Liberation of Western Europe GB

Hey David, is the GB only for 1/35 or 1/48 armour? since almost everyone starts with a 1/35 scale kit.

Thanks! 

Nope, any scale.

David

cj95, welcome aboard!

David

Thanks for the reply David!

I am in for the GB then with a Tamiya 1/48 scale M4A1 Sherman Tank! 

edit: scale include as I left out in my 1st post.

What scale?

David

cj95 wrote:

Howdy from Texas all.    I see somebody else is already working on a Dragon Firefly, but if you can find it in your hearts to let me another one to the list, I'd love to build this kit. (You're gonna need all the Fireflys you can get what with that JagdTiger being added to the list.)

cj- Don't worry too much about my Jadgtiger. The odds are in your favor that she'd be broken down, out of fuel or stuck in up to fenders somewhere.

Happy Independence Day, everyone.

It's got to be my favorite holiday - right after Christmas! Do I smell gunpowder?? Did someome say explosives??

-John   

My Achilles is taking a little longer than planned but it's all good.

As I was test fitting all the turret parts I decided that the interior just looked too empty. Thanks to Eduard's fine PE set,  some resin ammo and a trip to the spare parts pile it's looking much better.

Sorry about the lack of photos but I'm pretty sure I would still be classed as "Computer Illiterate", heck I can't even figure out how to get the GB logo. The wife is better at that stuff so I might have to (gulp) ask her for help.

First off, let me explain how to post pictures. Its easy and free. First, you create a photobucket account at photobucket. Then you take pictures of the model and upload them to my pictures. Then you go to your photobucket account and click where it says upload pictures. YOui click the browse buttom, select the picture you want and click upload, then you click the third link, the one that says [img/].............[img] and copy it and then paste it to your post. THe GB badge goes the same way except you save it to my pictures and then upload it and paste the link in your signature. THis is all on the first page too.

David

Huh, I just noticed something, this GB ends on VE day. And I didn't even plan it that way.

David

Sweet .

-John

Hi all, managed to spent a few nights to "dolled" up my 1/48 Tamiya Sherman.

Here is the pics of my before and after applying pastel chalk and accessories on the back of the tank, here goes!!!

Before applying any further application of pastel chalk and accessories: 

Now for the pics of after further applying the pastel chalk and accessories:

Ok, That's about it!!! Any feedback and comments is appreciated!!! Cheers!!!

Nice build, is it totally done. If it is, I'll post it on the front page. Great looking Sherman.

David

And, anyone with a finished project. Just tell me its okay and spcify the pic and I'll put it on the front page.

David

That is really cool, and 1/48 is new to me. great Job!!!

Bondoman

Thanks for the comments guys! Am glad you all like it.

Think I will stop here and start on the dio for this kit!

Yes David, it is done. Thanks for the trouble and my late reply.

My Tamiya 1/48 P-47M - just finished a cockpit. Here are two pictures

Greg 

Lookin good so far, what did you use for the seat buckels or straps?

David

David, Bob, Scott: Thanks for nice words . I am glad you like it.

David: I got Eduard PE set for Hasegawa kit but used the seatbelts from this set. Tamiya did a very nice job with the cockpit. I was surprised myself when I compared it to the P-47N in New England Air Museum i saw a month ago. The colors of some cockpit components are varied source to source, so I decided to use the existing pictures as a guide. P-47N should not be too far from the real one and the funny thing is: the HV-Z flown by Lanowski with 56FG was painted with a strange black (faded) color - supposed to be a car paint. I do not know the whole story but the result was a bit strange. Finaly I matched the paint and plan to use it pretty soon.

Thanks again for your kind words.

Greg 

Here are some interior shots from my Greyhound.  I sprayed it Tamiya Buff and when it dried, I followed with a filter of burnt umber.  The filter was a glob of burnt umber artist oils about the size of a BB mixed in an empty Model Master paint jar filled about 1/4 way with Better Way brand brush cleaner.  I slopped this on and continued to brush, without adding more filter, until it settled.  I then followed with a pinwash of black in all of the crevices.  After that dried, I proceeded to "chip" the paint with a dark gray artist marker.  I finished by mixing up and applying a dark brown coat of Doc O'Brien's weathering powders.  I blew off the excess with a couple of quick shots from the air compressor, and scrubbed the heavy traffic areas "clean" with an old, stiff brush.

Sorry I haven't replied earlier, I'm on vacation and this is the first hotel that has had interent. Great looking build, how did you achieve the effect? Thanks,

David

Thanks, Scott (David, were you talking to me?).  I was pleased, as well.  The heck of it is, as I was putting the M8 back on my workbench I noticed that the left rear wheel was misaligned.  So, I put a little back-pressure on it to bring it into line.  I was going to hold it there and add some Tenax to soften the styrene when....SNAP...the axle broke!    Now, I'm a preacher, so I didn't actually say it...but I must admit, I sure thought it!  So, now I have to pin that bad boy back in place.

Incidentally I took the pictures with a pretty basic Kodak digital camera, but my wife got me this mini photo studio for my birthday last week.

She got it at WalMart for about $50.  I think it really helped with the lighting and exposure and am pleased with the results.  I have a good wife.

Cool photo booth. Sorry about asking about how you achieved the affect. Since then I read your post thouroly. Great work. What are the dimensions of the photo booth.

David

Hey David!

The booth is 17" square and deep.  It folds in on itself to form its own case which holds both lights and the mini-tripod.  It comes with two backdrops...one blue and one light gray.  Well worth the investment IMHO.