Great, I'd love to see it. Your basses are interesting and have a nice effect.

I am with you there jibber.

Haven't been able to resume finishing my P-47. Too busy dealing with a pinched nerve on my right hand (my good hand). Didn't sleep well at all Thursday night for it hurts like hell. Took off the hand brace today and still have some lingering numbness on my middle and next to the pinky finger. Wanted to do some masking and airbrushing but it's a no go for now.

Gonna see how I feel later tonight or Sunday.

Note to self - never sleep with your good hand in same position whilst you sleep.

BlackSheep, yes I've had that happen to me before with an awkward sleeping position resulting in a sore elbow.  Take care and hope you mend up soon.

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Have some initial weathering done.  Concentrating mostly on the turret - I was switching back and forth with that and the hull while dealing with the clear decals that have the vehicle's number and nick name. Didn't keep count, but did well over half dozen  layers of future and sanding, repeating the procedure to get rid of the decal edge.

The upper hull sides have nothing added since last post, just some flat spray.

regards,

Jack

She looks fantastic, Jack! I love the well weathered look!

Jack: The turret looks great, and the hull doesn't look half bad either!

Looking really good jack. can't wait to add this to the front page.

I didn't get anything done on my jug, but here are some pics of those screwed up panel lines for you. Any advise would be great:

That one's probably the worst looking of them. It's about twice as thick as all the other panel lines. I don't want it to be completely perfect, because there won't be any NMF in this area because of the invasion stripes, but it should look similar to the other panel lines at least...

The panel lines at the bottom are not a huge problem, I think some layers of microfiller should fill them in enough to make them look good enough...

Yeah, you might try something like microfiller. I like Mr. Surfacer which is great stuff if you can find it.

Mr Surfacer is really hard to get here in Austria. I only have access to Alclad's "primer and microfiller" ATM...

Not much achieved at the bench this past week.  The type T54E2 resins tracks arrived from Tank Workshop, so I set about completing the spare links on the front hull.  I also got the base colours on the two spare wheels.

The quality of the tracks, again, is hit and miss.  Every second link has an excess chunk of resin in one corner.  This has to be cleaned out in order for the adjoining link to fit in .  I noticed too that the odd guide tooth wasn't fully formed, resulting in a broken tip appearance (I didn't count how many as I was already discouraged enough).  

In hindsight now, with the amount of time and money going into this one, I should have opted for  1/35 scale, and I would still have some coin left for several servings of V8.

regards,

Jack

SS, how you getting on with those panel lines. Mr Surfacer doesn't seem that easy to find in the UK either. Have you tried Amazon.

Jack, well we all live and learn.

I managed to fill in the panel lines at the bottom by masking the area around them (to not lose any detail) and spray several coats of Alclad microfiller on those areas, but I didn't mae any progress otherwise. I'll have a look at how it works out on the upper surfaces, but I have no bench time at all ATM...

jgeratic, your build is looking great!

No worries SS, sounds like your keeping busy.

Well look who the cat dragged in...

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Nice to see you hear Stik. Hope we get to see your skills soon.

jibber, no worries. have you changed the folder on PB in some way. Even re naming it will change the link.

Yeah, stik!  Where's your build?!?!?!  These guys want to know!  

Some of my favorite (living) musicians there...  but that add is just wrong.

And no, no one has seen hide nor hair of milkman and his nag ever since that pesky fleet opened fire on him....

Bish, I have been looking at the first batch of figures for the first vignette that I planned and am now wondering did I bite off the wrong choice there...?

Wrong, yes.  But I knew they were you're favorites . . . AND THEY ARE watching you.  

Maybe this will help motivate you a little more . . .

Find me Michelle Pfeiffer, Tia Carrera, Amy Adams, or Sophia Vergara...

As you wish.  I give you Michelle Pfeiffer's milk add.  So compelling.

TIGER and LCVP look good. my LCVP is primed but holding of while i work on VOSPER since i am doing the british 3 color camo on both. VOSPER probably never wore one but all gray, even various shades, is boring and my MAS has striped camo and the red and white deck stripes.

That's the BB that I know... and you found my favorite Catwoman

Jibber the TIGER and LCVP look really good

got the booms and fuselage together on my P-38. Just have some seams to clean up.

Work on my Fw-190 has slowed while I fill in gaps and fix other bad fits with the kit

Thanks Shiv, I've almost quit building planes because of the P-38. Trying to get everything perfect will drive you crazy….

This dragon kit isn't too bad. A few small gaps to fill and the booms lined up nicely by them selves. Masking the canopy right now and that is making me pull what little hair I have left out

I told you...