**Official** junior modeller group build thread!

WoW Townsy thats fantastic I realy like the non skid serfice grit stuff GREAT work!

Well I've been at the Cottage the last 2 weeks and got a TON of work done on my Chally, In fact, it's done!

*BEWARE DIAL-UP USERS**LOTS O' PICS!*

These are also the first three figures I've ever done, the Loader and TC I 'borrowed' from my Challenger 2 kit that I built last year, and the driver is one I just did, sorta gives a little bit of a snapshot of the progress I've made in figures since reading HermesMiniatures' excellent tutorial over in the "Figures" forum:

Without figures:

And one without the upper hull to showoff the Friul's:

Boy did alot of work go into this one! I cut off over 80 solid plastic grab handles and replaced them all with wire substitutes. I coated all horizontal surfaces in Krylon "textured" spray paint to simulate the anti-slip surface. I assembled around 180 Friul links and painted those anoying  rubber pads along with adding a couple hundred little "knicks". Hand painted the all the signs that are numbered "42". Drilled out the solid plastic headlights then painted them silver and filled them with white glue. I used a bunch of stowage from Tamiya's modern stowage set, and I made all of the tarps from Kleenex's soaked in white glue and water.

I'll be making another thread for it over in Armor.

Thanks for looking!

jadgpanther302 wrote:

The build has been extended to September 1st 2008.

For everyone?

 I still need to buy paint!  

howdy howdy fellas.

sorry i dropped off the map for a week, i was at band camp.

Anywho, awsome work on the Jacob.

And i'm lookin' forward to seein' those pics raptor.

The build has been extended to September 1st 2008.

Hellcat man wrote:

Any chance of getting an extension

Yeah i can do an extension but not a 3 month one.

Ok I finished the 109 (finally ) and will post pics later but I have to go out of town so I'll be back in a couple of days.

Good now I know how to make a bage too not that I'm enywhere close to done yet but I did paint my KT's turet erlyer but I ran out of dark yellow so the hulls still need paint and then theres weathering and tools and the comander fig but hopefully it will be done soon.

Nice work Jacob! cool paint pattern........for posting pix you copy the IMG code undernith the pic by clicking on the begining of the code and it should atoumaticaly copy it and then you paste it on your post here hope that helps!...again nice work.

Nice Work Jacob

I am done with my 109 just got to put the decals on.

done!!!

http://s341.photobucket.com/albums/o374/jacobc123/

sorry, I couldn't figure out how to post pics in the message(I tried and instead of the pics there were just pages with X on them) so just follow that link to see the stuka.

TacoBuff wrote:

since only 50 porsche turrets types were produced, every one would have zim.  BUT, don't worry about it.  I didn't put zim on mine, i don't think it's a big deal, just build for fun.

 Taco...we've got porshe's #51 and #52 the zim less ones that no one kew about exept the enamies thay destroyed (but no one kew thay existed so Shhhh!)...  

I'm sorta kinda but not to much base my paint patern on the one in the pic I posted but do eny of you guys know where KT's with that patern served so I can find unit emblems and tank numbers from that regin.

the star probably stands for different kit parts in the same box.  your KT kit might have Kit 'X' parts aswell.

Or, alternatively, I'm completely wrong, and Tamiya just likes stars.

Anywho, unfortunately, since only 50 porsche turrets types were produced, every one would have zim.  BUT, don't worry about it.  I didn't put zim on mine, i don't think it's a big deal, just build for fun.

Remember, all of you:  This is our art medium.  While others use pen and paper, we use paint and plastic.  Therefore, we are all given a little artistic license when it comes to finishing the final product.

And that, dear modelers, is TacoBuff's deep thought for the day.

Taco... no zim for me I could'nt buy eny and my putty atemps where terible and the sodering iran tequniqu scares me but I'm going to practice more zim tequniqus but not on this build because some of the porshe KT where zim less. Got this pic from my main refrance book TANKS by George Forty it also has camo on the weels.

The kit is Tamiya 35169*3900 (I wonder what the star in the middle is) and a Lion Roar PE set.

yes, but they were painted.  Most, probably if not all, KT's were camo'd even the wheels.  How are you going to do your zim?

Nice porsche, what kit/manufacturer?  I'm building one for the Big Cats GB.

Update on my KT.  

befor the PE hulls are not glued together.

after I glued the PE and the hulls are glued together.

I have painted all the weels and weathed half of them

It's funny that on the kits box art it shows a wire leeding to the headlight but there is'nt one in the kit or in the PE set I bought for it so I had to make one myself

geez jagdpanther, our tanks are lookin a little out numbered by all these planes .

Anybody got an 88 or wirbelwind in the stash?

and welcome to the build Jacob

_jacob_ wrote:

I'm in I'll build 1/72 fujimi ju-87 stuka, I'm 13

Good to have another build in the GB!

nice jeep sweet cherckers.