Deattilio: Looks great! Love the weathering and the chipped beach markers. Your other landing craft don't look too bad either!

Mike: Looking good!

That will be a nice collection Deatilio, I like it.

Good looking work too Mike, keep it coming.

Cheers

Tony

Thanks, Tony, just taking a break to regroup after a great deal of NATO Green on this and an Abrams. I'll need a gas cylinder next week for the AB, and we're in a heatwave too, so I might let it go by before fighting the AB through tip drying tendancies...

M/TB379

Looks like this GB is almost dying...too bad...

Was there ever a participant ribbon produced??

Hi Garzon -- it's in its closing months, and I still intend to finish my AS-90, it'll be coming up for attention as soon as possible -- it's close to done, there are some tidy-ups to do on the camo, then start the weathering process.

I had intended to get badges done but like so many things they ended up on the back burner -- I might give it a shot all the same, I believe I had the images picked out so I might as well!

Cheers,

M/TB379

i'll have one in a couple of days. just reviewing what all is being built. and i guess i best get over my aversion to indy tracks (which is why i do a lot of wheels) and prime my JGSDF TYPE 87 spaa. oops guess i best silly putty and camo my DANA for this one too.

Funny Garzonh I was just thinking about this GB. I am very close to finishing my entries for the Monty Vs. Rommel and Hunters II GBs and hope to get back to my M40 then. Cross your fingers I can get 'er done by the closing date- not sure about the figures but hoping on the SPG though at least.

mike asked me to post these 2 badges. some of us older yanks might remember the business card of Will Paladin, San Francisco.

Can I enter with these two kits? Don't think I'll finish both of them by the deadline, still waiting for the mailman to deliver them.

Cheers...

Hi Castelnuova -- you certainly can! If you need a bit of extra time as well, you're more than welcome. I'll add them to the list right away.

Oh, and my IT problems look like they're fixed, so I'll add Wayne's fab badges to p1 as well.

I made some progress on the AS-90 yesterday, finishing a last fiddly bit of camo and doing some touch ups, so I'm hopeful of getting back to the SPG in the near future myself.

Cheers, M/TB379

Wayne: Very nice work there! Have to admit I've never seen the show though, only heard about it secondhand.

CN: Wow, those are pretty awesome.

Well, washed the dust off the M40 this weekend - guess that's a start huh!?! Huh!?!

Washing the dust off a project is always a great way to connect with the past! :-) Bring her on!

M/TB379

thanks for the bump on the badges. doing the badges is a lot of fun for me and keeps my hand in my graphics programs. i have to dust off the DANA to finish the camo by club contest next week. please take the ICBM off and replace it with the TRUMPETER 1/35 BM-21 122mm MLR  which i may go crazy on and pimp out. still working on the TYPE 87 JGSDF spaa. indy track. that's why i do warwheels though truck suspensions may be just as time consuming.

Will do! Hey, looks like we' ve got some action coming up, it'll be great to see some big guns come of the assembly line! I look forward to seeing the BM-21 go together, I have that one in my stash too.

M/TB379

Ya-hoo ...my new stash has arrived . I will start with that big bad-ass Russian gun...

Some WIP...

CN: Looks good!

I did put down the final olive drab coat on the M40 and added the colour modulation Thursday. I keep meaning to snap some photos and forget. Hopefully I'll have the M10 done before too much longer and can start on the M40 in earnest.

Some more progress...

CN: Coming along nicely! Did you pre-shade her? Looks like it in the first photo or it might be the shadows?

It's a fascinating and unusual piece!

M/TB379

Thanks gentlemen. I didn't pre-shade her, so it must be the lighting when the photo was taken. She is painted with brushes so that might have contributed to the pre-shading effect, I guess due to the uneven thickness of the paint.

Still slowly dragging forward here, decals are on, I couldn't resist the awesome big friggin' dragon artwork!!! And a second shot of the pre-shading I did.

Castelnuovo: Where are you? I was hoping to have some company here at the end - I'm getting lonely! 

you aren't alone. i have the base coat on my DANA and the chassis and tires are finished and weathered. just a matter of adding 2d and 3d camo colors and some light washing and weathering. of course i have been saying this since January.

Come on Wayne- love to see more photos!

Looking good, Gamera! Glad you're still with us, guys!

My AS-90 is on the roster for finishing this month, it's down to small details, running gear, decals and dust, really.

M/TB379

i posted these back in January but will post them again here.

Wayne, that looks super

Well, here is this bad boy

Wayne: Thanks, I can't remember what I saw yesterday much less January!

CN: Very nice work, looks like she's almost done to me.

That's one impressive gun, Castelnuovo! Most unusual piece!

M/TB379

Hi guys, we're about a week off the end of the planned build time, but as always I'm more than happy for overrun to get projects finished (I had wanted five new ones finished by midyear, I'll be scrambling to get two done on that actual date, and my own AS-90 won't be one of those...) So take the time you need, let's say an extra month at least?

CN -- is that amazing artillery piece ready for the Honour Wall, or are there details still to go?

WayneC just fielded an extra project, so this GB is definitely alive and well!

Cheers, Mike/TB379