For this campaign i'm going to feature my MI-28 Russian attack helicopter i feature last year for the rotor RPM campaign on Aeroscale.

Here is the current state of my model.

Another log I would like to throw on the fire to wrap up this year; (I know only one service award per customer.) Would be my CCKW converted Railroad locomotive.

I've never seen a truck on tracks.

Nice CCKW Michael!

And thanks for the comments guys, here's a little more progress with some more of the lining laid on (pin wash with thinned oils).

cheers
Brent

Thanks Brent

F.Y.I. The only other photo I have of the CCKW converted locomotive. I am told these were used as switching engines in the UK prior to D-Day due to the extreme amount of war goods needing to move by train during the build-up to the Normandy landings.

I have always questioned why the loco still has its' steering wheel?

The resin wheel set is available through the Scale-Link catalog out of Britain.



H.P. might you have anything more on this subject?

Opps, my bad. H.P. had already posted an additional photo in one of my other threads.



Interesting in that this vehicle is a 4x6 not 6x6. Also they seem to have added running boards the length of the truck thereby blocking the cab side doors so a working door has been cut into the rear wall of the cab using the rear window as a guide.

interesting. i was wondering what they used the CCKW for. since it is a bit unusual, but it makes perfect sense for it's use.

Probably the CCKW's were plentiful unlike the larger capacity trucks. With their transfer case in low range and the back end loaded with scrap iron they could move one or two cars at a time for switching duty around large warehouses.

I have joined in earlier but have not decided on which one to finish. I have a couple in 1/72 scale.

I'm in. I'll have to look through the unfinished kit pile and decide what I be doing though.

Finished the pin washes on the last of the battlegroup (oils over brush painted acrylic) and put a filter over the 251/7. So from now on it's all the fun stuff, shading, weathering and pigments .... 15 vehicles worth lol

cheers
Brent

Looks good, Brent. You must have some enormous battle group armies at home or is it all for customers?

I am probably also doing some war games stuff for this campaign. I have a ton of unfinished APCs. Among them a couple of grey knight rhinos.

I like those German vehicles, Brent. Really nice.

I'm in. I have, by my last count, 15 or so kits in various stages of completion. Since my birthday is coming up, I figure I may as well finish the kit my wife bought me for my birthday last year, Dragon' M1A1 Abrams. It has been sitting on the shelf untouched for months. This is where I got when I stopped.

Ok, new try. Last time I forgot to enlist in time and failed badly. So, let's go again. This is my (first) entry. It's Bronco's german ammo/flak trailer, which is missing some of pin washes and grime strikeing and then matt varnish plus maybe pigments. Depends on the vehicle, which will tow this.

I have 250 half track with all possible PE sets... It's been sitting in a box since 2004. Top that guys

Challenge accepted!


Tamiya T-62 started in 1994ish, finished for UB 2015, won a silver medal at Armorcon last year. "Death of a Shelf Queen".

There is a Tamiya M113 to IDF Zelda kitbash in the stash that I started BEFORE the T62...

Looks like I got back to it and added the Toga armor from an Academy kit.

Wow, you guys have some serious shelf queens!

Great to see they are on the workbench again

Welcome on board Michael with your MAZ. I do like those big Russian trucks. But can you give us a bit of back-ground on why it ended up on the shelf? How long etc... likewise for the railway lorry (certainly different) if you don't mind. You're more than welcome to do two builds. The more the merrier!

Stephen with the Sherman: welcome!

Mike, it will be interesting to see all that gear go into the wee Jeep....

Hyder, that MI-28 looks like it has been putting up some fight!

Darrell, just pick one and get started! Don't procrastinate ot they will all stay on the shelf You two too Alex & Jesper!

Brendan, that Abrams looks barely even started, never mind "unfinished". So what made you stop on it?

Kimmo, you're at the other end of the scale....looks nearly done!

Mike, that Zelda is crying out to be done as part of this campaign.

Now I just need to root around my own desk to find something needing finishing. Only problem is it's hard to find anything in the mess

As to why my MAZ monster truck and CCKW Locomotive ended up as shelf queens:

#1 - I am afraid I bore easily and then get seduced by the next project or new kit. (Of which there are so many these days.) I already have WAY too many shelf queens!

#2 & #3 - Recent interruptions due to emergency gall bladder surgery followed a few months later by double knee replacement surgeries. It has been an interesting year!

If anyone would perhaps be interested there is a build log on the MAZ Pusher Tractor on Armorama at:

https://armorama.kitmaker.net/forums/196250

Sean, I stopped work for the same reason I always stop- another project came along and distracted me. I get my hands on a new kit, I have a really hard time not opening it up and getting started right then and there. Most modelers have stashes, I have a pile of half built kits. When I was choosing what to finish up for this campaign, I discovered I have no less than 15 partially completed builds. My main modeling goal this year is finish these up.

I've made some more progress. You couldn't really see it in the previous photos, but I had basecoated the underside of the tank in green:



I had also cleaned and assembled the roadwheels, also base coating them green, and assembled the track and painted it black. The kit came with DS track, but each guide tooth was a separate plastic part. I painted the rubber on all of the roadwheels and I've painted one run of track.



I was really uncertain of how to proceed here. What I did was use a mix of rust and black and painted all of the metal areas, then went back over with black and cleaned up any rust color that had gotten on the rubber pads. I'm really not sure if painting the metal first and rubber second would have been easier. I am pretty happy with the result though, and it should look even better under some weathering.



Here the track is test fit. Sprocket and front most road wheel are not glued down, but the other wheels are. I trimmed one link off, and the track seems to fit fairly well.



I'll have to do some additional clean up painting between the track pads here.



Some work done on the turret. The basket had some tricky cleanup, and getting all the bits straight (mostly straight, as the case may be) was tricky but I think the result looks really nice. This is one area I am very impressed with the kit. The bars only broke in one spot, and it was easily fixable.

Finished painting the other run of track yesterday and test fitted it. Thought I'd post a photo of my overall progress so far.



The track painting went by much quicker than I thought it would. Next up, side skirts, then finish up the turret. This thing really isn't all that far away from being ready for paint.

I'm in! My recent move left me with a bunch of unfinished projects.