Show us your armor collection!

wing_nut wrote:

Can I play too? First let me say there is a ton of inspirational stuff in this thread. great builds evreybody. My collection is small (for now )... I only started armor this year

Your transformation to the darkside is complete...5 armor models within a year definitely makes you a bonafide treadhead. Of course you can play too!

Can I play too?

First let me say there is a ton of inspirational stuff in this thread. great builds evreybody.

My collection is small (for now )... I only started armor this year

will here is my short and quick collection. i have more of a stash than a collection. but that is changing. the oldest one is the m-247 sgt york. when i frist saw it i had to have it but that was some 30 years ago and i had to save up for it and that is the only one that has survied serval moves across the usa. then when i got back into the armor after giving up the wing things these are the only two that i have built. the m107 was done a few months back. and the priest kangaroo was just completed last week. right know i have a dodge wc-54 ambulance wip and a m978 hemtt fuel truck that has stalled for the time being. so here are only 3 pics from my collection. and boy those are some great builds that you guys have.

Tigertankman - Thanks, the M107, there is nothing like a BIG gun. Also thanks on the dio comment.

It would appear your garage is a museum and has some nice items in it. Nice job on the Flak Gun.

Chris - Thanks. You too have a nice collection.

As I said before, this is great that everyone is sharing.

Rounds Complete!!

I can't remember the exact order of when they were built, but i can remember the first five i built: m4 sherman (1/48) tiger 1 (1/48) M-10 (1/48) M5A1 (1/35) M3 (1/35).  my models are all over various shelves, so i can't remember the order.

as well as many others, (2 t-34s, etc) but i didn't want to take up too much space.

oh and a pat on the back to who ever gets this pun...

Ok since most are posting their builds individually, I will do mine as well...Here goes nothing...

In the clearest chronological order that I can remember before I took that 3 year break:

StuG III Operation Barbarossa(Ressurected as a destroyed vehicle, because I messed it up a while back).

Tiger 1 Initial Version, Leningrad. My "Baby".

Flak 36/37 Deployed in Tunisia, very difficult to build and paint I might add.

1/25 Jagdpanther, dog chewed it, and I one day hope to restore it.

M1A1 Abrams Desert Storm, painted in "Dad" markings.

"Sturer Emil" 120mm self propelled gun. Only two of these were made, This one represents the one that has not been found, it has 22 combat kills.

KV-1 Simplified Turret, I'm not sure what area this tank represents...

Panther A, Normandy 1944

1/72 M4 Sherman, hand painted markings. Named after the person who gave me the kit.

Panzer IV Ausf H.

Sd.Kfz.251/C, Kursk, Panzergrenadier Division, in 1943

And these are very old pics, which I cannot recall when I built them, and they are lost now, but I will post them anyway.

These first three are all 1/72

Never finished this one.

King Tiger, my second armor model.

And this was my first attempt at a Halftrack, failed...

Here is what the Jagdpanther used to look like...

Thats it for now, let me know what ya' like!

-Alex

 Great builds there Redleg! Especially the Greyhound and the M925, I remember seeing how much work went into all those crates!

Tigertankman wrote:

Chris, The DML Tiger 1 late was your first build?

Uh not exactly, it's my earliest build that I havn't blown up with firecrackers or shot at with a pellet gun.. for now lol. Anyways thanks for the compliments!

and Doog, I'm Glad to hear it got published! I got a little worried when I didn't see it in the "September Preview" here on the site. And thanks!

Townsy, I've seen that Leopard in the new Finescale issue!

Congrats on getting published!

Doog, Wow, I absolutely adore your hetzer's and Sig, (Along with the Tiger 1 I'm a pretty big fan of the Hetzer, strange eh?).

Ian, Great first dio, I wish I could build one that well...and umm, a Terran Marine, you ROCK.

Manstein, Amazing work you've done, I love the halftracks and figures, the amount of detail is stunning, have you been in alot of competitions?

Roy, I really like all the artillery, those flak 43's are really interesting, I've never seen anything like those before. Were they difficult to convert?

Panzerguy, Really really wonderful what you've done with your tigers. And I love the PaK-40 Diorama as well.

