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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Friday, February 27, 2004 12:22 AM

I am doing work on four things at the minute. I have like a little rotating system so I am always doing something. One happens to be a towed gun, but I started it beforehand any how. But if i get really busy at work or something, I can always pull it out in April and say 'here's one I started earlier!'

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Friday, February 27, 2004 10:22 AM

QUOTE: Originally posted by zokissima
Hey frosty, do you want to post a link where we can see?

zokissima:
i'd love 2, but i've been having problems linking my pix l8ly...
perhaps some kind person w/ better skills will post a link or the pic itself
& make us both happy !
my apologies...

frosty Smile [:)]

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zokissima

Member since
July 2003
From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Posted by zokissima on Friday, February 27, 2004 10:25 AM

Do you have them up on a webpage somewhere? If so, why don't you just cut and paste the URL. I'm sure that would work fine.

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Friday, February 27, 2004 10:27 AM

QUOTE: Originally posted by Dwight Ta-ala

QUOTE: Originally posted by tigerman

That is me to a tee. How many others are in the M1 GB?

me....!

and me.... Big Smile [:D]

frosty

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Friday, February 27, 2004 10:31 AM

QUOTE: Originally posted by zokissima

Do you have them up on a webpage somewhere? If so, why don't you just cut and paste the URL. I'm sure that would work fine.

they r up on rongeorge.com site, but i can't right click 2 get the URL...
maybe i'm just doing it wrong, but nothing seems 2 work... Sad [:(]

gack !

frosty

hey zok! there's a pic of my Uni Carrier in the weekend build thread....
u can check it out there !

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zokissima

Member since
July 2003
From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Posted by zokissima on Friday, February 27, 2004 10:50 AM

go into the site so that you're looking at the pics, or a subdirectory where the pics are thumbnailed. Click once on your address bar. it will highlight the address. Press Crrl+C on your keyboard.
Come back here, reply to this, and press Ctrl+V. It'll paste the url. I'll copy and paste the url of this thread below:
http://www.finescale.com/fsm/community/forum/topic.asp?page=14&TOPIC_ID=13984
just as an example

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zokissima

Member since
July 2003
From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Posted by zokissima on Friday, February 27, 2004 1:02 PM

Lol, yeah I saw the pic. Sheesh, I have to give you respect for being patient enough to build in such a small scale. Definitely beyond my abilities... :)

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tigerman

Member since
March 2003
From: Rain USA, Vancouver WA

Posted by tigerman on Friday, February 27, 2004 5:01 PM

Way to go Frosty, more the merrier.

Eric

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maffen

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September 2003

Posted by maffen on Saturday, February 28, 2004 10:23 PM

hi fellas

, as you guys all building german or u.s stuff i'm going to try something different , got myself today a c7p from mirage hobby (320 pices Tongue [:P]

) it's a polish heavy artillery transporter but going to make it in the russian version and pulling a sowj.panzerabwehrkanone (76.2mm) from revell,italeri,or maquette (the one from maquette i bought as a 57mm but it came with a 76.2mm barrel also, by the way all the 3 pices artillery from the different brands are exactly the same kit , so i have 3 the same 76.2mm and thinking of putting them all in the same dio.) don't know what you fellas think if it would look alright?as for the group build i'm gonna make two projects if thats allright Tongue [:P]

the other one is a steyr osttractor with a nebelwerfer and some figs.

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ILuv3ggs

Member since
December 2002
From: Brisbane, Australia

Posted by ILuv3ggs on Sunday, February 29, 2004 3:04 AM

well,

my second idea has hit its first obsitcal, there isn't a kit of a M119, so at the moment, i am out of ideas Sad [:(]

still keen tho, and i am sure i'll find something

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tigerman

Member since
March 2003
From: Rain USA, Vancouver WA

Posted by tigerman on Sunday, February 29, 2004 5:31 PM

Okay, I'm now leaning to AFV's Pak 40. Unfortunately it is due out in April. However, this is okay, the build starts April 15th. Who knows, I may change my mind yet again.

