Young Guns GB #3- Must be under 18!!!

Yeah, I think, but we get breaks, I dont know wahts going on with the middle school though, Im in Highschool now( and amazingly I actually LIKE IT) I actually remember hearing that they were closing the middle school down, strange..

interesting. Ya highschool is way better, especially when you are no longer a freshman.

I wont be around till sunday night, going to the biggest Civil War reenactment West of the Mississippi, and its only 40 minutes away!

reb- nice, i would love doin a reenactment someday looks like fun! the painting was of a guy kicking a smoke bomb away, and holding a polish flag, i did it in black and white, and the flag is red. looks really cool ill post it here someday
FINALLY! workin the entire day to strip the paint off my bel air paid off! ALL OF IT IS OFF!!! man, that took a long time.
3 DAY WEEK END!!!!!!! YES!!!!

finally....a few days off in a row! yes!

Ok, i repainted the tracks, and am starting to put them together. My fingers are starting to swell. and not even one track done. and that track is bent. and falling apart. and wont bend right. shit, this is stressful.

By the way, does anyone have reference picture odf how the front drive wheels fit onto the BMP? I think I may have to do some.....alterations......with a hacksaw...

Also, do we have a patch yet?

nein. no patch yet. but work on it comrade! indy tracks are indeed worth it!

Wow, tanky. Howd you get the changing GB animation? cool!
In dont have enough patches for that, and the way my kit buildong is going....

OK, major problme. the instructions call for 76 links per side. I jut put the 76th link on. Im testing it, and even I can see that if the real thing had this many links the tracks would fall off. Do I disregard the instrucions (english doesnt seem to be their first language anyway.....), or should i follow the party's instructions and make do. Hell, it wouldnt be that unrealistic for a soviet tanks tracks to look like this, would it?

err do they have 43 yards of sag? If so disregard the instructions. Everyone knows not follow instructions from AM companies anyway. (except for PE of course.)

Ok. I didnt. It sucked. but anyway:
here are some preliminary results:

luckily most of this will be covered up by the track skirts and snow when i make a dio.
By the way, I had to cut huge chunks out of the tracks skirt so theyd fit the wheels. Youd thing the company would either do this for you or have something about this in the instructions....

broke a superglue tube trying to put this together.

looks good comrade. only thing is i dont think youd want that piece on top so silvery. if its supposed to be bare steel, then use something a dark grey. silver works only with cut steel, or very recent scratches. BTW- if you ahd such a hard time with the skirts why dont you jsut leave them off? it happens to lots of vehicles in the field, and they mgiht not be able to repair it wuickly anyway.

Competition tomorrow! I'm heading out on sunday morning for a comp. in milford, CT. From the looks of last years results, junior attendance is a bit light, so I might enter adults and be crushed mercilessly.

good luck!

good luck tanky!!
sergei- id gice that thing a black wash, to bring out the shadows, other than that it looks awesomE!
-DJ

yup good lucky tanky
god reb, i was looking into airsoft, and it is expensive as hell! even the cheapest battery ones are over 300$
one of my friends has a CA 36, its pretty sweet

QUOTE: Originally posted by Tankmaster7 Competition tomorrow! I'm heading out on sunday morning for a comp. in milford, CT. From the looks of last years results, junior attendance is a bit light, so I might enter adults and be crushed mercilessly.

Id rather be crushed mercilessly than win lightly any day!

good luck tank! bring home the gold!

All righty i'm back. I got 1st place junior AC, 2nd place military vehicle, 2nd place ships and overall Best Junior Modeler (for my bf-109 i did for the last GB.) As for my haul, it is extremely small. Modelkasten tracks for a T-34, CMD resin turret and a small 1/72 fw-190 kit. That's it. Pretty good competition for best junior anyway, because there was tons of junior autmotive and several junior figs as well. The 109 was the same one that won an award at the Nats. . So, any progress pics from anyone?

