What're you building?

Hey WildWilliam thanx for the offer. Lol.

Keep well.

Add an M26 Pershing and an Italeri Tiger I to my list.

Finals ended on Thursday, so I thought I should treat myself to the Italeri Tiger 1 kit. BUT that Tiger was a painful build so I finished it as quickly as I could. Yes, it was a little sloppy. The Tiger was so painful that I thought I should treat myself to the Pershing. The M26 reminded me why I build models. The Tiger, the Pershing, my FM tracks and some stowage for the M10 should be ready for paint by sunday night.

Trying to finish Tamiya Late Tiger1. I've been working on it since the middle of Feb. I also just got done priming some 20mm wargaming figs.

QUOTE: (Maybe I'll get those Stuarts and M109 series vehicles out this weekend!)

HA!

Then what would you have to do?......

Mike

It looks like, as usual, we're a very diverse group concerning subject matter and scale. It surprised me to see that almost everybody is building more than one subject / vehicle at a time! I thought I was in the minority doing so, but am not! I won't feel so bad about having more than one vehicle on the 'board' at once any more! (Maybe I'll get those Stuarts and M109 series vehicles out this weekend!)

Ron

current project are

Tamiya M-20

Dragon M-51 Isheman

Hoby Craft M1A1 W/Mineplow

on the shelf are 2 more M-20's, Dragon Wagon, Mekava 2

started the 1/35 Tamiya 7.5 cm Pak 40 last night.

Artorius - wish you were closer to here - i'd certainly lend you a kit.
if only to keep from being in the line of fire!

Building a FAUN SLT56 tank transporter buy Trumpeter strate out of the box with some corrections ,and a Tamiya Leopard2a5 with Eduard PE kit . Both projects are going ok I'm almost down with the transporter weathering and final touchups is left . The Leopard tank needs decals and some camo paint corrections and weathering .I'm starting to feel this AZ. weather in my gaurage so work of my builds is really slow until I can fix my swamp cooler .

That would depend on what the definition of building is. I have a 1/35 M113 A1 started, a quad 50 half track mostly built running around some where and a 1/24 ladder firetruck that just seems to keep giving me more stuff to do to it everytime i look at it. All thoguh I have accomplished nothing in a few weeks now on any of them.

Well, let's see....

Finishing up Italeri's 1/48 Pavehawk, working away on a box of Warhammer orc figures (what a jeezly distraction these are!), just starting (finally) Hasegawa's 1/48 Apache Longbow with a pretty nifty Eduard PE set ( from Squadron- what a great company!).

What I really want to be doing though is Tamiya's ODS Bradley . Maybe I can get it this weekend! Any comments about this kit?

Jim

As soon as I get my shop set back up I will continue work on my Tiger II, JS II, Sherman 105, Dragon Wagon, Famo, Jagdpanther, M12 GMC, and a couple of others... I am really bad about starting projects and getting bored and or side tracked...

Ahhh the life of a modeler...

Im building Trumpeters 1/35 Leopold. Will start painting it soon.
Next........Tamiya 1/35 King tiger

Im working on nothing at the moment. And it sux. I really wish i had something to build. I will stuff around in the garage tomorrow and see if i can make a trebuchet. Man i wish i had some money at the moment. Any spare kits going for free. Anyone. I hear nothing. So i guess that means no. Fine. LOL. Trebuchet it is.

Keep well.

For now....
working on the Tamiya 1/35 sdkfz 223

Mike

here's my short list (just armor projects):
airfix bren carrier & 6 pdr (small vehicle / towed gun group builds)
italeri m4 converted 2 m32 (sherman group build)
italeri m1 abrams (m1 group build)
figs & interior of farmhouse 4 dio setting 4 ersatz (panther group build)
all small scale...

frosty

I have a Tamiya Dragon Wagon and an Academy Tiger with interior waiting to be started, but I also have a part built Tamiya 1/350 Fletcher destroyer with a PE set.
Decisions, decisions.

Nothing...until I get home this summer. Then I have to unpack all my kits (I barely moved into my new house before my unit got deployed) but in progress I have a M2 Brad, half track with quad .50s, Dragon Wagon, M935 (eventual guntruck)...and I think that's all of them...

Italeri 1/35 LAV-25 Mortar Carrier.

As for me i am finished my academy M-10 duckbill and my tamiya M4A3, now trying to get the final pieces together to do a dio with them still struggling with the figures too but hopefully can get things going and start on the dio got some nice accent pieces for it off ebay a testor kit that has a well, medic station and guard house road block. So as soon as i get a few final things like static grass etc. I can satart the dio. Oh yeah and as soon as i come up with the dough i will get a digital camera and throw some pics up for you guys

wipw, thanks for the tips. I wasn't going to do the duckbills, but I might give it a try now. RAF120, I know what you mean. I built a Monogram 1/48 Spitfire I for my son, and it was a shocker. Had I not promised it to him, I would have trashed it!

