Colin,

The more the merrier. Between you, Ian, and myself, there are now 3 fireflies going on at the same time and all three types produced, VC, IC Hybrid, and IC rolled plate. Can't have too many Fireflies IMHO. BTW, you're really doing amazing things with that 20 year old kit.

If you don't mind me asking, what AM photo etch kit are you using and what type of bending tool do you use?

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Pedro,

That is a beautiful Firefly you've got there! Impressive construction.

Colin, hope to look over your thread later today. And welcome to our endeavour!

John

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Thanks John,

How is the Achilles coming along?

Hello again everyone..

Thought I'd throw out the photos of my painting, step by step so everyone will see where I go wrong..

Here is my base coat on the M-10 Achilles, I'm doing the black and Khaki Green version.. It looks cool and goes beyond the basic Olive Drab.. (painted with Humbrol #155)



by the way anyone familiar with the Sherman variants exhaust on the back. the directions call out for red brown which prob means rusty.. does anyone know if these had paint on them or were just a burnt metal color.. (I'm looking through my reference also but any help helps..)

thanks
Delby

That looks sweet! Looks like a solid little kit, how has it been build wise?

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Pedro,

That is a beautiful Firefly you've got there! Impressive construction.

Colin, hope to look over your thread later today. And welcome to our endeavour!

John

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Thanks John,

How is the Achilles coming along?

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Pedro,

A little slow, but making some progress. Wanted to have a less than 100% ammo load in the ready racks, so was trying different things. I ended up with making some 'brackets' with sheet styrene, so I can load only some of the ammo canisters in the sponson storage...



So in the pic above, where there is not the 'circle' (which is used in the kit to center the ammo), I will not have a round. So this is the center piece on each sponson, so have 4 sections each with a different number of ready rounds.

Now have to paint them up and load the ammo. The rest of the interior needs a wash and detail painting, then can glue the hull together and start working more on the turret and gun.

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Colin,

The more the merrier. Between you, Ian, and myself, there are now 3 fireflies going on at the same time and all three types produced, VC, IC Hybrid, and IC rolled plate. Can't have too many Fireflies IMHO. BTW, you're really doing amazing things with that 20 year old kit.

If you don't mind me asking, what AM photo etch kit are you using and what type of bending tool do you use?

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Thanks Pedro! I am using the Eduard PE kit, and as for tools I am using two razor blades, flat end tweezers, Xacto knife and various bits of rod I had lying around. Seriously thinking about getting a tool from the Small Shop though!

Pedro, the kit number is 35679, I got it from a guy in Ontario:

http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=171142044887

Cheers,

I just signed up and thought i would build a El Alamein Sherman. I haven't built anything for a few months. Looking forward to get back into it.

Howdy..

I've been working on the Achilles, doing some masking.

I'm doing the black on green version that kinda looks like a modified mickey mouse look..

its really hard to get curved bits of tape for masking but I think this will work.. photo of masking so far.. it goes slow.




here is the box art showing what I'm kinda shooting for.



Delbert

howdy everyone.. me again..

Gary, I'll be watching. I have that one sitting in the stash right now..

Well I finished up the masking of my Achilles, and airbrushed the black.. I chose a color called weathered Black because I wanted a faded black, not a dark black..

This is my black on green camo. I'm doing the full 4 views because I think it looks pretty good.. this is the most complicated masking job I've done on ground vehicle.









these are quick photos under bright lights so the colors are not dead on exact.. lol

so far so good.

Delbert

James, very nice build, just one issue. Canadian Staghounds did not mount the side fuel tanks.

Kevin