Duke Maddog
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Well, it's May and I have a short tour to offer everyone. All aboard the trams everyone!
Starting in the Motor Pool, we have some small progress done on the Iranian Chieftain. Using the pictured jig, we got the tracks assembled and installed:
In this next bay, we got the German Landwasserschlepper marked up with the decals:
Next to that is another German project, the SdKfz 9 Early version with the crane. This one got the engine and transmission installed:
In this next bay is an ACE kit of the British Forlite staff car. However, when I looked inside it had a paint scheme for a civilian car so that is what I decided to do. I got it all assembled to this point so far:
In this next bay is the Canadian Churchill. I didn't have the decals to make a specific tank so I winged it using the standard format for decals on Canadian Churchills to make this one look like a Canadian Churchill. It's done and incorrect, but this is how it's gonna stay:
Moving on to the next bay, we have the almost final assembly of the LRDG truck ready for paint:
Later we got the base paint down on the British LRDG truck:
More details were then painted. Note the machine gun in place of the 20mm cannon; I had lost the parts tree for the cannon, so I improvised:
In this next bay, I did some additional work on my Russian P-15 radar truck. A good friend told me that mesh was needed to be added to the radar dishes, so I found some that looked about right and went to work, adding it to the framework with Gator's Grip glue::
Here it is some hours later, all glued down and dried. This is how it's gonna look. I also had broken off the radar base from the truck and made it so the whole radar turns since that is how it's supposed to be:
Lastly in this next bay is the radar system for the P-18 radar truck. It took some doing and isn't lined up properly at all, but it is done:
Next will be some final additions and then assembly onto the truck. This radar will turn as well.
That's all for the Motor Pool, let's do a quick swing through the Shipyards....
In this first slip is the HMS Westminster, her hull is completely painted and now the photo etch details can be added:
In the next slip, the keel has been laid down for another British ship, the HMS Tiger:
Later the superstructure was added:
Finally in this last slip, the keel was laid for another ship. This one is the USS Alaska CB-1:
That's as far as I got on this. Thank you all for taking my tour and don't forget, comments are always welcome; thanks for looking in.
Starting in the Motor Pool, we have some small progress done on the Iranian Chieftain. Using the pictured jig, we got the tracks assembled and installed:
In this next bay, we got the German Landwasserschlepper marked up with the decals:
Next to that is another German project, the SdKfz 9 Early version with the crane. This one got the engine and transmission installed:
In this next bay is an ACE kit of the British Forlite staff car. However, when I looked inside it had a paint scheme for a civilian car so that is what I decided to do. I got it all assembled to this point so far:
In this next bay is the Canadian Churchill. I didn't have the decals to make a specific tank so I winged it using the standard format for decals on Canadian Churchills to make this one look like a Canadian Churchill. It's done and incorrect, but this is how it's gonna stay:
Moving on to the next bay, we have the almost final assembly of the LRDG truck ready for paint:
Later we got the base paint down on the British LRDG truck:
More details were then painted. Note the machine gun in place of the 20mm cannon; I had lost the parts tree for the cannon, so I improvised:
In this next bay, I did some additional work on my Russian P-15 radar truck. A good friend told me that mesh was needed to be added to the radar dishes, so I found some that looked about right and went to work, adding it to the framework with Gator's Grip glue::
Here it is some hours later, all glued down and dried. This is how it's gonna look. I also had broken off the radar base from the truck and made it so the whole radar turns since that is how it's supposed to be:
Lastly in this next bay is the radar system for the P-18 radar truck. It took some doing and isn't lined up properly at all, but it is done:
Next will be some final additions and then assembly onto the truck. This radar will turn as well.
That's all for the Motor Pool, let's do a quick swing through the Shipyards....
In this first slip is the HMS Westminster, her hull is completely painted and now the photo etch details can be added:
In the next slip, the keel has been laid down for another British ship, the HMS Tiger:
Later the superstructure was added:
Finally in this last slip, the keel was laid for another ship. This one is the USS Alaska CB-1:
That's as far as I got on this. Thank you all for taking my tour and don't forget, comments are always welcome; thanks for looking in.