Chris, The DML Tiger 1 late was your first build? If so, WOW, you need to make a profession out of this, that is simply amazing for a first build. That kit was much too difficult for me the first time around so I am going to purchase it again, but you have done such an amazing job with yours it almost makes me feel bad!Also, I really like the Leopard, Leclerc, and Challengers.

Redleg, Great looking M107, that one really caught my eye. The dioramas are also definately worth praise.

-Alex

OK....I'm game....only been back in the hooby a few years but here are mine from oldest to latest.

Pair of Duces M35A2 with M102 Howitzer 

M270 MLRS Firing

M107 175mm SP Gun

M151A2 with Trailer

M108 105mm SP Howitzer

My Old Command Hummer

M4 Tractor

M925 with M332 Ammo Trailer 

M757A1 Erector Launcher with Pershing 1A Missile

M8 in the Snow

All are 1/35 except the Pershing which is 1/32. 

Its great seeing a what everyone has done....nice idea.

Rounds Complete!!

Cool thread! alot of stunning builds here!

Here's my contributions (all 1/35), in chronological order from top to bottom:

DML Tiger I Late (#6253)

DML T-34/85 (#6319)

Tamiya Leopard 2A6 (Supposed to be in September's Reader Gallery?)

Tamiya British Challenger 2

DML M1A2 SEP

Trumpeter Strv.103B

Tamiya BMW R75

Tamiya Leclerc

Tamiya M1025 HMMWV

Trumpeter LAV-AT

and my most recent: Tamiya's Challenger 1 Mk.3

Chris,

  Okay T-Man here's my stuff

    Tamiya willys jeep

    Tamiya BMW with side car

     "Welcome GI" vignette with Tamiya Zundap

      Tamiya Pak40 dio

      Tamiya M4A3

      DML Tiger I late

       DML King Tiger 505

       Tamiya Marder III dio

       And my Initial Tiger I

        I like to put my builds on a base so the one's here with out one eventualy will be.

     Again nice idea for a thread.

the doog wrote:

Ian, that's a great collection as well--and having said that, I can't believe you would sell some of those fine builds like the truck dio, the KVII, the Sdkfz, the Matilda and the StuG especially, among others! I couldn't even think of selling most of my builds---maybe some of the older 20-year old models, but never my more recent builds!

Thanks,.....just for the record......

The technical/truck dio is safe on the shelf, and the StuG was a victim of my first attempt at whitewash that left it in the spares box, rather than Ebay. 

The T-35, BTR-152, KV-2, Matilda, Sd.kfz 250/9, T-64B and the Starcraft Marine/Trench Dio were the only casualties of Ebay.

LOL: I got on an arty kick a while back when I was sick of cleaning mold lines on billions of roadwheels and filling sink marks in indy links!

I only have one more on the workbench, the Cromwell Models 12.8cm Krupp Pak 44.  She's a BEAST!

Roy,

If I didn't know any better, I'd say there's a definite pattern in your builds that leans towards artillery...not that there's anything wrong with that.

Cool to see everyone's stuff: Here's my latest to oldest (at least ones I have pics of)

Commission build OOB of Academy M7 HMC

Sovereign2000 Sdkfz 247 4-rad

Cromwell Models Churchill V w/custom decals (gift build for WW2 veteran Gerry Chester)

T26E4 Super Pershing (scratch conversion from Tamiya base kit)

8.8cm  Flak 36/43 (conversion of DML Flak 36)

Tamiya Char B1 bis

Cromwell Models 8.8cm Flak 41 plus DML SdAnh 202 trailers (from Flak 36 kit)

1/48 Gasoline Jagdpanzer IV L70A conversion

Tamiya Willys Jeep in German colors

Tamiya M4A3 w/TWS T23 76mm turret (gift build for father in law)

Verlinden sFH18 15cm

Italeri M7 HMC (gift build for Korean War vet)

Azimut 12.8cm K81 Pak

Azimut 8.8cm Pak 43

Verlinden 8.8cm Pak 43/41

 Just wanted to say that I envy the way that all of you can put such detail and realism into what you´ve shown. Wish I had the discipline, and the time. Doog, "Rust bunnies" is better every time I look at it. Maybe you could add some more critters to it, like a fox low crawling up on their six. Manstein, thats the first time I´ve seen the dio with the jeep. Some of your best figs I think. As for your last pic, "nice shot man".

