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Reply With QuoteThis looks like a nice kit Andy. Good luck with the build.
One thing worries me though...with all your talk of scratching, be careful it doesn't turn into a rash, might take some explaining away!!! lol
Cheers,
Ron
Yet another incentive to drag something out of the back of the stash. I'm in with "The Princess" which crops up in a few Normandy photos. I doubt this will turn into any sort of a dio, although it does come with half a dozen figures to put in and on it. This also means that no, I will not be scratch building a column of Stuarts to go with it. I will be building it out of the box and so will be depicting it after the wading gear has been removed (so that I don't have to scratch that either).
Andy M.
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This looks like a nice kit Andy. Good luck with the build.
One thing worries me though...with all your talk of scratching, be careful it doesn't turn into a rash, might take some explaining away!!! lol
Cheers,
Ron
If it wasn't for Thomas Edison, we would all be watching T.V. in the dark!
Interesting kit Andy I'm sure you'll make a cracking looking model out of it.
Cheers
P
Remember boys, flies spread disease... so keep yours closed!
Kit is falling together in typical Tamiya fashion. Running gear completed and ready to be removed for painting. Upper hull complete apart from a few odds and ends that will be painted separately.
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And so on to the turret. I know I said I was going to build this out of the box, but I couldn't resist these:
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If only they had included some instructions...
Andy M.
Andy rather than go the whole hog and build a diorama I always think it is worth just making some sort of very simple base. This may be nothing more than a pine picture frame with some earth on it but it sets the model off withough all the work involved in a diorama. I think if you have a good set of figures it would be worth showing it off in a realistic setting.
“Dirty British coaster with a salt-caked smoke stack, Butting through the Channel in the mad March days"
Thanks Richard, I reckon I will have a go - probably just a bit of road and some verge. Meanwhile, I've assembled the guns, and very impressive they are too:Originally Posted by Bunkerbarge
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The whole thing has been sprayed black for preshading, so it's time to break out the green paint.
Andy
Hi Andy
Those brass AA guns look real quality and make quite a bit of difference to the detail of the model.
Looking great so far...
Paul
Remember boys, flies spread disease... so keep yours closed!
Nice work, cant wait to see the finished product.
Andy
Woof, woof.
Been away from the bench for a couple of weeks and, blimey, the dio builders have recreated half of the Normandy coast!
Anyway, finally done a bit more, time for some progress pics :-
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Now time to weather the tracks and screw it together.
Andy
Hi Andy. Its looking like a good little kit that.
Those Oerlikons are the beez whatsits, who make those?
Ian M
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