Gentlemen,

I continue at a snails pace, but I am getting there.

I am waiting for replacements for the engineers tools, as the Heller parts were so brittle, I basically pulverised them while trying to remove the mold-on clamps.





I have changed the set up of detail on the rear as per reference photos of actual UNIFIL vehicles.



The mud guards will be braught to shape after the chain/running gear assembly is attached.

The radiator took a bit of tweaking. The Eduard set was using the same pattern of radiator and cover. Neither of them I could not find on any of the pictures available in the internet. So made my own radiator from styrene strips and stock and covered it with photo etched mesh from a scale railroad supplier. Thats' much more like it.



Next I'll turn my attention to the front detail, before starting to paint and final assembly.

More news as soon as available.

Cheers,
Guido

@ Guido WOW great job with all the PE and scratch work there looking forward to seeing more
@ Steve-O Civil War stuff, a little change of pace is good, have you gotten to Gettysburg yet some real cool stuff there
@ Mecanix, another real interesting project, I have that Landrover on order if it ever gets here looking forward to seeing how that progresses as well

keep up the great work guys this campaign is becoming more interesting than I thought it would

Thanks, Sal!

I was going to say Thanks for all your kind words, gentlemen, but when I tried, it was too late to edit my posting! So here it is: Thank you, guys!
... and great work all around!


Cheers,
Guido

Guido,
You only get about 10 minutes to edit a post. You have to be really quick!
Add my compliments too! Really excellent, inspiring stuff.
I'd better dig up more photos and do more research before I get back to my own build, if I want to keep up the standards of this campaign!
Thanks,
Sean H.

that's some amazing work Guido! Those old Heller kits need a lot of TLC to make them look that nice.

The work so far from everyone has been very impressive.

Here's an update on the Centaur.



Haven't been able to find much time to work on it lately, but seeing how it's a Tamiya kit the assembly doesn't take much time.

There's a couple small detail items to add yet. I also need to sag the track, the headless horseman is waiting for a package in the mail and add some fairly light stowage.

Been a delight to build and would recommend it to anyone.

Cheers,

Jeff

Hi Folks,

Some excellent builds going on here, very inspirational. I have my model ready, it is the Revell 210mm Morser 18. I also have the MR Modellbau after-market set with metal barrel for this kit.

Here is the starting photo:



Look forward to contributing and as there are only 3 months left I had better get cracking...

All the best,

Paul

I'm not really experienced with Resin, but this went together pretty quickly!

Now just to paint it! ..and find some way of getting the extra resin blocks off of bottom of the veggie/fruit baskets and barrels without cutting my fingers off in the process.

The Civil War canon is very cool! I'd love to make one myself if I get my skill level to the point where I feel I could do it justice.

Jeff

Hi Guido,

Looking great so far.

Hi Jeff,

Nice work, the tracks on the Centaur would normally sag a little on to the centre 3 wheels.

Steve,


The Cannon looks great.

Cheers

Al

Well, I originally was going to build the M109A6 Paladin for this campaign, then I moved, and sold off a large portion of my stash in an effort to "start fresh". Somehow I forgot to mark my "campaigns in progress" kits. Lessons learned, says I.

Anyways, for the campaign, I'll be building Trumpeter's 1/35th ASU-85 m1956 out of the box. Since I don't get a newspaper, my iPhone will have to suffice for the start date. Really, newspapers? I kid, of course.









That's my start for tonight. Didn't have much time on the bench due to lots of admin stuff to do elsewhere, and updates galore. Plus the work week was extremely long. Looking forward to getting friendly with this kit over the weekend!

Lots of house cleaning today, followed by a trip to IKEA to pick up some storage cubby things for my 3 year old daughter's room so she can see her floor. I picked up a new clear self healing mat for my workbench though. It's a very thin plastic cutting board and has a smooth side and a rough side. The rough side has just enough "tack" to keep things from sliding off the desk, and for $6 I figured, "What the heck."

