i would really like to make some banners for this campaign so are there any ideas for banners? if not then i'll try to make one but i can't really use photoshop so are there any other ways of creating banners apart from photoshop? plus are there any other ways than paint to create ribbons?
Campaigns
Where Armorama group builds can be discussed, organized, and updates posted.
Where Armorama group builds can be discussed, organized, and updates posted.
Hosted by Darren Baker, Richard S.
british armour campaign
stansmith
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Posted: Saturday, September 04, 2010 - 02:37 AM UTC
stansmith
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Posted: Saturday, September 04, 2010 - 02:47 AM UTC
aswell which DML kit is the best:
sherman firefly Ic smart kit
sherman III
what other british kits do dragon make?
sherman firefly Ic smart kit
sherman III
what other british kits do dragon make?
Posted: Saturday, September 04, 2010 - 03:09 AM UTC
Stanley,
DML do a bunch of Shermans that are applicable - check out our own Reviews section and also the reviews at PMMS.
http://www.perthmilitarymodelling.com/reviews/subject/sherman.htm
Tom
DML do a bunch of Shermans that are applicable - check out our own Reviews section and also the reviews at PMMS.
http://www.perthmilitarymodelling.com/reviews/subject/sherman.htm
Tom
vonHengest
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Posted: Saturday, September 04, 2010 - 05:05 AM UTC
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i would really like to make some banners for this campaign so are there any ideas for banners? if not then i'll try to make one but i can't really use photoshop so are there any other ways of creating banners apart from photoshop? plus are there any other ways than paint to create ribbons?
Darren (CMOT) created a nice looking ribbon for you a few posts back. It's a good looking ribbon and I encourage you to give it a look if you haven't already.
Paint is pretty painful to use. There is a free graphics program that is somewhat like Photoshop, I think it's called Gimp, but I'm not sure on the name. You can download it from online sources.
stansmith
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Posted: Sunday, September 05, 2010 - 07:22 AM UTC
just uploaded darrens ribbon to the campaign
stansmith
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Posted: Sunday, September 05, 2010 - 08:21 AM UTC
thanks for letting me use your ribbon darren
stansmith
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Posted: Saturday, September 11, 2010 - 03:49 AM UTC
just bought the DML sherman firefly Ic, don't know wether to leave till the campaign, or do it now.
ltb073
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Posted: Saturday, September 11, 2010 - 04:54 AM UTC
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just bought the DML sherman firefly Ic, don't know wether to leave till the campaign, or do it now.
Stan,
This is a problem a lot of us have I think you may need to build up your stash more so that you have some thing to occupy your time while waiting for the campaigns to start
Posted: Saturday, September 11, 2010 - 05:15 AM UTC
Stanley you are welcome to use the ribbon, glad you like it.
I have been out and bought the desertised Trumpeter Challenger II which gives me the three latest releases from them of this tank, and I will attempt to build all three of them for this campaign in order to highlight the differances in both the 3 types and any alterations to the base product.
I have been out and bought the desertised Trumpeter Challenger II which gives me the three latest releases from them of this tank, and I will attempt to build all three of them for this campaign in order to highlight the differances in both the 3 types and any alterations to the base product.
Posted: Saturday, September 11, 2010 - 05:37 AM UTC
These are the 3 Challengers I will be tackling. Depending on how my Military engineering campaign entry goes I may start a build of two of these now in here and start the third when the campaign starts.
Posted: Saturday, September 11, 2010 - 08:49 AM UTC
hey guys should be a good campaign. I have an AFV club scimitar that I think I will build for this one unless I treat my self for X-mas and but an Accurate armour Saxon I have always wanted to build a chiftain as well. but we will see what happens
stansmith
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Posted: Saturday, September 11, 2010 - 11:03 AM UTC
i was thinking of chieftan to but is tamiya the only maker of this tank
Posted: Saturday, September 11, 2010 - 11:14 AM UTC
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i was thinking of chieftan to but is tamiya the only maker of this tank
I think they are if you want the MBT. Accurate armour do the ARV as well as so good upgrades.
Posted: Saturday, September 11, 2010 - 11:16 AM UTC
tell a lie it is just a conversion
vonHengest
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Posted: Saturday, September 11, 2010 - 06:25 PM UTC
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These are the 3 Challengers I will be tackling. Depending on how my Military engineering campaign entry goes I may start a build of two of these now in here and start the third when the campaign starts.
Just out of curiosity, about what kind of price are you paying per kit for the Chally 2's?
I'm looking forward to combining the two Trumpeter kits and seeing what I come out with.
Posted: Saturday, September 11, 2010 - 06:51 PM UTC
The 2 older Challenger kits are £16 - £18 each and the latest one £25.
stansmith
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Posted: Sunday, September 12, 2010 - 06:22 AM UTC
as sal said, i need to build up my stash, anyone got any ideas?
vonHengest
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Posted: Sunday, September 12, 2010 - 07:37 AM UTC
Darren: Not bad, I would like to avoid paying $40-50 USD like the lhs's are asking.
Stanley: What time periods and vehicle types are you interested in? I'm taking a guess that you favor WWII?
Stanley: What time periods and vehicle types are you interested in? I'm taking a guess that you favor WWII?
Posted: Sunday, September 12, 2010 - 06:51 PM UTC
That is the price in the LHS.
stansmith
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Posted: Sunday, September 12, 2010 - 07:55 PM UTC
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Darren: Not bad, I would like to avoid paying $40-50 USD like the lhs's are asking.
Stanley: What time periods and vehicle types are you interested in? I'm taking a guess that you favor WWII?
yeh ww2 preerably but wouldn't mind a few modern tanks here and there
vonHengest
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Posted: Sunday, September 12, 2010 - 08:17 PM UTC
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That is the price in the LHS.
