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10 minutes ago, Mig Eater said:
Sign me up with a 1/35 Bob Semple tank, I was just looking at diagrams of it a few days ago & thinking it would be a fun scratch build
An excellent choice, Mr @Mig Eater, I've thought exactly the same ever since I first saw that wonderful bit of New Zealand ingenuity.
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40 minutes ago, Hewy said:
Came across the delightfully dangerous looking hafner rotobuggy, an easy ish looking scratch build, plus a Jeep kit
I'm speechless. But I really want to see it built.
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Just now, vppelt68 said:
There's nothing funny or very little self-destructive potential in them, but with them you were going to war unarmed... I'd like to join with a PR Spitfire or Mosquito, if you good people find them eligible.
V-P
What, no guns at all? Flying over sensitive bits of enemy territory? I believe you're good to go, Mr @vppelt68, and very welcome.
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Thanks for the photos you linked in my SYWWTGTWI GB chat, Dennis. I'll move the discussion back here if that's ok. You can see clearly in those pictures that the production super Pershing had an extension to the casting of the turret bustle, to increase the counterweight for the larger gun. On Lt Belton Cooper's prototype super Pershing, plates were welded to the back of a turret cast in the standard shape. It would be a simple matter to replicate that by adding a counterweight made in plastic card to a turret from a standard kit. But as I'm starting from a production super Pershing turret, I'll have to cut the extension off and reshape the original curved bustle using milliput, and then build the counterweight.
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1 hour ago, Corsairfoxfouruncle said:
You have my attention Mr.Churchill ? Which tank did you purchase ? If its any sub-variant or spin-off of the M26/46, M47, M48, and M60 including foreign build/modifications ? You should already be good ? Let me know and I can check if you arent sure.
Ah, I want to build Lt Belton Cooper's prototype super Pershing, and I bought a production super Pershing as the base kit. In hindsight, I should have started with a standard Pershing, as the production model will need some surgery to the turret to get it to the right shape. Sometimes it's easier to move a kit forward in time than to move it backwards, if you see what I mean. But the base kit and what I want to make from it are both M26 versions.
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31 minutes ago, Churchill said:
By the way, did you know there are one or two 163's still flying?
Or perhaps not. I could have sworn I'd seen recent video of a 163 taking off under rocket power and gliding back to the runway. But the only flying 163 is without a motor, it's towed to altitude and released like a ordinary glider. And it's a replica too. I believe that's what psychologists call 'the Mandela effect'.
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Capital idea, Mr @Corsairfoxfouruncle: you're number four.
I am very much looking forward to your Patton tank build next month. I've bought the wrong tank for it, but I'm sure it's nothing a razor saw and some milliput won't solve.
By the way, did you know there are one or two 163's still flying?
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Glad to have you on board, Messrs @Brad and @Hewy.
@GrimReaper09, may I put your name down, sir? Did you have a particular snatch Land Rover kit in mind? I was looking at the one on display at the Imperial War Museum London just a week or two ago, I remember thinking how frail it was compared with the UN armoured car on the same floor. It's not even lightly armoured, it's just a car really. The servicemen out there deserved better.
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Ok, the SYWWTGTWI GB is now up for discussion in GB chat. We can stop derailing Mr @trickyrich's thread
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Welcome to the SYWWTGTWI GB discussion. This idea was inspired by @Hewy's attempt to get a push-prop powered plywood box on skis past @trickyrich in the The Specialists GB:
... as well as my own submission, a Boys Anti-Tank rifle equipped universal carrier, which as trickyrich noted, isn't exactly something you want to come across a Tiger in.
So this build is for those vehicles that were:
1> obsolete before they entered service, or
2> hopelessly outclassed by the opposition, or
3> insanely dangerous to the user and likely to get them killed without the enemy actually having to do anything, or
4> otherwise deeply flawed or just misconceived.
All scales acceptable (up to and including 1:1, but I won't be responsible for the consequences) and subjects can be for land-
Sea,
or Air
Or for that matter, there's any misguided combination of the three, such as Mr @Brad's proposed soviet AT40 flying tank, or the duplex drive swimming Shermans of D-Day, a substantial proportion of which failed to reach the shore because they were expected to cross 5000 yards of sea but weren't built to cope with waves.
Obviously the first two categories require the vehicle to have been built, if for the other categories we were to relax the usual rules about there having been at least a prototype constructed we open the floodgates to a tide of martial lunacy. That might or might not be a good thing, I think we'll have to look at what people are proposing to build. For now, if you look at it and think 'I wouldn't want to go to war in that' but you do want to build it, then I want to hear about it.
KBO,
Churchill.
Recruiting Officer's report as at seventeen hundred hours April thirteenth:
1. Brad
2. Grimreaper 09
3. Hewy
4. Corsairfoxfouruncle
5. Vppelt68
6. Mig Eater
7. Giorgio N
8. CliffB
9. Silenoz
10. Sleeperservice
11. Moggy
12. Tony Tiger 66
13. Bonhoff
14. Trickyrich
15. Peter Lloyd
16. Jabba
17. Foxbat
18. Colin W (via my The Specialists GB build thread)
19. Botan
20. Jb65rams
21. Mjwomack
22. Hook
23. Beazer
24. DaveyGair
One or two of the above have yet to say what they propose to build.
And a seat is being kept warm for @Enzo Matrix, but not with a Galaxy class starship, not even if it's entirely crewed by nameless away team members in red shirts.
Proposals range from the mad (BV40) to the maddening (snatch Landrover), and some interesting and exciting modelling is in the offing, including vac-form, scratchbuilds, a kit with more PE than plastic, and more.
