Howdy!

to the forum.  You came to the right place to improve your skills.  If you have questions all you need to do is ask.

Welcome to the Forums .

Regards,  Rick

wyoroy wrote:

to the forum.  You came to the right place to improve your skills.  If you have questions all you need to do is ask.

, lot of talent around these parts!

Welcome Matt!

Glade your here! the best dam forum aroud, bar none!!

Do you build armor? If you do post pics.

G'day Mikael. Actually, i'm going to begin armor modeling soonish. I've got the 1/48 Tamiya Panther G (late release) kit and can't wait. i'm fascinated by tanks, beautiful machines, I don't know why I didn't begin armor before. I assume you are an avid armor modeler yourself , yes? Any tips on how I should go about building my first tank (e.g. is there anytyhing I should lookout for when building armor to avoid mucking everything up?) Or is it fairly self explicable? And no, I don't submit photos yet, don't wanna embarrass myself with how good I am not compared to most other people here on the forums. My primary reason for joining the forum was to get advice and get better building results, so I think I'll wait a bit. I don't even know how to post my pictures onto the forum let alone my computer, anyway. Catch up later, somenewguy.  

IF possible you should try to do a model, when first staring off, that doesn't require camo. Why, because that way you'll focus more on the model, instead of how to paint it right. I never modeled the 1/48 Panther from Tamiya but I have built there KV-I, Tiger tank, and Wirbelwind. Pictures of my Wirbelwind on 5th page in armor section. But that was my first armor posted here on the forums and it wasn't that great. Mainly because I chose to hand paint it, plus I chose not to weather it, and it was my first attempt at camo.

Howdy back!.....Interesting to see how you fare. Everyone here is pretty normal....but you have to watch the armor types

I took you're advice mikael, I've just bought myself a copy of Hobby Boss' 1/48 1942 Russian KV-1 'simplified turret' heavy tank. It only comes with one painting scheme with one body color, in addition to a winter weathering scheme. Looks like a very good kit, not as good a quality as Tamiya, a little bit of flash and not as smooth a mould as Tamiya, however Hobby Boss' instructions seem to be very simplified and aren't cluttered with all this advice and reminder bullsh** that surrounds the diagrams in Tamiya's instruction booklets.

14.8 cm long; 205 parts on 8 sprues; 22 photoetched parts and has two brasswire tow cables. When I figure out how to put pictures on the forum i'll take photos of the unbuilt kit and put 'em on. cheers.

Sorry, let me make a correction. It comes with a painting scheme with three versions, the first two with the same body color, just different decals. And the third one for a KV-1 from the winter front.