CarolsHusband

Thought I'd better do a post before the thread falls off the page. Slogging along. Paint tomorrow, then camo, decals & my usual laying on of filth & cargo.

That does seem to be the 'correct' way to do it, but I've never had a decal fall off a matt painted finish yet. It all sounds a bit "Emperors new clothes" to me. Surely you'd start losing detail lumping all that paint on. Is there not something called decal fix or similar ? You could always get masks for the markings & airbrush them on....

Also, goals

Plodding continues on the Armoured Recovery vehicle. No modelling time and I'm not feeling it like the HST but will hopefully get painting tomorrow & it'll all be better. Fancy doing the wheels for me, @Indiana_Jones ? /shit pics

Would I use a full size broom or a 1/35th scale one ?

That's looking good. Well, what I can see of it, obvs. Camo looks ace.

I've got to do two more High Speed Tractors first.

I've got a kit of my Chevy in the stash, maybe it should be next on the list. Kind of fancy doing it as it was after it had finished the Alaska Highway & was just a yellow maintenance truck.

That's pretty cool. Buy it, put it in the shed & take it for a drive maybe twice a year...

Keen for a real life M4 High Speed Tractor, Haven't got 120 grand though. sigh. Crowd fund anyone ?

Anyway, they'll have to catch me first / gutless

To be honest, I'm not that worried about the tyres sticking out. Yes, I know it's "illegal" as they say, but we don't see much in the way of law where I live. And they really don't seem to give a shit. It'll be fine.

Dredge. Hello gang, I know that coming here for any kind of advice is silly, but here goes. I've found a company here that can supply new galvanised tubs for my Hilux from Thailand. They're not cheap, but the car doesn't owe me much after all these years. Problem is, they can only get 2WD ones. They can supply 4WD repair patches that I could weld in but they're over 25% extra on the price. So, do I suck it up and spend the cash or do I get the bed & a pair of 2WD front wings for that full on '70's sticky out tyre look ? / pics

My next mission... M32 ARV. I wanted one of these years ago but they weren't available. I scratch built one on a welded hull Sherman at the time, it'll be interesting to see how close I got it. Anyway, it's going to be Kiwi spec for Italy in 43/44. Stone & grey camo. It may not be historically accurate regarding specific units, but what hell ? Progress so far...

Nice, that's going to look mint.