M3 Lee

[moon puppy]

Lullubelle Lee (Bobby Lee's niece with questionable parentage )

I have a link, or have had it. Great reference photos to the Lee that was used in the movie Sahara.
Yes this is my second attempt.

This is the link to the study of the tank, sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't

Lulubelle - M3 Medium Tank Study

Ok, I'm elbow deep in the Academy M3 Lee kit right now. I really thought it would be a much quicker project than it's turned out to be... bu...

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[moon puppy]

 

[jknaus]

Watching with interest.

 

[Iron Mike]

Cool!

 

[errains]

WooHOOO!!!

 

[Barney]

Build that baby!

Drinks:

 

[MrT]

 

[Heavens Eagle]

Another try with the Bogart guy!

 

[jknaus]

Is it done yet????
JAmes

 

[moon puppy]

Deck has been cleaned, new cutting mat.

What's sitting on top is the nearly complete Academy kit that I ran afowl with on the tracks. Who knows, might make it the knocked out Lee the crew was scavenging parts from...

 

[errains]

Shiny a nice cleaned and roomy workie place
Good idea for the old Lee, never through anything away.

 

[SA Dave]

Dang skippy your table looks worse than mine

 

[moon puppy]

You should see it now...

 

[Barney]

Looks good to me... SWMBO is always on me to straighten mine out. I shuffle some stuff and leave it at that.

 

[sharkman]

Dang skippy your table looks worse than mine

Looks about on par with my table on a daily basis! Just more space to put stuff though!

 

[moon puppy]

Just more space to put stuff though!

800 sq ft to be exact. I really need to gut the place and reorganize.

 

[moon puppy]

4 years...man how things have changed.
This will be my 3rd attempt at Lullubelle
First two attempts go back to 2016 group build "Movie Build"

Lulubelle

I am going to attempt to faithfully replicate Lulubelle from the 1943 movie Sahara. Here's a link to some fine screen shots of the movie. http://bountyjumper.blogspot.com/2009/03/lulubelle-m3-medium-tank-study.html Using the Academy kit, actually have two of them because it generally takes me...

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This started in the "Namesake" build so I just moved it over to our Armor/Armour thread.
SO Here we go again!

This is how far I made it last time, I might salvage some parts out of this, Those nice gun barrels will work. I could probably pick this up and finish it but I'm not real thrilled with the paint job on this, think I can do better these days.

 

[moon puppy]

And linking in Paddy's Grant build.

MiniArt Grant Mk.1

I have decided to give this model a go. I am not a tank man, i have only built 3-4 in my life and those were pretty basic Tamiya's that built themselves. I figure by starting a thread before starting the model i cant then back out as i am somewhat committed :) If it doesnt work then i can blame...

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[Heavens Eagle]

You can do it Bob! My bit has always been to fix my screwups and there have been several major ones in my past. I applaud you going for this one again. Third time is the charm?

 

[centaur567]

Don't give up the ship, I mean tank. "Sahara" is one of my favorite Bogie movies along with "Casablanca". Have both on DVD. Gary S.