I'll be forced to do a bit of scratch-building with this one.

Gotta build the housing for a missing headlight assembly.

Lookin' good stik.

BTW,put me down for a 1/25 Cadillac Escalade form this GB.I have something I've been wanting to build for a while,in mind.Pics to follow.

I just have some seam clean up and filling to do on a few spots and then my Toko Ri Panther will be ready for initial painting.

anthony2779

M48 came out real good,nice job.Some progress on my M47,but not enough for pics yet.

I've been away from the hobby for a while, but if it's not too late, I'd like to join this GB with my AMT Trade Federation Tank.

M48 came out real good,nice job.Some progress on my M47,but not enough for pics yet.

Brubaker's Panther is starting to take shape. All fuselage seams cleaned up and lost panel lines scribed in. Even that difficult one on the tip of the nose...

Final shape should be taking place real soon...

Thanks Gamera.Believe me when I tell you there is a good layer of Tamiya 'sand' on that tank.It just doesn't show in the pics.Very frustrating!The only place it really shows up is on the wheels and jerry cans.

TD4438: Dang looks like the movie M48... um... ahem... I mean... movie Panzer IVs to me . All joking aside great job, maybe toss a little sand coloured pigments on the running gear and lower hull.

MrSquid: The LEDs look great, wish I could do the same but the Whitestar is one big solid hunk of resin.

Krapper hah, I figure Vader would have a colistomy bag after how much Obi Wan hacked him up.......

Thanks.The only reason I didn't bother much with the tow cables is because it would be a real PITA to correct a screwup.They are molded in and that yellow paint is impossible to work with.It won't cover anything.There is very little room for tape as well.I always hated molded on cables.Tamiya comes to mind for that.

It sure looks like the movie M48s! That is one bright puke yellow Dont forget to get those tow cables molded on the fenders... Everything else looks great!

I'll add some figs along with a base at a later date once I get some supplies,but for now,the tank is done.

Hans von Hammer

What'd you think of the early 80s MPC Vader TIE-FIghter cockpit? I know it was sparse, but I built when there were NO references to be had on it... I ended up using a 1/32 ejection seat from the 1/32 Revell F-4 Phantom, with a fair amount of "space-greeblies" added,  and eliminated the Vader figure, mostly because, with the cape drapped all the way around him, making the sat invisible,  it looked like he was sittin' on a crapper...  A magazine would have fit in his hands better than a control yoke..

 

 

What'd you think of the early 80s MPC Vader TIE-FIghter cockpit? I know it was sparse, but I built when there were NO references to be had on it... I ended up using a 1/32 ejection seat from the 1/32 Revell F-4 Phantom, with a fair amount of "space-greeblies" added,  and eliminated the Vader figure, mostly because, with the cape drapped all the way around him, making the sat invisible,  it looked like he was sittin' on a crapper...  A magazine would have fit in his hands better than a control yoke..

Current Progress

Tracks installed and additional weathering added.The 'dust' added is very light and doesn't show up very well in the pics.

Made little progress on the Ninja.

Right now busy with doing stuff in the home to get past summer (we are facing possible blackouts due to recent events).

So lights, etc been replaced with lower power usage ones(been planned but delayed due to investment costs, etc).

Looks like the air-con will be off for this summer as things are going right now and that means 35+Celsius temps(no significant cooling at night) + high 90%+ humidity.

Summer here wrecks heck with paints, etc on model building.

There was a panel I added earlier with three side by side openings (for lights). I fashioned a "status display" with some ICs and such so that the lights appear on as green, then amber and red and then finally red. It then goes amber and starts over at green again. Darth needs to know when it's all good!

^^^

As I started reading your description of the glasses I was asking myself how did I miss that when I watched the DVD at least six times lately? Of course it's a boxed set of the remastered/digitized movies. Though I also have the old VHS copies around here somewhere? I have to agree with you, someone mastered a very nice Vader figure! I only cleaned it up a bit and and then took pains to get him seated in a manner that he was framed within the back glass of the cockpit (lower). As with the rest of the cockpit I'm just using what was given to me and adding some light features for interest and to set the general red cabin glow of the movie scenes. So far every "garage kit (resin)" I've built of a TIE has had the maker's interpretation of the interior. This one is pretty nice as far as details go.

Incredible work on Vader.. I half-expected to see actor Dave Prowse's horn-rimmed glasses under the lens' of Vader's face-mask... They show up, brielfy, in the movie just as Vader raises his head and looks over his shoulder in the direction of his wingman's exploding TIE Fighter and says "WHAT!?", after the Falcon has shot down his wingman... The red lights illuminate his eyes and glasses perfectlyin that shot....They "fixed" it after they started doing the digital FX and CGI stuff..

But... Don't look for it in the VHS 1st re-release, re-release boxed-set, re-re-releases boxed-set "Gold Edition" or the DVDs.  It's only on the original VHS release, when Vader's face is first revealed (Actor Sebastian Shaw, the "Face of Vader" appears at the end with Yoda and Kenobi as an old man, which is how he should have appeared, since Yoda and Kenobi didn't get younger after their deaths... However, Shaw died in 1994 way before they could re-shoot Vader's funeral-pyre scene on Endor...

stikpusher

Hans von Hammer:

... he bears a most striking resemblance to Cpl Kruger of Cross of Iron. 

Wow, he really does! Wonder if he smells as bad?

 

Right now he only has the faint odor of drying enamel paint... But he is waterproof...

LOL.. Yupper.. How much ya wanna bet that there's at least TWO people who'll read this exchange and ask themselves, WTF are Stik and Hammer talking about? Smells bad?? Waterproof???

I must admit that I am very happy with how the seams in the front of the hull cleaned up.

Current progress.

Starting on the lighting. First up was a flip-flop flasher on the rear wall. The red pair and green pair of LEDs flash alternately. I never timed it right to capture the green side alone with the camera though?

Q-Tips came in very handy with this project.Sped things up nicely.

Bring on those Panzer IV's!

Hans von Hammer

... he bears a most striking resemblance to Cpl Kruger of Cross of Iron. 

Wow, he really does! Wonder if he smells as bad?

Right now he only has the faint odor of drying enamel paint... But he is waterproof...

 Since we're going for the inside of the upper hatch to be visible and operable, the upper view-ports are now opened up. Since I'll be laying in acetate for the "windows" they need a channel to snuggle up in. To that end I carved a channel around each window.

And a "collar" is being fashioned from a spray can lid to bridge from the upper cockpit ball into the interior.

Since the cockpit will be lit and to help locate the hatch within it's new collar a sleeve/lip was built.

Hans von Hammer

Well, color the Buchon dead, killed by a cat... Heard a crash in the war room, and went in to discover that the wife's cat had flipped it off the bench and it didn't survive.. Not that it matters, since it had been chewing on the tail for a bit before it knocked it off anyway...

Back to the Drawing Board (well, back to the stash anyway..)

Minor progress on my F9F today. I added a layer of birdshot to the nose interior to make sure the nose is heavy enough...

Well, color the Buchon dead, killed by a cat... Heard a crash in the war room, and went in to discover that the wife's cat had flipped it off the bench and it didn't survive.. Not that it matters, since it had been chewing on the tail for a bit before it knocked it off anyway...

Back to the Drawing Board (well, back to the stash anyway..)

... he bears a most striking resemblance to Cpl Kruger of Cross of Iron. 

Wow, he really does! Wonder if he smells as bad?