Dear All
Some weeks ago, i was posting here in order to ask some advice regarding the best kit for a 5 years girl to build with the help of the Daddy.

And i was surprised to receive a PM from James aka AikinutNY offering me this kit.
So I am proud to be part of this community and this build is dedicated to AikinutNY.

The box arrived this week so we started it this morning, Constance my daughter received the basic training for cutting, sanding, and gluing. It is good to do activity in family. Mateo my son still too young, is in charge of sanding mainly.

I will do nothing in this build just advising, regarding painting maybe she will test the AB with vallejo paint i dont want nasty chemicals.

Enjoy the pics as much as I enjoyed this morning in Sunny Bastogne.

Cheers
Seb


The team:




Cutting from the sprue:




Sanding:


gluing


As you can see it is not my fingers....

Mateo is sanding the wheels:










Enjoy the pics

Cheers
Seb

Fantastic. I love seeing youngsters keeping the Hobby alive.

brings a smile to my heart cant wait for my little man to be old enough
keep up the great work
dave

This is really cool

Your kids are real cute,let's hope they both continue to enjoy modeling.Be sure to post the finished build

This really warms the heart. It's always good to see the next generation involved in model building.

...so cute

Seb it is great to see a child taking interest in the hobby.

Dear All
It is 10 in the night back from restaurant in downtown Bastogne, first comment of my daugther while at home: "Daddy I want to continue working on the kit".

She is addicted like Daddy.

We worked on the boggies before, will post pics tomorrow

Cheers
Seb

Seb,they both look like old pro's already Before you know it they will want their own workbench!Cheers,Jeff

When your stash starts shrinking, at least you know where they ended up. It is real nice to see a project being shared with the kids. Sometimes we forget that time with our childeren is priceless. My hats off to you and I hope your childeren will always remember when they get older this time with dad

I forgot to sent the can of OD green spray paint! I just forbid pink paint to even be thought of!

Hope she is having fun!

Sweet! I can't wait to see more!

Good on you AikinutNY

The boggies,
the problem starts here but She managed them.
Comments welcome.
cheers
Seb













Baby boy is sanding the boggies:


Upper hull start:




High concentration while cutting


End results of the boggies assembly and lower hull


gluing the hupper hull




More to come
cheers
Seb

Could be an engineer some day. Has she started taking things apart to see how they work?

Seb

She is doing very well well done to her.

I look forward to following her progress.

Pete

So far nope

Status of the shermie now
It was good to get back to what is the most important about this about: Fun just share some time with my kids was so great, if there is some imperfection i dont care, just be with them was all about. Priceless moments...

Well done for getting your kids interested in the hobby, they will gain so much.
I have a 19 year old son who is definitely interested in what I make and often offers opinions (usually correct) but has not as yet started to make one, I think for teenagers it's not very cool to make models and the hobby I think suffers from having a slightly "geeky" image nowadays.

very cool my daughters 4 and 8 love building old tamiya and airfix tanks. But they love painting the most. This is a great way to spend family time with dad

It looks great to be an absolute beginner's build

My first attempts when I was 12, were a lot worse....

Seb,

Totally BULLY! And not only are you getting youngsters into it instead of playing video games or iPhone, you're getting girls (women) involved!

Make sure they understand the history of it when growing up. I imagine that would be easy. being in France!

Please post the painted models. I used to do camouflage on German tanks when I was younger with the spray can. Actually won some trophies at the local model show! Love to see this one...

Keep them building!

Bill B.

Seb, showed both of my girls the first photos the other day and am going to show them these tonight. My youngest already started building an airplane model that we got her at a show a few weeks ago and I think the older one is realizing how cool it is. Thank you for posting these they are a great inspiration for both old and young! My only question is what type of glue is she using and where can I find an applicator like that for my girls? Cheers.

P.S. would love to see some work on the M1070 . . . .just sayin' . . .

Thanks for your comments Guys

Well i am using Faller Expert glue with the small needdle.
We are using the flat cutter no blade and sand stick, Tamiya kit is great because you can easily finish rapidly the model.

Cheers
Seb