What's on the Bench? 2021

[Guest]

Hi Dale

Years ago someone told me about tissue paper too. Doesn't need much all your need to do is keep the packaging from shoes or clothes a couple of times and you have a lifetimes worth...

ATB.

Andrew

Agree Andrew, the tissue paper is superb. Mind Paul's use of PVA glue for a sheet seemed very effective.

[Guest]

I'm not managing prolonged spells at the bench lately...so the train build is on hold. However in the little spats here and there...my madness is continuing to flow. The Toon Tiger now has a completed scratch turret interior and some sort of engine compartment. Still some tinkering to do in the hull, and the upper facing (horizontal) armour. Some of it is accurate, while the rest is complete fantasy. Nonsense meets in the middle (it's a three seater). Enjoy[ATTACH=CONFIG]n1161114[/ATTACH]
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That engine pipe work is top class Jack .

[Guest]

Hi All,

Yea, I'm still alive and still working even though I am retired as of the first of this month. The Hetzer is well under way and here's a little update.

Now can someone tell me what's wrong in this picture,
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And what's corrected in this picture,
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Yup, a total brain cramp by gluing the final drive housings on backwards....DOH!!!...Had to pry them off, clean them up and re-glue them back on correctly. At least the base coat of dark yellow came out really good. Still can't decide which camo to put on her, but I did begin weathering the chassis,
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Some Eastern Front mud from a pot. It's from Reality in Scale and comes in different shades. It also has grass and twigs in it too. While this was drying, I painted up the wheels and such,
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I used my silver pencil and some burnt metal paint from AV to simulate wear from the tracks. Another brain cramp came as I weathered the outside lip of the idler wheels not remembering the track horns move on the inside of them!!! Old age I guess......

This weekend I hope to get her pretty much finished so I can move on and join Peter's GB for shelf queens. Lord knows I got enough of them lying around..........................Thanks for looking.............

Prost
Allen

My word Dude 1 that's looking good. Like the Eastern front Mud esp .

[Tim Marlow]

Both the research and the build on yout BTR are top notch MAK.. Hope you get the decals sorted out.

[MAK2020]

BTR 70, UNPROFOR - Sarajevo 1992/93, Ukrainian battalion update:

• On real BTR 70 you can see more than one type of turret, there is simple type, without window front left;
• On UNPROFOR vehicle N03, that i build, loophole on front right side is more triangular (simmilar as on BMP), than other loopholes that are on left (and right) side, for now i have patched that place, and it will be 3d printed;
• Decals that i bought are with errors, UKRAINA below flag on turret on half cyrilic - half latinic (o boy), with no proper colour and font
  (on every picture or video I’ve seen there is blue cyrilic sign, not dark, and not half cyrilic half latinic), i will make my own decals;
• Half assembled and painted 1st layer.

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Little correction. There realy was wehicles with smaller dark insignia "Ukraina"; from Star Decals informed me with pictures .... but...still, we that can read cyrillic in first look can see that some letters are wrong. I hope this small error in further will be corrected.

[Guest]

Not that I’ve bought many of their sets, but the ones I have looked at, seem well-researched. Not that they’re above making mistakes, of course, so you could say you are just keeping them sharp

[MAK2020]

Not that I’ve bought many of their sets, but the ones I have looked at, seem well-researched. Not that they’re above making mistakes, of course, so you could say you are just keeping them sharp :smiling3:

Star Decals sets are very very well, but yes - why not to make and to have 1/1 correct (?).

[Allen Dewire]

Afternoon folks,

I've been driving on with the Hetzer and progress has been made. Mounted the Friuls and then placed the upper hull on her,


The Friuls are a tick wider than the Academy/Airfix tracks, but the fit is excellent. You can see how close they are to the side skirt mounts, about 1/2mm of space. Did some touching up and mounted the rest of the tidbits on her,


Maximus, my helper, is pleased with the results so far and so am I. I need to touch up a couple of things with paint including the jack tiedowns, paint the jack block like wood and weather up the exhaust pipe some. A couple more pics,




After the fixes. I can let her dry and in the morn, start mucking her up. I might even add a decal or two...........And you all thought I was just sitting around drinking beer..................................

Prost
Allen (Ret.)

[Steve Jones]

Awesome dude. Suitably impressed. Retirement is obviously suiting you well. Keep it comin my friend

[Steve Jones]

Hi Everyone. What do you do when you are bored and fed up with doing tracks and armour? You build a fence post! :smiling5: :smiling5:



It was done in a day using 5mm styrene square rod, 3mm wire for the barbed wire and 2mm wire for the ivy stalks/roots. Then painted using acrylics and oils. A little bit of pigments on the stake part and then finished off with Ammo's ivy. Happy modelling everyone.

[Tim Marlow]

That’s beautiful, in an ugly sort of way. Truly believable work.

[scottie3158]

Hi Everyone. What do you do when you are bored and fed up with doing tracks and armour? You build a fence post! :smiling5: :smiling5:

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It was done in a day using 5mm styrene square rod, 3mm wire for the barbed wire and 2mm wire for the ivy stalks/roots. Then painted using acrylics and oils. A little bit of pigments on the stake part and then finished off with Ammo's ivy. Happy modelling everyone.

Love it mate looks superb

[MAK2020]

BTR 70, UKRBAT, Sarajevo 1992-93

Decals for letters and numbers finished. I took measurements from pictures and videos, width of letter segment, width and height of letter and word, spacing between letters ...

Now i need to finish flag and letters below it.

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[Tim Marlow]

Excellent stuff.

[rtfoe]

Just adding tinsel to the christmas tree...in my Malayan Emergency dio.



Cheers,
Richard