more photos!

Nice one, Ezra!
Reminds me of one of my first models I ever build; this Bradley.
But you can put several pictures into one post.

As for me, I am stuck in the painting stage, as usual. I just need to paint the figures... all 2 of them.

Thanks yeahwiggie! (Finish dem figures)

Really, really nice job Ezra

Very well done Ezra. You can see you skill is improving with every new build you do. That is what it is all about.

Thanks guys!

Here is some more progress on my 1/35 sherman calliope, did some scratch building on the turret and built the flame deflector. next I plan to put on my archer raised cast marks.









and here is the scratch built vane sight ( you cant see it very well in the photos but there are the three holes drilled in ihe long piece.) And I also made the periscope cover out of copper sheet

Yes, this is what I want to see in this campaign!

I am working on the figures. Hope to show them by the end of the week.

Sweet cant wait to see the figs.

Well I am going to call this one done. I applied my pastels this morning to weather it up. Sorry for the pictures, I tried different things but couldn't get them any clearer than that. Time to upgrade to a new camera I think.









I enjoyed modifying parts of the kit such as the antenna mount, the .50 caliber, the periscope hatch and things like that. Adding all of the wiring to the launchers was a little tedious but enjoyable. Making the tissue paper tarps using the old 50/50 white glue and water mixture was fun and I enjoyed adding the logs to the sides and front storage as well. Scratch-building is enjoyable. I had been wanting to make and display an older style bow saw for a while now and so I finally made one for this campaign. I figured any good tank crew couldn't pass on a saw if they had a chance to grab it.



So anyway, thank you for the campaign Ron. It felt good to actually take part in one again. I added photos to the gallery.

Thanks,
Randy

Looks great HARV! Your right scratch building is very enjoyable as im learning on my Calliope!

Superb Randy!
Glad you enjoyed the campaign!

Nicely done! Randy!

Cheers Rob.

Hey Ron, where is the campaign gallery?

Here: Gallery

More photos of the Calliope, most scratch building and detailing ( weld seams casting texture.) are done only a little more work and into the paint booth!



scratch built flame deflector.

scratch built stowage box.

scratch building on turret. vane sight ( you can see the holes.) extended antenna holder thingy and I replaced the molded on spring on the loaders hatch with wire and guitar strings.
T-34 calliope your next!

Way to go Ezra,
Looking good, keep it up. I'm enjoying your build. I took a week vacation for a "staycation" and promised my wife I wouldn't spend it building models so I really enjoy watching other's progress.
Take care and stay safe,
Don "Lakota"

Thanks! Hows your sherman coming along? Looks like a beast of a kit!

Very nice Randy. Scratch building does give a sense of satisfaction hey.

Looking good Ezra. Love the little extras too.

Hey gang we are in the last month. Time to finish up those tributes! By-the-way that's some good looking Calliope's there!

Here's my 'test bed' for the MASSTER camo colors. I ended up mixing my own so I needed to test them out. That's an old Airfix T34 hull and turret left over from some restoration projects. (I restored any old Airfix models melting away due to track-rot. Or just replaced them if they were OOB models.)



And here's where I am with the kit. The sand brown, rust brown and forest green are on. I had the correct FS number Forest green in ModelMaster enameal - and it was entirely the wrong color. Go figure. Anyways this is what I ended up with and just the black to go. This is hand painted enameal paint over an air-brushed matte Tamiya acrylic green.

Down in the bottom-right those 2 funny-shaped white objects are my in-progress scratch-built spare track links!

Looks great!

Love those colours, Nick!
That camouflage scheme has fascinated me for quite a while.

Hey 'yall, heres another calliope update! there are fusey things on the top row of the rockets! ( ok, really there should be two tiny wires in the place of my one but I would have had to cut out friggen 240 ( this way I only have to cut out 120.) of them, so I thought Fu#& the rivet counters ( no offence to any rivet counters reading this, we all love you...))

( Wow that had more parentheses then one of my algebra problems!:D)




The reasons one of those bars is a lighter grey is because the original one broke of and I had to scratch build a new one.