A RECIPE FOR DISASTER (pictures are back) Completely finished on page 11

Intershermanational, Intershermanational
I can say it!
I can say it!
I am motivated, I am on my way to the LHS to get more "Canvas"
This is great stuff, thank you for your excellent blog Disastermaster
Kind Regards
Utoshita

I've been wanting to see a WIP from you for a long time too, this is freakin cool.  Very entertaining as well, keep those updates coming!

disastermaster

Okay, since you two of you guys are aiken for more..

.

It does look a bit like doog with a haircut eh?

 

                                                              

That's me in Catholic high school! ha ha!!

I always ripped my tie off any chance I got...lol! FUNNY!!!

'nuf said.

Oh yeah, damned clever way of getting the cast numbers.

terry35

Steve it's just brilliant to see that you have decided to do a WIP/build log.  I've long been a fan of your work and it will be a real treat to have the opportunity to follow a build.

The welds are great, I do mine the same and I must say that I never noticed it as addicitive but upon reflection I must agree that it is addictive. It's so easy and rewarding when the results are seen.

Your work on the glacis is brilliant.

Goodluck with the rest of your build.

Regards,

Terry.

Thanks Terry,

ALWAYS good to hear from you.

 It means a lot for me to get this kind of feedback from all you fellas ....even better.... a lot of you guys are the major talents on this forum too.

 As a whole, you people know what goes into building a showpiece and that lends much validity to my efforts - not to mention positive inspiration.

 It's gettin' a bit deep in here.....

                                              I gotta go ...........

Cheers for the message Steve. I am glad i inspired you to do this build. Sorry i dont get on here much but i will follow this if i can. Nice to hear from you buddy.

The build is a bonus!  The posting is entertaining enough!    Excellent job.  Thanks for showing us how its done. 

Very informational and entertaining.  Where did you get all of those old pictures of the Doog?

tigerman

Gotta say, your WIP's are not just eye-candy, but good for a laugh as well.

deafpanzer

  I agree... this sure beats reading the Sunday comics. Way too funny... thank you!

Thanks guys... 

                    Nah, it's not your conventional WIP...

                             but, keep on laughin' ............   

                                                       (that way y'all  miss my goof ups!)

                                             and..........

              'ya ain't seen nuttin' yet.

Yeahh.....

........  a sittin' here all kicked back...... a listening to 60's oldies music, ...........and writin' to the gang.

Dang, life is way too short.....  

But Tomorrow...............

                   back to the real world.

           Have fun..............Good night friends.

Heh, that was me on Friday night.

I too love 60's music: Doors, Animals, Stones, CCR, etc. It's a nice change from todays stuff which I just can't get into.

Utoshita

Intershermanational, Intershermanational
I can say it!
I can say it!
I am motivated, I am on my way to the LHS to get more "Canvas"
This is great stuff, thank you for your excellent blog Disastermaster
Kind Regards
Utoshita

Daywalker

I've been wanting to see a WIP from you for a long time too, this is freakin cool.  Very entertaining as well, keep those updates coming!

Utoshita and Frank..........

Nothing like a happywip© ............    

 I'm glad you guys like where I'm going with this. I'm getting the next post ready.

The painting is going to be the hardest part to describe.

Many Thanks

tigerman

Heh, that was me on Friday night.

I too love 60's music: Doors, Animals, Stones, CCR, etc. It's a nice change from todays stuff which I just can't get into.

     Yeah, I love all those groups too .....

  but the ones that always get me going are the Drifters, Temptations, Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons, The Coasters, the Tams ...... I guess you get the idea here......  pretty much all beach music.

     My boy (well, he's 22 & off at college) loves the good stuff too and thinks much of todays music  pretty much stinks also.

Bodge

Cheers for the message Steve. I am glad i inspired you to do this build. Sorry i dont get on here much but i will follow this if i can. Nice to hear from you buddy.

Thanks for checking in Andy.

               Workin' on the next update even as I respond here.

                                 Looking forward to your input.

disastermaster

tigerman:

Heh, that was me on Friday night.

I too love 60's music: Doors, Animals, Stones, CCR, etc. It's a nice change from todays stuff which I just can't get into.

 

tigerman:

Heh, that was me on Friday night.

I too love 60's music: Doors, Animals, Stones, CCR, etc. It's a nice change from todays stuff which I just can't get into.

 

     Yeah, I love all those groups too .....

  but the ones that always get me going are the Drifters, Temptations, Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons, The Coasters, the Tams ...... I guess you get the idea here......  pretty much all beach music.

     My boy (well, he's 22 & off at college) loves the good stuff too and thinks much of todays music  pretty much stinks also.

 

 

 

disastermaster

tigerman:

Heh, that was me on Friday night.

I too love 60's music: Doors, Animals, Stones, CCR, etc. It's a nice change from todays stuff which I just can't get into.

 

tigerman:

Heh, that was me on Friday night.

I too love 60's music: Doors, Animals, Stones, CCR, etc. It's a nice change from todays stuff which I just can't get into.

 

     Yeah, I love all those groups too .....

  but the ones that always get me going are the Drifters, Temptations, Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons, The Coasters, the Tams ...... I guess you get the idea here......  pretty much all beach music.

     My boy (well, he's 22 & off at college) loves the good stuff too and thinks much of todays music  pretty much stinks also.

I like Beach music too and I'll say I even like stuff from the 50's. I would love to teleport back to the early-mid 50's. Love the styles and the cars. Just a seemly serene and simpler time.

My thoughts exactly........ my boy would want to visit too.

Ripcord

The build is a bonus!  The posting is entertaining enough!    Excellent job.  Thanks for showing us how its done. 

