Light Tank Mk VIB (Desert)

[Guest]

Thanks to you all for your kind comments, more to come next week. Any questions, please ask.
Mike.

[Steve Jones]

Whats the capital of France?

[Tim Marlow]

Come on Steve, everyone knows that’s an F....try a harder one LOL.....
Great work by the way Mike, looks fantastic in all its finery.

[Guest]

Fine work Mike.

[JR]

Bl***y Nora, that's some detail already , and you say more to come !

[Guest]

Bl***y Nora, that's some detail already , and you say more to come !

Yep!

[Jim R]

Hi Mike
Wow and thrice wow that is impressive.
Jim

[Graeme C.]

Impressive detail Mike, I'll follow this one.

[Neo]

Very unusual choise. I like it very much. Very nice work with brass and extra details. As I can see Modelkasten tracks suits well to driving wheel. Unfortunately it is quite hard to find kits of this manufacturer. I'd like to build version C with another gun.
Will look at your build with great interest.

[Guest]

Very unusual choise. I like it very much. Very nice work with brass and extra details. As I can see Modelkasten tracks suits well to driving wheel. Unfortunately it is quite hard to find kits of this manufacturer. I'd like to build version C with another gun.
Will look at your build with great interest.

Neo,
Ha! fooled you, the tracks do not fit that well around the drive sprocket, I cheated and sanded the teeth off. Do you mean fitted with the BESA gun.
Mike.

[Guest]

Update,
Not a lot to show except more brass, some from the kit, some from Eduard and some from myself.
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As you can see I added the fire extinguisher from scratch, the bracket for the spare wheel, the smoke dischargers/flares (one still armed), the shovel holder and the tow rope brackets.
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I also scratchbuilt the mirrot arm and brackets, the grab handle for the front and the bolt heads/rivets.
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And apart from items that have to be fitted along the way, this is where I am at the moment. Tomorrow it will be work on the 'flimsy' carrier on the rear deack, number plate and then onto the shrouded lights and that should take me close to the build finish, then the painting starts - now I wonder if I can get that done before the bathroom is finished being re-built, SWMBO has gone mad on a walk in shower etc, and was telling the dogs how great it will be that they can now have a shower instead of a bath, they looked well impressed, also the tortoise has been promised full use, not looking forward to the day when she forgets him/it and i try washing under my arms and other departments with something that does not lather up too much - do not ask me, I only live here...
So tomorrow I will see 07.30am for the first time in I do not know how long.
Cheers,
Mike.

[Si Benson]

Evening Mike,
lovely tidy bit of brass work and scratchery.
Fancy having to wake up at some unholy hour and do stuff you don’t wanna :tongue-out2:

[Guest]

Evening Mike,
lovely tidy bit of brass work and scratchery.
Fancy having to wake up at some unholy hour and do stuff you don’t wanna :tongue-out2:

Evening Si,
I know and it's still dark for at least half a day, going to be fun if he's working in the bathroom and I need to go - take jug of water and pour slowly into empty plastic bucket from height of 3 ft for correct sound effect...

[Lee Drennen]

Mike
Just beautiful!

[Neo]

Neo,
Ha! fooled you, the tracks do not fit that well around the drive sprocket, I cheated and sanded the teeth off. Do you mean fitted with the BESA gun.
Mike.

Oh, I missed your cheat:smiling4: Yes. version with BESA. If I not mistaken this version was on Malta.