Andy , you must have been suprised to see that ROK M19 truck still in use ; I really like the look of the GMC CCKW 353 rag top truck and I have ordered another three Heller 1/72 kits and one 1/35 kit .
Greg , excellent progress on the LVT and those sandbags look good , as does the concentina wire ; Please share your technique on making the wire , I'm busting to have some on my truck bumpers .
As for me I have been making steady progress on my 1/72 Armor builds , I have added the Airfix AEC Matador and Hasegawa jeep and trailer into the mix with the other vehicles I'm working on ...
My AEC Matador kit was missing a front cab door , so I went to the spares box and found an old Airfix AEC Matador Tanker . It's the second time I have used parts from this scrapped vehicle , I used part of the chassie to fix the broken / missing section on the Revell M19 Tank Transporter . This time the whole front cab section was still all glued together , so it made sense to just use the old cab , rather than trying to cut out one door .
Here's Hasegawa's Jeep and Trailer sprue pic ;
Both builds are quite straight forward and it only took one evening to have them ready for the spraybooth ;
The last three evenings I've been decaling all the other vehicles and Centurion tank , as well as 24 soldiers to place in and around the vehicles ;
Tonight I added a little black enamel wash and all the armor and vehicles are now ready for a final flat clear coat . So I'm quite happy that I'm in the home straight on these beauties .
I do have an idea floating around in my busy little head and I was thinking about having a first attempt and building a display base for the Searchlight Truck to sit on just like the photo in Squadrons Armor in Korea book ....
Do you guy's think these materials are suitable to use ;
The Searchlight Truck appears to be sitting high on a mostly gravel hill top , so I thought about using some spakle powder mixed with water to make the hill top along with some Noch Light Gray medium ballast as the surface , there's a tree for one corner of the display board and the variety pack of camouflage netting arrive today to go over the searchlight Truck . Academy have some nice gun mounts in their 2.5 Ton truck as well as machine guns , so I can place a couple of those on the hill top as well .
So is just ordinary spakle okay to use , I'll only mix a little at a time and build the hill and roadway slowly ???
Any advice would be greatly appreciated .
John .