wayne, I have used quite a few Eduard sets for both armour and aircraft. As long as the set is for the exact kit the PE set is designed for, I have never come across incorrect numbers. Generally I find the instructions ok, with the odd occasion where it gets confusing. But I have been using them for years so maybe I am just used to them.

Whats the number of the set your having problems with.

The fold lines should be pretty obvious, though on more than one occasion I have done it the wrong way. I bought an etch mate folding tool a couple of years ago, but I still haven't used it. I normally use a set of flat nosed pliers.

gamera thanks. i have a couple of articles and i'm sure i can figure it out as long as i take my time. i will do some 3x5 card prefab to practice intricate pe folds before doing it on the metal. if i can't figure it out i shouldn't be building something this detailed. now to find some interior shots of the turret and engine compartment so i can open more hatches.

It's good to be up at going. I started my 1/48 Bandai/Fuman Wespe this evening. It's an old kit, and there are some undesriable features. The manufacturers logo is molded onto the chassis. The wheels are  one sided, with a blank disc at the rear.

I've made the decision to sacrifice a Tamiya Panzer II and use the wheels, link and length tracks and whatever else I can use. I'll have to order one, strangely I've never seen the kit in Australia. It did start me thinking that Tamiya will inevitably release it, as they have done the Panzer II now, and they've done a 1/35 Wespe recently enough to have all of the info that they need at hand.

Anyways, here's the obligatory starting shots, and a view of the chassis after the logo has been sanded off, and some work to  fill a few ejection pin marks and the inevitable gap that is left above the tracks. That's it for tonight.

Sorry about the dreadful photography, it's near midnight and I need to hit the sack, so I'm not gonna re-do them.

Cheers

Tony

I used their set for the Tamiya Cromwell and a bunch of the simple ZOOM sets for aircraft. I know what you mean about switched around numbers and unclear diagrams. Still they weren't too much trouble to puzzle my way out of. You set seems a lot more complex though, you might want to see if you can find another build on the internet maybe and see if they had the same issues?  

i have one of those on the shelf queen shelf.

has anybody done any armor AM using eduard? i have all 3 seys for DANA, got them a while back ar <60% off and started DANA today.this will be a long build,  my first anal armor build. mat eve nscratchbuild some turry interior so i can open some turret hatches. any way it seems the external set has incorrect part numbers from the kit and not very clear instructions. is this just me?

tyrithe

Was looking through the local HobbyTown for something interesting, and saw this. Thought it would make a good addition.

Ohhhhh, so much cool stuff!!! This is going to be fun!

Glad to have you! That's a very unusual vehicle! M/TB379

I'll speak up as well, switching away from air for a while.

Dragon 1:35 Pz. Sfl. IVb with the 10.5 cm leFH 18/1.

You're in! M/TB379

Thunderbolt379

 PS: Can you let me know the make and scale, for the Roll above?

Welcome to the GB deattilio! Yes indeed, very unusual piece of SP artillery, I look forward to seeing it!

Mike/TB379

PS: Can you let me know the make and scale, for the Roll above?

I would like to join this GB and bring an oft overlooked piece of self-propelled artillery, the Marine Corps’ WWII amphibious 75mm howitzer armed LVTA-4. 

It may take a little while to get tracking on it as I want to finish my 1/144 C-47 for the nearer dead-lined 1/144 GB.  But, I have pulled it to the front of the line of my AmTrac stash.

ttype 83 sounds like a candidate for cargo on the PLA TANK TRANSPORTER. roll up the track and put it up front or under the spa and tied down. break off a sprocket and  strap it down on the bed and it will look like a sheared druive sprocket recovery situation. i have both of these.

Welcome aboard, Jim! I look forward to seeing these subjects -- Trumpeter had awful problems with the tracks for the vehicles on that common chassis, they were too short and would not stretch, so the company produced workable indie link tracks, #TK-14, 02044. I have them on the shelf for my own Type 83, which I started for a GB many years ago and had to shelve because of the track problem.

Cheers, Mike/TB379

Mike,

Add me to the fray.  I'll do the Renwal Atomic Cannon and a Trumpeter Chinese Type 83 SPA

Thanks Wayne; Clemens, good to have you in this unit!

M/TB379

Hi there folks!

I'd like to join this one as well, but I can't start work untill January...

I have a Hummel in my stash I wanted to build for some time now, but I never had the opportunity to do so. It's the Dragon kit in 1/35 (late version).

Maybe I'll add a GW Tiger later on, but I still have to get one...

Cheers, Clemens

it is the hobbyboss DANA.once i get caught up some on shelf queens will start these.

Glad to have you aboard, Tony! M/TB379

Hi Mike,

I'll try to get my Bandai 1/48 Wespe done this time. I didn't quite make it for the last one.

Cheers

Tony

Hey thanks Mike, sounds great! Hoping to get some paint slapped on her when I get the Churchill I'm building for Bish's D-Day build out of the paint booth.

Count me in.  I will be building the Hobby Boss SU-152

Thanks. I hope to get around it at the end of the year.

All signed up, Bish!

M/TB379

In that case Mike, count me in. Put me down for the 1/35th Tamiya Mobelwagen 3.7cm. This will be a cross over from the Duck Hunter GB. I assume cross overs are ok.

Gamera -- that M40 would be a great addition, by all means go ahead and complete it under the banner of this GB!

Pyrman64 -- these are all great subjects, and I think they qualify, they are most certainly guns and most certainly self-propelled!

Cheers, M/TB379