Rangerboy83

Bet any money the mod don’t buy into a active protection sys for CR 2 LEP. It will be bought as a operational requirement if and when they go somewhere. It will have a more standard ISS like Ajax.

I can’t believe they have spent 100s of millions on warrior csp for the last ten years only to cancel it. Which is fair enough but what a waste of public money. It’s shocking. Will they learn any lessons from this? Will digitalising challenger and sticking a smoothbore on it with all the other changes they implement going to be any less challenging than what they tried with Warrior? Are we gonna be sat here in ten years with another failed project that’s over budget and delayed?

Lovely job mate. I bought a mini art kit a few months back. The T-55A without interior. Opened the box then close it again. Way out my depths with that. Lol Great build mate.

So I don't normally build modern Armour but I couldn't resist having a crack at a T-90. Plenty on the market but I opted for the Zvezda offering as its under 30 quid and from what I heard was a decent kit. I only had one drama with the build and that was the plumbing for the external fuel tanks. A more experienced modeler could probably easily fix that. I just opted to leave them off in the end out of being lazy and couldn't be bothered trying to rectify it. The model was primed in Vallejo black primmer and I used varying Vallejo colours for the camouflage scheme. I used a J workshop camouflage mask, panzer putty and masking tape to assist in achieving the hard edge. The black was painted by hand using Vallejo black with some airbrush flow improver to make it easier to brush paint. I got the figure from Evolution miniatures and scratch built the base taking some inspiration from some pics I've seen of these things live firing in Russia. Anyway thanks for looking.

I’m afraid not. Think there is some after market sets out there you can use. An thank you.

This is my Trumpeter 1/35 Scale T-62. Not a bad kit but not a great kit either. It fell together easy enough out the box but lacks some detail. The crew are from Valkyrie Miniatures and couldn't fault them. Lovely resin figures and was a joy to paint. Thanks for looking.

The curator from the Tank museum gave a talk on tank crew head gear a few months back. Worth a watch.

Best way to kill a tank is with a tank. Will be a bit upset and annoyed if we have spent all this time, effort and money trying to get Ajax up and running to do the the ISTAR piece if we have no steel fist behind it. 😐 wouldn’t surprise me if they end up cutting another Armoured Regiment. When you look at how the RAF and Navy go about things why is it they can get new airframes and ships in service before the Army can get a new AFV into service? It’s way over my head but I think lessons need to be learned on how the Army, mod and DE&S go through these procurement processes. It doesn’t look to good when your wanting more money and upgrades for your tank fleet. Government might just chin you off as it’s always delayed and over budget.

Looking to build Trumpeters 1/35th T-62 Mod 1960 with minimum aftermarket. (Legend productions Fender fuel tank set and maybe sort the comedy headlight guard out). But if I done this kit in Op Danube markings would this be historically correct or not? My knowledge on Cold War soviet Armour is very limited and not found much on the inter web. Any help would be appreciated.

Mate that’s Awesome 👍

I believe because the gun was that big they had drama getting it to fit in the turret so they needed to shift the radios. Think that’s why it’s got that storage arrangement at the rear of the turret.

Fair one. I can’t really comment as I’m from a Donkey Walloper background.

Cheers mate. Just out of interest who is the best Guards Regiment? In your opinion? Lol

Cheers mate. Both the base and engraving came from sellers on eBay. For the base all I did was put some das clay on to make the road surface a bit uneven and then cut some Tamiya cobble stone sheet to size and stuck it down. Brush painted the cobbles some different colours and gave it a wash to break it up.

Sorry mate I didn’t do a build log for it. I might do one in the future for another project.

So after building Wittmann’s Last Tiger I thought a Sherman Firefly would be fitting. I built this from the box but left the spare tracks and brackets off as I really liked the texture and detail RFM had put into the hull. The model built up fine but maybe a little bit over engineered in places. Some of the photo-etch I found a bit tricky but I was pleased with the end result. I primed it with Vallejo Black primmer. For the colours I wasn’t sure what Olive Drab to go for. In the end I went for a number of different shades of green from Vallejo to modulate it. The colour and shade might be way off what the real vehicles would of been but I don’t mind that. It then got a number of filters using a selection of 502 oils on the different panels to achieve a less monotone look and break it up a bit. I then gave it a pin wash and some streaking effects, mud and dust on the upper surfaces was achieved with 502 oils. The decals went on fine but I wasn’t confident on using a decal for the recognition star. I used a mask from AB military and I think it turned out well. The lower hull got a treatment of AK dark mud and a selection of pigments was then applied. I then used 502 oils and wilder murky water to achieve damp and wet tones. I plan on painting a Alpine miniatures figure for it soon. A British Tank crew figure wearing a pixie suit. So will upload another picture when I get the figure done. Thanks for looking.

Thank you. Yeah it’s the dragon kit and comes with all the Zim pre moulded on the parts.

This is Dragons 1/35 scale Tiger 1 Late. Built it out of the box. Made a few mistakes during the build but nothing major. Painted with Mission Models paint and a selection of oils and pigments for weathering. The camouflage scheme is a bit different to the one suggested. I decided on simplifying it a bit and going for 3 tone stripe pattern. I used metal tracks from master club and the figure is from alpine. Will put some better pictures up once I’ve done the base. Bit of a delay on that due to waiting for some bits to arrive. In the mean time I’ve started work on RFM Sherman Firefly. Thought it was only fair I build the vehicle that may of took him out. Thanks for looking.

Quality build. Especially the hard line cammo. All the weathering effects look excellent. Super build kris.

Cheers Ray Thanks for the heads up. Didn’t have much drama with the build. Was a nice enjoyable kit to build. See what you mean with the instructions. A few little things I might of got wrong on the build but nothing major. I’m gonna go with some aftermarket tracks for this one. Maybe from master club. Nice build by the way. Think I’d defo get another Tiger from dragon in the future. Many thanks.

Well decided on a Tiger at last. Not the one I was planning on doing. Gone for a late version offering from Dragon. Will build Wittmann’s command variant. Planning on building out the box and only adding metal tracks. First Dragon kit I’ve built sine 2014. Should keep me busy a while. If anyone has got experience building Dragon Tiger 1 kits and what to watch for or any pointers I’d appreciated the heads up. cheers

Tamiya’s Panzer 38(t) in 1/35 scale. Great little enjoyable kit to build. Went together in a couple of night stress free. Normally like to buy some resin figures but liked the pose of the kit supplied one and looked good for a plastic figure. Used Mr Hobby modulation set and weathered with oils and pigments. Thanks for looking.

That’s great Jack. Many thanks for the links.👍

So on the star decals sheet I take it the Ausf H (Top right illustration) is the initial production variant that would of been at Leningrad in 42? But then the others star decals refer to them being Tiger 1 early? So would that be a Ausf E? If that’s the case I might use the Tamiya kit and maybe get a detail up set. I looked at the websites you sent me and it’s a bit of debated subject with regards to the Grey base colour with Dunkengelb. I’m happy to risk the cam not being 100 percent accurate cause I like it. Lol