peter's 1/72 scale D-Day diorama. (Greof's D-Day GB)

[Tworrs]

Got you a seat saved up front

Thank you kind Sir.

[Geoffers]

Wow Peter, looking forward to following your epic build :thumb2:

Geoff.

[Peter Gillson]

Good progress today. i had forgotten how quickly some 1/72 kits go together. I am building them OOB with no extra detailing, unless I can see something obviously wrong. So far I have nearly completed:

Higgins boat:


A LCM(3):


Both almost finished. A few smaller parts will wait until the composition is decided and most of the painting finished - less chance of knowing bits off!

... and some beach obstacles:

The larger 'hedgehogs' at the top are from the LCM kit, the remaining from a kit I got on ebay - unfortunately it was somebody selling off bits and pieces so i do not know the make.

Next up, the Milicast DD Sherman, which is not as good as I had expected; some of the casting plugs are on the large side, and there are a lot of bubbles, and some of the detail is a bit rough - you can see part of the towrope has not cast properly. a bit disappointing.


the most annoying part are the instructions. There are some nice photo and a list of the resin parts along with numbers which match the photos, but the parts are not numbered, and there are no numbered photos of the partson the sprues; so it is a bit of guess work to decide which part is which.

Peter

[Guest]

Not the greatest resin kit I’ve ever seen, no … Is the track warped, too? It looks like it’s bent inward a little at the sprocket end.

[adt70hk]

Off to a nice start Peter. Not the best resin kit is it. Millicast can be a bit hit and miss in my experience. Some of their stowage is great.... Some not.

[Jim R]

You've made good progress Peter. The Sherman does look quite a challenge. Not a good advert for Milicast.

[David Lovell]

Looking forward to its coming together blimy milicast have shot themselves in the foot with that one ok not a easy subject to model taking the casting difficulties into account but still you'd have thought they'd have said no we can't produce this to the standard we require it just looks like a home made effort. I'm sure your try and redeem it with the paint job somehow never good when something like that always puts a slight dampner on the enthusiasm for the project. Dave

[Lee Drennen]

Moving at a great speed Peter LCPV look nice

[Tim Marlow]

Coming on well Peter. Millicast originally made stuff in white metal so I wonder if that’s one of the older models.

[spanner570]

Watching closely Peter.
I'm honoured you think my Omaha Landing model worthy of a sort of reference 'blimp'!

Ron

[Peter Gillson]

Slight change today - I put aside the Milicast Sherman and decided to work on the Airfix sherman on to which I am going to add the deep wading trunking.

Finding any scale drawings proved more difficult than I expected; i had resigned myself to having to scale some off of photos but fortunately a search of the WWW located a photo of the etched brass trunking for a 1/35 kit. i took a screenshot of this, saved it and inserted the photo into a Word document. This photo was then reduced in size until it was about 1/72 scale. I printed it and by comparing the print to the Airfix kit i established it needed slight tweaking. Just ot be sure i produced 4 very slightly different sizes:


Having decided which was the one to use i cut out the whole photo and stuck it to a piece of thin plastic and started cutting out the actual shapes.

the next stage went all wrong - the bits were far too fiddly, would not stay square; a bit if a mess so I: gave up and ordered two Unimodel Kits:




hopefully they will arrive next week.

[Peter Gillson]

This now means that I have a1/72 Sherman tank to find a use for. Like Baldrick I have a cunning plan - to scratch build and fit a DD screen so I can have a DD tank in the sea as well as the Milicaste version on the shoreline.

more to follow ...

Jacko - the casting of the tracks on the Milicaste kit is not good so I will place it on the edge of the water, in about knee deepwater.

Peter

[Lee Drennen]

I printed it and by comparing the print to the Airfix kit i established it needed slight tweaking.

Great idea. Sorry it didn’t work those UM models can be fiddly too sometimes.

[Guest]

the casting of the tracks on the Milicaste kit is not good so I will place it on the edge of the water, in about knee deepwater.

That’ll hide most problems with it very nicely, yep

[A_J_Rimmer]

Really interesting to see how you're working around the problems you're having and how this build is going to evolve.