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Komatsu G40 - 1/48 Tamiya
alpha_tango
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Posted: Monday, April 12, 2010 - 11:44 PM UTC
Hi all

I got this kit past saturday and started right away. I was finished yesterday morning, but I did not like the head lights so I drilled them out and made a backplate and glass from sheet.

looking at the finisched pix from today there are a few areas that I need to touch up (esp. around and below the seat). I mixed the colour from what I had, it is probably not very accurate, but I do not care too much and I doubt many here in Germany will notice the difference ....

















Hope you like it despite some shortcommings.

all the best

Steffen
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Posted: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 01:58 AM UTC
Its cute - do you plan on incooperating it in a diorama ?

Cheers/Jan
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Posted: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 03:25 AM UTC
Thanks Jan!

Yes it is cute (though the guys over at Aeroscale could not agree to that ... )

I do intend to use it with a tabletop, but I have no fixed plan yet. maybe I'll work something out with Marc from Mark58 to use his japanese PSP equivalent ... or something complete different ... as I wrote: no good idea yet.. (input welcome )

all the best

Steffen
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Posted: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 04:13 AM UTC
Put a Seabee in it and a Corsair alongside
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Posted: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 - 10:44 PM UTC
Thank you Jan!

but I rather want to use it an a Japanese dio (I'd like to use the included driver, though figure painting is not really my cup of tea)

all the best

Steffen
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Posted: Saturday, April 24, 2010 - 07:36 PM UTC
Very nice finish you put on this. It would be amazing to see one of these in a dio.
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Posted: Saturday, April 24, 2010 - 08:06 PM UTC
Hi Greg

Thanks for your kind comment! Last friday we took a few photos in a diorama setting of Marc Toillie. Jean-Luc posted this as a photo feature over at Aeroscale:

https://aeroscale.kitmaker.net//features/3095



all the best

Steffen

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