GENTLEMEN...START...YOUR...MAYBACHS...bachs bachs bachs.. (MTD)

Guys...I'm done...not so much done with the model as just plain whipped. After way too much coffee (and Mountain Dew), I'm running on fumes.

Anyway, I posted my finished pics over in the other thread. A big thank you to Ausf for putting this together and everyone else for participating or commenting. This build, more than any other recent model, really brought back the memories of building models as a teenager. Granted, I'm a bit more careful than I was back then, but with age comes wisdom.

Enjoy your modeling...

Gang,
finished the Dragon w/ 3 and a half hours to spare.
the Airfix lies in wait.
heaven help me.

Buff - a man w/ you there.
my wheels & idlers were a mess.
of course, deleting the bushings did not help me much.

off to cobble the Airfix..
the Dragon is in the other thread.
thank you Ausf, fellow MTD crew, and watchers for the encouragement.

I've had it. done. I tried a mist of Buff and I think I blew it.

Thanks guys for being part of this.

So, the kit went together ok, the dark green base coat turned out well, but I discovered that doing the fine line work on a 3 colour cam scheme is much harder than it looks. Did the scheme by brush, and to put it mildly, it's plug ugly. Thank God the wash turned out well. Now if it would only dry so I can finish the thing and get some sleep!!. Last night was a typically sleepless post-rugby match night, my boy had me up at 5:30 am, I started the insane MTD, laid the patio stones like I promised my wife (which was stupid beyond belief, but she must be obeyed), and have been at my bench since noon. I JUST WANNA GO TO BED!!!.
So, when do we do this again?

Man this is impressive.. this is great. Come on you guys finish them up and show us

I'm done!!! Wow, that was one huge day. I made my tiger and also put it in a dio! It took me 11 hours to do it all, and it was fun!!! Pics are coming within the hour everyone, I might even make my own thread and ask others to post their MTD "story" in one huge thread. I don't know, but it's nice to know that all the building is over, but also sad because it was fun. Good luck for everyone that's still slaving away. One tiger in One day is enough for me, man good luck for the guys building two in one day. But good luck and pics are on the way!

Did I succeed? Yes and no.

I'd wanted to build two tigers from s.Pz.Abt. 510 in Kurland in January 1945, rolling across a snow-covered base, and had all the stuff ready. I worked on them until around 2:30am Sunday morning, then got up at around 9 knowing I'd have all day to do it.

So I get up and start building and just finish the wheels, which completed the model, when I get a call that there's a bankruptcy alert for one of our borrowers and I have to come nito the office. Ok, I think, how bad can this be? I'd gotten essentally all of the building done. The base was also well under way. So I go into Manhattan, ruffled but not defeated.

I get back at 9pm. [:0]

So I have to paint the tanks, finish putting the snow over the frozen ground on the diorama, and then put the whitewash on the tanks. I planned to use Tamiya Flat base as a whitewash.

I almost did it.

But in the end it was the Tamiya flat base that defeated me. The paint wasn't sufficiently dry for it to turn uniformly white throughout, basically defeating me -- there was nothing I could do. It looked terrible.

So I did get a Tiger done -- the one I didn't put the Tamiya flat base on. The other one's done too, but it has this ugly white stuff smeared over certain parts and the three-color scheme is coming through on others.

Then again, I put only a crude three-color scheme on the two Tigers, as I had intended them to be mostly covered by whitewash anyway. So it's a toss-up whether even the un-whitewashed Tiger is "done."

Serves me right. Had I been less ambitious, the call from the office would not have thrown me off. As it is, I did not achieve my goal, but came close.

Oh well, I'll read all the posts tomorrow. Thanks to ausf for hosting this! It was quite a challenge, I did get the Tigers done, and I will finish the diorama tomorrow and post pics of that too.

total disaster here. ended up torching the whole thing. i wish i could post a pic but my crap ftp site is acting up again.

Ok, here are two of the three images. Digitalimagehosting doesn't like the diorama pic for some reason.

Okay, I'm throwing in the towel. I am beat. I'm gettin (have gotten!!) way too old to do these type of things. I managed to get about 4 hours of sleep durring all this, as well as having to do laundry, dinner for the kids, etc. (As well as watch the race...sorry guys, I'm weak!)

Anyway, I just fingerpulted (no tweasers involved) the headlight for my Dragon kit to the floor and spent 20 minutes looking for it, unsuccessfully, I might add!) Anyway, here is a pic of as far as I got. The Dragon Late with zimm is in the background (aren't the tracks a wonderful fit!), and the Revell H is in the front. I've got the track pieces for them partially weathered and they are drying.

Over all, they were both pretty clean builds. No real problems, other than my clumsiness! I used Tamiya neutral grey through my Aztec for the Revell and a can (most of it, in fact) of Tamiya rattle can Dark Yellow. It is no where near the color of what comes out of the bottle, and it's kind of a semigloss to boot! As you can see, I've got a long way to go on both of them. Guess I'll have to pass on the badge for this build. Sorry I didn't get finished.




I can't wait to be able to peruse through all the posts in this thread and in the finished thread. Thanks for hosting this ausf. You did a great job!

Nothing to be sorry about Bill. I think you got heaps done, especially since I couldn't bring myself to touch the roadwheels on mine. If we organise a badge, you get yours along with everyone that participated, I think.

I would consider buying one of those kits you used, and building it for my office or something. They certainly make the Hasegawa kit i built look a little primitive. Let's not discuss the Airfix!

I didn' eventhink about a badge, I'll get to work on it when I get a chance. Everyone involved deserves one, it was a valiant effort all around.

I was wondering what happened to you Larry.
Bill, tweezerpult was a big part of my day, I guess I forget an offering to the modeling Gods. I had to cut the back of the roadwheel stem to make the hub on the other side. I had to file the tiny part flat after cutting and of course, click and it's gone. I hear to land and find it within seconds about 10 feet away on the other bench. Go back to the bench and again hear the sickening click and landing...about 10 minutes later I gave up. When I went to glue the hubs, I had 8 wheels and 8 hubs!? Either it stuck to my hand while I was on the floor looking or I hallucinated the whole thing. Still don't know.

Great work guys.

the only piece that was officially lost from mine was the ylinger for the rear deck of the Dragon kit. i think it's a fire extinguisher?
have not seen it since. it is probably glued to my forearm or something.
used a bit of styrene rod & called it good.

Wipw - another two-fer man! you did good, Bill.
Larry - same for you!

i should have done better, as i had 2 kits, but far less distractions!
it's going to be a long day at work today!
hopefully it will be a quiet one.

If anyone needs spares, I have quite a few leftovers (cannon, MG, exhaust, cuppola, you name it). I didn't save the pioneer tools I cut off the deck though.
I was going to a 'Tick check' for stuck bits but I was too tired.