ARMOR - Small AFV Group Build, all scales done

Nice job on the interior, I like the variety of equipment you have stored in there. Good luck with the rest of the dio.

Matt

John, those GI's are a little exposed out in the corner there, flat terrain with no cover. Just as well the MG34's are unmanned.

Seriously, it is coming along nicely. I presume the outside isn't finished and that when you do the groundwork you will add mud to the vehicle ID plates and tracks to match the mud under guards, etc .

Just a suggestion for a little realism for something that a lot of guys overlook: The jerry cans on the side would swing back and forth in an arc pattern as the vehicle moved over uneven ground. If you show a wear pattern in the mud/dust, and some scratches on the camo/base paint where the cans rub the hull sides, it will add a little more interest to what already looks to be a nice dio in progress. (I presume the cans are for water or 'standoff armour', and not for carrying fuel, otherwise that bazooka round is gonna make a Werner roast instead of a Weiner roast!)

The seats and cargo racks are scratchbuilt

the pic with the plaque is the diorama base. its 16" by 12"

Heres some more interior pics

Sorry I havent posted lately but I swear I'm done, Im just wwaiting for my Dad to upload the pics

I'm back, looks like my 2nd to last semester of school took another 5 yrs off of me. I'll be building mine half-track OOB now. With an old Tamiya Greif kit that's kinda' hard to do, but I'll practice restraint. Now I need to study the back of my eyelids for a little bit.

Hey, John. Almost forgot to say but that 251 looks good.

BTW I am free now as I have completed my Flak 36 so I'll start with my entry for this build.

Okay a quick pic to show a bit of what you can expect from the ancient Tamiya Daimler
(also has a couple of pics of my 3.7mm for the towed gun build)

As you can see the floor panel was anything but a good fit. The gear and brake levers are supposed to fit in the holes, but the daimler had raised housings for these.

The large panel with the filled sink holes at the top of the pic is the inside of the rear wall. The section with the sink holes should have the internal detail of the rear vision flap which has to be added.

The front spring assembly is shown together with the locating hole under the front guard. Note the L shaped bit on the spring block. This is for the steering arm.....just a tad oversized compared to the real tierod! On the real thing the the top off the spring is contained within a bracket that runs down the full length of the vehicle side and the top is not that close to the guard. Imagine that more than a few few guards would be ripped off if the spring was really attached to that bit. The moulded on suspension arms can be seen on the lower floor piece. These did fit under the vehicle like this, but on the lower side, and were rectangular not triangular.

The last piece is the inside of the front plate. This is just to show the thickness of the detail, which is not even close to what was on the real thing.

Hey, you guys havn't forgotton about me have you? Well, I've been busy with school and it looks as though the clouds are clearing, so I'm ordering my kits this week (yes, I have not ordered them yet, yes you should stop laughing, no i did not quit). A M8 and willies in 1/76.

Funny thing, I finsished another AFV. A kettenkraftwagon. i'm working ona site so i ll get some pics.

hey beav, who do i email???

Great work Rebel and Matt.

Started the Tamiya Daimler Scout car for this build. Like the 222, an old kit in need of a lot of work. The interior is sparse and without any rivet detail for the door hinges, handles, etc. The suspension is just a rod and a square block with a moulded on spring and the steering arm..... a huge flat bar at the back of the front suspension meant to let you have movable steering. Going to be fun to scratch build the missing stuff for this one.

Thanks a lot guys!

I have done even more since, and I redid a couple of things that were bugging me. Getting close to painting the inside.

Joe, I reckon we all have a couple of screws loose to make these things anyway!

Edog, I know what you mean about motivation. I am trying to keep the amount of things I am doing to 3-4, and to keep them all quite different, so I just do what I feel like doing instead of forcing myself. I really could not get inspired to start scratching that interior, but once I felt like doing it, I was away!

Matt

Looks good phroosh, you have done a great job so far.

I just need to get motivated. I have so many other projects that I am really excited about, that I may be another couple of weeks before I can force myself to start with that resin interior for the 222 from the TWS.

Phroosh That Scratch built interior looks awesome. Great job. I'm almost finished with mine. hope to have completed pictures soon. Putting that mesh in the turret screens is a pain in the but. Makes me wish I ad gotten the PE set for it.

Hey rebel! Congrats on the jeep-it's always fun to build something really fast in between slow builds!
Anyways, you have to email the finescale managment about sticky's-it took like 2 weeks for Small AFV to become a sticky-btw.
hope you get them to sticky-ize it!

Whoopie!!! Ifigured out picture post and gettingpics on my computer!!!
SdKz pics co0ming soon!!!!!!!!!! and the willys!!!!!!

I was bored yesterday and decided to build a 1/72 willys. You can count that as part of the build to. by the way i finished it too.

phroosh i wish i could get my "kit supplied" parts to look as good as your scratchbuilt.

they look great. btw sanity is overrated, id rather be crazy.

joe

Hello everyone.

Here are some progress pics of my 223's scratchbuilt interior. It has been a lot of fun so far.

The screen behind the turret: I ended up using diamond brass mesh, interspersed with thin strands of speaker wire, which were alternated between the top and the bottom of the mesh for a 3D effect. I considered trying to weave it through, but decided I value my sanity too much.

Lemme know what you think!

Matt

Hey beav, how do i make a sticky?
Im going to need to make one for the D-Day GB.

Lizardqing2 set up a website for us to display our finished pics to the FSM community, if you check my profile, my hompage is that page(just click on my name)
lol
I am wondering what to do now.......
finish the M1? naw to windy.....
finish the T34? naw i hate indies-well, later tonight i will get on it.....
see if we can do a one day madness hummer build? maybe.....

well, can't wait to see all the pics this weekend!

Whatis this site i am hearing about?

guys i have sent my finised pics of my 1;24 scale willys mb to the site,they are not put up yet,i am now building a ford g.p.a jeep for the build.im not to good at weathering ,so any help or ideas will be great. thanks.

gdarwin.

QUOTE: Originally posted by rebelreenactor infact there was a lot of firsts in this model First time: usind pastels to weather using a pencil to get a bare metal look building in1/35 scratbuilding making a blanket out of tissue and soon to be my first diorama.

That is what these builds, and this hobby are all about. Nice job. I try to set myself new challenges with every kit now; it is a great motivator.

Looking forward to the dio.

Matt

Thanks for the input guys.

Istill have to do some tuch ups and then im really done!
I'll try to post pics of the scratchbuilt interior(it's my first attemot at scratchbuilding).

infact there was a lot of firsts in this model
First time:
usind pastels to weather
using a pencil to get a bare metal look
building in1/35
scratbuilding
making a blanket out of tissue
and soon to be my first diorama.

Beav and Thundergod,

Looks good. Wow, you have finished yours already and I have not started mine yet.

Oh well.

Looks like there is some nice work getting done. I have done noting to anything lately. For those that have sent pics for the site, I will try my best to get them up this weekend sometime.

I sent my pictures to the place on the site that said make submisions here...or something like that and they ahvwent gone up yet. I was just wondering if they were sent wrong or if you ahvent had time to put them up.

I have redone the mesh on my 223, but still haven't got round to posting the pics. I will try and do it soon, as it is a bit hard to explain how I went about it!

Matt

I said something about fixing the mesh, but I don't think we have come to a conclusion on how this should be done

I think I will just end up using the old Eduard PE set i have.