Some progress on my Tiger
The kit calls for the construction of the turret 1st

And some work on the lower hull

Hi Guys

If it's OK I'd like to join in with this kit, my first ever jet in 1/48 scale !

Hey fellas. I decided to get off my butt and get some work done on this Nashorn.

I will be joining in with the Revell Gannet

Back to work on the Whippet....whip it good.

Assembly was basically done. When I think of WW1, I think about mud. For mud I used Sculpamold. A pinch was more than enough to get the mud build up I wanted. My hope was to simulate the soupy mud running down the track assemblies, resulting in build-up. I'll do a second mud-job to add mud to the tracks.


I painted the tank and then added the tracks. Meng sends workable tracks. They snap-together a bit oddly but they go together. There's not a lot of room for fit. You may want to spend some extra time cleaning and test fitting track-links to the drive sprockets.


Mudded the tracks. I didn't want to over-do things. What I did was put a dab of Sculptamold on the tracks and push it along the links with my finger. The mud built up along the track cleats and some even flowed down the sides. You can also see where I masked the track sponsons for their red and white stripes. I had planned on doing this Whippet as Firefly. Firefly has a set of extra markings on the rear sides of the track sponsons. I did not notice until after I had added the mud. So, I changed to Caesar II, which just has the stripes on the front.


I'm sort of hustling along here. The mud and tracks were painted a thinned coat of Tamiya Dark Earth. The decals were added....Caesar II. Stripes were painted on. Muddied areas painted Dark Earth and an extra thinned wash allowed to run down the sides. Dry-brushed the model to let the rivet detail standout more. Add pigment to represent dirt.





And with that I consider this one to be finished. I enjoyed the build and would recommend the kit for anyone wanting to dabble in WW1 armor. The kit went together fairly well. Fit was tight so I'd stress test-fit everything. And cleanup those drive sprockets and test fit the tracks. Care and patience will be needed with the abundant running gear parts.

Very nice work, Alex!

Well done.

Posted some of these pictures in the Big Cat Campaign by accident


Really need to fix that string cable its aggravating

AMT/ERTL 1/72 FB-111E Aardvark.

Ancient kit and any problems I may have had in the building were the result of my own errors.

MY Tiger is ready for some primer

Hallo
This is my entry here - Revell Boxer in 1/72

Sal, how was this kit to build? I've got it in the stash awaiting the Zimm to be shipped before starting.
BTW, good work so far !

Hello all. I have been watching this campaign daily but as the person who created this campaign I have not commented enough on the builds. I see that all are great builds and things are moving along nicely.
I finally picked my build a Dodge Charge Super Bee. It will be started shortly.
So far I love all the builds.

Ivan Im actually doing a build review for of this kit. Overall its pretty smooth going but there are some quirks to it. I dont like the winch cable at at all and the tracks look like they are going to be a nightmare, each link has 5 parts

If I can ever get through some of my other campaign builds (enlisted for >12!) I'll be building this:

Got it from a guy at the last modeling club meeting whose wife sent him with a big pile from his stash and told him not to come home with any of them. The box says 1976!

Tank Cracker -- what a name! That sure is one old kit, look forward to see how it builds.

I managed to get some work done on the Chevrolet Bison this afternoon. Here is where I stand right now:

I have shortened the frame & managed to get it partially assembled. The only problem is the part I cut out to shorten the frame had the engine mounts on them. Little oversight there! Not totally sure what I'm going to do about that, but I'll think of something. The plastic is really strange on this kit. Half is molded in that cream color, and half is in white. More on that later. (The little white rectangles inside the frame are Evergreen plastic I added as a reinforcer & are not part of the kit.)



The Detroit Diesel 6V92T is coming along nicely, but I am having a problem with the cross-over pipe: it's too long on one side & too short on the other. Going to have to fiddle with this one a little before I come up with a solution. I did add some plumbing details.



The "tentacles" you see in this shot are the fuel lines to the tank & the fuel filters (not included in the GW Trucks kit).



Ok, so here is where I'm sort of going with this build:



I am swapping out the air ride suspension that comes in the kit with the spring suspension from the AMT GMC Astro/95 kit (gray parts). The bed (other gray parts) is from the AMT Ford C600 Stake Truck kit.

So far I'm please with the progress.

Jim

Great builds everybody.I should my build soon. I hope everybody is having fun with this campaign?

Certainly having fun, in fact I'm done !

Nice looking F16, Scott.

Jim

Marder is progressing. A lot of surgery required on the back end to get rid of clunky approximations of the real thing and to get parts to align correctly.


The main gun is pretty hopeless. The whole kit is giving me flashbacks to 1970s Italeri kits ('cause that's what it is!)

Hi mates,
it's about time to join my first campaign this year!
Very good choices of you and already fine builds.
I'm going to build that Allison-powered Mustang rec plane.





Hmm, I wonder why the photo is so small?

another try...


Don't know what's wrong

Peter, it looks like you are pasting the link for the embedded thumbnail. what you need to do is click the small icon to the right of that link and then copy the URL that appears below that.