Battle For Germany 45 GB Starts Now - 08 May 06

Welcome back Jules.  Nice work on the Emils.

Sean, the landing gear on the late Spits was unpainted natural metal.

Regards,  Rick.

Tanky, ok I'll change your build to the La-7.

Karl, I know exactly what you mean, I've been pricing up some bits and pieces for a tank I want to build (some day) and ouch those armor guys must have big modeling budgets.

I also agree that testing basic post and edit functions across the major available browsers is not to much to ask before signing off and going to production .  At work I would be hung drawn and quartered for not at least doing that before an app goes live.  If they didn't have the browsers available I'm sure you would have had an avalanche of willing volunteers here on the forum who would have been happy to test.  What am I talking about, that's what we are doing now isn't it, only we are using the big test environment (production).

Bob, thanks for the suggestion mate it's a great idea that I saw Jules do for the NAGB and I was going to pic it up here as well.  With the BoBGB I started downloading everybody's builds to my local HD so that I could create a Photobucket album for them.  I will try and follow through on the idea for this build though.

Jules welcome back , I was wondering where you had been hiding.  Nice job on your 109's, I'll be looking forward to checking our Black 8 it  looks great from what I can see of it so far though.

Sean the landing struts for Spits usually bare metal.

Daniel yeah that's cool, do you want me to update you on page 1 with a D-13?

Cheers

darson wrote:

Bob, thanks for the suggestion mate it's a great idea that I saw Jules do for the NAGB and I was going to pic it up here as well.  With the BoBGB I started downloading everybody's builds to my local HD so that I could create a Photobucket album for them.  I will try and follow through on the idea for this build though.

err...uh...as much as I would like to take credit for the suggestion (and believe you me, I could use the credit today....) it wasn't mine.  Maybe Jay's?  But maybe I can get a rain check on the credit?

bobbailey wrote:

err...uh...as much as I would like to take credit for the suggestion (and believe you me, I could use the credit today....) it wasn't mine.  Maybe Jay's?  But maybe I can get a rain check on the credit?

Bugger, sorry about that Jay and yes you can have a rain check on the credit Bob.

Tweets Definatly natural metal on the landing gear mate

Darren Yeah black eight came out OK but there is a couple of spots that i'm not happy with, I certainly learned what i needed to know about small spots so i'm feeling pretty confident taking on the camo scheme that will go with the HE 219......

pingtang wrote:

Okay then, tell me if this is allowed..... A Me-410B-2 captured by the Russians and used in the campaign against Germany during 1945. It was originally painted in the standard RLM 74/75/76 camo, but it looks like the Russians painted over the markings with a dark green colour and painted all the undersurfaces black (like the FW190 I built a while ago if anyone remembers). Just gotta find some big red star decals. I'll post a profile soon.

I found the decals I mentioned earlier.

There for a 1/48 Mig 29, but I loath jets (have no idea why I bought them).

If ya want em drop me a line.

Sorry I never sent the Gunze Flat, I have no idea where they ended up after the move, but I can roughly guess the bin

Woo Hoo, everybody now has some sort of bubble type things under their Avatar, so now I can finally (and happily) dump my stars!

Has anybody noticed that since the upgrade things have been a little on the slow side (number of people posting) around here.  I guess it's to be expected until the numbers of users build up again.

Jay, I got lazy with the collection of images for the BoB GB and quit doing it about halfway through the build.  This time however I'll follow through and post everybody’s builds up to a public Photobucket account.

Karl you're right about a DML panther, these days they don't leave much more in the way of AM to buy when you get one of their newer kits.  I have the old DML Night Fighting Panther G, but it straight styrene with no extra goodies.

Jules those spots are a challenge but are really rewarding when you look back your kit.  I think you've really had a great idea in using the 109 as a warm up to He 219.  Better of to make your mistakes on a cheaper kit that's not full of resin and PE.

:::Progress Report::: (Not Really)

I ordered the Eduard color PE set for the Trump 262 the other day and the GMW site tells me it should be in stock on the 17th Nov.  That should arrive nicely in time for the kick-off date and just before the Xmas rush.