 I'm glad you like it. Just remember, this is how "I" do things....... so, not necessarily the "LAST WORD" in model building.

Much more to come............Thanks.

Are we ready.....I will come pick you guys up!!

Rounds Complete!!

wing_nut

'nuf said.

 

Oh yeah, damned clever way of getting the cast numbers.

Thanks Marc,

  Besides stretching 'em; this is another reason to keep your old, worn and tired sprues. You never outgrow your need for casting numbers or weld effects.

 I've been able to get just about any size letter/number I need merely by being observant as to what is given to me in the kit(s).

Sometimes you just have to take a good hard look.

PANZERWAFFE

Very informational and entertaining.  Where did you get all of those old pictures of the Doog?

Glad you like it.

Doog's here to stay.

So, on his behalf I present........

redleg12

Are we ready.....I will come pick you guys up!!

Rounds Complete!!

And Mike, I don't know if we could get three of us in that DeLorean!

Ok, time to put some of this together.

 Using some .040 evergreen cardstock......I whacked out the additional armor for the hull sides.

That scales to just about the required 1.5" thickness.

O --- kaaaaaayyyyyy, ....... .010 shy - dang, close enough…… 



 I took a length of masking tape and stuck it to the existing hull profile and went around it with the edge of a pencil.......

                          I cut it out and stuck it to the plastic cardstock.

Here’s the crude template (the smaller rectangle is for later use on the barrel; yeah, that's a mystery ain't it? ............I'm just up to no good).


  Next I applied the vertical weld seam to the applique armor, (which won’t be visible when I’m finished) did some corrective sanding and glued the assemblies to their respective sides. (I'm steppin' a bit out of context here)


 From there, as you can see, the sand skirt mountings (more about that later) have been measured, drilled and  spot welded .......

(cast glacis placed loosely for a visual assessment).....as well as the installation of the front (resin) upper glacis and metal lifting attachments (a better and closer shot in the next to last picture).



 Below is a real world picture of the distinctive style of weld used for the attachment of the extra frontal and side armor.



……..from my own observations this detail is not featured correctly on many (if any) of the models I’ve seen of this subject.

Well, here’s my attempt to replicate that pattern.

Believe it or not, the weld's actually doing most of the holding on of the frontal applique armor.

I think it came out fairly decent.
 

What'cha think?

 Well, I told you that I’d forget a picture here and there.....  so the pictures of the removal of the front fenders and the attachment points have escaped me.         ... it ain't that hard to do anyhow.

Gotta rest, too much excitement here......

gettin' hungry too......

Now, I got that cast glacis attached in place and things are beginning to shape up...........

And here’s THAT picture…....

Whew, I’m gonna take another break   .....yyaahhhh...... break, break....................whoopee......

have fun.......  be back soon……….  the fun will continue.

Great start! Great subject.........  GREAT GREAT GREAT

Ain't it great?!

Thanks for sharing,,,, I'll be following for sure!

Can I ask how you replicated the welds on the side and front armor?  It looks just like the life-size photo to me.  Very well executed!

Fantastic work on the weld replication Steve, you deserve a break after all that!

Hey Buddy  :  )

It is nice to come home after a crappy day at work and turn on the Disaster Master show!

Animated, Friendly, and down right informative !

Terrific, accurate weld representation, Steve, and drilling all those holes for the skirts must be a biatch 1/35... 

they were killer for me in 1/16 a couple years ago, and your weld seams around the lifting eyelets look superb also .................  Steve , there is just something about Sherman ........dang.....  

Thanks for perking me up

tread

BaBill212

Great start! Great subject.........  GREAT GREAT GREAT

Ain't it great?!

Thanks for sharing,,,, I'll be following for sure!

Thanks new friend!

Glad you're on board............

Daywalker

Can I ask how you replicated the welds on the side and front armor?  It looks just like the life-size photo to me.  Very well executed!

Thank you, Thank you.

Hope it helps someone.

              Just one of the ways I do things..........

                          It's my very own original idea.

It's mine, mine, mine.

The moment I saw the picture of the weld, first thing that came to mind was "SPRUE"

.....remember the old 60's song "HAIR"

Okay, start humming..............

Give me a table with sprue, long beautiful sprue
Shining, gleaming, streaming, flaxen, waxen
Give me down to there, sprue, table length or longer
Here baby, there, momma, everywhere, daddy, daddy

Let it fly in the breeze and get caught in the trees

..... ha, heh......sometimes I'm such a 

Yep, this is what'cha can do with sprue.

Here's the how, gotta hurry-I wanna see NCIS.

1. Stretch out a lott'a sprue.

2. Glue a layer into place - laquer thinner.

3. Give it 3 or 4.

4. Add another layer and soak it.

5. And so on until it looks right, you can use a blade to rake lengthwise to enhance the effect.

In the end it will be very soft, give it 48 or so to dry completely.

Anything else, just ask.

Dang, NCIS is a stinkin' rerun tonight...........

Intense......fabulous......amazing.......stunning.......outstanding.......without reproach.....otherwise really good!

Rounds Complete!!

Hey Mike... if this is an adjective war to describe Steve's work, I WILL go outside the English language !...................................LOL !

redleg12

Intense......fabulous......amazing.......stunning.......outstanding.......without reproach.....otherwise really good!

Rounds Complete!!

treadwell

Hey Mike... if this is an adjective war to describe Steve's work, I WILL go outside the English language !...................................LOL !

It's a heavy metal babe-a-saurus. SCHWING!

Steve, your posts here are not only informative as heck, they're entertaining as hell!

Looking great, and thanks for the laughs and smileys!