Not far off completion.







Cheers,
Nick.

Nick, looking good. Looking forward to your next update.

I'm done with my campaign contribution guys! Here's my vintage kit from Monogram Models, Sherman Hedgehog in 1/32 scale. I took me a full week to build, paint and weather it. I airbrushed the hull dark olive and the sandbags were painted khaki-buff. Weathering was done with burnt umber oil wash with a light olive dry brush to highlight the raised parts of the model. The lower hull was also speckled with Mig pigment mixed with resin to simulate mud on the Cullin hedge cutter and bogie wheels. Finishing was an overall coat of Future and Testors dull-coat. Model appears to be glossy cause I used flash on my digital camera - again! Fun campaign indeed and I hope everybody else is enjoying it

hey guys some nice looking Shermans
@Rei General Patton would have had a fit seeing all those sand bags on that tank

Rei, Wow!! Talk about an oldie but a goodie. I remember that kit from ages ago.

Very nice guys well done.

Nick, looking forward to the end result.

Rei, very nice Sherman well done a nice clean build.

@ Sal - yeah I thought I read about old Blood n Guts actually chasing a tank commander to give him sh*t for putting too much armor on his tank, seems like Patton thinks his Shermans can actually withstand Kraut tank guns

@ Joel - good old kit alright and hard to find now too, but I thought I heard rumors that Revell actually has re-boxed this kit together with Monograms other Sherman which was the Screamin Mimi

Im glad you liked the clean build Scott, I try not to do too much conversion on my models

hi guys haven't started yet but have exactly the same M60 A1 kit as you tom, i also plan to fit a dozer blade to mine which i got in a bundle from ebay. plan to start building early next week.

Hi!

I have found some time to proceed with my 1:72 Revell M-48.

I have decided to build a M-48 A2 C G.

This variant was created by upgrading older M-48 A2 during the 60s/70s (means 90 mm gun, smoke dischargers and a spot light for night fighting capabilities)

Together with the Leo 1 the M-48 (Germany had about 1600 M-48 in service) was the backbone of the Panzertruppe der Bundeswehr until the beginning of the 80s when the Leo 2 became operational. Some 650 upgraded M-48 A2 G A2 with newly installed 105 mm gun remained mostly in Territorialheer units until end of Cold War.

Those Territorialheer units were strictly under Bundeswehr control and not part of NATO units. They can be compared to National Guard units in the U.S.

But enough of boring background chitchat...

At first I planned to build it strictly OOB, but then there were some things I wanted to improve. But take a look at the pictures:


The handle on the turret was poorly rendered so I tried to replace it...


The gun faceplate was canvas-covered. I have imitated it with tissue soaked in thinned wood glue.


The parts ready for paint....


My preferred colors.... I mixed them with white for shading.


The final result. I sprayed the whole tank with R 46 as main color, followed by a gloss coat. This is the prepration for a. rough wash with almost black diluted oil paint. Due to th glossy surface I can remove the wash more easily.

Then I apllied different brighter shades of R 42 and 46 (mixed with small amounts of white) on the not-recessed parts. With the dark oil wash in the recessed parts the tank becomes more three-dimensional.


A shot in daylight...

Hope you like my M-48 so far. Comments and critics welcome.

Servus,

Sebastian

Nice build so far. Paint job looks great, and the weathering makes everything just pop out. Looking forward to your finished update with pictures.

So, after finding how much fun the T-34 was, I am taking a pause from the aircraft kits, and building one of the other tanks in my stash. My girlfriend was nagging because I hadn't gotten around to building the Tamiya Bulldog she got me last christmas, so I figured If I want santa to keep delivering I may as well build it! So, here is my start. I primed, preshaded some white and hit with Lifecolor OD.

@Nick and Rei - congrats on finishing!

@Sebastian - great work - love the scratch work and coloring.

@Michael nice start

Middle_F my man!! Realy nice, awesome shading. What did you use for gloss?
And the turret's a gem. Maybe gimme a heads up on manufactioning hand rails with plastic one of these days?

Just signed up. For me it will be a sherman of course. M4A3E8 of the 4th with all the kewl add on armour slats. Maybe even Abram's Thunderbolt 7 but the dragon decals are awful!!!!

Anyway will be starting this kit on the plane today as I'm going to Canada on vacation (Yeeehaaahhh!!). A first for me let's see what parts of my miniaturized tool box won't pass security. Hope not my beloved jeweler's file!!! Crammed all the parts minus sprues into a sorting box yesterday.

Pics will follow....

@ Greg: thanks!

@ Mike: very nice M 41! Good start! What about Bundeswehr markings on that one ?

@ Leo: Hope you will not have any turbulences in the air while sanding your Sherman

BTW, the hand rail is done by stretched sprue glued with superglue and Zap-A-Gap kicker. Works fast and is more robust than I thought.

What I want to add is a pack of camouflage netting in the stowage rack. In this scale this is quite a challenge to reproduce the structure of a wrapped net. I am making some trials at the moment and let you know...

Let the tanks roll...

Well I got a little work done before work this morning, and As I am off tomorrow, I will get some more done. I have the rubber track pads mostly painted. And I started hitting the turret with oils. Seriously, I have fallen in love. Again, I usually do not do tanks, but just using the oils is a ton of fun. So, here is the turret so far. And, as far as the decals, I am just going to use the stock ones that came with it. Im pretty much an oob guy, and I have christmas shopping to do (so I can keep feeding this addiction later.)

I finished my 1/48 Kengi Hellcat build! I made my Hedgecutter with plastistruct 'I' beams and strips and made some headlight protecters. The only thing I'm worried about is the resin barrel warping/bending, so I'm ordering a metal replacement from Gasoline. Glad I didn't spend much time on painting the interior as I just primed this and forgot to cover the hole - Doh!

Very nice work everyone your builds are looking good well done.

Greg, outstanding job on stratching out the hedgecutter. It came out great.

here my start photo for campaign

Hello..

I have a free evening and a Red Army Sherman kit I think I'll finally start tonight. Its a kit I've been wanting to build for a while.

Delbert

Thanks Joel!

A bit more progress from the weekend. I went to a flea market yesterday in hopes of building the stash, but I forgot this is predominantly nascar country, and was unable to find anything. But, I did manage to get the decals on, I will hit it with some thinned od, and give it a little dusting of buff and call it done soon. Again, I apologize that my camera is not that great, but its something!

Okay, I used some heavily thinned od over the decals to fade them a bit, and clear coated it, so I am calling this one done.

Michael, for a Flyboy, you sure did a rock solid job building, painting, and weathering. Congrats on a job well done.

Thanks Joel! I am thinking I need to get some more non-wingy thingys for my stash!