Here is my entry for this campaign, the only kit that I had for British armor and that was way in the back of the stash.



Bob

Stan if there is I suspect it will be in resin as no one that I know of has touched this in plastic as yet.

You can sign me up!

Bob.... take it from me... that is a 'bad evil' kit. It makes my dumpster dive look like a Club Med holiday.

Peter, point taken I have been sitting here with all of the kits for the campaigns that I signed up for that start on 1/1/11 the count comes to 5 1/2. The 1/2 being the Getterdone Campain but, after all of the ice cream that I have devoured I am not afraid of the Maquette reputation (ice cream fixes any situation) what pointers do have that will help me?

Bob

Hi, Happy New Year to all. Thought i'd get things started!
Here's my first build, an A30 Challenger. It's a resin kit from Milicast.
The detail is quite good and I have some 11th Armoured div. decals put aside for it as well as a bit of resin stowage. Sorry about the poor quality photos,it's been raining here all day,again.
I made a start tonight by removing the casting blocks from the tracks, tricky work but managed not to do any real damage to the tracks. Being resin there's quite a lot of clean up work to do and I'll need to try and fix a couple of the lifting rings on the turret which are broken.Will also need to attach a 'search light' and fitting to the side of the turret,don't have any crew at the moment,might try and get some.
Cheers,
Tim

Peter, here are some photos of what I was able to accomplish today on that "EVIL KIT" notice the plastic stock used to replace the deformed parts and putty to fill in the gaping holes. But all in all it went fast so far, next a bath to clean off the oil and then to attempt the indie tracks








Bob

Bob it looks to be going OK so far and there is no where near as much filler as I expected to see.

Darren, notice the area at the front of the turret opening on the hull. The molding was so bad that it left a hole bigger than the slot for the flange of the turret to fit into, so I cut out the area and glued some plastic stock then shaped it by file and sanding stick. The rear of the turret (tool box) was rather mishapen and I would not just get away with leaving it and then covering with paint. First I cut away the protruding plastic added putty and sanded, then more putty and more sanding. The rest was not so bad

Bob

Like I said not as much filler as I expected, as I thought it would end up weighing three times as much as the plastic in the kit.

Morning Folks!

I just joined the fun recently, so this is going to be my first campaign build (and my first build on the network too). My victim this time is the good old Chieftain. I know, I know this is just another Chiefty but hey, I like this guy . Let me introduce the kits I'm going to use.



1. The Tamiya Chieftain kit. Old but good enough.
2. The Accurate Armour Mk.10 conversion kit. Nicely casted resin stuff (the usual AA quality)
3. Eduard PE update set. Filled with useful thingies for detaiing.
4. A very good reference book from Tankograd Publishings. Since I'm having it I do not need other references.



The main parts are nice but there are a few bubbles. Not too many and fortunately not too big.







And a handfull of small parts.

I am really excited about this build and I want to start ASAP, so please stay tuned more just coming.

Thanks for looking

Andy

First of all, welcome to the forum, Andy

Very interesting choice. It will be fun to follow. You are going to do the Berlin Brigade camouflage? That would be a brave choice, although it might be easier than it looks.

Looking forward to see more.

I spent all night to accomplish what little was done on the indie tracks ( I think that prefer rubber band style better).




Bob

Bob, Hang in there I'm working with individual track for the 1st time with my Tiger build. its time consuming but I think they will look better in the end

Sal, thanks for the support now if I could transfer the pain in finger and thumb tips then every thing would be ok.

Bob

Bob, I here ya there buddy, the zim on my tiger is making my hand numb

Hi all.
Andy:Welcome to your first campaign! Nice choice,I like Chieftains.The Berlin Brigade Camo. will certainly be impressive.
Bob: Quick work on the Valentine.Those tracks look painful! Looking good though.
Tim

Looking forward to it Darren



Guys, I really like the subjects I'm seeing here, don't get to see much in the way of British armour in my corner of the world

Hay gang, here is my entry.


I have started on the PE parts, I wil post more pic's when I am further along.

Hello Scott,
Nice big tank you have there to build, it would not fit on my work bench.

Does anyone have a photo, profile, print of a Valenitne in the desert camo that I could use for a guide. Maquette just has African camouflage with matt sand and light braun on the instructions, which does me no good.

Bob

Ok! its together all I need to do now is prime it a couple 100 times to give the paint a chance.

@ Sal: I finally learned how to assemble the indie tracks. I put together sections on the right side then started from the bottom up. Big mistake.I changed my technique for the left side by assembling sections of 6 links together then attaching them to make a peice long enough to start from the top and have enough for the bogies to sit on while drying. Then asemble the right amount of links to fill the gap. Worked great.






Bob

Nice progress, Bob. You are really getting some modelling work done! The tracks look good - you got a nice result despite your problems.

Looking forward to see more

Hello Gang!

Jesper, Tim! Thanks for the warm welcome, and yes Jesper I want to make the Berlin Brigade camouflage. That's going to be fun but that's quite far away from now. I've just started couple of days ago. Unfortunately the progress is very slow due to the work and the family but I don't mind.
In the past couple days I was working on the chasis. I decided not to use the one provide by Tamiya but I started to scratchbuild my own. You may ask why. There are more reasons:
1. I also started working on the Tamiya kit so I will need two chasis.
2. I want to build the Chieftain ARRV in the future and I do not want to buy the whole Tamiya kit just for the chasis.
3. Scratchbuild is fun.





First I cleaned everything off from the Tamiya chasis and I built a template using thin cardboard bought from the local craft shop. Then the plastic surgery begann. Using the template and some 1,5 mm Plastruct sheets the new chasis just came alive.





1. Original Tamiya chasis.
2. The cardboard template.
3. My own built stuff.

That's for today. Let the detailing begin!

Thanks for watching.

Andy