The Weekend Madness GB.

Razor,

That little landing craft is looking good, keep it up!

Steve,

I want to apologize if my remark about building braille scale armor caused you offense. That was not my intent.  Every time I tried to rationalize my thoughts behind the statement, the hole I was trying to dig myself out of got deeper so I decided to stop digging and humbly apologize. You did a great job on the Lee, and the Elefant would have been great too if you hadn't had problems with it.

Steve, the Lee raced along - built before I had seen you had started! Good result including dinner out, well done.

Steve CB, nice work on the Mustang, very neat. 

Razor, the LCVP has come together very neatly. Is that an old kit?

Lostagain, it is a relatively new kit released in 2014 I believe.

Done with 18 minutes to spare.  I'll take some proper pictures later today.  This completes my land, sea and air theme for this year.  Thanks lewbud for hosting this once again.  I look forward to it every year.

Congratutlations on getting her done Razor!  I look forward to the pics.

Hey Guys!  I hope everyone had a decent holiday.  I was away for a few days and now realize that I never posted pics. of the Apache.  Choose whichever you like Lewbud.  Don't you hate it when the camera makes your decals silver?  They don't look near that shiny in person.  lol.

P1012013 by Tim Bowers, on Flickr

P1012010 by Tim Bowers, on Flickr

P1012011 by Tim Bowers, on Flickr

P1012012 by Tim Bowers, on Flickr

I also realized that I have time to try one more before New Years.  Never built an MPM kit before but what the heck.  Away we go again.

P1012016 by Tim Bowers, on Flickr

P1012017 by Tim Bowers, on Flickr

Set to start around midnight!

Tim,

Got the front page updated with your pic and your next build.  Looking forward to it.

Started the 1/35 HobbyBoss Defender Wolf WMIK.  This will be a crossover with Bish's British Army GB.

I'm actually further along, but forgot to take pics.  Had to take a break for research and to give the back a rest.

The chassis is now ready for paint. 

More soon.

You're off to a good start lewbud.  Keep at it!

Sorry for the delay but here are my finished pics for the LCVP.  Take the first one for the front page lewbud.

Razor---very impressive LCVP!

lewbud I'm going in with the 1/35 Tamiya M3 Stuart (not the recent one)

Ain't done a tank since the Aurora and Monogram kits in the 70's.  Aiming to start New Years Eve, I hope.

Front page is updated with Razor's LCVP and Freem's build.

Freem,

I look forward to seeing it come together.

As for my build, the frame has now been primered and I'm working on the engine and transmission.

23 hours in and I've got the basic bed finished.

The bed mocked up on the chassis.

I still have one more part to paint and then the engine/transmission should be done.  More soon.

Neat looking kit Lewbud.  Look forward to seeing it come together.  It's also nice to see a ship in Weekend Madness.  That doesn't seem to happen very often.

I have been remiss in posting photos.  This kit is keeping me very busy.  Reminds me of the old Classic Airframes kits.  Lots of clean up, no locating tabs or pins but reasonable details.  I also can't overstate how much I hate vacuform parts.  All this together with vague instructions has made this a labor.  So while the first paint is drying down, I have a chance to post.

P1012019 by Tim Bowers, on Flickr

P1012020 by Tim Bowers, on Flickr

P1012021 by Tim Bowers, on Flickr

P1012022 by Tim Bowers, on Flickr

P1012029 by Tim Bowers, on Flickr

Some of the basic build up.  Check out that warp!  Now on with some paint.

P1012027 by Tim Bowers, on Flickr

P1012030 by Tim Bowers, on Flickr

P1012031 by Tim Bowers, on Flickr

P1012024 by Tim Bowers, on Flickr

P1012035 by Tim Bowers, on Flickr

I think I will be hanging this one from the ceiling because the landing gear are just embarassing.  I will show them later.  To make things more difficult ( fun! ), I think my airbrush just blew it's teflon seal, so I needed to switch to an oldie that I had lying around.  I still feel confident that I will have something to show.  I still have nine hours left.

 Keep building guys!

That's looking good Tim! I got faith that you can whip it into shape.

On to the WMIK.

Engine and transmission are done.

Engine and chassis mocked up.

Fuel tank installed.

Engine and bed mocked up on chassis.

Time to start slinging paint.

Lewbud-

Been following all the builds since the start-all very impressive builds (as usual)-and the fact that they've been built in 48hrs +/- makes them even more impressive.

