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Nice work mate, is that the Tamiya kit? (I did one of those years ago). German armour looks so lush, just the bloody overlapping wheels are always a balls ache, bet the crews loved that in the field....

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6 hours ago, Indiana_Jones said:

Nice work mate, is that the Tamiya kit? (I did one of those years ago). German armour looks so lush, just the bloody overlapping wheels are always a balls ache, bet the crews loved that in the field....

It is the Tamiya kit. It's the early 70's one with about 20 parts but the photo etch extra detail really brings it to life. The clips for the tools on the fenders are proper fiddly. And yeah, Zee Germans would have won WW2 if it had been a cool looking armour competition. It becomes quite obvious that George Lucas based "The Empire" on the Krauts when you compare some of the transports & walkers  to German Halftracks.

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Anyone here used one of these airbrush’s?

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Designed for makeup, nail polish, cake decorating etc.   Wondering how well they do hobby stuff.

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Evening fellow modellers ! (yeah, right...)

So. The Chevy.  Now, far be it from me to judge the abilities of any producer of model kits, but this is the second & last ICM kit I'll be building.

The 6 wheel Mercedes staff car got bunged in a corner and has only just been saved with respray & some tarpaulin....

To be fair, it must be tricky concentrating on the detail of 1/35 scale injection moulding while the Russkies are lobbing cruise missiles at you but I'm struggling with the results again.

I got past the fact that the rear springs were identical, as opposed to left & right handed. The fronts were fine. With a little trimming & tweaking the rears ended up pretty damn close.  Then I tried to glue the axle on & the mounts were about 3mm out each side. Times that by 35 and no amount of kicking & swearing is going to make up a 3" gap.

I extended the spring perches to fit but I hope that's it for the fettling. I've got enough to worry about making it into a tipper.

Anyway, pics...

Spring hangers widened

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Chassis nearly done

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First coat & liight weathering on the engine & box

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In other news, my super cool purchase dated January 3rd still hasn't arrived. I'm about to start a Paypal claim.

Stupid models.

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