Eric

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Monday, March 1, 2004 9:12 AM

QUOTE: Originally posted by maffen

hi fellas , as you guys all building german or u.s stuff i'm going to try something different , got myself today a c7p from mirage hobby (320 pices) it's a polish heavy artillery transporter but going to make it in the russian version and pulling a sowj.panzerabwehrkanone (76.2mm)

Totally cool. That is exactly what I had in mind when I started this group build! I'd actually like to do a Japanese artillery piece, but the kits available are mostly expensive, hard to get and fiddly all-metal builds. I considered an Italian gun too, but I didn't find anything. I'll bet there is a resin kit of some Italian towed gun though. I stopped looking for more obscure pieces, though, when I fell in love with the Mack NO truck and started hunting for the Azimut kit.

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Monday, March 1, 2004 9:15 AM

QUOTE: Originally posted by ILuv3ggs

well,

my second idea has hit its first obsitcal, there isn't a kit of a M119, so at the moment, i am out of ideas

still keen tho, and i am sure i'll find something

Hey, how about the Rooskies? An Mi-4 carrying some russian gun? You could do it as some African country's chopper, for the various bush wars, or maybe Cubans in Angola (this is off the top of my head, and you'd need to do some research, a'course).

Trumpeter makes a Mi-4 in 1/35th scale. It must be pretty darned big! Here's a link to a build-up. I'll bet some of the poorer countries it was supplied to used it to move guns around.

http://www.kartonwork.pl/forum/album_cat.php?cat_id=49&sid=bbd41ed4b4ca56f552769f56323eaa24

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zokissima

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July 2003
From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Posted by zokissima on Monday, March 1, 2004 9:38 AM

hey maffen, that c7p is a great idea. I can't wait to see that getting built up. I've never built anything from Mirage, so feel free to comment on it.
I imagine the kit at 320 pieces for something of that size to be a fairly complicated build.
Kudos for doing the different thing.
There is one kit I was looking at, don't recall whom it was from. Russian truck towing a piece of Serbian artillery. Anyone know?
That looked fairly interesting as well.

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Monday, March 1, 2004 10:57 AM

Sounds like the ICM gun and truck combo. They are packaging the heck out of those two kits. It's actually a Russian gun too, the 100mm AT gun from way back in WWII. The truck is a post-war vehicle. Apparently they are a popular pair in the satellite countries of the former USSR. One package has the combo fighting with the Serbs in Kossovo, another has them fighting for the Northern Alliance in the "anti-terrorist operations" in Afghanistan. (For the northern alliance, I'm not sure how strongly the "war on terror" resonates. Tongue [:P]

)

Probably just different decals, which is actually a great idea. The kits themselves are supposed to be truly top-notch offerings. ICM has a very good reputation.

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zokissima

Member since
July 2003
From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Posted by zokissima on Monday, March 1, 2004 11:20 AM

Maybe I'll pick that up. Probably not for this build, but I still want that kit. It looked really nice. Any place on the net I can get it for fairly cheap?
I think I'll go with the demag towing the flak 43 for this, since I want to build a dio for it, and this will save me some real-estate on my display shelf(ves) :)

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zokissima

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July 2003
From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Posted by zokissima on Monday, March 1, 2004 1:06 PM

Just went over to Alanger to take a look at the ICM kits. Ended up ordering the Artillery of the Serbian Army, Kosovo 1999. Absolutely great price. All of their kits are on sale till March 12th, so I got a really good price on this package. I think I will end up building it here.
Larry_Dunn, you're right, they are both Soviet pieces of equipment. The kit does not however supply the serbian markings that are shown on the box, so I guess I'll hand paint those.
Hehe, I'm really getting excited for this build now :)

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maffen

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September 2003

Posted by maffen on Monday, March 1, 2004 2:53 PM

hi zokissima here a buidref.for a c7p http://www.panzer-modell.de/berichte/c7p/c7p_eng.htm , not that easy kit Tongue [:P]

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Monday, March 1, 2004 3:25 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by zokissima
Larry_Dunn, you're right, they are both Soviet pieces of equipment. The kit does not however supply the serbian markings that are shown on the box, so I guess I'll hand paint those.

Yer kiddin' me! So they just repackage the gun and truck and don't give you new decals? Censored [censored]

!!!

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zokissima

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July 2003
From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Posted by zokissima on Monday, March 1, 2004 3:49 PM

Yep. I read the review that was a link FROM THEIR OWN SITE. No markings. It's kind of a pi$$0**, but whatever. At least it'll let me parctice making markings. I don't know if I want to hand paint the lettering though. Anyone know where I can pick up Cyrillic decals, or stencils.
Hmm..maybe I could just make my own :)

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Monday, March 1, 2004 5:13 PM

Ok, so I'm a bit slowww. Anyone on this group build building that AFV Club 88mm Pak 43/41 kit which has been recently released? I've just put my order in at GreatModels for one, plus a Tamiya Sd Kfz 7 8-ton Half-track. Was wondering if anyone could give a quick review of the 88mm Pak kit?

