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The official Junior GB of 2009!

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  • From: From Vernal UT OH YEA!!
Posted by raptordriver on Wednesday, June 24, 2009 1:31 PM

Hey this is some pretty cool stuff! But wheres the planes?

Boba when your computer works again I will be building a 1/48 Otaki FW-190 A-8

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Andrew

 

 

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Posted by model maniac 96 on Wednesday, June 24, 2009 3:53 PM
Cool, looks like it will be a good one!


Jim.
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Posted by model maniac 96 on Wednesday, June 24, 2009 11:58 PM

All right, I have made more progess now, and I think it is comming along nicely. These Dragon kits are a dream to build, except the pak 40Evil [}:)], which is kicking my but badly! Well, here's the pictures!! hope you like!!

   The evil Pak 40 progress,

 I have somewhat assembeled one of the legs, 

 

And I have finished the wheel dolly,

Here's the Tiger 1 progress,

put together the mufflers,

 

Finished the turret,

 and worked on the upper hull, and did some damaging on the Zimmerit,

And the halftrack progress, I have assembled the upper and lower hulls and painted and weathered the interior of the lower half,

I began putting together the front windows,

 and I put some of the rear door together and filled the gaps and ejector pin marks with putty, but I have not sanded them yet,

 I hope you guys like it, sorry for the kinda bad pics!

    Tell me what you think, Jim.Smile [:)]

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Posted by Huxy on Thursday, June 25, 2009 4:39 AM

I think it's coming along quite nicely!   But you got a nasty line along the 88mm and the leg of the PAK 40! Wink [;)]

 

Looking forward for mroe!!!

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Posted by model maniac 96 on Thursday, June 25, 2009 1:27 PM
Thank you very much Huxy, I knew about the seam on the pak 40 leg, I was going to fix that after I got the rest of the stuff on the leg! But thank you very much for pointing out that seam line on the Tiger's 88, I must have missed that. I will get rid of that later today!

Thanks, Jim
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Posted by figure freak on Friday, June 26, 2009 11:00 AM
Do you guys mind if i join? If its OK ill be doing a 1/16 panzer grenadier, i just turned 13 a few days ago
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Posted by jadgpanther302 on Friday, June 26, 2009 11:26 AM

SCHOOL IS OUT.

 

   F'in A man!

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Posted by model maniac 96 on Friday, June 26, 2009 11:51 AM
Cool, sounds like a great idea for a project!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!


Thanks, Jim
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Posted by Hellcat man on Sunday, June 28, 2009 7:34 PM

HERE WE Go! I've pretty muched finished asembling the Panther and have decided to a new build the 1/48 Airfix Stuka. Here are pics for all interested First we have the PantherPhotobucket" border="0" />Photobucket" border="0" />Photobucket" border="0" /> Photobucket" border="0" />Photobucket" border="0" /> Some of the road wheels i was weathering. Next we have the Stuka Photobucket" border="0" />Photobucket" border="0" />Photobucket" border="0" />

 ALEX ZELYK

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Posted by model maniac 96 on Tuesday, June 30, 2009 6:16 PM

Looking good Hellcat man!

Here's my progress!

I have removed the seam lineon the tiger's 88

 

I have fixed the pak 40 leg after a friend told me part of it was backwards

Finished painting, weathering and installing the interior of the halftrack, Pastel chalks and great for sutble weathering!!

 

I assembeled and basecoted the figures from Mig.

And I made some headway on the base, I glued two slabs of styrofoam together, and then I have cut the general shape of the base out of that. The base is by no means done though.

Thanks, Jim

 

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Posted by Hellcat man on Tuesday, June 30, 2009 8:19 PM
Looking good Jim i love the bridge.

 ALEX ZELYK

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Posted by model maniac 96 on Wednesday, July 1, 2009 10:47 AM
Thank you very much! your kitty is looking good to!

Jim

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Posted by Hellcat man on Wednesday, July 1, 2009 3:59 PM
I love her except she has indy tracks and i hate indy tracks

 ALEX ZELYK

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Posted by Huxy on Wednesday, July 1, 2009 4:13 PM

Alex, nice Panther! Love the coat there. What paint did you use?

And the Stuka is coming along nicely too! Smile [:)]

 

Jim:

I still see a line at the muzzle on the Tiger... And if you want to be picky, you sanded the barrel top flat! It now has a flat line ontop instead of being perfectly round!