I meant the ones over here, they typically want $49.95, even for the older kits.
Stanley: Some excellent additions would be any of the Tasca Shermans, the Miniart Dingos, the Bronco Humber and Staghound armoured cars and Comet.
The Trumpeter Challenger II's look to keep getting better and better, or you can go with the Tamiya Desertized Challenger II which isn't as sophisticated of a kit, but still looks to build up nicely.
The Tamiya Cromwell is also an excellent kit despite it's age.
This is just for starters, their is actually a nice selection of British armour out there.
(This is all assuming that you are looking for 1/35 scale)
Sudzonic
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Posted: Monday, September 13, 2010 - 01:22 AM UTC
Got my build sorted just got a Challenger 2 with bar armour in 1/72.
Posted: Monday, September 13, 2010 - 03:27 AM UTC
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Quoted TextThat is the price in the LHS.
I meant the ones over here, they typically want $49.95, even for the older kits.
Stanley: Some excellent additions would be any of the Tasca Shermans, the Miniart Dingos, the Bronco Humber and Staghound armoured cars and Comet.
The Trumpeter Challenger II's look to keep getting better and better, or you can go with the Tamiya Desertized Challenger II which isn't as sophisticated of a kit, but still looks to build up nicely.
The Tamiya Cromwell is also an excellent kit despite it's age.
This is just for starters, their is actually a nice selection of British armour out there.
(This is all assuming that you are looking for 1/35 scale)
Jeremy it is swings and round abouts then as we get really stung for anything with the DML logo on it, or so it seems.
stansmith
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Posted: Monday, September 13, 2010 - 05:27 AM UTC
Quoted Text
Quoted TextThat is the price in the LHS.
I meant the ones over here, they typically want $49.95, even for the older kits.
Stanley: Some excellent additions would be any of the Tasca Shermans, the Miniart Dingos, the Bronco Humber and Staghound armoured cars and Comet.
The Trumpeter Challenger II's look to keep getting better and better, or you can go with the Tamiya Desertized Challenger II which isn't as sophisticated of a kit, but still looks to build up nicely.
The Tamiya Cromwell is also an excellent kit despite it's age.
This is just for starters, their is actually a nice selection of British armour out there.
(This is all assuming that you are looking for 1/35 scale)
i od like the sound of the bronco comet and i am also interested in the dingo, and yes 1/35 is my prefered scale i'm not just going on about british AFVs for my stash, some german ww2 stuff like king tigers, panzer IV, marders, wespe, grille, nashorn, things like that.
just started watching a program on discoverey called 'greatest tank battles' and saw a couple of photos and incidents that happend mostly including M4A1 shermans and i would like to model some of theses incidents but wondered which is the best 1/35 m4a1, do dragon make one? because i think, correct me if i am wrong, tasca make one.
stansmith
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Posted: Monday, September 13, 2010 - 05:52 AM UTC
just been looking round at the dragon 1/35 german kits and have seen some that have interested me and wanted to know are there any reveiws or do you know about any of these kits, the kits that caught my eye were:
-dragon 1/35 Pz.Kpfw. IV Ausf.G LAH Dv. Kharkov 1943
-dragon 1/35 Pz.Kpfw.IV Ausf. F2 (G)
-dragon/cyberhobby 1/35 Pz.Kpfw.IV Ausf.D mit 7.5cm Kw.K.40 L/43
-dragon/cyberhobby 1/35 Pz.Kpfw.IV Ausf.J Mid Production 1944
-dragon 1/35 King Tiger "Porsche Turret" w/Zimmerit
-dragon 1/35 King Tiger "Porsche Turret"
-dragon 1/35 Grille Ausf.H Sd.Kfz.138/1 ( or M)
-dragon 1/35 Panzerjager Marder III M Early Production
-tamiya 1/35 Sd.Kfz.124 Wespe
-dragon 1/35 Sd.Kfz.171 Panther Ausf G Late Model
-miniart 1/35 dingo(any one of them)
-dragon 1/35 Panther A Late Premium Edition
-dragon 1/35 Panther G w/Steel Road Wheel
-trumpeter 1/35 challenger 2 (all of them)
-miniart 1/35 t-70
i know that's a hell of a list and don't expect one person to do all of them but if you know anything about them it would be a real help if you could wether to buy them or not. thanks
-dragon 1/35 Pz.Kpfw. IV Ausf.G LAH Dv. Kharkov 1943
-dragon 1/35 Pz.Kpfw.IV Ausf. F2 (G)
-dragon/cyberhobby 1/35 Pz.Kpfw.IV Ausf.D mit 7.5cm Kw.K.40 L/43
-dragon/cyberhobby 1/35 Pz.Kpfw.IV Ausf.J Mid Production 1944
-dragon 1/35 King Tiger "Porsche Turret" w/Zimmerit
-dragon 1/35 King Tiger "Porsche Turret"
-dragon 1/35 Grille Ausf.H Sd.Kfz.138/1 ( or M)
-dragon 1/35 Panzerjager Marder III M Early Production
-tamiya 1/35 Sd.Kfz.124 Wespe
-dragon 1/35 Sd.Kfz.171 Panther Ausf G Late Model
-miniart 1/35 dingo(any one of them)
-dragon 1/35 Panther A Late Premium Edition
-dragon 1/35 Panther G w/Steel Road Wheel
-trumpeter 1/35 challenger 2 (all of them)
-miniart 1/35 t-70
i know that's a hell of a list and don't expect one person to do all of them but if you know anything about them it would be a real help if you could wether to buy them or not. thanks