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  1. Asmodai
    You’re on shaky ground there, as there were not a lot of figures being made in that era, so the end of the Cold War is kind of neglected. Also, at the time you are asking about, the US uniform underwent a major change with the introduction of the PAGST ‘Fritz’ helmet to replace the long serving M1 steel pot. Both types could be seen being worn in the 1983 Grenada invasion, but the PAGST helmet pretty rapidly took over after that. There is the lousy Airfix set of ‘NATO Troops’ that loosely model American soldiers of the mid 80s with the PAGST helmet. But there are only 7 poses, and the figures are kind of small, despite being stated as 1/72. The ESCI set is probably your best option, but it is post 1983, as everyone is in PAGST. The Zvezda figures are similar in wearing PAGST, but not very useful with only four poses.
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    Shame it doesn’t look like any of the AFV Club 1/35 3in 20cwt Churchills are going to make it in here. I’ve got my eye on that kit to pick up if I come across one…
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    Finally got around to making another antenna, and posting to the gallery to wrap this one up for me. I had fun, and good fortune to everyone still working to finish up before the gallery closes!
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    Someone Else’s Tamiya 1/48 Churchill Mk VII
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    Thanks. I’d like to think I’d learned something from all those years of gaming.
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    The commander and exhaust may be my best work on this.
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    I’m calling this one done. I struggled mightily to make and keep an antenna straight, and failed miserably. My photos are ugly, too. I’ll take come more photos to place in the gallery before it closes in another month. At least I thought the figure in his green denim tanker suit came out okay.
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    Another thing is competition has greatly increased the last fifteen years or so, in models in general, and especially armor models. When Dragon started in the 90s, pretty much Tamiya and Italeri were the only ones releasing 1/35 armor semi regularly. Now you got lots of other Chinese, Ukrainian, and others all doing 1/35 armor. Meng, Takom, ICM, MiniArt… I think Dragon hurt itself with some lazy, careless, sloppy releases like the Bkack Label line, too. The 1/35 M103 heavy tank was just sad. Poorly researched, and the turret wouldn’t even rotate from their poor and inaccurate design! So I think there’s a lot of stuff that has knocked Dragon off the top shelf at hobby shops.
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    Dragon has largely dropped out of new kit production the last five plus years. Most ‘new’ armor releases these days are rereleases, with a mishmash of sprues from existing kits to make a different variant. Only the executives at Dragon know why they’ve chosen to go the Hasegawa route and rely on back catalog, and cancel new releases. My suspicion is that Dragon made a lot of bad business decisions in the late 2010s that came home to roost. They branched out heavily into stuff that proved to be of short term or marginal interest - large numbers of Marvel kits and figures, as the MCU was in decline, the massive number of 1/6 historical figures that the market collapsed on, 1/144 armor releases, prepainted 1/35 toy soldiers…the list of stuff they were involved in seems endless, and it looks like a lot of them were very short term successes, or outright flops.
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    So close, but been unable to work on it the last week. Just really need to finish the commander. But probably can’t until Monday 😕
  11. Asmodai
    I made some progress with the weathering over this long holiday weekend in the US. Hopefully it looks somewhat like it’s just rolled through a muddy puddle. Started painting the commander, as well.
  12. Asmodai
    You can see the later Starmer SCC15 mix on my Churchill build to make a judgement. As said, it was more of an option that might be easier to mix when using the Tamiya mini 10ml jars.
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    It’s weird the decisions Tamiya makes sometimes as to what tools are molded on, and what’s separate in these kits. The shovels are separate pieces, as is the crowbar, but everything else is molded to the deck on the Churchill. I guess the shovels are too ‘3D’ to be molded flat. While it’s more work, the tools are easier to paint and look better as separate parts.
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    All parts but the commander are on. He’ll be the very last thing. Needs a clear coat to even things out before washing and weathering. That might be later Saturday. A middling effort so far at best, but it’s a shame I didn’t take any pics of the exhaust before installing the cover - I think it has nice texture and color.
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    I can’t say the Crusader is a favorite, but I’ll definitely support the proposal, and figure out something if we make it. I’d hate to see armor get totally shut out of the group builds.
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