Greetings all,

Here's some more progress on my Turkish bucket. I applied pre-shade on the olive drab, used Gunze Sangyo H-78 (which states U.S. ARMY TANK on the bottle) for the overall of the vehicle. The red dots, which make the vehicle look Japanese are indeed preparations for a Turkish flag insigna, when the vehicles were taken over from U.S. Army, Turkish Army engineers painted over all signs and other stuff on the vehicles and painted 3 insignas, one for front and two at the sides. The vehicles, other than these, did not carry any identification markings or numbers. I will apply the star and the crescent of the Turkish flag as decals over the red dots.

After that I plan to give it a Gunze Clear cote, dabble the vehicle in lots and lots and lots of mud (the first Turkish crews who trained in them loved to take them to the field and especially fancied testing its amphibious capacities... or so it seems from Army Bulletins dating back to 1968). Well, we'll see what happens.

As for the pictures... Well, I work under a powerful white flourescent light. While it is great for seeing detail and not heating up like conventional lamps, it is horrid for taking pictures because all colors seem to "white" and "paled". So I tried putting a desk light with a normal bulb to combine white and yellow light... I found out it didn't work out as I expected... Must come up with a proper way to take good pictures.

Here's a good detail picture, under white light (it looks pale and white):



Here's the topside of the vehicle, under yellow light:



And there's the bucket from right and left:




A reminder, the top hatches are not glued in place. They may look off, because they slide when I move the vehicle I haven't decided yet whether I should make them open or closed. The rear hatch opens but is not painted yet, so no open pics, sorry.

Take care everyone!

Hi fellas,

Less than 2 months to finish the campaign, and we only have 6 people reporting finished models. Come on guys! We can make it!

Cheers

Here is my finished entry. Academy 1:35, M113 Fitter Recovery
Made as a Danish Mekanik vehicle.





Sorry for the poor quality photos.

Nice entry Michael, looking forward to see better pics.

Wonder where are the rest of you guys, we have many people enlisted but only 7 have showed finished entries.Remember, the campaign finishes on december 31st

Cheers

Most people dont typically submit until the very last days.

Might have to start posting reminder threads soon for a bit of a kick start.

one month to go

This is my second entry into this campaign. Didn't go as well as i hoped for due to the excessive warping of the hull which left me with not a huge amount of enthusiasm to complete this....see what you think











Regards from the Swamp

Eth

Nice one Ethelian,
she looks really good. I really like the fact that it's bleu.finelly something els than green

Thanks Jan, that was my motivation for doing the blue option, too much camo can be a drag after while

regrads from the Swamp

Eth

The part you painted red is not a fire extinguisher, but actually the crew heater. It is normally OD green.

Oh my.... Should kick myself for that... Anyhow it is too late for any corrections as it is nearly completely done. It will not be so visible I hope.

Due to a catastrophic failure of my computer, I´ve been absent from here for a while. But thanks for remind everyone that we´re only a month away from finish line, Jan....

We have 7 completed entries, and I´m willing to give an extension of no more than a week (final date january 7th) to everyone who drop me a PM requesting it.

We can do it, people!

Cheers

I put the VCC-1 conversion back on the shelf as fixing the warps in the resin was driving me nuts. Still hope to get a bucket done. An extension would be welcome.

Paul

Greetings from the Antipodes, here is my AFV Club M 548. Made up as one in service with the RNZAC, late 1970's.







Christmas greetings to one and all

David

Greetings all,

Here's some update on my Bucket.


First of all, some thinner spilled over the left side of the vehicle and messed everything up on the area behind the Turkish marking. I had to sand it to bare plastic, smooth the mutilated plastic and then do a paint job all over again. The white smudges visible on the pics are reflections, I had sprayed clear varnish over the new paint job and it is reflecting a piece of paper that's out of the picture.



What did I do as a progress?

I applied the crescent-star Turkish markings from a local producers decal set, then gave it a covering of Gunze clear coat. Then I started to work in the detailing, painted the vision glasses for the turret and the driver's cupola. I checked reference pics to weather the tracks and by using Gunze's weathering pastels, tried to imitate worn tracks that had seen some field work. I also weathered the exit ramp.



I have a question about the fuel cans at the back of the vehicle. The ones supplied with the kit does not look good enough for me. I decided to find new jerry cans, make the straps that hold it in place from masking tape and also scratchbuild the attachment hooks. However, the only jerrycan I can find is from Tamiya's Modern US Battlefield Accessories set and I am suspecting that it might a little too modern for my vehicle:




Mind you, the vehicle I am trying to make is a 1968 Turkish M-113, purchased from U.S. so the jerry can I am planning to use might be way off. I need directions as to what else ı can use for a proper jerry can.

Ok people, 5 days to go. If any body needs an extension, please drop me PM to know.

Cheers

Hi All,
Heres my M113 Lynx, scratched from a Tamiya hull and sheet styrene. I used Tamiya road wheels, AFV track, Maple Leaf Models front sprockets, head lights antenna mounts, some Eduard etch and Verlinden weapons.
Hope you like
Peter

That looks really good Peter,
It is hard to believe that it is mostly scratched build. My hat off to you

Here is my entry, OOTB Tamiya 1/35 M113,

I have to echo Jan's comments about your Lynx Peter, exceptional work, congrats!

Regards from the Swamp

Eth

Thanks for the comments.I picked the Lynx as my first scratch because it was a fairly simple build and as I drove them when I was younger I had a good knowledge to source from. Heres some pics before paint.
Regards and all the best for the New Year
Peter

Well people, this is the Official list for those with valid entries:

MIC
hawkeye
D_J_W
Joker
dexter059
betheyn
Jazza
janwillem
tony55

There are 2 persons enlisted that requested more time, so to be fair, I´ll grant 1 week extension of the campaign for those who hasn´t finished yet.
I´ll spent 1 or 2 weeks delivering the ribbons to all that submited valid entries

eMan, I regret to say that your entry isn´t suitable for the campaign. The rules stated clearly that this campaign was about NON US or Israeli vehicles, and yours depict a US vehicle. Sorry buddy, for the next one gotta be....

Cheers to all, hope that all of you had a Happy New Year

I need today to finish mine. Or one more day maybe.
So little a number actually finished?

Yes, sad to say just the above mentioned actually finished according to the rules. But there are really good examples of the rest of the worlds buckets.

You have till january 7th to finish buddy, but PLEASE finish it, a turkish bucket it´s missing :-)

Best Regards

I have finished it! Hooray!

However my brother took away my camera for the day, if dad would lend me his pictures will be here within the hour. If not tomorrow.

Thanks a lot for the extension again.

Edit: Here are the pics, as my brother also stole away my tripod I have to take pictures out on the balcony with books acting as tripods. Sorry for the poor quality of the pics.