Until recently I had good service from them... if I had to wait it is because I didn't read the "Special Orders" sticker... this time though I bought some Bf110 nightfighter decals that listed as in stock... the order status said looking for/reissue, a few days later the site turned to "Special Order" so I guess they thought they had em and couldn't find them... oh well, it won't stop me from ordering totally from them.

Oh yeah... my official build for this is the Dragon King Tiger... finishing up on an M-41 right now and kinda dig this armor thing!  I'll do the S-100 for the Battle of the Atlantic...

Slightly OT ( but when has that been a problem ) Thought I'd post this one for Tom...

Knock yourself out building these puppies

Regards,  Rick

rjkplasticmod wrote:

Slightly OT ( but when has that been a problem ) Thought I'd post this one for Tom... Knock yourself out building these puppies Regards,  Rick

I vote for the green and blue stripy one. Makes the already slightly ridiculous looking Martlet even more clown like!

Tom I know what you mean about the 'armour' thing. I'm considering asking Santa for Dragon's early Tiger 1, might save it for the next NAGB!

Darren Things have felt a little slow since we switched to the new forum, doesn't help half the functionality doesn't work at home on the Mac

And I thought rankings were supposed to be passe?

We lose stars, we get balls

Karl

Karl there's nothing wrong with balls or balloons or whatever the heck they are, it's just that people like Rick and Tom are already fully inflated with nowhere to go

Tom and Tanky I've always had good service as well from Great Models.  The PE set I ordered is brand new and was in stock when I ordered it but I'd say they must have sold out and are waiting for a new shipment to arrive.  I've only ever made the mistake of ordering something marked as Special Orders once and I won't be doing that again in a hurry.

Cheers

darson wrote:

Karl there's nothing wrong with balls or balloons or whatever the heck they are, it's just that people like Rick and Tom are already fully inflated with nowhere to go Cheers

Yeah Darren I see your point..........

Soooooo Tom & Rick you guys must be happy having fully inflated balls eh

Ahhh i can see i'm gonna have some fun with our new balls.....

Rick - oooooooooohhhh... Where did you pick up that sheet at?  I HAVE to get that!!!!  I agree, the green and blue stripy one is all that!!!  but the nose art is nice on them!

Jules - It just shows I am full of it! (the dots thing)

Karl - yeah I feel a few more armor pieces coming on.  IT was nice not to worry about the paint being exact on line, if I scuffed the sides while sanding it just made it look more real haha...  The best part was the 4 bars of pastels consumed in weathering it! 

tho9900 wrote:

Jules - It just shows I am full of it! (the dots thing)

Would that be the 'shite' thing again?

I'm waiting on the Tamiya Panther to turn up in the post, along with the AM goodies. I really enjoyed doing the Semovente for the NAGB, as like you say, armour builds are little less exacting, except on your wallet!

Karl

The balls are gone.  David giveth & David taketh away ( Mr. Voss that is ).

Regards,  Rick

PanzerWulff wrote:

hi guys im back had a breakdown in my computer and had to kick out 237$$ to fix the beast ttfn seeya later

welcome back Panzer!  glad you recovered!

rjkplasticmod wrote:

The balls are gone.  David giveth & David taketh away ( Mr. Voss that is ). Regards,  Rick

Damn, there go all my school boy (but incredibly witty) comments about balls

Wecome back Panzer, you've made it just in time for the build to start (12 days to go)

Cheers

I am so ready for this GB, I've got the kit ready, open and waiting on my desk.  I almost started sanding parts the other day but had to steel myself and calm down -

Dave, another one just for you, I got bored of the Superfly avatar and I am going with a self portrait on this one....  By Crom I had no idea I was so muscular... 

These avator thingys are kinda cool, BTW Darren who is your avatar, hubba hubba!

Restrain yourself Jay, only 12 days to go & we can all dig in.  Your self portrait Avatar looks a lot like Arnold.  Were you two separated at birth ? 

Regards,  Rick

KJ200 wrote:

rjkplasticmod wrote: Restrain yourself Jay, only 12 days to go & we can all dig in.  Your self portrait Avatar looks a lot like Arnold.  Were you two separated at birth ?  Regards,  Rick Jay was the other brother in 'Twins'! Karl EDIT: Bloody pathetic quote function!