Anyways, my update for tonight. Small I'm afraid. Spent close to an hour fixing the wheels/tires. The seams running around the tire width-wise seemed a bit big and over scale:



So I took a medium sanding stick and ran it across lightly, to knock down the seams on the sidewalls. Photos I've seen of ASU's have the seam across the width of the tire completely gone as it comes in contact with the tracks, so I cleared it out. Got rid of some nasty mold lines as well.



Unmodified on the left, sanded on the right.





After a quick brushcoat of PollyScale "Tarnished Black" with a drop of Vallejo Panzer Ace Dark Rubber. I paint the tires first, as I'll go back later with a draftsman's circle template and shoot the wheels with my airbrush. These don't necessarily have to be super clean as the basecoat of Russian Dark Green is a darker coat and covers quite well.

hi all
do you agree me join your campaign ?
If agree i'll join with Flak 18 AFV

And my phone will have to suffice for the start date

Here is my entry. I'll make a Danish M109A3 with full interior. The base for this build is Italeri's old set, Warriors turret interior and a Barrel Depot barrel (once I find it in my stash ). On it's way, hopefully, are Warrior’s hull interior, ditto exterior update set (whatever that contains??) and Accurate Armor’s German tracks.
It is going to be a very extensive update, however, I hope to pull it throw

Where'd you get the hull interior set? been looking for one for a while.

I bought if from a friend. We've been talking about it for some time, and now we have done it. I do know it is very difficult to track down, so I really feel lucky.

Here is my entry. HobbyBoss 152mm ShkH DANA vz.77.

Steve-O
Good thing I stumbled over this campaign I've been working on an Annie since the new year. Got the tractors base coated yesterday. The barrel has a long groove in it for the "play" recoil, still not satisfied with the fill I've got in that trough.
I'll try posting some pictures later.

Just to chime in, nice work here everyone, good choices and good research!
I'm going slowly on my HMC when I find the time, a few minutes a day. Again, I'm really loving this old Tamiya kit. Really well made kit, so nothing really to show yet, as I clean parts and glue them on.
Cheers!
-Sean H.

Gentlemen-
Thank you for your kind words!
Great to see so many more subjects coming up and great craftsmanship to admire in this campaign. I have completed the foward hull with detail from scratch and the Eduard AMX-30 set.









I have already started painting and browsing through my boxes for groundwork material.
More news to follow soon.

Keep up the good work!

Cheers
Guido

...and here's the first step in painting...




Cheers,
Guido

Every one is making some great progress here and there is a large variety of different types of kits showing up
Keep up the good work guys and don't forget to post a picture of your finished build in the gallery

Here's an update on the Centaur



I got a little more painting to do on the suspension. I hate looking at my models before weathering. They always look like toys and I get to thinking "I don't know if I can make this one look any good.". I get the feeling that the Centaur might not turn out all that great

I need to do a couple brown filters to get it to a closer approximation of it's proper colour, but its not as orange as the photo shows.

It was an absolute joy to build, but once painting started I ran into bad luck one thing after another. To start I had a real time getting my Lifecolor paint to spray properly, and just when I got it right my airbrush grenaded. When I managed to get it fixed I accidentally spilled paint all over the engine deck. After fixing the paint as best I could I knocked the thing over on to it's turret and knocked off the antennas, which I'll reattach later. All of that happening makes me sound like Inspector Clouseau. From there after the gloss coat one of the decals for the turret aiming increments fell apart into 5-6 pieces in the water, but I was able to piece it back together not too badly.

Hopefully from here on in it'll be smooth sailing.

Everyone else keep up the great work.

Cheers

Jeff

My in process photos of the 128mm AT Gun

I lost my photo of the atomic cannon with newspaper, when my old computer crashed. I did not realize this, until after I had started the M110A2. This is why I have a photo of the unstarted M110A2 with the partially built atomic cannon. Hope I can still enter with it. So here are some progress photos:





I spent the better part of the afternoon and evening rounding out the barrel. Loads of putty and extra thin ca glue coupled with two sanding pads. I'm happy with it, for now.


This kit is a real dog, even for a older Italeri.