But really...  1/72 scale.. Not many will notice, and I do like the rest you have done. I'm just beeing annoying and picky now Laugh [(-D]

Also, I seem to spot a nasty gap on the back of the 251, just where the rear wall meets upper hull....

 

 

-Lasse 

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Posted by Hellcat man on Wednesday, July 1, 2009 8:41 PM
Huxy I used Tamiya's Dark Yellow at a 2:1 paint to thinner ratio. I then sprayed it on with a paasche airbrush at around 15 psi

 ALEX ZELYK

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Posted by model maniac 96 on Thursday, July 2, 2009 12:46 PM
Thanks Huxy, I will try to fix the remainder of the seam today, I do not know if there is anything I can do about the top of the barrel on the Tigers 88 though.....


Thanks, Jim
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Posted by Boba Fett on Friday, July 3, 2009 2:19 PM
HEY GUYS!!!! I'm back! Sorry about all this. Lightning strike knocked out our old computer. Now let me catch up with this GB...

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Posted by figure freak on Friday, July 3, 2009 2:35 PM
Ok i changed my mind, im doing a small normandy vignette
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Posted by model maniac 96 on Friday, July 3, 2009 3:04 PM
Sounds like a good idea to me, and boba, a lighting strike!, wow.....
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Posted by Hellcat man on Friday, July 3, 2009 4:01 PM
What are the odds of that

 ALEX ZELYK

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Posted by model maniac 96 on Friday, July 3, 2009 4:16 PM
yep, you could say that again!

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Posted by figure freak on Friday, July 3, 2009 6:34 PM
Smae thing happened to me a few days ago took out everything plugged in including our computer (im on my dads lap top) and you can see where it hit too toook out a chuunk of our driveway
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Posted by Huxy on Saturday, July 4, 2009 12:08 PM

Lighting..

 

Norway has had a record breaking hot summer this year, and has been constant sun for over a week with NO clouds. Woods caught fire too. Hottest summer in Norway since the 70's.

 

Well, as my profile says, I live in Kristiansund, which is a little south in middle Norway.  But now I'm at my dad who lives in Larvik, just south of the capital Oslo. So I'm pretty south, where it's even hotter.

Anyways, after this recordbreaking summerstart, Oslo got hell. Early in the morning yesterday, all dry and sunny. A little later, TWO THOUSAND (2000) registered lightingstrokes in ONE hour... Resulting in ALOT of rain:

 Imagine being almost dried out, and driving trough that at the same day....  But as you see, they got a little sun afterwards.

As I slept tonight, I could hear lots of thunder in the distance.. Ahh, awsomeness...! 

 

 

 

ANYWAYS....  I'll get home by August, and will start the GB then.. wait.. What's the end date?

I just started a Kubelwagen.. Depending on the end date, I may just enter it? 

"Every War Starts And Ends With An Invasion".

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Posted by figure freak on Saturday, July 4, 2009 1:38 PM
Ok fellas ive been working on my figures all day long heres what i got so far  and   sorry about my lacking photography skills
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Posted by model maniac 96 on Saturday, July 4, 2009 2:41 PM
man, any skills you lack in photography you make up for in figure painting skills, those are awesome!!

Thanks, Jim.
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Posted by figure freak on Saturday, July 4, 2009 2:47 PM
 Thanks,The one on top is one of my best faces, ive only been doing figures for a year but i paint about four faces a day just after im done i dip them in easy off
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Posted by Boba Fett on Saturday, July 4, 2009 3:45 PM
Wow! Awesome! I'm painting 2 Sherman Tankers as we speak (BTW, A Dragon E8 Sherman 1/35th is my build now. Changed it) and they're mediocre at best. I'll update this as soon as possible, I'm just really busy actually building the tank (a fair is coming up very soon) and I only have 1/4 of the tracks assembled, much less painted! All newcomers, welcome aboard!

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Posted by Huxy on Sunday, July 5, 2009 6:34 AM

Indeed very good!!

 

Graham, I'd like to enter a kit that I just started..  It's this one:

 

 

I've only slightly started.. May I? Smile [:)] 

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Posted by model maniac 96 on Sunday, July 5, 2009 2:31 PM
looks like an interesting subject to model Huxy!
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Posted by jadgpanther302 on Sunday, July 5, 2009 10:08 PM
huxy, be careful with the alignment of your parts. good kit but easy to create problems on.
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