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[razordws]

Since almost my entire stash is eligible for this Campaign I had a really hard time deciding what to build. However, so far, people have signed up for a ship and a Civvy build along with lots of aircraft but no armor.

NO ARMOR!!! hmy: hmy: hmy: This cannot be... so...

This one has been hanging around in my stash for awhile.

 

[lupanzer]

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...

Luiz

 

[SA Dave]

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Cool one Dave

 

[moon puppy]

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There's Armor here???

 

[Sherman 18]

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Nice choice

 

[Duke Maddog]

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Looking good. I'll follow this. I'd sign up but things are starting to pick up and modeling time is becoming quite premium now. Even woth my build speed, I doubt I could get done in time. Case in point: A 1/72 scale Roden FT-17 that is one-third done after three weeks and a 1/72 scale Revell Swedish Leopard that is going on the fifth month on the bench now. Not to mention various aircraft taking months and month of time.

 

[razordws]

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Duke I'm sure you could do it if you could focus on one build at a time but I know that is not the way you roll. :coolio

This has been a pretty straight forward build so far. Spent the morning cleaning up the road wheels and assembling the turret and hull. After cleaning up the Maus road wheels just before this I am done with road wheels for a while. :gogo

EDIT: Oh snap, I still have to paint all those road wheels!!! :facepalm :facepalm :facepalm

 

[lupanzer]

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Nice!....

Luiz

 

[moon puppy]

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Hot damn that was quick!

 

[jknaus]

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That was fast. Cool stuff.
James

 

[Duke Maddog]

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That tank looks good. As for my being delayed too much to join this; it isn't that I build so many at a time that slows me down. That actually speeds me up. When I focus only on one model at a time I tend to mess it up eventually and set myself back a pace. The main reason I'm delayed however, is that lately I have so much extra work as well as other issues that keep popping up to pull me off the bench. If I didn't have Hobby Days to fall back on once a month, I'd probably only finish five or ten models a year. It's those unexpected jobs and other issues that would keep me from finishing this, specially since I only get one Hobby Day a month.

Keep going on that tank; it is really looking impressive. I'll be watching for further updates.

 

[razordws]

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Thanks guys.

Spent yesterday and today adding all the little fiddly bits to the hull and turret and just finished putting on some paint. Started with a base coat of Tamiya Nato Black and then a coat of Model Master acrylic Russian Armor but let some of the black show through. Next up is to finish cleaning the length and link tracks and paint them so I can put it on.

 

[moon puppy]

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Good base coverage.

 

[razordws]

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Done! Finished with Model Master Paints, Oil and dry pastel washes with a dusting of Tamiya buff (which went on a little too heavily in my opinion )

Now, back to the Maus... :frantic

 

[reconron]

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Wow....just wow...anything else doesn't do this built justice...wow!


Gr,Ron.

 

[razordws]

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Wow....just wow...anything else doesn't do this built justice...wow!


Gr,Ron.

Thanks Ron!

I should add that this was an excellent kit overall and I highly recommend it to anyone. The only issue I had was with the spacing on the link and length track. I ended up making a new link as there was too big a gap for the final link to fill.