Thanks Paul and John. Looks like I have 5 weeks off but still a good chunk of time. No start on the model yet. Dodging pee and poo streams is keeping me busy. Maybe they can finish all these models for me.

Greg you have plenty of time dude, take it easy

Jose welcome on board my friend , and a great choice you
bring as well



Paul

Time to put up some progress shots.

I approached building the Aerosan like I would an airplane. So I went ahead and pre-painted the cockpit interior and seats.



I decided to go ahead and prepaint white the rear areas around the engine. I ended up painting a little more than I had planned.


Time to get started on the engine. Assembled and ready for paint.


While the engine is being painted and then set aside to dry, I started on the seats. I added cushions made from cardboard. I added a layer of white glued tissue paper to give it a wrinkled fabric look.


Once the white glue had dried, I painted them Panzer Gray. Once that had dried, I dry-brushed Field Gray. The two grays were actually part of the engine paint procedure.


Speaking of painting the engine...here they are. Base coat of semi-gloss black. Dry-brushings of the two grays. Finished them off with a brushing of steel.


Seats mounted. By the way, I reverse dry-brushed a dark tan to give the interior added detail.


Both sides on and engine mounted. I actually broke the end off one of the engine mounts while trying to push it all the way in. I trimmed the remaining ends to allow the supports to sit flush in their mount locations. I left the prop and radiator off for now.


That's it for now. I'm kind of working on this one during breaks on a couple other projects. It's a pretty straightforward kit and a joy to build so far. Depending on how other projects work out, I don't see it being much longer before assembly is done and it'll be ready for paint. I'll definitely be making a base for it....if only to save me from knocking the skis off.

And yes, I've thought about swapping the skis for tires and even for rail wheels. Definitely lots of places you could go with this one. I wish I bought a couple of these kits now.

Thanks for the welcome Paul!!!!!!
Here a little update in the proyect which I make in the past weekend

@Alex,
Its good to see an "earth plane"

Alex looking good my friend, you will soon be done at this pace.

Jose you're off to a great start there. Is this your first 1/35 kit?



Paul

@Paul:
You are wrong!!!!!!!!!! That is my second in the "large" scale ;-)
I´m trying to change the armour scale.....

Ok Jose but be careful, you'll be amazed at how fast your display area will fill

Paul

Thanks Paul. It's a nice little kit. I added spare ammo cans for the MG34 and dug out a few pioneer tools. I don't want to overdo mounting tools to the side of this thing.

Jose, I'm building a KV-1 for the Trumpeter Campaign. It's a nice kit to build. You using the link & length tracks or the vinyl tracks?

@Paul thanks for the adv!!!!!
Its more difficult 35 than 72.....

@Alex I will try to use the link & length tracks

Jose,
Trumpy's link & length tracks go together pretty well. I've got too other of their KVs built and I've never had trouble with them.

@Alex, thanks a lot for the adv!!!

Hi there everyone,
I've been back to my Crusader today:





The figure is from Tristar Tropical crew kit with the left arm from Dragon. I also bought these fire extinguishers from Easy Line as the kit item is just not worth talking about:



Keep 'em coming lads, all's looking good up to now



Paul

Nice Paul!!!!!!!!
I love the Crusader...... I want a Dragon model of that tank ;-)

This is what I wish to build for my entry:



Just need to find the letters D, F, G & C x 3

Mike

Hi Mike, this I am looking forward to

Thanks Jose, but I believe in 1/35 there is only the Italeri offering



Paul

@Mike: Beautiful de Hurri in german hands.....!!!
@Paul: Yes, I know and I prefer to wait for a good model of the Crusader.....

Here a little more advance in my KV

well, after three days of work I finish my first tracks in 1/35!!!!!

Good to see this campaign started to get more models built.
Well my Tiran is finished. Pics are worse than any other time. Sorry for that. My camera is KAPUT. My younger daughter saw to that. Anyway time to start working on the T 28.

Hi everyone. I know last night pictures were terrible so here is another try. That's about the best i could do.

Hi Jose, looking good my friend There are a couple of spots
on the inner roadwheel faces you have missed though.

John my friend you've done a damned good job there
Looking forward to your next neat build

Keep them coming lads, the campaign has plenty of time for lots more yet



Paul

Paul thanks a lot. The Trumpeter kit is not the best available out there, but in my opinion, it can give a reasonably good result with a little extra work.

Here is a pic of the Alanger kit coming next. I must note that the complete absence of flash is a very welcome surprise from an East block kit. Detail seems to be really good and the Eduard PE set will add the few missing things.

John. That's an awesome build congrats! I like the look of the details and dust.

Greg thank you for the encouraging words. For the dust and rust effects i used hagiography powders, i think in english they are called artist pigments?

Alex any updates on your build? It looks good so far.

Mike that's a nice profile, Which kit will you use?

Jose beute KVs are always interesting. Any ideas about the camo?

Paul that;s a nice clean build. How is the Crusader in therms of fit? It certainly looks good in the photos. I have the Crusader III from Italeri and intend to build it some time soon.

@John;
I have until now only two options. Dark Yellow or dark Yellow with stripes of german green.
I hope I can see a picture of one KV of this type with camouflage....
If I found one, that will be my option

José