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  1. simmerit
    Thanks Terry. I've been looking for little fellas to buy today. There's an OK Korean war set of two blokes, but I'm rapidly thinking I will make my own now I'm a demon with Magic Sculpt..... Thats will leave me wit 23 blokes to paint. My figure painting should be much improved by the time I've done them!
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    Got to crack on. I think the key is letting the body make the decisions. The risk is pushing it too hard. just had my jab so that’s me probably knackered for two days. That seems to br about the norm from what I’ve heard with the booster
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    Well - i took my first steps around the kitchen with no crutches today - well chuffed!!!!!! Still cant get up and down stairs without them though!! Back to the Cent. Got a quick hour in and done a few bits. These are lifted from some old Scimitar etch So perfect for the locker on the glacis First spare track on. The mounts need bending in place to secure it, but that can be done after painting. I'm now just working my way through a few bits of etch that I will use and a couple of kit bits to do and hopefully I'll have this nailed today. Assuming my vaccine booster which is at 1340 hrs doesn't wipe me out of course! Its all happening in sunny Hertfordshire I can tell you!
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    to be honest I was OK with it until the lump hammer came out! I'm told I should be running by March/April. There is something about the low angle shots - they really bring the model to life. My debate now it hatches open or closed and tank crew or no tank crew.
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    Yup. I made the mistake of watching the op on youtube. In with a knife, next its an angle grinder to do some cutting, then its a power drill to drill some holes then its a 10lb stainless steel lump hammer to do some very serious hammering. The surgeon must have arms like popeye. I wish I'd not watched:-) Best get back to the plot! Track guards on. I used the kit mounting brackets as previously explained. I'd like to have taken the rest of the plastic off and used etch, but I'd need a 1/20th scale model Cent to use the Ederwooda stuff on.................. I reckon another 5 or so hours without interruption should crack this. The plan is to get it to the same place as the 2 Chally 2s and the Centaur and Cromwell then job lot the weathering. I've also got 21 little lads to do. I must say the Cent is a pleasing bit of armour. I've got an Australian 5/2 and an ARVE to do but I suspect its a break from armour after these. Its either.......... the Wokka, or a 60" HMS Dreadnought next. Or maybe a 1/35th Thunder Models Scammell artillery tractor + gun or a stringbag in 1/32
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    Mine was a tough op according to the butcher. He normally fits size 50 ceramic cups into the hip - mine was a size 58. The biggest they do is a 60. I have big bones and big hips apparently, which surprised me as when I'm fit, I'm not a big bloke. I'm 6' tall but was carrying little weight up til end June. I've put about 14-16 kilos on since then, which is really getting me down. I also have very large and dense thigh muscles as well apparently so it was a proper blood bath. That's down to the running and weights I reckon. I've completely lost my muscle tone in the legs which is also depressing. I was told I'll take twice as long to recover - that's where I should set my expectation. The good news is the pain relief is working. I'm on Codine which is supposed to sen you to sleep - it doesn't! I've avoided the two different morphines they have given me as natural opioids are seriously bad news. If I do take them, I have to have them four hours apart if I take the stronger one as I will stop breathing!! Allegedly!! I'm hoping I'll be off the crutches in two weeks. The mrs wants be to go to this stupid Harry Potter thing at the Elstree studios which are near me. They want me to go in a wheel chair so I can get them to the front of the queues. I hate Harry Potter with a passion and am getting zero sympathy when I say I don't want to go...... I am cracking on with the Cent by the way!
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    So do I!!!!
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    New hips are deffo not recommended!
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    Well that's the pain finally under control and me back on the Cent. For those lads who know me, here was my palatial room for 4 days It was newly refurbished and no-one knew who to work the temperature control. Consequently I froze on the first night then they brought a radiator in! Highlights of the stay were making my own bed for two of the four days, doing a room sweep at 2330 hrs on two nights as it was a pig sty and hadn't been cleaned and having to open my and close my curtains for three of the four nights and two of the four days, as well as being pushed with full force into a door by a porter when taken down to x-ray, with all the impact being taken on the leg that I'd had the hip operation on. I did have the pleasure of giving them full written feedback. I expect the day and night care staff will be on show parade by now and expecting a nice trip to Colly. What an utter shambles. And here is me. Well part of me Picture is reversed but its actually my right leg in reality. If you look at the leg in the piccie, it's the left. Its about 50% bigger (as was the hip) than the un-operated on hip & leg. Its still mahoosive as its only a week today, but I'm back on the model, so should be able to spend a good 7-10 days pretty much full time on the Panzers before the new year, and she isnt moaning about it! So. My last comment on why you should buy Voyager etch if you do one of these. The bracket on top is the UnAmmusing Hobby kit bracket and the bracket underneath is the Ederwooda etch, which is soon to be destined for the bin. Time to crack on. Hopefully I will nail the majority of the outstanding build items by the end of the day. That's the plan anyway! Oh - one hip down, one to go...........
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    Looking good @Daz and a nice change as a subject. I’m thinking 60” HMS Dreadnaught in the new year.
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    just dropped 10ml of morphine so best reply before I start flying! it’s close as you say but in the grander scheme of things not noticeable. Been kept in an extra day and may be here til Monday so won’t be back on the Cent for a bit by the looks of things. Not quite R&R!!!!!
