Evening John,
Well it looks like you’ve wrestled it back into shape
it’ll be interesting to see what the other kit is like
Hi Si nearly there, but the odd bit of filler should see it right.
Oh the pair of Parc's, well I can see one of the tanks as a burnt out wreak, a guy some time ago on here built it and said it was a night mare.
Did I here fire John I’ll be in the back waiting for Breakfast
Lee, no its escaped the fire, but the other ones a good contender.
As for breakfast Steve has some sausages, he got them in a bring and buy sale so heavens knows how old they are !
Hi John,
whatever you do don't get the Eastern Express - it is exactly the same kit as this one. It has been released under quite a few different manufacturers. Scalemates gives a list
Well done for persevering with this - it basically doesn't look too bad now once on its wheels
There are a few rough bits that could do with tidying - the outer edges of all the wheel arches look to have an odd step in them when they should be an outward slope, mould line on the side of the chassis rails, the shovel head is way too small and what is that thing behind the front right wheel arch?
There are a few of the
Miniart German captured versions kicking about still that could not doubt be assembled without the German mods
The Vision model appears to be the same as the
Miniart or vice versa so should be ok
My
Miniart one got a few more pieces added yesterday
Oh dear, where do I start Simon.
Point taken thank you on the Eastern Express
Those edges to the wheel arches will have to stay, a bit beyond me to alter those to your standards.
As for the shovel I thought that was rubbish, but unless I graft a new head one it will have to stay.
" what is that thing behind the front right wheel arch? " That Sir is the latest plastic lump masquerading as an exhaust pipe. !!!
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A strange looking beast, did work out which way round it should even go .
Please do not show your correctly built masterpiece on here until I'm history. !!!!!
JR. Looks OK now. Just needed a little TLC on your part and the threat of certain conflagration for non co-operation.
Yes Rick , I had the matches on the bench, kept waving them the beast.
Well JR this is a little fighter isn't it? Well done for not incinerating it. Its a shame the design team never got together prior to it going for moulding
Personally have a idea that they all were trained at the fire breathing company !!! no names but you can guess., esp as the instructions are really none existent.
I am left with two parts that don't even appear on the
drawing sketches, more so several of the parts have the same no !!!! As it was fairly simple even for me to work out what shoulds have gone where that was just ignored.
John, well done for persevering on this one.
cheers
Ross
Thanks Ross, don't think if I wasn't on a forum I would have bothered, but the support gives the impetus to push on.
Well done for battling with this one John - I'd have binned it ages ago. It now looks the part, which is what counts.
Thank you Peter, when I realised it was not just me, I thought I'll show you, you lump of plastic !
John,
Great job and as the others have said well done for staying with it.
Cheers Paul.
Ralph thank you.
John.
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To day saw the cutting back on the top of the hull , couldn't see much from the photo, but assume that they must have removed a fair bit of top plate to get 4 guys in the top.
Once that was scribed and cut out I glued a section of plastic card across to give a seat.
Then started the sorting out of arms, bodies , head and hats.
I had found a submachine gun for the guy on the front, using some arms from 2 kits and a spare head, along with a German Field Cap . This cap was heavily cut back, the back being sanded right down, The peak on the front was trimmed to more of a No 2 dress hat, just hope it passes as such..
Guy sitting down inside has had a hat done the same way, again two arms from other kits.
As below
The standing guy on the left hand back had his German uniform sanded off, looks to me that this guy is in civies, probably a NVKD in plain clothes.
Loads more to do to these chaps but a good start .
Thanks for the comments and for following
John .