                                     regards Mac

A sampling of some armor/dio work completed over the past few years:

...hee hee hee...

I just gotta say everyone has got some FANTASTIC builds in their collections!!

doog: I gotta love that DML SiG33 Infanteriegeschutz since I'm using that Armorama indy link track tutorial for my SU-76M WIP build currently.

Hermesminiatures: Love the the SdKfz 184 Ferdinand, sPzJgAbt 653 - Kursk 1943 you built. I'm sending you a PM.

Thanks for the comments, my wife looks at the number of kits in the stash (75) vs. what's built and keeps asking what I'm going to do for space in the coming months/year...

I'm with doog, couldn't bear to sell any of them and have a high admiration for those who are able to part with them. Each one is special in its own way, it would be like selling a child to me.

Thanks for the compliments, guys!  There is a lot of fine work on display here!

Ian, that's a great collection as well--and having said that, I can't believe you would sell some of those fine builds like the truck dio, the KVII, the Sdkfz, the Matilda and the StuG especially, among others!

I couldn't even think of selling most of my builds---maybe some of the older 20-year old models, but never my more recent builds! 

Ahh....here we are.  Like Hermes, many of these have been sold, but I snapped plenty of pictures before the mail-man came.  In chronological order...

And my first dio...

 A dio that never quite made it...

And my only WIP scratchbuild:

WHEW! sorry for lal the pictures, I could ahve sworn I'd only built 8-9 models, but I guess they add up..

wbill76, lots of builds in there you've blogged, thanks for the effort. Cool cases, too.

Doog, sweet builds. Always a pleasure to see your builds.

minimortar, sweet cases, and builds.

Hermesminiatures, the Krupp looks great, as do the others.

Got in to p-bucket, here's by desktop ornament. It's the I-R stuart, saved up for it when I was 14 or so, pretty sure it's the oldest piece I have in the collection.

Very nice collections everyone! Doog... man, incredible weathering! I think that you should move to Massachusetts... preferably right next door.

My builds reside in these two cases... I built them a number of years ago, the photo is several years old and well I've been saying for some time now... time for another case. Roughly 4'x4'x1'.

Simply amazing Doog. Such an eclectic array of builds too.

I know that Ron (Biffa) is probably in Jamaica right now and probably couldn't post his builds for there isn't enough bandwidth to squeeze then all in. LOL

Here's what I've built in the last 18 months--Aaron and wbill76, if I'm breaking any rules here posting some of these photos, just tell me and I'll take them down!!

The DML Hetzer. The article about this build was sold to Finescale for publication at a upcoming date.

That build led to my commission build for Helo Miniature's figures box art. Here is the "Helo" Tamiya Hetzer next to the DML one.

Then came Christmas, and Jenn's presents; first her 5 Historex horses...

...and the Italeri "Midieval Tournament" which I called "On the Origins of Motocross"

I also did "The Frantics" figure set for her--she said this reminded her of me and her! LOL!

After she was pleased, it was back to building for myself--I'm pretty sure I built the Tamiya Field Kitchen dio next, which was also sold in article form to Finescale for publication at a future date...

I did the DML SiG33 Infanteriegeschutz for an Armorama indy link track tutorial:

Then the DML Brummbar for a featured build on Armorama:  

...and the DML E100 Nachtjaeger, on which I corrected the hull and heavily modified it to reflect a production vehicle, mid-1945 (?)

...and most recently, "The Lair of the Rust Bunnies"; the Revell 56 Chevy Nomad, the article which was also just recently sold to Finescale and which I heard is supposed to be published in the November issue?

Again, Aaron and wbill, if I've broken any rules of publication by posting some of these models here, let me know and I will remove them immediately!!! (SORRY!!)

Good gawd!    It's like a museum there Bill! 

Wait 'till my wife looks at this!