Bish, Looks like you're past the halfway point and can start to see the finish line!

Chad, yes, i have started the weathering which should only take a couple of days. With the figure still to do, i should be done by the end of the week.

Theuns: That looks fantastic! I love the wood grain finish you've done around the cockpit and the prop!

Bish: Looks great too! Fantastic seeing you make such rapid progress on this!

The Camel looks great, Theuns.

Gamera

Theuns: That looks fantastic! I love the wood grain finish you've done around the cockpit and the prop!

Bish: Looks great too! Fantastic seeing you make such rapid progress on this!

 

Thanks G, its going quite well.

Bish, is it a military phone company?

I was coming up with a plan for the pilot seat and found this material that might look like scale wicker.  I was not going to use the pilot, so I quite literally used his seat as the seat bottom. Unfortunately, the thickness of the material and the added detail to the cockpit made the seat too wide.  I will have to make a smaller one.

Now that's some flash! 

Could you maybe just cut the back off the seat and then sand/file down the bottom and re-cement the back to the smaller seat? 

You're probably better off just making a new seat from the material you found though. Looking forward to seeing what you come up with!

Ziggy, no, its a number so people can report suspicious activity or anything terrorist related to the police.

Thats a pity about that material, it looks pretty realistic.

That's a neat idea to use cloth material for the wicker seat.  Wonder if brushing on some clear acrylic (Future/Pledge) before cutting to address the fraying?   Should be still pliable when dry.

regards,

Jack

A very fine looking camel

The Land rover is reminding me of the news back then, I like the look of the Foxhound would that be the modern equivalent, I have the jackel but don't think they do a modern foxhound. 

Finally getting some work done on my entry.  It's a re-box of Tamiya's LRDG truck, this time including an ex-Italeri Breda 20mm gun.  If you're going to attempt this model, be warned: the Italeri instructions are shite!  The illustratins are wildly inaccurate, and the box art photos of the completed gun don't even match it.  My advice is to get as many pictures of the real thing as you can, and build to that.  Anyway, here's the gun so far:

AA: That looks neat!! Nice work! 

Est.1961

The Land rover is reminding me of the news back then, I like the look of the Foxhound would that be the modern equivalent, I have the jackel but don't think they do a modern foxhound. 

 

Is that the Accurate Armour Jackel. I was thinking about getting one of those before Hobby Boss announced they were doing it in plastic. When they finally come out i intended getting the Jackel 1 and Coyote.

Ye, the Foxhound is the replacment for the Snatch and there is not a kit of it, same for the Mastiff, Ridgback and a couple of others. But there are nice kits of the Husky and ATV Quad. And is someone can do an FV 432 in plastic, then anything is possable.

Nice work on the gun AA.

Bish

Is that the Accurate Armour Jackel. I was thinking about getting one of those before Hobby Boss announced they were doing it in plastic. When they finally come out i intended getting the Jackel 1 and Coyote.

I have Airfix's 1/48 Jackal, I agree there's always a possibility of more modern heavy armoured vehicles if manufacturers can see that the demand is there from modellers. 

I've been moving slowly but I got some work done on the Comet. This is one of Bronco's early models and it shows it. The air intakes on the engine deck just wouldn't fit anyway I tried to attach them. Eventually I had to pull an old Tamiya Cromwell out of storage and look at it for an idea on how to attach them. After a few cuts they fit okay. I don't know if it's the kit's engineering or I messed something up. 

Btw: Some of the grab handles are bent and crooked. I had the PE parts so I decided to go ahead and replace the badly molded kit parts. I didn't get them all straight though, I'm going to go back and try to fix some of this before paint. Not much point now when I keep putting my fingers on stuff. 

The periscopes were badly molded so I went ahead and replaced them with the PE parts. They actually went together without any major issues. I'm much happier with them than the grab handles. 

When I pulled the kit out I had done a good bit of work on the 77mm gun. I cleaned up some boo-boos and assembled the turret. Not much will be visable though the hatches with figures in there but it's still a nice detail. 

Est.1961

 

 

Bish

Is that the Accurate Armour Jackel. I was thinking about getting one of those before Hobby Boss announced they were doing it in plastic. When they finally come out i intended getting the Jackel 1 and Coyote.

 

 

I have Airfix's 1/48 Jackal, I agree there's always a possibility of more modern heavy armoured vehicles if manufacturers can see that the demand is there from modellers. 

 

O ye, i forgot about that kit. Seen it bilt up a couple of times, looks a nice kit. There is certainly demand for it in the UK i think, just not sure if there is enough interest from beyond that.

EBergerud

OK Bish. If heaven allows it, I'll be in for either a 1/35 Takom M-3 Grant - Indian Army markings, Burma service 1945. Or a Tasca 1/35 Firefly - ETO 1945.

 

Nice, let me know which you decide and i'll get you added.

Thats coming on nicely G.

Both guns look great, good looking detail that gets hidden away especially on the tank, imagine you'll be able to remove it and show interested viewers though. 

Thanks guys. It's not a bad kit detail wise. It's just the fit is a little wonky. I wouldn't recommend it to someone as their first tank kit but with some experience you shouldn't have too much of a problem. 

Sorry about that glitch I can't see my photos before I press submit or edit without losing first part of initial post. However this should work it out. Chassis ready for priming and painting using Vallejo paints. I'm liking this model and how it fits together so much that I've forked out on some AM resicast from BNA Model world in Australia, block and tackle with some tools. Not used this company before.

Est.1961

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Oh gee that looks good! Lots of parts there, you're making great progress! 

Thanks Gamera I was planning to paint in tandem with the Brewster and bring that build to completion for a GB. 

I have used BNA a few times through there e-bay site, never had any issues, stuff gets here in good time.

I can't see your pics in your post Est., but i can in Gamera's, bit odd. Looking good.

That's weird. I was able to see Est. 1961's photos just fine. I was even able to click on them to expand them in another window. 

Hi Gamera and Bish, 

Yeah had this happen before and was able to sort in edit, but this time after pasting my text the picture posts vanished. I was delighted with Gamera for putting it in a quote. I'm using a Huawei phone as our lap top has multiple users so this is quick and easy apart from some wierd moments. 

Est.1961

Hi Gamera and Bish, 

Yeah had this happen before and was able to sort in edit, but this time after pasting my text the picture posts vanished. I was delighted with Gamera for putting it in a quote. I'm using a Huawei phone as our lap top has multiple users so this is quick and easy apart from some wierd moments. 

 

Now there might be your problem. Huawei phone, American website, know what i mean