Thats great to hear. Look foward to seeing hte panzer

Jason

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Seriously, I can't wait either!

Be sure to get the correct markings too  

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"Every War Starts And Ends With An Invasion".

WWII and Warhammer 40k modeller, WWII hobby historian.

With my Lend-Lease entry done, I can finally start on my 1/35 Tristar Panzer I Ausf. A!!!

I believe I posted these two pics awhile back of what I'll be working with, but nevertheless here they are again. No, that's not an exageration, their really are that many sprues for this miniscule tank.

I put the tansmission together, the lower hull had some parts added, the engine wall was put together, and the floor plate(of which I better scribed the panel lines.) I had some problems with the fit of one or two parts, but I don't think it was the kit since I had problems understanding the part placement from the instuctions.

The transmission in my opinion was a tad bit over engineered in my opinion. It's 13 parts, and if you leave the 'trans' hatch open you'll only see a bit, and if you leave the 'trans' hatch closed(like I plan to do) you'll barely see it through other hatches. Now don't get me wrong the piece had beautiful detail, but unless you're gonna have the transmission displayed outside the armor, it's sort-of a waste.

Lookin' ahead I'm not too sure of the interior color, the instructions say gray, but I believe it was a white of sorts(that's what I'm going with). I guess I'm doubting the instructions since they did spell some words wrong like "early". Tristar spelled it "eearly", I mean come on just get a dang english dictionary or use Wikipedia. Seriously, how hard could it be to spell correctly? Anyways, lookin' forward to gettin' the transmission painted up soon and getting past these problems. Thanks for looking.

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jay12472 wrote:

mg great start. Its to bad that you won't see the tranny looks very nice.  As far as the interior color goes I know that MM makes one called panzer interior, which is an off whiteish color Jason

Thanks for lookin' in, jay12472! I'll look and see if my LHS carries that specific color. If not, I'll probably just take some white and green and make my own dirty white color.

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jay12472- Looks like your progressing nicely, what scale is that?

As for my update, I've been building up the interior slowly. But I've gotten the basic tub shape of the hull put together, along with some other odd's and end's. However the Tristar intructions are incorrect again in places and this time it's not the spelling, it's misnumbered parts. The intructions mis-number the two side hull parts, but the solution is simply just switch the parts to opposite sides. But that wasn't the only problem, the rear axle didn't completley connect with the hull, so I had to throw in some putty there. Then the middle axle(the part the is attached to the hull) wouldn't fit under the floor plate so I had to trim some of the piece. Overall, I must say I'm suprised and disapointed by all these faults Tristar has in this kit.

As for the hull sides, the fit isn't the greatest. Not what was I expecting from Tristar, the fit should have been better. But a little putty fills up the gaps perfectly.

I haven't put the transmission in permanently yet, and thankfully I didn't. Nor did I try putting the front axles in positon untill the hull sides were installed. The front axle had a terrible fit(no way on my kit to get the axle perfectly straight like the instructions say. I had to use some glue, and while that was setting, completely move the pieces(that were actually supposed to fit in to each other) untill I got the axle at least connected to the hull. That meant I actually had to purposely mis-align parts(strange I know.) Thankfully it will be pretty much impossible to see since I'm leaving the 'trans' hatch closed.

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"There's nothing funny about a clown in the moonlight."- Lon Chaney

jay12472 wrote:

mg Thanky you ,I amhaveing fun withit. It is 700th scale. That seems like a lot of mistakes on tristars part. Is that common with thier kits, cause I have only heard good things about them? Jason

This is my first Tristar kit so I don't know if this is usual(or simply a bad mold.} I've also never heard of problems w/Tristar kits(only heard good things like you.) But I guess I shouldn't complain, since compared to my last build from Zvezda(which was hellish), this build is flying together.

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"There's nothing funny about a clown in the moonlight."- Lon Chaney

Huxy wrote:

That build looks AWESOME so far! I personally would leave the transmission out... Use it for something else instead, as you will not be able to see it. Seems like a lot of problems indeed..   But you'll get there! Those springs looks like a VERY great step ahead for sure.   And the tips was published in the "readers tips"? Weird you didn't get any money for it.. I myself have sold an article which is yet to be published. But I got the contract signed and I have recieved the money.  That will be a 1 page feauture, not just a small little "tip"     Sorry for a late reply, I've been waaayyy to busy....!

Thanks for the comments, Huxy! As for the money FSM owes me I'm not worried, they'll pay me one way or another.

By the way what did you sell FSM an article about?....if you don't mind me asking. I just started writing up an article on one of my past WIP builds(so I already have some writings), but I'm still a distance from it being even remotely finished.

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"There's nothing funny about a clown in the moonlight."- Lon Chaney

mg That looks great the springs look much better. I just got back from vacation and will get going again soon.

Jason

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