congrats tanky!!
I'll have pic soon

well, my quest for inspiration for this dio, has led my to another idea for ANOTHER DIO!!! i promised myself that i wasnt gonna start this one until i finnish everything else, my idea: comes from the movie Downfall, which i saw yesterday (the one about hitler's last day) very good movie, ive seen myself talking to the tv during that movie, along the lines of swearing at the characters, i realized hitler was a bigger moron than i pictured him, eva braun is too perky and too good of a nazi "yes my Feurer" "right away mein Feurer" and after that movie, at the end of the movie i also wanted goebels and his wife to be alive again, so i could have the pleasure of giving them a slow, painful death, with a hammer....
best quote from the movie: (drunk german) "drink up, (as in vodka) Fuerers orders"
ANYWAY! my dio idea is of a little kid with a panzerfaust in a ditch, in berlin, in front of a T-34, except, idk where i could find a fig of a little kid let alone one holding a panzerfaust, anyone see one??
-DJ

Ive got some ideas from that movie too. I want to do the 88 and crew (actually a russian 85mm aa gun in the movie) I have several ideas for this one. I also have a Hitler youth in berlin dio planned. I have seen a few kids with panzerfaust but will probably sculpt most of them.

oh, and BTW, best line in the movie, "have you heard the news from outside?" 'was?' "Berlin is a city of where houses. Wheres my house?"
lol.

finished my turret, only the tracks left. Should I cement the indys together? they seem to stay without the glue.
Had to take the PSAT today, the english was very easy, except when they used weird words in a couple of questions in the beginning

wow, we had to take the PSAT's here too. had a sucky race. need to get stuff done if im gonna take my bunker to Syrcon this Sunday.

ive got an idea for a 'last days' dio. its in some city, not sure which, but its why i got dragaon's 251/22, along with tamiya's t-34/85 (dont worry, im gonna fix it up). i heard once about how at the end of the war, the germans were so short of tanks, they began mounting anti-tank guns on halftracks and using them for that purpose. i always thought that was a perfect expression of desperation. my idea's got the halftrack, knocked out either at a corner, or at a road-block at a corner in a town/city, with the germans retreating, the russians charging, and maybe a few kids upstairs dropping malatovs. my only problem would be how to pose the casualties in the halftrack, without being grotesque, or covering up that awesome interior to the vehicle. that scene from BoB comes to mind when the halftrack gets hit outside that town in holland. guys inside would be torn to shreds, and the outside could catch fire...maybe an engine shot.....

Hey Tanky... Sounda pretty cool here is an interesting picture of 2 destroyed 1/2tracks. Not in the city but still..

PSAT here today too. wierd. I didnt take it though, I hate tests, whether they matter or not.

Matt sounds like a neat idea. Just be careful if you're putting HJ in it though. My research indicated that they were often not fighting with regular wehrmacht. (they would hold a certain part of the line with the wehrmacht on either side of them.) They were usually alone though.

I had to tke PSAT's on wednesday too. Soooooo looonnng.... but it wasn't that bad. Currently I'm working more on my su-27 than my T-90 so not much progress to report.

an interesting book about the HJ is called "Steel Rain" subtitled The First SS Panzer Corps in Normandy
should i cement the indies? it would be safer...

yes, oh god yes scer! If they are regular old indies, they will have to be cemented.

thanks
im never gonna finish this tank for the NA gb, darn
good news: the 1/700th CVL kit I got off of eBay for 25 pounds came today! it is not even a foot long! if youre wondering why I got it, my grandfather served on CVL-25 in the Pacific from 43-45
No one actually makes a CVL kit, so theyre very expensive...

PSAT!- boring...the second math part was HORRIBLE!!! the free response ones, i guessed on the last three, i got so frustrated i actually punched myself in the head...during the test, my teacher was like "what was that?"
anywho...... aside from some random painting of the seats no progress here. -DJ

the ones where you had to actually solve them?

Guess on only 3? wow. you should see me trying to take a, Math or German test! German tests, the whole thing is usually a guess.
Math, I forget the formulas alot so have to guess alot.

Surprisingly the best class for me right now is History. lol and then Chemistry, and English.