Don't worry Pawel, I've got lots of projuscts lined up..... 

You're right: sometimes it's good to do something simple, start to finish, and move on, just what I've done here. Now it's back to the two Magachs in progress, and maybe something else too.......

What - no Israeli Patton? Thats kinda confusing... :-)))

Lookin' good! A nice and quick build is something we all need from time to time IMO.

Thanks for sharing and have a nice day

Paweł

Rob: all new tool. I'll be looking for one or two of the old ones though, for the turret. Also, I may yet tone down the end connectors, probably with a little dust.

Great job on a classsic kit.

Ah, it still looks good, any "old" parts or all new tool?

I'd have gone with a browner color for the end connectors.

Thanks all. This brought me back to when I had to do all my building on a table in the den and clean it all up after I was "done". I kept all my stuff in a plastic storage box and had to stash it in a cabinet in the trailer to get it out of the way (not much space in a 21 ft travel trailer) and then still be able to get it out in a few minutes later on. I probably spent two or three hours on it during the three days my wife went into Brownsville to work out of their office there, otherwise the "work space" was covered in computers and monitors.

There have been a couple of other times I've brought kits on longer vacations, but usually just sand roadwheels or something, waiting until I'm home to do the "real" work, but I used this trip as an excuse to just do some simple modeling, and it did the trick.

Rob, it's the new Tamiya kit, a much better kit than the original in many ways, most notably the accurate tracks. I'm already thinking about some kit bashing options though, so don't worry Anthony, while it was something of a struggle to build something nearly OOB, I have ideas....  

Nice quick build, Russ. 

Love the dirty look.

That looks like the new Tamiya kit, not the fun Stuart that came out in the 70's.  Of course their new kit is fun as well.  I really like all Tamiya models.  Nice work on yours.

It looks good, the old Tamiya kits still build nicely.

I used to take a small Walmart tackle box that I put a few small Testors paints, a minimal amount of tools and a small 1/72 scale armor kit and aircraft kit (without boxes) when I traveled.

It was my "TDY" (army speak for temporary duty) travel set. I would be traveling to some school or conference and work on a kit in the hotel room or unaccompanied personal housing apartment they assign us.

I still have it. I know there is an Airfix Gnat (some sort of jet trainer) and a Matchbox 1/76 scale German armored car of some type partially built in the box still.

Wait a minute Russ,you mean no gigantic conversion,you must be having gigantic withdrawal symptoms, 

Great job Russ looks great,the joy of a simple Tamiya build 

A beach build?  Wow, I could never spare enough mental concentration to build a model on a trip!  Well done!

Oh wow that's awesome! 

I normally take a couple kits on vacation so I can clean up road wheels etc while sitting in the motel room in the evenings. But never built and painted an entire model!

And you did a great job on her!