Thanks Kalin and BogiBg

Shell. On the home stretch and clocks ticking. Looking good.

Excellent Pasi. Nice to see you can turn out armour as fine as your aircraft. Thanks for joining in. Its been fun having you along.

FT-31 progress update.

Calling it done. Passing from the Americans to the Soviets to the Germans and beyond, the Stuart found itself under many different owners during the war. If I didn't only build German armor I could've done it as a Japanese capture. Always the future, I suppose.

Anyway, basically the stock Tamiya kit with markings applied with stencils. The stainless steel stencil fought me on the front plate, as can be seen. Paints are mostly Tamiya, with the exception of Vallejo track primer (the reddish-brown). Weathering material is a mix of the Tamiya makeup kits, Vallejo and AK pigments, and a mixture of pencils both colored and soft lead.

Kit was inspired by this pic:












It's a new-tool Tamiya kit; what more can be said?

German PzKpfw 730(f) finished.

Very Nicely done pair of Light Tanks Guys. Love the paint finishes.

That front Balkenkreuz would have been difficult with a steel stencil alright Shell. Just one thing, if you are interested, the tail lights were fairly universal fittings on US Tanks and other vehicles and the lenses are not all red.



In fact, most were different on each side:

Very nice tanks guys, i'm deeply envious.

A few build shots of the Academy PzKpfw 35(t)





And the painted and decalled (but not weathered) result, vehicle of the 6PD in Operation Barbarossa




It went together nicely, the only difficulty was in getting the track sections to stretch enough to join well.

Very Nice Richard. Don't forget to paint the road wheel tyres before you start weathering!!!

In case you are interested, the jacks were painted black. You can see the darker tone here:

The tyres are blacked, the mk.I eyeball can see the difference - just the camera can't pick it up. Thanks for the tip on the jack, there's a few I can go back and do.

some great progress guys, very inspirational!!! i had some difficulties in my private life which prevented me from posting or even progressing with my model, but you give me the will to take it head on hopefully i will have some progress this week

cheers!

Have ribbons been issued for this campaign yet?

Not yet Shell. I have sent a PM to John P. Give it a few days for him to look into it for you. Cheers.

Ok fellas, sorry for the delay.
Ribbons sent.

Thanks once again John

Thanks John (and Peter)!

Nathan,I truly hope-and wish- you manage to sort everything out.

yes i will deal with it shortly.
unfortunately my issues grow large and took most of my time.