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Nice work Stef! I had heard a lot of good things about the heavy hobby stuff, think their resin tracks are meant to be pretty good too. Paul

I’ve just seen the pictures of this one in the gallery and had to see the thread from start to finish as looks amazing! Paint work and weathering is spot on! Makes me want to build one now! Top job! Paul

Cheers Craig. Really appreciated! Massive thanks for your guidance and for a terrific jobs with your three builds and hosting on top…. I’ll be sure to post up the finished p40 and other figures once done. All the best for ‘24. Paul

“Wondering into the blue”- 1/48 tamiya Daimler dingo and tamiya crusader mk1. Ok so not actually finished, missing a couple details such as a p40 tomahawk and two figures! The crusader is also missing some stowage and it’s tow cables. This will carry on in the new year but what I could finish within the deadline: Thanks all for a great gb, all your comments and feedback was most helpful and appreciated. Thanks to Paul and Craig for hosting. All the best Paul The wip is below:

Wonderful collection, great work all around! Paul

All of them a truly brilliant! So many I like and so reslistic. The sagged flat tire on the beatle with “hoi” written on the rear window is genius. Loved watching you put the maultier ambulance together. Also the rust effects on the Chevy at the start is ace. Real weathering realism . All the best for ‘24. Paul

Stunning collection. I can see why the t55 won its prizes. Also you tend to see a lot of spit fires but yours looks amazing, very standout with superb finish and weathering. Paul

What a wonderful collection and glad you made a yearbook to see it all together! You’ve done a lot this year. Love your detail painting, you do you stowage, tarps, rifles and extras very very well indeed…. Especially like the white wash stug and the panther… actually the sturms a bit of stunner to! Do you have a fav for the year? All the best for ‘24! Paul

Excellent work on all of these! Paul

Great work, nice variety to boot!

Great subject choice!! Lovely collection. The cracked Maltese’s camo on the Tilly and carrier must haven been hard to do.

Great work. It’s the bf110s for me, great schemes to cover. Paul

Woooww what a result! That hellcat is just stunning. Brilliant work on all of them. Really liking how you do your photos as well, they turn out with really nice lighting. Wish I could do the same. More armour for next year please? All the best, Paul

What an awesome output for one year… especially like the thunderbolt or “big a s s bird”!! Great work all round. Paul

Really enjoy seeing your models Ian, your painting ability is something I admire, very smooth finish on all. Special shout out for the focke 190 and the universal carrier (nice bit of chipping their)…. The man at the front of the uc looks very serious! Have a good un, Paul

Superb finish on this one Craig, looks great! Paul

Great collection Bertie! My fav is the Le Renard, I know nothing about boat building but looks spot on to me, must have taken a long time with all that rigging. Paul

Beautifully done, really top job. Your finish is smooth as butter on all of them. Top result! Paul

You can definitely see the improvement of the oils and ability to blend… I also just got some da Vinci brush’s (I can recommend their brush soap too) I haven’t had a chance to use them yet… I just ogle them in their plastic cases! They look look amazing. Really tight point with long bristles and still enough belly to deliver paint. Good luck with the rest, I admire you ambition with sculpting your own, I’ll stay tuned. Paul

Excellent… I’ll defo be taking a look. Very interested to see how you do them.

Fantastic collection of models for one year! Very very nice paint work and finish on all your models particularity like the spitfire and it’s weathering…. Also pretty damm good tree too! All the best, Paul

Love the year book! Total britmodeller highlight for me. I am extremely nerdy and put my annual build schedule into an excel master sheet along with approx size, type, titles, scale, idea/concept and length of time to complete. (Perks of a dull office job) I juggle these around the group builds that I have signed up to and have enough through til end of 2025! That’s as far as I allow myself to go in advance. In 2023 I hit all my scheduled builds… so The neurotic geek in me is very satisfied! First up I finished the second part of my two part 1/35 diorama “love thy neighbour”. I finished the American part of the neighbourhood: set near Aachen Germany in Oct 1944; For this I got the “peoples choice” trophy at the Ipms Ireland show (my first proper show). Then I finished my 1/35 “the lightening war”, Belgium, 1940: this I did the leichter 221 for the armoured car group build: link to the wip here: Then I did a 1/10 bust of a English medievel Billman, this was a bit of a change for me so a test bed and have more planned for this year to come: rfi linked below: Finished product: Then back to dioramas and afvs, I did a 1/35 Jagdpanzer iv in Normandy and called this “A snake in the bocage”: rfi below: Then I did two builds as a part of the Entrophy group build: first up a amour-gedden-franken-Gepard: A 1/35 post apocalyptic diorama I called “Accretion disk”: it’s a bit of kit bash and scratch build from a junked kit. Here’s the link to the wip: I then moved onto the second part of the group build my 1/48 diorama “the hammer and sickle” a first in this scale: Still working away on my crusader, dingo and p40 for the “I feel deserted group build” another 1/48 diorama called “wondering into the blue”. I hope to have more done before the end of 2023. Next year I hope to start with a 1/35 diorama called “bunker bustin” with a m3 scout car, another willys jeep and a motor cycle. Then a tiger 1 and king tiger. Then some more busts and nepolenic 75mm figures. A panther. A 1/48 Stuka and then a diorama set in 1945 Berlin called “the zoo” and another diorama set in Kharkov in 1943…. So fairly busy! All the best and merry Xmas to you all! Paul

Lovely figure work here! Very well executed. I know what you mean about putting on one brush stroke and being happy with it and then literally putting one more and thinking it ruined. Paul

Thanks James!

Nice one Craig, now I know what that is! I might cut the top part off of it to put it right. Thanks for the heads up on it. Paul