added cast texture on the Tamiya 35108 T-62 turret and the AMT T-72 turret.

Tamiya 35108 T-62

AMT T-72

I use the regular Tamiya liquid cement rather than the Extra Thin stuff. I just brush the liquid cement on the area I want to texture and then stipple it with a very stiff nylon bristle brush bought from a dollar store. I often cut the bristles shorter to increase the stiffness.

Cheers

 

[Swordsman]

Thanks James ... today didn't go well Left bank under hood & O2 sensor just came out with medium effort ... Right bank still not out sensor nearly destroyed still stuck in exhaust manifold .... :gogo :angry: ... :idonno

Nice job on the stifling TB ... looks real good ...

 

[jknaus]

Looking good Tank Builder.

Did some painting and building. My Shilka and a T-54B. Annoyed that I did the wrong wheels for the T-54 as they should be spoked from the pics I have found. So more wheels tonight I guess.

 

[Tony lee]

Rain Rain Rain so I built this thing:



Uncle Tony ldguy

 

[jknaus]

Cool beans Tony
James

 

[Tony lee]

I got some color on today between down pours.




This tank had Zimm I know but I don't got none so the story is it hasn't gotten that far down the assembly line.

That's my story and i'm stickin to it.
Uncle Tony ldguy

 

[Iron Mike]

Cool! Send some of that rain our way, will ya? B)

 

[jknaus]

A bit of overspray but I'll fix after the black cam is added.

 

[Heavens Eagle]

for the last couple of weeks for me it hasn't been what I have been building on the bench so much as cleaning it off and redoing some things.

Of course for the next little while there will be a bit of "Where the Heck did I put that!"

 

[Bagge]

Wonderful builds guys!!

And nice workspace there Paul

 

[Tony lee]

If the wife allowed me to have that much room I would marry her again.

Time for another update.

Tracks:








I had another set of DS tracks from a Elephant kit to use so i'm not too worried about the kit tracks getting straightened.

Uncle Tony ldguy

PS: James did you get more paint on your shooter?

 

[moon puppy]

Tony what do you have going on with the tracks around the ceramic pot?

 

[jknaus]

Looking good Tony. No I did some glueing yesterday. Hope today maybe to finish the cam.
James

 

[Tony lee]

"Tony what do you have going on with the tracks around the ceramic pot?" Pup ask.

This kit was the first to have DS tracks issued with it,can you imagine how kinked up they were when I opened the box? They were FOLDED up around the card that the decals and PE are on. Not only did they have serious kinks but most of the guide horns are crushed flat.

I tried the hot water fix but they were so bad it had no effect. That sugar canister is just the right diameter for a snug fix so I glued the end together turned them outside in and slipped them over the canister. I used a hair drier to heat them up and allowed to sit over night and about noon I checked one loop and those kinks are all but gone.

The horns have gator clips on them and heated in hopes that the weight of the clips pulls them more upright.

I had another set of DS tracks from a Elefant kit that have Friuls on it so I used the DS tracks here in case the kit track wind up as trash.

Uncle Tony ldguy