Lets see,
I'm still working on my Academy M10 and the dio that goes along with it.
I'm finishing up on an old 1/48 Monogram P47D Thunderbolt (I just don't understand how something with so few pieces can be such a pain in the a**)
That just about covers it unless you count the 1/72 B17 I'm helping my son build.

I've got two Panthers in the works, aus A and D (dragon). I'm afraid to say that a Hasegawa 1/48 razorback Jug is the primary right now. Take it easy on me for the winged thing build, but, I started out on AC before becoming a tanker.....

Well, my factory is in full swing right now. These are the kits I'm building:


Revell/Germany 1/72 scale Challenger I
Revell/Germany 1/72 scale Leopard 2A5
Revell/Germany 1/72 scale Spahpanzer Luchs
Revell/Germany 1/72 scale MCV Warrior
Revell/Germany 1/72 scale M2A2 Bradley
Matchbox 1/72 scale Monty's Caravan
Airfix 1/72 scale Bofors AA Gun and Tractor
ACE 1/72 scale Sa 13 Gopher AA Vehicle

Hasegawa 1/72 scale Hind A for Hind Group Build

And my shipyards are working on:

Revell/Germany Graf Zeppelin German Aircraft Carrier
Revell/Germany Royal Sovereign as Russian Arhkangelsk Battleship
Dragon/DML HMS Illustrious British Aircraft carrier
Revell/Monogram RMS Titanic

I'm building a 1/72 B-17F by Academy Tamiya's 1/35 M1A2 Acadamy's M18 DML's Hummel and Elefant

Bill give the soldering a try ! Its really not that bad if you use the flyfishing hacklepliers I was talking about in a previous thread , I want to come up with a pair with a slot so doing 90degree angles is a snap to hold , it shouldn't be that hard to pull off ! Soldering success requires plumbers flux be applied to the parts as if you were cementing them together, clamp it and cut a tiny bit of solder , all you have to do is stick the piece of solder to a clump of flux next to the seam and heat , the solder will flow right in , I use it for all my larger PE to PE joints the bond is almost unbreakable !

Thanks for the encouragement. You know, Royal did an interior for the Elefant. Don't know how much different that was than the Ferdie interior. I haven't seen it available for a while, as far as that goes. It was made for the Italeri kit, but understand it's a drop in for the DML kit.

What book did you order? Does it cover interior on the Elefant too? I'd be interested in getting a copy if they aren't too spendy. Good luck with it. I know it will look fantastic. Your work is always very impressive.

Have a great day.

QUOTE: Can I just send you my parts and let you do it?? lol

NOT FUNNY!!!

Actually I made them so long ago, that I do not recall how I put those things together. I am actually almost done with this kit, believe it or not. But then I got to thinking (and of course that always gets me into trouble) that I would build a partial interior. It still could go either way with the interior. Now I am just waiting for a book that I ordered before I complete the kit. Good luck with yours.

Thanks, Eric. Now for the killer...How the heck did you build those crescent guys? I bent the curve into the center piece, then super glued it to one side and finally managed to get the second side glued on, but I had a terrible time with it. I may try a bit of soldering on the rest of them. I was using t-pins stuck through a piece of waxpaper to hold the pieces in alignment, but it didn't go too well. It's been so long now that I don't remember exactly how I finally got it done! What fun!! Yours look really nice. Can I just send you my parts and let you do it?? lol

Thanks again.

Bill, just for you I whipped out the digital camera, took a pic, and posted it. I guarantee with 100% confidence that this is where they go. They are to keep the track from catching the corner of the fender under there.



Spector, I would go with the Aber PE set. I used the Eduard late Tiger set for a build, and it was not good. I think it was one of the first PE sets they made. A lot of the brackets were over sized which made the top deck of the model very cluttered. It was hard at one point to fit everything on. Also, the brackets included for the cable on the side of the hull are for an early Tiger and the fenders were very disappointing as far as detail. I have not used the Royal Models set for the Tiger, but the author of The Modelers Guide to the Tiger Tank swears by their sets. I have only bought one Royal set, and for the price I paid, I was not impressed.

As far as judging PE sets, I have recently started looking up the directions of the Aber and Eduard sets online and comparing them. If the Eduard set has what I am looking for, I get it because they generally are easier to construct. Of course there is no substitute for the Aber tool clamps, so I substitute all the clamps for the Aber ones. I have purchased a couple of the tool clamp PE sets from Aber just for this purpose. Here are the websites just in case you don't have them on your favorites list:

http://www.eduard.cz/

http://www.aber.net.pl/aber_english.html

Oh, and Spector, in December, I should actually have an engineering degree (keeping fingers crossed) but I still don’t think I will be qualified to put the darn things togther. LOL!!