haha oh man. looking at those photos I just realised that I have stuck the glass with the windscreen wiper upside down! - This I think I can fix

Thanks for the photos. Good to see them in action

Few progress pics of the Sherman.

James

That one looks great. the worn effect looks perfect..

Gary,

Good start, hows the fit of the parts on that kit so far?

Delbert

Thanks Delbert. The only other time I'm weathered a vehicle was a 1/35 jeep... I've been 'modelling' for a long time but only became serious this year - had a nasty habit of never quite finishing things.

I used the sponge technique with 3 different colours to get the chipping on the vehicle. The only thing I would change for next time is to put some dents into the vehicle prior to painting. I think it would look more realistic with the large chips in these dents.

Another thing to add to the list of improvements for next time

Thanks for looking

howdy again.

Here is ribbon variation #4



later
Delbert

Delbert, its going together good very nice fit. I have made a few mistakes but the model is good.

Hi Delbert. Wrong thread?

ahhhhggg...

embarrassed nod...

yep James...

the ribbon is on the wrong thread... my fault for multitasking... so my bad. everyone just ignore it..

Delbert

Some progress shots, just about ready for primer!




Needs a bit of cleanup and hopefully prime and paint this weekend. Also some more weld bead detail:

Gary, she's looking real nice and clean.

Colin, what a sweet build. You've done wonders with that 20 year old kit, it's almost unrecognizable. It's a shame your using the extensions on the kit tracks as those EECs are very inaccurate in detail. It also seems like you ran into that headache many of us have in the past with the EECs having different holes than the regular ECs.

The DML track looks real nice when built the regular way. I completely throw away those EECs, panda plastics sells sets of the EECs you can add after you've built and mounted your tracks. As long as your okay painting the track on the suspension those are a good option. I haven't seen a lot of photos of Firefly V with EECs on them. You could save yourself a lot of precious modeling time and heartache by just buying the Panda Plastic tracks and EECs. You'll be hard pressed to find an easier set of LTL tracks than the Panda Plastics. They also seem to fit all the sprockets that I've tried them on. You can test fit and tension those before using a single drop of glue! They stay together and articulate dry without any glue, I highly recommend those.

Thanks for the props Pedro. Given the amount of grief those tracks are giving me I may just cave and buy the Panda tracks!

Colin, I wonder if your still in time to just use the remaining pieces of T-62 track to crank out 2 full treads without the EECs. If you've already made large tracts then you will have to find an alternative. I know you wont regret buying the Panda Plastics if you can wait a couple of days to do tracks. among the many advantages are all the options you will have. You can assemble them dry, fit them then paint them separately or fit, glue, and paint in place. or you can glue them into sections that you can put together after painting and everything is done. Paul from Panda has great turnaround time and he ships priority so you get the tracks about three days after ordering unless Canadian mail works differently.

This has taken MUCH longer than I thought it would and still not 100% complete here. But hopefully you can see what I was trying to do with the sponson ammo racks now:



Still have some clean up to do and a few more 'brackets', plus finishing the paint.

John

John, you're bringing back some memories. A Afv club M10 was probably the first kit I did when I got back into model making over a decade ago. I don't think I have the model anymore. I think it got lost in a move.

Very nice work. I'm impressed. now I need to find a British tank to build.

AHHHHHHHHH!

just letting out some frustrations.. lol.

One Question is on my mind right now.....

AFV Club, What were you thinking.......!!!!!!!!!!

read on a build review of the kit the tracks didn't fit..

So I did a test fit and talk about off.. I've got them stretched almost to the breaking point...


now I got to do some thinking.

Delbert

Delbert,

OOOOPS! Wow, that is a pretty big miss by AFV. Hope my Acad tracks are better.

Ooh, not fun! On the tracks subject I cratered and ordered the panda tracks with duckbills for my firefly. Hopefully they will work better than the Dragon ones. Props on your interior work Delbert, something I don't have the guts to try just yet!

Nice work guys ... Delbert ...if you have an Academy Achilles in your stash there are two extensions for the tracks made of styrene. You might be able to lengthen the tracks with them. They are the steel chevron type but just sand off the cleats and hide then under a road wheel and it should be okay..(if you don't have one and you want to try it ,PM me and I'll send them out to you ..

Rick

Hey Richard,

Thanks for the offer, I happen to have 2 sets of those sprue's, one from the Academy M-10 kit and another from the Academy M-18 kit.

I'm looking at ways to attach them in a way they don't show at the moment...

I've also found the DS tracks from my Dragon Sherman Mk III will fit, but I don't think I'm going that route..

later
Delbert

I'm wrapping up my M7 Priest. I was going to make some crew figures but what I came up with wasn't satisfactory so I'll pass on that for now.

Anyway, I have the markings on and have done some of the drybrushing, washes, weathering, etc. I'll probably add some stowage.

OK, so I've been working on this for a while and just not got around to posting anything So here we go, Riich Models Universal Carrier Mk.I.


When I opened the box my initial thoughts were what have I let my self in for, but things went together surprisingly well.










Primed with Vallejo Primer, Desert Tan Base. The plan is to paint it in Caunter scheme as Lt. Wood's vehicle, 4 Troop, B Squadron 2nd NZ Div Cav Regt, Greece, April 1941.





cheers
David

David,

Been wondering what this Rich UC's build up like. Thank looks really nice.

John

First coat of colour on, my airbrush technique still needs some work but starting to look like an actual tank now!

It's not where I want it to be, but I'm going to call this one finished. I had wanted to build a base and give the Priest a crew, but that one fell through. I'll probably try to do something with it later on.











I went ahead and uploaded two pictures in to the campaign gallery.