1/48 Armor GB (Non Aircraft)

You're welcome, Tony. Too bad they don't seemed to have put more sets out for 1/48. They gave you quite a bit for the money, especially compared to Hauler where every item was a seperate set.

 Bushi, sorry to hear about your situation. I hope everything works out for you.

Hey waikong please take me off the list. They just started to do layoffs where I work. I should be ok, and should get past over, but right at the moment I better not purchase anything else till I see what happen. 

Jeff

really nice stug waikong, inspirational even. thanks for the heads up re the lion roar set too, i wasn't aware of that one.

cheers

tony

Tony, welcome to the GB. That's a great looking kit, I just bought that myself a months back. I did the first Tamiya Stug III in Winter camo too, that was really fun. Here's a pic of that build

Here's the link to the webpage if you want to see more images

http://waihobbies.wkhc.net/StugIII.html

Jeeves, thanks for the heads up, I'm going to take a look.

Here's some pictures of my build so far. I gave everything a Khaki drab, cut opened the left doors, and added some scratch built details to the inside as it was now readily visible.

Here' s what you get in the Tamiya Stug III Ausf J. For me, this one is all about the winter white wash. That should be a lot of fun !

Cheers

Tony

Hi,

Before you do, check out Eric YY at http://www.ericyymodel.com/. He's actually sold out of the US Army Staff Car at the moment, but I believe he is the cheapest, bar none. He is also very good on postage, he's even made recommendations to me to save postage. I have no affiliation to him, other than as a satisfied customer.

Happy buying !

Tony Mollica

Thanks.I'll look into that next time I order from must_bid.

I'm assuming GM is Great Models?

He did combine shipping for me-- you just maybe need to contact him first?? 

By the way-- GM has the US staff car on sale for $20 and some change...

If you guys do the eBay thing-- there is a sller there who sells the quarter scale Tamiya kits for very reasonable prices-- search under a seller named "must_bid". Most of the smaller vehicles are going for from $9-12...tanks for $16-19...figgies-- ~$8...sorry-- no staff car :(

Hi Everyone,

I like the look of that Bren Carrier, but I don't have one in my stash. So, I'd like to contribute a Tamiya Stug III Ausf. G if that's OK.

I can post some unstarted photos later today, but I'm off on holiday for a week tomorrow. I hope to have the basic construction done at the end of that, so I'll post some more pics then.

Cheers

Tony

I was waiting for some paint to dry (seriously), so I decided to take pics of the kit while I was waiting, so here's what I'll be working with. Don't know yet when I'll start, possibly tomorrow, but then again I'll probably put it off for a week or so.

Will do mg. I've updated the 1st post.

I actually started on my Kurogane yesterday. Lay down some paint, looks like a fairly easy and fast build (for me anyway). So easy that I'm thinking of cutting open one of the doors just to add a bit of variety into the build.

This may be of intrest to some 1/48 armor builders.....just released accessory sets for some Tamiya kits, like the M26 Pershing, Cromwell, and Firefly. Here's the link if your intrested: http://www.perthmilitarymodelling.com/newkitnews/blackdog.htm

I agree about the prices on the Tamiya 1/48 kits here in the US. But if you compare that with the cost from Asian Hobby stores online, the cost is about 75%-80% more here. Granted, there's shipping and handling, but I think it's mostly the distributor's added cost.

I've started buying mostly my Asian kits directly from Asia, the shipping of course bumps the cost of buying just one kit back up to almost US levels. But by buying waiting and saving up to buy 4 or 5 kits, i usually get a 50% discount compare to US online shops. For example, the staff car is about $17 and the Citreon is $9 US.  Compare that to $30 and $15 from a well know US mail order place.  Of course sometimes the US have great sales too.

waikong wrote:

Mike, welcome to the GB. That's a great kit, was that the one with individual links?

You know-- I have no idea.  I'd have to go look in the workshop-- but right now the workshop is below zero...brrrr

Ithink the main thing is it's "New!".  It did come wrapped up along with a Mustang in a box kit for a while and I think they just released it solo...

TD, The Citreon is just as good. Better yet do both like you said. If I have the time (and I hope to since the Kurogane is a small kit), I would do my Swimwaggen (Frog - ex Bandai molds) thats been sitting in my stash for a while.

Bushi, take your time, and there's always the internet.

I'll let you know as soon as I can. The only thing in my stash at 1/48 is a corsair. So I need to run to the LHS and see if they have anything I have not built. I am not going to hold my breath, they don't have a lot to choose from.

Hey I guess I could shear the wing off and make the corsair a hedgerow weed eater! NAH I just go to the store instead!

Jeff

Hey Waikong - looks like Mg.Mikael has gotten himself somehow tangled up with me in the roster above! Care to extricate him?

Mmmmmm...1/48 Hetzer.

I say we go now, got 10 people.  We'll be happy to add people as to discover this thread.

Matt, I have that HB T-34 kit and can't wait to do it - but always been holding back because I wanted to do justice to the full interior. I have the Tamiya one also, so I was thinking maybe I'll make the HB one a cut-away kit.

Mike, welcome to the GB. That's a great kit, was that the one with individual links?