1:35 LEP Up Armoured Scimitar CVR(T)

[Guest]

"Attention ....

........there will be a presentation at 12.00hrs by the commanding officer of a 5* medal to Andrew for going above and beyond the call of modeling duty, anyone wishing to attend are welcome, but must be sober and dressed. .....

........that is all"

[Guest]

this is a feast for the eyes,magnificent,bravo welldone,5+2*s from me so its the magnificent 7,

mobear

[Guest]

I can't quite believe what just happened... I came home from work, grabbed my camera to take the photos of the corrected barrel and while setting up the photos booth, it slid across the table and everything ended up on the floor. I am now going to have a stiff drink...

[Ian M]

Oh Crap! have a double.

Don't panic. OK looks like the barrel is a bit bent, but the parts that have broken off appear to be just that. Broken off and not smashed to smithereens.

Pick it up and look at it tomorrow and I bet you will get it sorted in an hour.

Still I am really feeling for you mate.

Ian M

[Guest]

Ohhh Noooo!!! That's a pity!!!

Looks just a Little damaged, you can rebuild it??

All the best Andrew

[Guest]

oh arse!!!!!!!

that is all.....

[papa 695]

Oh Andrew i'm so sorry i feel real guilty if i'd not pointed out the barrel all would be still ok

[Guest]

Oh man, that must really hurt

Such a fantastic model, it must be retrievable raying:

[Guest]

Thanks for the kind thoughts guys, I am pleased to say that it does look repairable. It won't be 100% as it was, but it will be 98% okay and some artful work with pigments will hide the rest of the damage.

It was a very hard thing to deal with - I had to just walk away for several hours before I could even bare to look at the damage too closely. basically what had happened was almost all the supports that were attaching the bar armour to the hull were broken and at least one bracket has been lost to the carpet monster. However, all were repairable and the lost one wasn't a major load bearing support and is not very obvious so I'm going to leave it missing. One bar strip on the front left corner has gone missing and will need to be replaced, but all the other breakages were repairable.

Its drying now and the finishing touches will be added tomorrow and I'll attempt to photograph it again. This time I will make sure everything is fastened down...

[Guest]

So here it is again, bandaged up, repaired and with a properly painted barrel! i was VERY careful setting up the photo booth this evening, but somehow the photos haven't come out quite as well as they did earlier in the week, ahh well... The repairs are not particularly noticeable, unless you know where to look, however I have deliberately left one thing broken... see if you can spot where

[MORIARTY1177]

I feel VC is in order, Herculean effort which has paid off in spades. Awesome job Andrew, excellent work.

Regards

Chris

[Gern]

Superb recovery there Andrew. I can't spot the broken bit though.

Gern

[Guest]

Awesome build

[papa 695]

Great recovery Andrew you can't even tell you dropped it worth even more stars

[Guest]

fantastic job and repair, you cannot tell that it was driven off a cliff.. *****