Battle For Germany 45 GB Starts Now - 08 May 06

Chris,  Nice work on the Hacktrack.  Looks good from here.

Jay,  Excellent little Dors.  Very nice work .

Regards,  Rick

Looks great Jay, on both builds   I can hardly tell the difference between the Airfix and the Hasegawa kits.  Great job!

Chris:  Looks fine to me, glad it didn't meet its pyrotechnic doom!

Thanks Rick, Bob and Dave. 

For the Airfix kit the biggest improvements were the scratched basic interiror so I could add a resin seat and the other was cutting off the molded on canopy and replacing it with the extra one in the Hasegawa Jv44 kit, which also happened to be the right canopy for Michalski's aircraft. I ended up leaving the antennae wire off as I tried both hair and very thin sprue but it just wouldn't sit right and look half decent so I left it off. 

Jay, great job on the 190s, they both look excellent.

Chris, looks like you're making good progress on the halftrack.

With regards the matter of scale, just worked out my next 3 builds are all 1/72, and they're all Revell kits to boot!

Progress Update

Decals are all done. Ended up having to make a couple of 3s for the Werknummer as there were none on either the CE or Revell decal sheets! They're not great, but with a little touch up should be OK.

Karl

Hey Guys,

Sorry, as always, for my prolonged silence.  Not having a computer is a pain in the !!  I wa a bit overwhelmed at how much I have missed in recent weeks.  Lots o' posting going on.  Just a few quick comments:

Chris:  The 'hacktrack' looks good to me.  I think you are doing a nice job of beating that thing down to 'parade rest'.  Can't wait to see more pictures as you finish her up.

Jay:  Nice pair of birds!  Well done.

Now, as for me, work slowed a bit on the pair of PAK-40's, but I hope to get a big chunk of work done tomorrow.  The Tamiya gun is done, just needs some paint (which is where I was the last time I posted, I think).  The Dragon gun has presented a few challenges.  The kit is the gun with Heer crew, and I found an article that compared it with the AFV and Tamiya PAK kits.  The article points out some dimension problems - specifically that the trail arms are 13 mm (real ones, not scale ones) too long!  I have had to go back and begin a surgical proceedure to remove that extra 13mm, which threw a monkey into my construction timeline.

The Sturmovic also progressing slowly - I was right when I said that it won't be done by the end of this GB, but at least it should have a nice start .

Gonna be borrowing the digi camera from the in-laws agian - hopefully over the weekend, so I will attempt to get some more pictures posted.

Chris that half track of yours looks pretty good to me as well.  I'm looking forward to seeing that one finished.

Jay those Doras are awesome, congratulations .  I don't remember who said it on the previous page but you really can't tell the difference between the two different brands of kits.

Cheers

The Panther is progressing...slowly.  Did the ambush scheme and then did a spray of flat black, earth red & thinner (more thinner than anything)-pleased with the results.  Applied decals after Futuring the limited areas.  Need to do another overspray (with a little more thinner added) after I get the tools on.  Don't think I'll attempt another piece of armor unless I have at least a year!

Karl great looking builds, the Heinkel looks fantastic

Chris don't beat yourself up mate cause your halftrac looks just fine to me, and remember we are our own worse critics

Jay Looks very very cool mate, both of them, and i've had a good look at the airfix 190D kit and i have to say you've done a great job on yours

Thanks Guys I painted the cammo on it tonight I couldent decide which pattern i liked so I incorperated a little from each of the patterns i was looking at .Then i added the Mg42's to the mounts once the paint had set up i plan on decaling tomorrow JEEZ it's 4:32 AM already INSOMNIA STRIKES AGAIN

Bob,  Nice work on the Panther.  Looking good.

Regards,  Rick

Thanks for the comments, Karl, Boyd, Daniel, Darren and Jules.  I really want to try a 1:48 Dora now so I can do a better job on the mottle. 

I have taking a liking to 1:72, it is also a good scale for multi-engined aircraft, but I think I'll stick to 1:48 for my single seat Canadian fighters.  I'm planning on building a collection of Canadian "Heroes" that include aircraft flown by some of our WW2 veterans.  I have four ac completed now (Hurricane and Typhoon in 1:48, Beaufighter and Bolingbroke in 1:72).  The Canso for the BoA GB is one and so is the Spitfire MkIX for the Allied Aces GB.  Since Canadians participated in most theatres, I can keep building ac for my collection with most GBs (some how I doubt any flew on the Eastern front though...). 

For this build I wanted to build something with a little more flair than always building commonwealth ac!

JAY Thanx for mentioning the Villagephoto sight as my photobucket acct is pretty much full I'm planning a second acct at village

Well my track is decaled I'm on to weathering tomorrow as i have a 1/72 Sea hurricane a pair of 1/72 scale tanks as well as the "HackTrack" to weather

BTW Now for the BIG News  This post is my 500th Post !!!!!

Karl, the 162 is looking Sweet.  Nice work.

Chris, Congratulations on the 500 Posts.  I kinda remember way back to my 500th .

Regards,  Rick

Karl - excellent work!!!  a great job as always!

Rick - I can't remember 4000 might less 500 haha..

I'll be surprised if I see a finished build

Regards,  Rick

rjkplasticmod wrote:

I'll be surprised if I see a finished build Regards,  Rick

He's been using this bait and run routine for awhile now hasn't he??? 

rjkplasticmod wrote:

I'll be surprised if I see a finished build Regards,  Rick

Chris-congrats on the big 5-0-0 

Karl-great work on the 162 

Tanky-Don’t listen to them.  I've seen your completed work in the flesh.  Take your time on do that magic you do.

Bob - very nice Panther... having been one of the armor judges at MosquitoCon I have gain a new respect for armor guys

KJ200 wrote:

Scott, don't know if you've had a chance to look at your 162 yet, but it really is a great kit. The extra size of1/32 really works well with the 162, and probably with the 163 as well, due to the fact it was so small in reality. Karl

Hey Karl,

I opened up my 162 last night and you're right, it's a very nice kit!  I'm looking forward to building it.  I really like the way yours is turning out, you're doing a fantastic job!  I'm half tempted to do the 162 for the First Jets GB instead of my 262 (would like to use some AM seatbelts for the 262, and the Jets build is OOB).  Is this HE 162 kit good to go straight out of the box?

Tankmaster7 wrote:

rjkplasticmod wrote: I'll be surprised if I see a finished build Regards,  Rick About time, eh Rick?

Actually a little passed being just late .  But a very nice build at the end of the day .

Regards,  Rick

Looks like activity on this thread is starting to slow down a tad now which is to be expected as we creep towards the end of the build.

But there are still a few kits out there that are just about finished, so we are not quite done yet.

Cheers