BK: That looks good, nice work!

And the tank is named after General Walton Walker. He had one amazing story, it's worth a read.

BK,

Nice job on the Bulldog.  I need to finish mine someday.

John 3:16 KJV

Wow, no action in Korea. Why‘d the army do that?

Thanks again for the kind words, it was fun to build.

BK

Thanks Gamera. I appreciate your kind words.

BK

Thanks Buddy, I is nice of you to say. It's a really easy kit to build.

BK

BrandonK

 

Ya, I learned that they came out just as things were coming to an end and none of them saw action before it ended. Then they were replaced by the Patton before they could be used in Vietnam. 

The South Vietnamese used them in Vietnam, though. :)

BrandonK

 

Thanks again for the kind words, it was fun to build.

BK

You’re welcome, and thank you for signing up! Be sure to check in on January 1st to vote in the contest, too! 

Installment 5:

A coat of paint on the main body of the tank and the turret glued together-

That looks good, she's starting to look like a T-34!

Many thanks to fotofrank for supplying me with new decals to fix my Lid-Do-Bee  Which I found out means Linda Donna Beatrice his two daughters and wife

It's not perfect I couldn't respray area because of fear of tearing more. I touched it up by brush as best as possible 

TJ: That looks neat! Very cool! Again, I wouldn't sweat it too much- if you can get those friggin' decals to lay down on the nose and aft fusilage over the complex curves you're a better man than I. 

BTW: Four months to go! I had yesterday off so I pulled out the F-51D and finally got back to work on her. I'd been dreading painting the anti-glare panel on the nose but it seems to have went off perfectly, no overspray, seepage under the mask, or paint pulled up by the same mask. I did find what looks like a fingerprint on the wing, gotta go back and repaint that now- shheeeeeesssssssssshhhhhhhhh. As soon as that's done all the aircraft is painted excepting the canopy and landing gear. Will get some photos up then. 

Well done on the F-80, John.

Hey, y’all! Congrats on the finish, tempestjohnny; I’ll get your photo up front! 

Time does fly; I’m gonna have to get the prize announced soon! For those who don’t care about being in the competition, you can always keep building your models into next year if you have to or want to, though. I might do that myself. ;) 

Tempestjohnny- I realized upon looking that I already put a picture of your build up front. Pls let me know if you want to update the photo or if you like the one that’s up. :)

The one that's up is fine. Just wanted to show the other side after being fixed

Progress continues on the F-51. As I said the anti-glare panel is painted: 

As I said there was a finger print somehow in the starboard wing. So I sanded it out and repainted. Then the airbrush decided to blow a bunch of big goobs of paint onto the wing. I sanded it down several times and repainted. It still ain't perfect but I figure I'll be here to doomsday sanding and repainting so I went ahead and started decaling. Thankfully the decals have went down perfectly so far. Cross your fingers... 

Your model is looking good, Gamera!

Thanks John, three-and-a-half months to go. Most of the decals are on. Haven't done the canopy yet. So hopefully I'll be done before too much longer.

Ok, well, I’ve been pretty slow; and I haven’t kept posts comin’ in. However, I haven’t forgotten my Forgotten War GB. I have worked a bit on the wheels....ugh, wheels.... 

I have tried to add green paint to their centers. Hand-painting, not airbrushing. More to do to finish the wheels of course, but here’s a pic. :)

 How‘s it going for y’all? 

John: Yeap, road wheels are so much fun! But at least a T-34 has big manly road wheels instead of a zillion tiny ones like a Panzer III or IV. 

I've finished decaling and really need to get some photos up. I'm going to try to get the landing gear on next. 

Well, the decals are on and I'm working on the landing gear. Still haven't done my most hated part- masking the canopy yet. Hoping to be done by the end of the month. We'll see how it goes... 

Good work, Gamera! You are near the finish line on that mustang! Rounded pieces can be troublesome, can’t they?

The work on the wheels continues for me, but progress is being made. I’ve placed a few orders, too— one for weathering supplies from AmmoMiG, one for a mud kit for the diorama, and one for the GB prize. 

I’ll let y’all guess at the prize until I confirm that it gets here. 

John: Thanks! And looking forward to seeing more of your T-34!

I still haven't masked the canopy yet...  

The prize has arrived! I’ll post its picture up front on the first page. Here it is:

As for my modeling progress update...

- Some more work on a figure’s face and equipment.

The figure below now has hair, eyes, eyebrows, and mustache. His hands aren’t done being painted yet.

I cut a thin arc-like piece of masking tape and glued three of pieces of his equipment to it before gluing the tape “strap” to the soldier.

- Then, of course, some of the wheels with halves glued together...

Great job there on the figure John! And good to see the road wheels coming along. 

Cool prize too! 

Whoa!  Was it really Feb that I last posted an update on my M-26A1 Pershing??  Sorry all for being absent from the GB (and all the forums here) for so long.  I'm sure you've all experienced all sorts of modeling setbacks and delays due to the craziness of 2020.  Same here.  Suffice it to say that modeling took a back seat starting in March and I wasn't able to get back into it until August.  I had to finish up a couple of other builds before getting back on track with this GB. 

From what little I've seen so far (the last couple of pages really) there are some nice kits being built!  I'll try to take a more detailed look and post some comments as soon as I can!

OK, here's where I left off eight months ago!  Suspension pretty much complete:

A few weeks ago I started working on the tracks.  The kit tracks are indie links and BOY did they take a good long while to remove and clean up....all 166 links PLUS the same number of guide teeth!  However after gluing up a set (83 per side) and installing on the tank I really wasn't happy with it.  Turns out that if you glue them too tight, like I did, the 83 links end up being a half link too short, but 84 links are too long....GRRRRR  I went with 84, but you can see in the pic below the big gap at the front roadwheel/idler.

What to do, what to do??  I decided that I really didn't like the look of the tracks at both ends.  You can see that the fit at the sprocket is also a little funky.  So I decided to splurge on an aftermarket set of workable tracks:

While I was waiting for this to arrive I worked on the turret and prepped other smaller parts and assemblies and did some online research to determine paint and marking schemes.

Now if I thought that the cleanup of the kit tracks was a tedious, painstaking chore... that was nothing compared to this Bronco set!  Each link consists of seven parts!! Yes...SEVEN.  And in order to keep them workable glue must be applied to a very small area making sure glue doesn't get on any of the working parts!  After two weeks of cleanup and assembly I managed to create ONE set.    But what a difference!

The instructions stated 85 links, but I actually used 83 links and the fit was perfect!  The kit even comes with a set of sprockets to fit different M-26 models (Tamiya, Hobby Boss, Dragon).  Here's a pic showing the kit tracks one one side and the Bronco tracks on the other (biased towards the Bronco tracks!).  Still have to install the remaining guide teeth to this run and then assemble another track run.  Not really looking forward to that!

To be fair the kit tracks aren't all that bad and being forewarned about the fit problem would allow a track run to fit much better.   Here she is with the turret on and fenders and hatches dryfitted in place.

I've decided to use the kit markings as they match the Pershing in this photo; Hamhung Korea, 1950:

Looks great! Good to have you back with us! 

Good work, buff! Keep pressing on with those tracks! 

I got some washes from AmmoMig and weathered the tank. :)