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ARMOR - Battle of Normandy, 6 June to 24 July 1944 (build ends 9/11/04)

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    November 2005
Posted by Anonymous on Friday, June 25, 2004 8:33 PM
Here are some progress pics of the M10

Engine compartment



Turret with a new tarp





Engine Deck (I need to clean up those tool outlines)



Front view



Feedback please?



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Posted by Anonymous on Friday, June 25, 2004 12:50 AM
Im likein the interior. Great so far.
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  • From: St Helens, England
Posted by Daveash on Thursday, June 24, 2004 6:33 PM
This thread is getting harder to find. Here are some progress pics, unfortunately I cannot make the tops removeable and keep a good build so I have captured the internal work on camera and will be fixing the top down. I will leave all of the hatches open so i will be able to see bits of it.









As always, comments welcome
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, June 23, 2004 3:37 PM
Yea that's cheese cloth on the turret. I think I'll take off and use good old tissue paper. Thanks for the inputs! Big Smile [:D]
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, June 23, 2004 1:56 PM
Is that guaze or something like that? It might be a little too grainy like you said, but I'd say tissue paper otta do the trick. M10's looking nice though! BTW that tiger thats sitting in my dio isn't the late tiger I'm doing. The turret is an academy early and the hull is tamiya late. I have several tiger kits that I built, but junked, so their just mock ups for dios now.
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, June 23, 2004 11:43 AM
Is that Plaster of paris? I see the PPG's have invaded your home too.Big Smile [:D]
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, June 23, 2004 6:53 AM
Some progress on the Academy M10...

The exterior is coming along nicely. I am almost done the turret, just ned to ad some bolt heads and other minor details. I wanted to try adding a tarp. Please tell me what you think, I am not sure I like the texture of the tarp, a little to grainy? Any way...



It (tarp) need to be trimed around the edges and I will add some tie down ropes also.



as you can see I still need to add the bolt heads, and I just noticed I missed a little clean up around the the tiedown point. Any way more to come...
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, June 23, 2004 1:31 AM
yup got it on order.
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    January 2004
  • From: SO CAL
Posted by cplchilly on Wednesday, June 23, 2004 1:27 AM
Great job on the tiger AM, I've just about got mine done I just repainted the camo as I didnt like it the first time around. I think the aces kit is still under 10.00 TG.
[img]http://members.fcc.net/ice9/badge.jpg
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, June 23, 2004 12:34 AM
Thanks. I will see if I can still get a hold of it. Im sure its around 12$ now.If indeed you picked it up 10 years ago.
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, June 23, 2004 12:31 AM
Ok, got it.
Cost: about $7 US
Kit number 6028 it was the 50th anniversary of the normandy campagn (at least it has a little ribbon saying 50th anniversary on it) so maybe I shouldn't have opened it, it's a ten year old kit...
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, June 23, 2004 12:28 AM
Comin' up, let me dig in my workshop...
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, June 23, 2004 12:25 AM
What was the cost of the figures. I saw them awhile back and said who the heck cares about aces. This was before I even knew better.Clown [:o)] And if ya could give me the kit number?
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Posted by Anonymous on Wednesday, June 23, 2004 12:01 AM
Oh yeah, my whittman figure doesn't match DML's mold, so I had to subsitute a tamiya arm for his right arm. Both arms are around the commanders cupola, but the DML mold has him holding his headphones with his arm down, so a little modification was all it took to get it right...
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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, June 22, 2004 11:58 PM
QUOTE: So armormaster is that the actual Whittmann figure?


Yep, it sure is. I picked up the DML "tiger aces" figure set and it includes a whittman figure. He's all painted and ready to go. Thanks for the commpliments! I don't know what the can do stuff is in the corner, but this is the box art. The figure in all black is whittman...
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    May 2004
  • From: Colorado
Posted by Tread on Tuesday, June 22, 2004 8:50 PM
Howdy fellas (ArmorMaster),

Good news (I think). I got a digital camera for Father's day! I have been creeping along with my 'construction' camera for quite awhile, now I (hopefully) can post some much better pictures......but, beware!....you have been warned. ;-)

Tread.
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    July 2003
  • From: Philippines
Posted by Dwight Ta-ala on Tuesday, June 22, 2004 3:46 AM
Richard,

Great job so far on that M-10.

