Chieftain Mk5 (Tamiya 1/35)

[stillp]

couple of coats of artex paint and she look great from a 100 yards away at night and a ground fog :tongue-out2:.

So your eyesight still hasn't recovered Pete?
Nothing wrong with that build!
Pete

[Guest]

Great work considering your health Pete :smiling3:.

[Si Benson]

Very bling bling Pete.....look forward to painting :thumb2:

[Guest]

So your eyesight still hasn't recovered Pete?
Nothing wrong with that build!
Pete

Hi Pete, no it hasn't still have problems focusing and depth how John R doses what he does is beyond me :thumb2: , sent of a pair of those magnifiers you wear on your head see if that will help.
Pete.

[Guest]

Great work considering your health Pete :smiling3:.

Hi Ralph and thank you, its my eyesight and my emphysema that are giving me more trouble than anything else.
Glad to see you're still knocking them out :thumb2:.
Pete.

[Guest]

Very bling bling Pete.....look forward to painting :thumb2:

Cheers Si it should probably come with a health warning.
Pete

[JR]

Pete glad you didn't bin it, was kind of you to say that but I'm not in the same league, I'm in the bodging league. :smiling3:
I thought those PE bins were worth a plinth of their own.

[Ian M]

Looks great to me as well.
Had a good chuckle though. 'an OOB build' followed by 'the three frets of PE turned up'. lol.

Those Haynes manuals, are they any good? I see they do quite a few different ones.

[Guest]

Pete glad you didn't bin it, was kind of you to say that but I'm not in the same league, I'm in the bodging league. :smiling3:
I thought those PE bins were worth a plinth of their own.

Cheers John very kind of you to say so, as for "I'm not in the same league" I'm a founding member of the bodging league with five gold medals, two green cross badges and a I spy book on BS .One year I got relegated from the league for to many bodies in one build :smiling5::smiling5::smiling5:.
I was told once by a ranking officer bodging is "alternative engineering of the highest quality".
As for the two bins luck was on my side that day.
Pete.

[Guest]

Looks great to me as well.
Had a good chuckle though. 'an OOB build' followed by 'the three frets of PE turned up'. lol.

Those Haynes manuals, are they any good? I see they do quite a few different ones.

Thanks Ian much appreciated, well I had to get the parts out of the box :smiling: I thought that's what it meant.
the Haynes manuals are very good indeed, I've got six of them now, if you are thinking of getting some Amazon and the Tank Museum at Bovington there online shop have some very good deals
Pete.

[Graeme C.]

Pete, glad you didn't bin it, it looks the dogs proverbials! Sometimes you just have to persevere with a kit.:smiling4:

[stillp]

the Haynes manuals are very good indeed, I've got six of them now, if you are thinking of getting some Amazon and the Tank Museum at Bovington there online shop have some very good deals

I've got quite a few. The Works sell them at £6 each. The only one that's been disappointing is the pre-war Bentley cars one, which has some text missing - ends one page in the middle of a sentence, the next page starts in the middle of a completely different sentence, as if there was a page (or several) missing in between. The Woks jsut gave me a refund, no question, and promptly took all the others off the shelf.
Pete

[stillp]

Thanks Ian much appreciated, well I had to get the parts out of the box :smiling: I thought that's what it meant.

:smiling5: :smiling5:

[Guest]

Hi sorry haven't been around for a bit, yes back in hospital again, lung infection again but home yesterday afternoon.
Hadn't been able to post this till now still a bit to do.
Some of the painting isn't good just can't some shaking so sorry it's the best I can do now.
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Thank you for looking in hope you like it.
Pete.

[papa 695]

Still looking very good Pete.