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                        Meng FT-17 French Light Tank Riveted Turret

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                        wbill76
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                          July 2004
                        • From: Texas
                        Posted by wbill76 on Thursday, September 25, 2014 4:45 PM

                        Glad to have you on board ps1! Wink

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                        ps1scw
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                          June 2006
                        • From: Michigan
                        Posted by ps1scw on Thursday, September 25, 2014 12:38 PM

                        Very cool subject.  Gotta love all the WWI subjects coming out.

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                        disastermaster
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                        • From: On my kitchen counter top somewhere in North Carolina.
                        Posted by disastermaster on Wednesday, September 24, 2014 2:18 PM

                        wbill76

                        Steve

                        I don't know what you're talking about...Wink

                        http://images.yuku.com.s3.amazonaws.com/image/gif/1b5251a4b65a7bc83cbd612cee9209dd1887f5f.gif  Ahh, get outt'a here http://www.armywivesforums.com/forums/images/smilies/new2012/kicked-out-smiley.gif

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                        Sherman-Jumbo-1945

                        "I never know what to expect here anymore."

                         

                         
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                        wbill76
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                          July 2004
                        • From: Texas
                        Posted by wbill76 on Wednesday, September 24, 2014 11:41 AM

                        Steve

                        I don't know what you're talking about...Wink

                        CTD

                        I got mine for a good price as well so figured why not? Very impressed with the fit and detail so far on this little guy. Glad to have you along! Beer

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                        CrashTestDummy
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                        Posted by CrashTestDummy on Wednesday, September 24, 2014 8:40 AM

                        I've read good reviews on this kit, and picked one up on sale.  When I opened the kit up when it arrived, I almost started on it right then.  It's a very nice kit.  I have too many other half-started projects, though, so I'm working through those first.  

                        I'll be watching this build, though.  

                        G. Beaird,

                        Pearland, Texas

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                        disastermaster
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                        • From: On my kitchen counter top somewhere in North Carolina.
                        Posted by disastermaster on Tuesday, September 23, 2014 11:01 PM

                        wbill76
                        disastermaster

                        wbill76

                        After spending the last few weeks down in the Ships forum building a 1/350 HMS Dreadnought.....

                        So http://rpgmaker.net/media/content/users/27827/locker/HEADSHAKING_SMILEY.gif THAT'S where you've been.

                        You caught me Steve! It's not cheating though...it was armored, had turrets, and some big guns! Big Smile

                        Yeah, yeah, yeah, but it ain't got no dad burn-tracks, darn it.

                        http://heathersanimations.com/military/edpanz3.gifhttp://heathersanimations.com/military/edsherm4.gif


                        http://z5.ifrm.com/30179/46/0/e5148760/e5148760.gif Next thing I know, you'll be

                               building flying saucers..........http://dhammawheel.com/images/smilies/saucer.gif http://www.allempires.com/forum/smileys/smiley29.gif

                                                              (like some other guy I know here)

                        Sherman-Jumbo-1945

                        "I never know what to expect here anymore."

                         

                         
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                        the doog
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                        Posted by the doog on Tuesday, September 23, 2014 7:42 PM

                        Cripes, but you don't slow down for a minute, Bill!

                        Cool beans--didn't even realize they released this!

                        I'm going to start the Takom Mark IV Male soon! It'll be a WWI party!

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                        wbill76
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                          July 2004
                        • From: Texas
                        Posted by wbill76 on Tuesday, September 23, 2014 7:41 PM
                        redleg12

                        First you cheat on us and go to ships (still waiting for you to do a car...nice German staff car), now you screw with our heads and go French. What is this world coming to...first legalized pot, same sex marriage, Bill builds a ship, now he goes French!!! OMG

                        Rounds Complete!!

                        But at least I will finish it in the American markings for 1918... Wink As for the staff car, you may have to wait a while for that one. Big Smile

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                        redleg12
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                        • From: New Jersey
                        Posted by redleg12 on Tuesday, September 23, 2014 7:09 PM

                        First you cheat on us and go to ships (still waiting for you to do a car...nice German staff car), now you screw with our heads and go French. What is this world coming to...first legalized pot, same sex marriage, Bill builds a ship, now he goes French!!! OMG

                        Rounds Complete!!

                        "The Moral High Ground....A Great Place to Emplace Artillery."

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                        wbill76
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                          July 2004
                        • From: Texas
                        Posted by wbill76 on Tuesday, September 23, 2014 10:04 AM
                        disastermaster

                        wbill76

                        After spending the last few weeks down in the Ships forum building a 1/350 HMS Dreadnought.....

                        So http://rpgmaker.net/media/content/users/27827/locker/HEADSHAKING_SMILEY.gif THAT'S where you've been.