Thanks in advance!
Glenn

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zokissima

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July 2003
From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Posted by zokissima on Monday, March 1, 2004 5:27 PM

I still have not completely decided myself. I have the 88mm gun flak from tamiya along with their 8ton halftrack. I want to build a dio for this build, so I'm undecided between this setup, a demag with a flak 43 (I'd use the tamiya figures from one of the other sets) or the serbian artillery crew set. The only problem with that one is that I don't know where I could find appropriate figures. Anyone have any suggestions?

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Anonymous

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November 2005

Posted by Anonymous on Monday, March 1, 2004 5:33 PM

heres a review of the Pak 43/41 http://pmms.webace.com.au/reviews/vehicles/afvclub/afv35059.htm
mine came today Big Smile [:D]

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Anonymous

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, March 1, 2004 9:54 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by Captain Caveman

heres a review of the Pak 43/41 http://pmms.webace.com.au/reviews/vehicles/afvclub/afv35059.htm
mine came today

Jon-

Thanks for the link!

Glenn

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Anonymous

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, March 1, 2004 10:29 PM

QUOTE: Originally posted by zokissima

nevermind muzzleflas. I found the posted pic, the one you put up here on the thread. I got confused, thought there was link.
Would it b possible for you to post a few more pics maybe?

well here's the demag on a base alone:

Here she is from start to finish: (box art, original photo, buildup)

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/reeftank/reeftank/demag.html

Someone else said they were unable to find the kit online. It's a fun build I hope you find one.

Good luck, have fun,

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tigerman

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March 2003
From: Rain USA, Vancouver WA

Posted by tigerman on Monday, March 1, 2004 10:51 PM

Thanks for the link Jon.

I've seen the Demag w/nebelwerfer at a few shops, has me tempted muzzleflash. I just don't know if i want to fiddle with all those wheels. There were plenty on the old Panther.

Still holding out for AFV's Pak 40.

Eric

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wildwilliam

Member since
December 2009
From: West Grove, PA

Posted by wildwilliam on Tuesday, March 2, 2004 6:53 AM

Frosty,
it might be your browser.
i have the same problem when i am on my home PC, but from work i have no difficulty.

All,
on the 'Russian Front' , i have the SU-122 available.
it is the Italeri 1/35, molded in Irish Spring. i mean wxy looking green styrene.
Big Smile [:D]

but i also have the British Quad Gun tractor w/ 25 pounder,
the tamiya 88mm, a tamiya Pak 35/36 37mm.

depending on my workload come April, i will figure out what to build.
if i have lots of time, i might go big or do a few kits,
otherwise it will be whatever looks simplest!

ed.

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ILuv3ggs

Member since
December 2002
From: Brisbane, Australia

Posted by ILuv3ggs on Tuesday, March 2, 2004 7:05 AM

All i can say is whoa, that helicopter is huge, and sadly, proberly too hard for my skill level Sad [:(]

thanks for the idea tho, i'll add it to the list of future things to model and create

I've thought of a new idea tho, was thinking of having a German AT gun and its crew on a bank on the side of a road, maybe with an MG nest to one side as well, this would be a first for me diorama and figure speaking wise tho Black Eye [B)]

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zokissima

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July 2003
From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Posted by zokissima on Tuesday, March 2, 2004 9:06 AM

muzzleflash, I was unable to open the buildup link. I open it, but I get a no content page with this message: This User Hasn't
Moved in yet.
I'd love to see the buildup, if you have a chance to look at what's wrong with the link. Maybe it's just isolated to me, but I doubt it.

hey ILuv3ggs, which helicopter are you referring to?
I like your idea. I was playing call of duty a couple of days ago and there is a scene in there fairly reminiscent of what you are speking of, except it was set in an airfield. That game is absolutely amazing, I think I'll use it for ideas for my own dio :)

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ILuv3ggs

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December 2002
From: Brisbane, Australia

Posted by ILuv3ggs on Wednesday, March 3, 2004 7:01 AM

hey,

i was referring to the link of the Mi-4 that Larry showed me,

COD is awsome, and did draw some inspiration from the game Tongue [:P]

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