@John,
Don´t worry...... you are making a good job until now!!!

Gracias Jose !

It's a good kit but the wheels, suspension and tracks take my motivation away ...

¡Feliz Navidad Jose !

@John,
Thanks my friend!!!!
Our west wishes for you and your family to XMas and new year!!!!!!
And for all members of Armorama!!!

First up as it's Christmas Eve here in Australia, I would like to take the opportunity to wish everyone a very merry Christmas
I hope Santa brings everyone some plastic / resin surprises!

Attacked my stryker with some washes, pigments and oil paints today but it's still not completely done. Will be adding stowage and some netting and straps to hold it on..Not going crazy with stowage, just a sensible amount.






I made a slight error with the decals here
And only realized I had done so after they had set!
The red and yellow "do not overtake turning vehicle" are on the wrong sides...doh!
Guess I won't be entering this in any competitions

Still working on the 24th ... ehehe

Finished getting those sets ready for paint

@Jason,
Nice Stryker!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks for your wishes!!! Merry XMas to you and your family

Added some primer on the small PE.
Will start painting it this week.



paint and then mount them on the hull.
And track time ...

I am looking forward to seeing how that turns out John. It is an interesting machine that I would like to try building someday.

Made some progress on my beast today and now its ready for some primer
These doors were modified to be in the open position

The reference photo that i have of this show some damage to this turret gate opening

It was sprayed with primer this afternoon

Nice work Sal ! That's a huge beast !!

@Sal - love the armoured train, it looks massive!
Did these have their own means of propulsion or were they towed by a locomotive?

I am calling my Stryker M1130 done
And as I have no other Trumpeter kits, I'm all done for this excellent campaign.

Hi fellas! Many great looking kits in this campaign s far. Mine has been on hiatus because of christmas holidays and nasty flu, I'm suffering right now.. Some minor issues have and will cause extra job with this kit, for example fender supports, which are too short to get attached to hull sides. So either I have to make new ones or fix that issue somehow.. Upper hull frontal armor plate on pic is selfmade. Situation so far:

Hang in there Kimmo! It's almost finished!




Jeff

Great Job Jason !!!

You must be really proud !

Well, quoting Alice Cooper... Welcome to my Nightmare...
Neubaufahrzeug.
I bet he wasn't thinking of that in 1975



Painted and ready ..




As you can see not all wheels are even, during all this process, on some the paint has dried and made them not moveable some have too much glue, some are too damn mobile.
As a result I ended up applying to much strength ..



I fixed it,



but it will be tilting on the ground..

Mmhhh... either I start on the tracks and see how it goes or I simply start all those wheels & suspension all over again, give them an alcohol bath, clean all the paint & glue..

Going to eat something before I smash a Neubaufahrzeug

Nice Stryker Jason and John your wheels and tires look very nice!

Think you'll have it done by the end of the year?




Jeff

:D

No Jeff...

With some luck, maybe January.. Still have to decide on redoing all the wheels / suspension..
or (most probable solution ) make the tracks, paint them, put them on.
Then the fenders & equipment. Since the 3 turrets are already done.
Then it's time for the 2nd build, aircraft or armour.

Take care Jeff !! How's everything going on ?

Trying to get back in the motion!



Jeff

Great builds going on here, finally got round to posting some pics in the gallery.

Si

Hi all,

I'm in whit the new German Fennek.



Viktor

Where did you Pick up the Fennek? My usual sources don't have it yet

Hi Sean, you can get it at the Sockel Shop:
http://www.dersockelshop.de/search?sSearch=Fennek

But, it will cost you another 17€ for the shipping.




Paul

I usually try to gather a few more kits to have free shipping.
Either at Sockel Shop or ModelKoenig

Almost forgot...

Just when I was thinking this couldn't get any worse..



Notice 5 pins to cut & clean on each track



129 links per side...

Cleaned



And of course, 2 types of pins



And both on



I will try to do 10 links every day, like a daily torture..

BUT... once you get past the cleanup they are superb tracks and fairly easy to assemble.

That's why I'm going with a pair of Modelkasten for mine too for my KV-122 from eBay.



Jeff

Thanks Jeff for bringing some sunshine on this Neubaufahrzeug nightmare
10 links per day this will be over in a month


Tomorrow I'll start Trumpeter's 2nd build, the Neubaufahrzeug took the fun I was having on this Campaign and locked it in a trunk of a sinking car