QUOTE: Originally posted by wipw
Nice builds, Duke, but as asked above, who makes the kits?? How were the builds?
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These are Hasegawa kits, and they are quite easy to put together! The build was smooth, except for putting on the steering wheel, and there are some small gaps between the upper hull and lower hull when they are put together. The gaps are mostly near the middle or back of the kit, so they are easy to fill and sand with gap-filling CA glue, which is what I used. There are a lot of extra parts, so if anyone wanted to make a 251/1 out of it, that was possible.
QUOTE: Originally posted by nmayhew
look real nice Duke Maddog!!
the camo schemes are really cool.
petbat, i'm not sure, but weren't these vehicles intro'd mid '43? as the war dragged on the russians probably had more MGs than the germans, their troops certainly had more machine pistols/SMGs ie every man had them in some formations by the '44 "bagration" offensive. a far cry from the situation as depicted in the openening scenes of "enemy At The Gates" (stalingrad, '42)
...and if you were joking then i sound a) silly b)like a rivet counter whose home is missing-lynx!!
regards,
nick
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Yeah, they were done in 1943 and sent to the Eastern Front first. That's why I decided to make a Russian captured one. And yeah, the Russians had more weapons than they knew what to do with by that time, so now I have to find a couple of machine guns in that scale to put on the Russian vehicle!
QUOTE: Originally posted by djmodels1999
Great models, Duke..! What's next???
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You mean besides the two Trumpeter Kirov-class Russian battlecruisers that are nearly done? I believe you've seen the two wingy-thingies I'm working on, so I guess thanks to Nandakumar's pics of the Bofors he built, I think I'll dig that out and start it, along with Monty's caravan, and also, (gasp!) my last ACE kit!