Well thank the Lord for the T28, I think we finally have a kit that Sal can´t build in 2 weeks .
Good look Sal, I still haven´t decided between the T28 or A39.

Paul

Got a day off today and managed to make some progress
The crap handles on the rear deck were cut off and replaced with copper wire

what were Meng thinking of when they did these !!

I touched up the joints with Mr Surfacer and replaced the cables to the smoke dischargers with thin solder

A coat of tamiya nato black as a pre shade is where we are at now

More pics soon chaps
Andy

Looking at some walk around pics at Bov, Meng have missed the cable/condiut to the night driving lights.
sorted with some .36 solder



Awaiting paint now
Andy

This is what it should look like

Well here is my opening picture, and we're off



Tom

Shake that big box of bits Tom

Oh if it were only that easy, but then it wouldn't be any fun

Tom

Looking forward to this Tom,Sal's got the jump on you on the starting grid get a move on!!!
Andy

ps any snow yet?
pps cool wallpaper on you phone

You are already in the painting stage? OMG. Most of us haven't even opened the box..

Do you plan to apply a camo scheme?

Enjoy the suspension man!





Matt

I feel tired looking at that lot!!
Thats a lot of rubber

This is a really cool campaign.

I have a burning question, though: does anyone make TOG in any scale??

Andy an early Tiger 1 is almost as bad for painting rubber.

Tom

A panzer IV's worse

I would rather be building Pz IV's
Step 1 was completed last night

minus the rubber road wheels that got primed today

T28 suspension insatity

I have a build review going up soon but one thing I learned is that the tires are a pretty snug fit to the wheels, so be gentle or you'll strip the paint off the rim lip like I managed to do. . .

Matt

"Houston we have a problem"
I went to spray the lower hull with some rattle can primer and here is the results

cracked paint
Can anyone advise why this happened or how to correct this I used this primer On my Sherman build a few weeks ago with no problem

Made some progress on the KV-4 turret. It's entirely scratchbuilt except the gray details taken from one of the KV-1s in my initial post. One corner is about 1/32" to 1/16" tall but I don't feel like taking half of it off to fix it again so for my first major scratchbuild project, I can live with it. I've decided instead of using both kits for parts, I may try casting the road wheels and suspension I need in resin and build the other kit as a KV-1 (I intend to build every variation of the KV series at some point)


Sal, I've had a similar problem on a Fujimi Nissan GT-R. No idea what caused it but I've heard you can wet sand it smooth and reprime. I haven't tried it yet though.

The more I look at this thread the more I want to join it! Love building the heavy stuff

The only down side is I already have the heavies in my German stash done. Can the tank be a paper panzer? E75, Lowe, Jagd-E100? Run outta the real ones and have hit the paper panzers

Sal, try cleaning the spray nozzle. Could be the plastic surface too. Aside from that, I have no idea.

Sal,I had something similar a few years ago,I put it down to not shaking the can enought and it being cold outside,(I always rattle can outside)
Dazza,come join the fun mate the E75's a girly lightweight the other two are perfect
Andy