The official Junior GB of 2009!

Arighty. I've now decided that I am going to incinerate the Airfix Stuka cause its driving me mental. Also I kinda went on a shopping spree today and picked up abunch of stuff from the LHS which I want to build for this GB. Possible dio with the tank crews and the panther. Also 1/35th Bronco Sdkfz 221

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Well thats all the photo's I've taken today. But I guarantee that I will have some new kits tommorow (I forgot some paints that i bought at the store and i didn't buy everything I wanted so yeah.)

Thanks for reading

Alex

I really like those kits you bought..  How's those Academy figures? And could I get a closeup of the camera in the Alanger kit? I suppose he is a cameraman?

The Sd.kfz. 221 isn't really my favorite of those (And the similar) German scoutvehicles, but it's cool!

Your start is really good.. I do like it!  But I can see a few faulties... I photoshopped it so you can see them better:

The red circles shows ejector pinmarks, and where the part connects to the sprue.. The blue line contains mouldline.. All of these should be cleaned away!

But as said, you're off to a great start! Can't wait for more!

-Lasse 

No worries Alex.. We're all here pretty new, and we miss stuff easily..

But how many times have I seen a profesionally built model, built for a client with such errors? Well, pretty often..

Just go slow, check every piece before glying it.. After you've cleaned it, check it again to be sure.

And please, give me a closeup of that camera! And tell me how the Academy figures are.. I can't imagine Academy is good at figgies? 

Graham: No worries about being a little late..  We can wait for something that want halt our modeling... However, the workbench wont wait for anything..!  

-Lasse (And thanks for letting me in with my Kübelwagen! I get pictures up...) 

 i finished my vignette (sorry i didnt keep you more posted)

and if you guys dont mind, im working on a wooden ship (only worked on it for a couple day) and wanted to put this on here heres where im at ive got one side almost planked, and started staining with oil paint

Hellcat man wrote:

Those are really nice looking figures. What paint did you use for the skin, because I am working on some figures and the Tamiya stuff is not that good. Thanks Alex

I have heard good things about WalMarts paints.. Sadly, we don't have walmart here in Europe...   What is the manufacturer of the paints? And they are acrylic, right?   I'd kill to try them!

And about Tamiya, they aren't good for brushing, no... But I tell you, they're great for airbrushing ;)  That's what I use them for anyways!

For brushpainting, I use Vallejo or Citadel.

 I know everyone is going to hate me but i got another kit. Its Academy's 1/35 M12. So Boba just to recap I'm doing (all 1/35) Dragon Panther A, Bronco Sdkfz 221(MG), Academy M12. Here are some WIP pics and some Sdkfz 221 pics

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And As promised the Sdkfz 221

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Very nice work going on here in this build,lots of young talent at work here.I wish i had started earlier in life,maybe my stuff would be better by now !!!

Boba.....that Tornado is all boxed up and ready to go

Brian: How on earths name should I get to try them? I got to ask around some americans I know..  Not to worry, I'll get to try them   But could you check the exact name of both brands are, please?

Anthony, glad you like it all!!  My update is due a little later tonight... And hour or two

-Lasse 

here huxy, there is 21 different pages of colors, the company is i guess called Plaid

http://www.plaidonline.com/productSearchResults.asp?cat1ID=1&cat2ID=1&cat3ID=1

the colors i use for flesh are skin tone burnt umber tiger lilly and cranberry

Brian: Thanks for the link! That's just the paint I've heard so much about.. I will most ceratinly try to give them a try!!

Alex: The M12 is indeed a nice looking vehicle. One of my favorite US vehicles for sure!! And I'm still waiting for a closeup of that camera  

Well, here's my very first update! WOHOOO!!  

I spent two hours modelling outdoors. It was purely gorgeous!! First time I ever did that.

The kit is a multi-kit kit. Including a figure that comes in 17(!!!!!) parts. Quite alot, considering the two other figures are in 4 parts each.. It further includes a radio and a tent, and a Kübelwagen, with the worst winter road tyres you can ever imagine...


It's a rather new kit, moulded in 1997, decals printed in 1999 and box printed in 2005. It's a typcal Tamiya kit, being very well moulded, lots of details and not too many parts. Erwin Eugene Johannes Rommel is a little special, consisting of 17 parts. The two other figures are more typical Tamiya figure, 4 parts. It's actually way too little to satisfy me, but will work just fine!

First part was the chassis, or undercarriage, and I cleaned it (Some mouldline going along the edge) and inspected it. Found one ejector pinmark (A circular mark) that I guess will be noticable once completed. I filled and smoothed it as greatly as I could. The filler (putty) is the grey spot:


Here's three parts attached to the underside...


I'll explain. The front axle, and the rearaxle (plus gearbox) and a little cover that goes along the middle of the boyd and cover both axels, are all one part each:


And one very happy outdoor modeler. Photo taken of my dad, who is building a PAK 36 beside me:

 

I attached the steerwingwheel rod, pedals, hanbreak and similar.. Also the detailed engine walls. No engine is provided, however. I believe it is detailed because of the Kübelwagen Engine Set that is sold seperatley that you can buy from the same producer; Tamiya.
The Steeringwheel rod was a little bad. Or, I made it bad. When I was scraping the mouldlines away and removing some STUPIDLY placed ejector pinmark, I made some dents here and there on it. I smeared it with Putty, and sanded it nice and smooth again....


Here you got the sidepanels. Each sidepanel consists of two parts. The top panel is cleaned and assembled, bottom panel is neither:


Here you can see the bonnet, that already was assembled as shown in the other post, the rear panel and the two sidepanels. Those will make the frame of the kübelwagen Typ 82. The parts are all cleaned and ready to be assembled:


After quite some fiddling about with mounting one and one part onto the chassis, I discovered it was just as good and even easier to assemble them seperately.. So here you got the frame:


And the mounting went painlessly:


It's really awsome now, eh? I can't believe how great and awsome this kit is. I will most ceratinly make more of these!!

I did encounter some lining up errors, but just very, very, very minor ones. It's probably because I drytouch everything before I even touch the glue!  

Questions and comments are very appriciated!

Enjoy!

-Lasse 

Nice Work Huxy. Here is where I'm at with and Diorama attepmt. The basic idea

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been working on my ship for a good part of the day, got the stern glued on, one side finished planking and staining, the other is almost done planking and then i nedd to sand and stain it with oil(that explains the nasty filler seams on it) this model has been a very time consuming(trust me one plank per hour working nonstop is grueling thank god im almost done with planking) and enjoyable model, a new kind of challenge, i would recommend it to everyone if they want something to keep them entertained for hours but im almost to the fun part of cannons and rigging and chains not on bit of plastic is in this kit

heres thge finished side with the stern attached im happy with the results this model is extremely hard

P.S. this is my first wooden ship (i have had a lot of firsts lately)

Yea. That was just my rough. All the figures and German vehicles I am building will be going into this. Here is the story. The panther and some Maintenance workers are playing a game of cards while the tanks commanding officers are having there picture taken. At the same time some workers are moving stuff from the back of a truck which I still need to get on to the tank. Or its a workshop and they're rearming the Panther Here are some pics of the card players

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