                        You caught me Steve! It's not cheating though...it was armored, had turrets, and some big guns! Big Smile

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                        disastermaster
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                          July 2003
                        • From: On my kitchen counter top somewhere in North Carolina.
                        Posted by disastermaster on Tuesday, September 23, 2014 3:40 AM

                        wbill76

                        After spending the last few weeks down in the Ships forum building a 1/350 HMS Dreadnought.....

                        So http://rpgmaker.net/media/content/users/27827/locker/HEADSHAKING_SMILEY.gif THAT'S where you've been.

                        Sherman-Jumbo-1945

                        "I never know what to expect here anymore."

                         

                         
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                        wbill76
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                          July 2004
                        • From: Texas
                        Posted by wbill76 on Monday, September 22, 2014 5:42 PM

                        Glad to have you onboard Mustang! Wink

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                        mustang1989
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                          March 2012
                        • From: Corpus Christi, Tx
                        Posted by mustang1989 on Monday, September 22, 2014 1:33 PM

                        Lookin' forward to peepin' in on this one Bill.

                                           

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                        wbill76
                        • Member since
                          July 2004
                        • From: Texas
                        Posted by wbill76 on Monday, September 22, 2014 11:07 AM

                        SP1

                        I'm contemplating something along those lines perhaps, have to think on it a bit! Wink

                        Terry

                        agree with you on the appeal of all those rivets and angular sides! It's about time the WWI subjects got their due and I figured this one was just right for a little centenary-acknowledging project.

                        Anthony

                        glad to have you along!

                        BeerRuss

                         got to keep things interesting every now and then you know! This one will be French-American since the kit includes markings for a US vehicle in 1918.

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                        RBaer
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                          September 2006
                        • From: Dripping Springs, TX, USA
                        Posted by RBaer on Monday, September 22, 2014 10:21 AM

                        A ship, and now something French? Wow.......

                        Apprentice rivet counter.

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                        Tojo72
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                          March 2003
                        • From: Western North Carolina
                        Posted by Tojo72 on Monday, September 22, 2014 9:44 AM

                        looking forward to this one

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                        jibber
                        • Member since
                          January 2013
                        Posted by jibber on Monday, September 22, 2014 8:29 AM

                        Bill timing is everything, I picked up this kit for the WWI GB a bit ago but haven't started it yet. The kit is so well detailed and Meng does a great job in engineering I can't wait to get started on it. I think I'm going to pass on painting the interior, even with the hatches open not much will be visible, but like you I'm still not sure. I love the paint schemes on these old guys and how about those rivets…Terry

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                        SprueOne
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                          January 2006
                        • From: California
                        Posted by SprueOne on Sunday, September 21, 2014 8:24 PM

                        Here Eats 

                        Hmmm, interior, can paint everything behind the driver seat flat black or go "curb side" with this one 

                        Anyone with a good car don't need to be justified - Hazel Motes

                         

                        Iron Rails 2015 by Wayne Cassell Weekend Madness sprueone

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                        wbill76
                        • Member since
                          July 2004
                        • From: Texas
                        Meng FT-17 French Light Tank Riveted Turret
                        Posted by wbill76 on Sunday, September 21, 2014 7:20 PM

                        After spending the last few weeks down in the Ships forum building a 1/350 HMS Dreadnought, I decided it was time to return to some familiar territory! For my next victim, I chose Meng's 1/35 French FT-17 Light Tank (Riveted Turret).

                        I started work on this little guy with Step 1 which deals with the hull floor plate and various elements of the driver's station and controls. As I'm contemplating painting the interior and leaving the access hatches open for this area, I left off the driver's seat cushion and control levers for the time being.

                        Next I cleaned up the hull sides and the nose and rear plates so I could get a good idea of how the hull would come together. Left side of the hull received the two-gauge instrument panel which was a little challenge to place since there aren't any locater marks or guides for where it should go beyond the one diagram in Step 2.

                        I assembled the hull roof plate as directed in Step 6 and added the angled side armor plates for the driver's view hatch outlined in Step 7. The nose plate, B8, was also installed on the hull floor. A quick check with some strips of masking tape let me mock up the hull and make sure that everything will fit together properly. The slight gap visible at the front of the hull roof is due to the limitations of the tape contact/tension in that area and not a fit flaw in the kit.

                        Skipping ahead a bit to Step 13, I cleaned up the driver's view hatch and the two access hatches and added their grab handles.

                        At this point I'm not 100% sure I will go ahead and leave the driver's area hatches open. This particular kit doesn't include any additional detail for the interior past the driver's seat back so I'm rethinking the notion. I may just pose the driver's vision hatch open instead...or just keep things simple and close it all up. Have to see how I feel about it and go from there I guess.

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