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Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, June 22, 2004 2:17 AM
So armormaster is that the actual Whittmann figure? The dio ic coming along nicely.
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    November 2005
Posted by Anonymous on Monday, June 21, 2004 11:16 PM
Remember everyone, it'ed be great for everyone to get their bagdes. If you got your bagde, just check in with me so I can update the first page. Happy modeling, and good luck on your builds!
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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, June 20, 2004 2:16 AM
Here's some progress pics of my dio thats going with whittman's tiger so far.
All of these pictures are the base of my dio. It's the road that leads up to villers-bocage right before whittmans going to attack.


heres the sign 1 kilometer to the village

Closeup of the groundwork Static grass, then the infamous clumping lichen...

I know the pic quality and tiger is cheasy, but this is a mock up of where the completed late production will be.

All comments are welcomed!
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, June 19, 2004 11:52 PM
Oh wait, now there showing, never mind, good job tread! Thats how you post pics on this forum.
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, June 19, 2004 11:51 PM
Our bagdes aren't showing and I know why.
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  • From: Colorado
Posted by Tread on Saturday, June 19, 2004 11:40 PM
Howdy ArmorMaster (and all who helped),

I think I got it!! I did it kinda like you said........I think.

Bottom line is.......it's there. :-)

Thx again fellas..........I'll wear it proudly!!

Tread.
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    November 2005
Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, June 19, 2004 10:49 PM
Yeah, go to edit profile at the top right in red. It'll ask for your password, type it in. You'll have to scroll down about mid page and you'll find a little box that says signature. This is where you type in everything you want people to see. For me, it's todays tiger image of the day and this weeks iraqi freedom image. I also have some other stuff, but thats where I type in everything that goes in my sig. So you have to get the address that had the bagde:
http://rongeorge.com/albums/upload/temporary_bagdetemplete65ed2.sized.jpg
and put it in what we call "tags".
COMPLEX: Tags are little codes that the forum website will pick up and turn into what you want it to be; something else.
ENGLISH: You type in something in these [ ] and it tells the website you want something.

So what you do is go like this:
[ img ]http://rongeorge.com/albums/upload/temporary_bagdetemplete65ed2.sized.jpg[ /img ]
img stands for image. leave no spaces when typing this whole sentence. I have to make the spaces, otherwise the website will think I want to display the picture. Now this is whats above with no spaces:


It's ok if you didn't get it, but any questions?
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Posted by maffen on Saturday, June 19, 2004 2:34 PM
hi tread, just put this in your frofile : img]http://rongeorge.com/albums/upload/temporary_bagdetemplete65ed2.sized.jpg[/img

only put a [ at the beginning and a ] at the end wen you copy it to your signature.

hope this will help you Big Smile [:D]
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, June 19, 2004 12:29 PM
...
I tried to explain it but cunfused myself in the process.Tongue [:P]


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  • From: Colorado
Posted by Tread on Saturday, June 19, 2004 10:10 AM
Howdy fellas,

Many thx for the "Welcome Aboard" guys (ArmorMaster), sounds like a great bunch of bloke's are involved...it should be fun. :-)

As to the 'member badges' you so kindly put together, do you place them in your sig banner? If so....how?

TIA,

Tread.

Let me give it a try......probably screw it up.
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, June 19, 2004 12:53 AM
Remember everyone, we've got the member bagdes out.

Daveash: Sorry for not conferming, but your in. I was out of town and I didn't even see you request for wanting to come in, so your in!
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  • From: Colorado
Posted by Tread on Friday, June 18, 2004 11:29 PM
Howdy hattals,

Your M10 is looking superb! Ya know, it's funny. I just came from another site where I was discussing the M10. :-) The 'jest' of the discussion was about it wearing wading trunks, and more precisely, whether it had an intake trunk or not........any input on that one?
I've only got two pics that show an M10 with trunks, and neither one has an intake.....

Tread.
  • Member since
    November 2005
Posted by Anonymous on Friday, June 18, 2004 11:24 PM
Here are some progress pics of my M10 Duckbill. It is the Academt Kit and so far has been a great build. Here some interior shots:



and another



More to come!
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