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

Howdy fellas,

I've been working on several D-Day / Normandy projects as of late, and I would love to join in on this honourable build!

Question is, am I too late?

here's hoping.....

Tread.

ArmorMaster, you must be getting desperate for tiger pics of the day! But the Iraqi Freedom one is awsome, i love that.

yeah, my tiger day pics are desperate, but I love my iraq pics too.

Tread: to the forums! I will make an exception, so your in. Does everybody agree with this? Since you just joined, there was no way possible to join in the beginning, so your in as of now. Welcome and enjoy your build!

cplchilly: I will make a temporary bagde that will be issued to each member of the GB. This badge will only signify that one is involved in the GB, however this temporary bagde does not mean you completed your build. I will replace this temporary bagde with a completion bagde when you show pics of your model. When Sept 11 hits and you didn't complete your build, you must take this temporary bagde out of your sig. Does this sound like a good idea? I don't know, I need some imput, but I will be making a temporary bagde...

Ok, here's the link of the img of the temporary bagde. anybody who is in the build gets issued it. Zokissima, I'm sorry since your out you can't get one, but I hope all your builds go fine. Happy modeling! Oh, if you don't like this idea, I can tear it down, but this is experimental.
http://rongeorge.com/albums/upload/temporary_bagdetemplete65ed2.sized.jpg

Welcome to the build tread. Thats a great badge AM I like the temp Idea too.

please,pretty please can i join sorry for being late (so many stuff to build and only 24h in a day and two hands )

Allright, maffen, your in, so pic up your bagde. Anybody have any input? I'll let people join until June 30, then once the clock strikes june 30 you can't come in. This only happens once in a lifetime (60th anniversary) so I'll be forgiving for being a little late... Why June 30? Because if it's any longer you won't have any time to build. So everybody, pic up the bagde. Any input on it?

Nice work Dave. Looks great. I like the wireing alot.

Ok I got the temp badge.

Yep, saw it, check out the first page everyone...

Did a bit more tonight, i am trying to make the whole top section removable in one piece, without showing the join, lots of fileing, filling, superglue and a milliput joint that I hope will hold. I think that iI will need some styrene or metal brackets to keep it in place.
If it works I will post pics, until then I need to know the correct Humbrol enamel colour for the German "dunkelgelb" It is either 93 or 94.
It`s getting late now, quite drunk, as my home team won tonight and I have had a few cans in my shed / workshop.
See you all tomorrow

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!

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.

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!

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.

...
I tried to explain it but cunfused myself in the process.

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

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?

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.

Our bagdes aren't showing and I know why.

Oh wait, now there showing, never mind, good job tread! Thats how you post pics on this forum.

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!

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!

So armormaster is that the actual Whittmann figure? The dio ic coming along nicely.

Richard,

Great job so far on that M-10.

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.

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...

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...

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. And if ya could give me the kit number?

Comin' up, let me dig in my workshop...

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...