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Thanks for the link, those will make for some great projects.

I wish, it's one of the fun projects waiting on a long list of house renovations.

Verlinden produced many 120 mm resin figures from a variety of time periods, I've built their ww2 British infantryman and their Napoleon figure. Both had slight problems but were fun projects. Long out of production but still available on the used market.

Thanks, yeah, I was looking at the other kits on their website yesterday, and am looking forward to seeing the Minerva in this group build. I finished the tires and am now ready for some paint. I'll do a fair bit of interior painting and maybe some weathering before putting the sides on.

Thanks folks, I'm pretty happy with the tires. I did the treads on one more tonight and then needed a break so I put these fellows together. The CSM figure is great, very lifelike, the Warriors soldier is better sculpted and slightly cartoonish.

This is shaping up to be a detailed little gem.

I like the hand-painted camouflage, sets it apart.

The tiny track links look pretty tedious to work with but end up so realistic. Love the historical subject and scratchbuilding too.

It's fun to see the two being built with variations.

This is fun, here are 20 years of the armoured cars I've built, all very dusty from sitting on the shelf. All 1/35 except for the anti-aircraft staghound which is 1/48. The C15TA and the Humber scout car were scratchbuilt.

Thanks everyone, the kit is going together very easily. In fact it's ready for some paint. But before that I want to add treads to the tires to make them look more like the originals. I understand why CSM left the tires blank, and they do sell some 3D printed wheels with tire treads, but heck, how hard is it to drill a few divots. One tire took about a half hour of twisting the pin vise.

Looking forward to this, I've been enjoying building my CSM armoured car.

That's really nice, it looks like you don't need any gluing advice. I recently built the Accurate Armour kit of the same vehicle and also had trouble with applying the right amount of superglue. I settled on copper wire wound around the end of a bamboo skewer, the windings held some liquid glue and the 5 mm or so of wire sticking out the end sometimes applied the glue dot I needed. Sometimes I used gel superglue and that was easier to dispense.

This has gone together pretty easily, even though it's mostly smallish parts below the deck it all lines up well with the upper parts.

That kit looks really detailed and crisp. It's nice to see a 1/76 kit built with the hatches open.

I haven't built one of their figures before, it does look super detailed. Thanks for letting me know, I'll check my local bookshop and see if they have a copy.

Such a classic kit. Brings back memories of looking through the Tamiya catalogues of the day.

And we're off and running. The fit is great and the design makes for easy assembly. Nothing like the brutally complicated Bronco Humber armoured car which was my previous build. The mold lines are worse than I thought they'd be for such a nice kit, cleaning up the parts I felt like I was working on an old Peerless/Italeri CMP. Not whinging, just a bit surprised.

Copper State Models has been releasing some interesting Great War armoured car kits, this is the most interesting one for me. I have a couple of their airplane kits too and they are all really nice. The instruction book is so good, a few pages of history and information and then shaded 3D similar to Wingnut Wings instructions. If all goes well I'll make a base and add a couple figures, one is a new CSM resin crew figure and the other an old Warriors resin fellow who has been waiting 20 years for a suitable diorama.

That's a clever way to open the exhaust, thanks for showing the step by step in detail.

Nice problem to have

What a cool idea!

Thanks! I've made a bit of progress, I'll post some pictures. Good luck with your build, I'd love to see it.

Great idea Marklo, I look forward to seeing these. I have a fokker dvii that I'd like to build as used by William Barker for the Toronto-New York-Toronto race.

I've been wanting to make a figure of the Anishinaabe sniper Francis Pegahmagabow for a while, I bought the little Ross rifles for this project about 15 years ago. He was the most successful sniper from any nation during the war and is also credited with capturing 300 prisoners. I'm speculating with the equipment and uniform for the figure, probably give him a toque and leave off the backpack. The ICM figure is 1/35 but the rifle is 1/32, and I'll use a hornet head that looks a bit more like the man.