I can't miss this GB (it's usually the only kit I complete during the year) but motivation hasn't been there-decided to try something different-started at 5:30 pm CST on the Revell Porsche.....Tractor.  I need a quick win and I figured I wouldn't keep second guessing myself on this one.

Misplaced my camera so the start pics are on my phone-will get them on the hosting site early tomorrow and then post here.  About half way thru the build so I should finish the build tomorrow, prime and maybe get a base coat on tomorrow pm....and I've only lost one part so far-gear shift so a straight pin should work as a replacement....

Bob

Well, worked right until 12.  Can't hold it to a clock without getting fingerprints in the clear so I will post more pics. tomorrow.

P1012036 by Tim Bowers, on Flickr

Till tomorrow

Well done Tim! Look forward to proper pics.

With 11 hours to go, this is where the WMIK is at.  The frame has been painted, the bed has been painted and installed (took three times), and the powerplant has been installed (took three times).  Here she is with the machine gun cage and the firewall mocked up.

I have to make a run to the LHS because I'm out of Tamiya primer.  I can save some time if I don't add the weapons and the boatload of ammo, but I don't know if it will be enough. We'll see.

Nice work Tim & Buddy-very you guys do great work in a short amount of time.

Got pics on hosting site-Porsche (much more impressive than saying 'tractor') is in the garage letting the Tamiya primer dry/gas off-will attempt to shoot some acrylic this evening.

Anyway, pics in order:

Bob, cool subject.  I don't recall seeing a tractor being done before for this group build.   Looking forward to the end result.  

Caveman, awesome work.  Those MPM kits are not easy.  My hats off to you for pulling it off.

Lewbud, keep at it.  You're almost there.

Bob,

That is a cool subject.  One of the car magazines I read posted a race of Porsche tractors and one of them was painted as the Pink Pig towing a trailer full of pink pigs.

This is where my build was at 1415.  While I got some parts painted, the only addition was the rear storage basket.

Thank you all-it is an interesting subject-great test bed for painting/weathering-I will probably do some heavy weathering after submitting the final pics for this GB.

I primed earlier this am with Tamiya grey spray and then airbrushed a mixture of Tamiya flat red & flat white-got brave after that and pulled out the Vallejo Model Air and attempted some 'detail' spraying-I'm happy with the results although I will be doing 'clean up' with a brush tomorrow.  Would like to do heavy weathering but I'll save that for later.

Anyway, here's where it stands now:

Got started tonight since no one was interested in doing anything but watch tv, so I brought the kit, sprue cutter, glue, knife, file and sanding stick and hammered it out on the breakfast table.  Got so intense in building I failed to take in-progress shots but sprues to paint ready in 3 hrs with a couple of snack breaks and tv distractions.

Bob, Freem,

Your builds are looking great! Keep at it!

Thank you Lewbud.

Freem-love the Tamiya armour kits-they go together nicely (for the most part) and are a great pallet for weathering and testing new techniques-your's is looking great.

I'm done-would have liked to put a clear coat on and then an oil wash but maybe that's a rainy day project.  Happy with the build-kit goes together well, for the most part.  Decals are not friendly and it seems my bottle of Solvaset has passed it's 'best by' date-add that to the list.

Enough yaba-yaba on my part:

And here's the target....kinda....I went for the 'well used' and repainted in a barn..

Lewbud-again, thank you for running this tradition-this is the only model I've built this year.  Hoping 2021 is more productive.

To all the participants-thank you for providing inspiration and ideas with your builds & posts-everyone continues to amaze me with the quality of work being posted.

On that note, it's time for some bowl games!

Cheers

The tractor looks great Bob!  Which pic would you like for the front page?

Thank you Lewbud-go with the last one please.

And again, thank you for running this GB-I look forward to it every year.

Bob that tractor is really cool!  Unique.  Bet tractor models would sell to the red and green buffs (if maybe the diecast stuff wouldn't kill it).

Broke out the airbrush and after three clogs and a teardown got the Stuart some olive drab:

Your Lee is looking good Freem! Keep at it.

The frontpage has been updated with a pic of Bob's tractor.  

Work goes slowly on the WMIK.

Got 'er done!  Love this annual GB, Lewbud! My wife even roots me on!

Absolute minumum weathering, straight OOB, did drill out the 37mm barrel.

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Use the third or last pic, I can't decide