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Brilliant thanks Tom, I've PMd you my email address

Cool subject Bosse, I recommend you test the decals, maybe one of the spares from another scheme, as the last set of CE decals I used disintegrated on contact with water!!

Good progress so far, these trumpeter AFV kits come with a good rep, interesting to see one built, in fact this GB is becoming a shop window for a new to AFV modeller like myself!

Looking very nice, I hate to say it though but the SUs do not use the Russian interior blue/green they are a light blue grey. This is an SU-27 but gives the colour http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/38/Cockpit_of_Sukhoi_Su-27_(6).jpg

You remembered the strengthening plate and rivets though Kirk, which I forgot. Incidentally are they on the Trumpy kit? They're missing from the 1/48 Hasegawa kit as that's based on the US ones that had it performed internally.

From memory there's also done changes to the RWR on the lower fin and the wing tip lumps and bumps. The other thing is the IP which has a round moving map display in place of one of the head down displays. Your best networks be to put up a WIP and let the harrier experts help, I'd certainly be keen to see it done!

I remember this kit from when I was younger! A blast from the past, look forward to seeing your build progress

This looks an impressive kit and you are certainly doing it justice so far! I never really got on with Vallejo paints but they seem to be the weapon if choice for the AFV modeller, so maybe I'll dig out the ones I still have and give them a go.

This will be an interesting build to see how this kit shapes up the very nice, but complicated Zvezda kit!

Interesting to see another Cromwell kit, I say go for the figures too, brings a tank to life in my opinion

Love this, brings back fond memories of buying these from the corner shop by my grand parents house and building them in a weekend, right down to snapping off wheels while trying to get the tracks to fit!

Not accurate?

They look nice through the plastic, one thing I might try is adding the netting and Camo strips to the helmets, if anyone's got any tips...

Good Morning BMers, My efforts to avoid joining group builds this year, so I could get all my part builds finished and not buying anything else, failed with the Lesser built GB, so I might as well go all out and do this one too! This will be the first AFV kit I have built in nearly 20 years but I always enjoyed them. To ease me back in I wanted a nice simple kit and the Tamiya Cromwell ticks that box! It looks a nice kit in the box and judging by the other builds I've seen, including in this GB, it builds very nicely! To add some extra complication I thought if add some figures too so I got these I may well get some etch for the tank too, there's an inexpensive Eduard set I noticed plus the metal barrel looks nice and reasonably priced, although I may build the kit one first and see how that looks. Wife's on a late shift tonight so I plan to crack on! Phil

I HATE superglue in this application, the PE seems to stick to everything, tweezers, fingers, the carpet, my dog, but not where you want it! I have had success with gator grip glue in the past, it's a sort of thick white glue, but even thats not perfect so I seem to end up back with CA.

What I normally do is measure a couple of key dimensions on the model and the instructions then divide one by the other. For example let's say the wing span of the kit is 200mm and the wing span in the plan is 120mm, 200/120 is 1.67 so you need to scale up the instructions by 1.67 times or 167% on a photo copier. I quite often find that the plans are not always the same scale in each view, ie the top view might not be the same size as side views so repeat the exercise for each view! Phil

Great thanks Tom, I am about ready to prime and paint, but the weather needs to do me a favour to as its too cold in the shed at the moment! Phil

When I did mine I started with white primer then used oils to weather it, but I'm sure any shade from white to buff to brown you could find on a jet somewhere!

Coming on nicely, as the link shows, they are indeed white inside, I believe it's ceramic, you can of course then weather them to what ever colour you choose!

Long over due an update here! Construction is all but done All the fiddly bits have been added, resin and PE, the cockpit was a bit of a pig to get installed in the end, I think I must have done something wrong as the rear part had a gap to the spine and the front deck, infront of the IP only just clears the front canopy! Last thing to before I paint is to mask the canopy! Does anyone know if the centreline pylon was removable? Guess who forgot to drill the holes out.... Thanks for looking Phil

Looking very good, these miniart dioramas look good, looking forward to seeing it progress

Very nice indeed, not to take away from the model, but the tree is very realistic, did you make it?

We can only hope! Their plans for world domination this year seem to have switched to downscaling though...

This is some proper old fashioned modelling! Can't wait to see you get some paint in it, what do you plan to use as a concrete colour?

Sign me up for this one, in getting into figures and vehicles!