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    @Jasper dog - here's the glacis on the Cent undergoing restoration. This one is reenforced as you can see in both piccies. Still in hospital by the way - they are keeping me in an extra night. The good news is I've got to take it easy for two weeks so she will have to put up with the modelling as I cant do anything else!
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    I spent a bit of time looking at a Cent restoration and have some great snaps of the glacis which I can’t post as Flickr is playing up (must be amazon’s AWS data centres in the US still down). I think it’s actually OK on my build as the top of it sits proud against the two strips down the side of the top of the hull, and when you look at the piccies I can’t post, it sits quite high in relation to the drivers position. I’ll post them tomoz if I can get to my Flickr account. Cheers Si
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    all done. Currently bombing on morphine! should be walking about in a bit!
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    Up at stupid o'clock, so cracked on a bit before the op! The cable drum with the kit looked like it was made out of two one penny pieces - not an option. That should do nicely for the D10. Larkspur was a tad before my time, but I'm assuming D10 is D10 is D10. Anyway. Glad I've done that one. That's me done for a few days................
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    Looking good there Daz! I’m getting a bit sick of the armour, and the Wokka awaits still. Next build is rapidly looking like either a motorised or museum quality build of the Deans Marine HMS Dreadnought I’ve got on the shelf. It’s about 60” long so should keep me quiet for a week or three!! New hip tomorrow. I’m first on the slab at 0830 hrs……. Can’t wait……….
  17. simmerit
    Mantlet cover looks ace, and thats a shame about RB going down the toilet. I'm guessing everything thats out with distributors will have been snapped up already once that news broke. Looks like you are really cracking on.
  18. simmerit
    Thanks Andrew - I think it will be worth it, and I know what you mean about mental blocks. I've come close to putting it down three or four times. I do wonder what the newer AFV Club kits are like. You'd hope they'd have taken the opportunity to update them. I've managed to get a stack of time in today. I've probably got another hour or so I can do as the mrs is out with work til 2300hrs, so plenty time on the build. I've re-used the smoke grenade dischargers from the unAmusing Hobby kit, which saves a bit of time on scratching them, and gone with PanzerArt fire extinguishers There are a lot of grab handles on this bloody panzer!!! I've got quite a bit of soldering to do next, which I've been avoiding, but I'm running out of runway now and will have to bit the bullet on it. One other point is the 30 cal that comes with the kit is absolute pants. I picked up a Meng jeep the other day and plan to nick the 30 cal from that as I read somewhere its one of the best ones on the market at the minute. It certainly looks nice. There's no mounting brackets for it with the Ederwooda etch set, but these look pretty straight forward to knick out. I'll have to look at the mount on the Meng jeep kit also as the unAmusing Hobby 30 cal mount is equally pants. Never a dull moment!!
  19. simmerit
    Glacis plate on. I should be able to crack on now without any other major hinderance If you do one of these and fit the etch, it's probably worth whipping off the track guards anyway as it makes it easier to clean off the bolted on securing brackets that attach the track guards to the glacis.
  20. simmerit
    It's just a bit irritating. As you say, they missed an opportunity to update a dated kit, and its deffo put me off rushing at the AVRE build. Coincidently I just had a natter with @Dads203 and y comment to him was its a bit like building one of Trumpeter's poorer efforts!
  21. simmerit
    That's a bit nice!!
  22. simmerit
    So that shim solves the problem with the gap at the top of the glacis plate. I'm 99.9% certain the front track guards are going to have to come off the glacis as they are catchig on the tracks in either position - with or without the shim. Its a good job we enjoy this modelling lark isn't it? I'd sort of just hoped this one was going to go together with very little effort!!
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    Ta. Its looking like I'll have to cut the track guards off the glacis plate on mine and refit them.
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    A bit late for me, but where did you source that 3D glacis plate just out of interest?
  25. simmerit
    So I've been abandoned by the mrs and am completely clear til 2300hrs tonight, so I can crack on a bit! A tactically placed pin mark on the gun crutch....... The Ederwooda etch has the rear track guard too wide, so I had to cut it back. Fortunately the point at where it needs cutting back is where the etch line is scribed in the brass for the angle/bend, so a bit of wiggling about and the gash piece came off easily. The kit guards are not the best I'm afraid. That's the first bin complete. Quite pleased with the etch which is actually pretty goo. The lower handle is a teeny bit big, which I can live with (the OCD is strong in this one). The handle at the top of the bin is supposed to be one of the handles on the turret, but they are way too small. It is however a good side for the straps that are included in the Ederwooda etch set. I'm a bit stuck on the turret handles so went with the InAccurate Armour tie downs, which isnt the best solution. I may come back to them if I can see anything more suitable in my box full of old/spare etch. Time to have a look at that glacis plate. I've been ignoring it since starting the build, but I'll have to bite the bullet and sort out the 1mm gap along the bottom where it joins the hull. There should be a weld line there which is missing. Not sure if there is one on the AFV club kit either. Overall impressions of the Amusing Hobby Cent are I'm a tad unAmused with it. Its a new release and its not cheap. With the quality of kits being released today, they should have deffo done a better job on this. I will not be eager to start the AVRE in a hurry. Only one thing to do in a situation like this. Poached eggs on Avocado on toast for lunch. Shame its no wine o'clock yet.....
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