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16 minutes ago, Hewy said:
I like it @Churchill sounds like a great idea for a gb, put it forward I'm in
I'm not sure how you'd do that, or how to host it. I gather that proposals gathering a certain threshold of support go forward to a vote, annually I assume, or @Enzo Matrix just approves them, but I've no idea when the next vote is.
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29 minutes ago, Hewy said:
Ohh crikey @Churchill, you've trumped me there, good lord that's a dicey looking piece of hardware, as for the torpedo I reckon the pressure wave would have got you once you thought the job was done, and bailed
Well I suppose it would save you a long swim home. But we have land, sea, and air suggestions for the SYWWTGTWI GB now, and I think it would be a GB with potential. Vehicles that were obsolete before going into service, or badly outclassed by the opposition, or insanely dangerous to the users and likely to kill them without the enemy having to do anything, or otherwise deeply flawed or misconceived in some way. Think of the duplex drive swimming tanks used on D-day, or the Horsas (known as 'hearses' by the troops). If unbuilt proposals were allowed, you have the german rocket powered armoured aircraft that were supposed to be flown through the tails of allied bombers. One for 2021?
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25 minutes ago, Hewy said:
I think you were allowed to get off before it went bang.
I have actually wanted to scratch build a Bob Sempel tank for a while, but I wouldn't want to face the Imperial Japanese Army in it:
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8 minutes ago, Hewy said:
Your right Churchill, they were mainly plywood, must have been a hairy ride, and for those being towed behind on ski's too
I like the idea of the 'Stuff You Wouldn't Want To Go To War In GB'. I'll open with this:
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2 hours ago, Hewy said:
I reckon this little kit may qualify, it's a soviet aerosan, I reckon it's certainly a specialist vehicle, what do you reckon, is it a 👍or👎 I may build it in this gb, I'm aware there are a few dimensional errors with the kit, but I like it and will build it out of the box if it's OK, although I have an lrdg, sas, jeep in reserve if not, or both maybe
Between that and my Boys carrier, this is turning into the 'stuff you wouldn't want to go to war in' GB.
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Присоединюсь, товарищи.
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Can anyone clear something up for me? According to Scalemates and some reviews I've found, Dragon released a 1:72 Elefant in 2003, model number 7201. This was somewhat flawed and so just a year later they brought out model number 7253, badged as the Armor Pro version, which corrected some of the issues with the earlier release. 7253 also had the option of both one-piece tracks or line and link, and included some photoetch.
Now 7253 is difficult to find, and often overpriced. But in 2017 Dragon brought out model 7515. This is easy to find in the UK and the box says Armor Pro. But I can't find any reviews of it and the few images of the box contents and instruction sheet that I can find seem to show that this latest version no longer has the line and link tracks or the photoetch or the bit of interior detail that 7253 had.
Does anyone know if the 7515 version is as detailed as the older 7253, at least externally? Because if it is then I'll get it for this STGB, and if not then I'll keep hunting for the older release and if necessary order it from outside the UK.
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I had such a good time with the Pz IV STGB, it would be a shame to miss this. Not sure what I'll build, maybe an Elefant? Will be 1:72 whatever it is.
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13 minutes ago, Corsairfoxfouruncle said:
Hello @Churchill ... Welcome to the Group build. Im looking forward to seeing your super pershing. I believe you could scratch build the tubular gubbins. Its possible you may even want to consider 3-d printing the parts ? Places like Shapeways is a good place to check into for stuff like that.
Dennis
The armour modifications look like they'd be a fairly simple scratchbuild, which is what appealed to me. It's just that the external recoil springs need to be scratched too and they're not terribly clear in any of the photos I've seen so far (they were apparently a temporary solution, and the model I have is of a later version where they'd moved the springs inside the turret where they belong). I do have the Osprey M26/M46 book, which has a reasonable drawing. Will mull it over, I think.
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Sign me up please, I have a 1:72 super Pershing on order. I might modify it to make this famous example, if I can find some good photos of the bodged-on armour and the tubey gubbins on the turret.
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18 hours ago, Hewy said:
Super job, well photographed too
Thank you. As for the photography, I just used a mobile phone, an A2 sheet of black paper, and indirect daylight.
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20 hours ago, badger said:
For the water effects I am using this.
Not sure it's still made any more
GW used to encourage players to scratchbuild their own scenery. I'm not sure that attitude fits with their current business model.
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I do like that. The base is hardly bigger than the tank itself, but loads of depth in it.
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Right, I'm calling this one done. I won't post pics in the RFI thread just yet, as I may still have time for a simple base for it.
It's been a real pleasure doing this. I enjoyed the building, of course, but I mean the encouragement, tips, support, and kind words I've had from the others in the GB. Particular thanks to Messrs @Badder, @badger, @bigfoot, @Deon(who I know outside of BM), @Hewy, @Ozzy, @PlaStix, and @Silenoz. If I've left anyone out, please insert yourself in the correct alphabetical position in the list
It's because BM is such a friendly community that I decided to take the plunge and have a go at scale modelling after all those years. So you can sign me up for the Specialists build, and the Patton STGB. I'd better have a go at the Tiger while I'm at it, and there's an Achilles on order for the D-Day build...
KBO,
Churchill.
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The 'Stuff You Wouldn't Want To Go To War In' GB
in Group Build Chat 2020
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In fact, the Bob Semple tank came up in the original discussion in the 'The Specialists' GB chat. Wonderful as it is, it qualifies in category 2 for this build.