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  1. Hi, this is one of several ship models I've completed over the last couple of years. The very nice Bronco kit is a joy to build. I had a good reference photo of Chih Yuen in an interim paint scheme (the Elswick builder's grey hull (originally all-grey) with the yellow/buff superstructure and funnel elements. I added what appeared to be a strake around the upper hull missing from the kit, opened up the numerous casemates/ports on the poop (as per the photo), raised the foremast derrick/boom (as per photo), and added the stern davits and various boats (as per photo). Crewless at the moment - looking for some suitable 19C figures. Highly recommended kit. Cheers, GrahamB Damn - just noticed a loose rope on the aft boom.
  2. Or maybe the new title should be ' Don't just bloody sit there, get out and walk!!) The basic vehicle and base was 'finished' months ago and sat on the shelf. I posted it here and decided not to add any more figures or detail but just couldn't get over how plain it looked, was not happy with the finished result and just wouldn't let it lie. Hence......eventually I decided to add some more, in the form of the Miniart tank riders with some Hornet heads, along with a few background bits and bobs from the spares box, kebab stick posts and fuse wire barbed wire. I am much happier with the result now, although am still tempted to add a couple more figures.....Watch this space
  3. Salut, C'est mon dernier sous-marin que j'ai construit : USS SEAWOLF (modèles Bronco) . . . . . Chris
  4. After the 1/48th kits (thread), ICM is to release 1/72nd North American OV-10 Bronco kits - ref. 72185 - North American OV-10А Bronco - US Attack Aircraft (100% new molds) - released - ref. 72186 - North American OV-10D+ Bronco - US attack and observation aircraft - December 2023 Sources: https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/ICM72185 https://www.hannants.co.uk/product/ICM72186 V.P.
  5. Another "quick build" project that I went into hoping to wrap it up before year's end, the Bronco Panzer IID kit is a really nice one-very cleanly-molded and excellent parts fit. This one is pretty much finished at this point except for the tracks. The Bronco kit tracks have the wrong guide horns, so I have a set of correct SpadeAce ones inbound so I can finish this build up. I was doing another grey/brown early war scheme anyway, so figured I'd get this one painted at the same time since the Polish and French campaign paint schemes were the same.
  6. More Ready for Discussion than Inspection. Glad to be finished it but I have to say I did not enjoy building this kit. I love Bronco because of the subject matter; early war British armour, many Canadian subjects, great detail. And I was really excited about this model until I opened the box and started building. Anyone else built one of these? It has superb detail but terrible design. Way too complicated and often fitting poorly. The instructions are frustrating because many parts are mis-numbered or missing from the instructions. I've built Bronco's Staghounds (1/35 and 1/48), Triumph motorcycle, some figure sets and I loved them, This kit was a whole nother ball of wax. I still have a Bronco Archer, Bofors gun, Landwasserschlepper, and an A13 cruiser tank in the stash and am looking forward to building them. I hope they aren't as fussy as this one was.
  7. Part 4 of my Stug saga is Bronco's version. A nice, fun kit with a decent amount of detail. The tracks were a bit of a problem. PanzerArt's didn't fit the front wheels, Bronco's could not be fitted with the fenders off and a big struggle with them on so I used RFM's great workable tracks. Other than that the kit goes together well with a good fit of parts. The wheels stay loose so you need to glue them in place, no biggie but I prefer Tamiya's way of doing it. The photos are ok but I have dropped my vaper on it, a light stand and knocked off three of the mud guards, so I got some reasonable pics and have put it away before anymore damage is done. Cheers all.👍
  8. Bought this Bronco SD.Kfz.6 at the Darlington Sword & Lance show, from the bring and buy stall, so got a good deal on it. However it has proved to be a real POA to build, and not suited particularly to ageing fat fingers! It must be the fiddliest most frustrating kit I have yet attempted (and I have attempted a few). However I eventually got it over the line and pretty much finished, added a couple of 'Frankenstein' figures made up of various arms/heads/bodies from the spares box, and stuck it on a small base. And there it sat on the shelf for a few months.......However I can't help thinking it looks unfinished (I know it needs more weathering) so can't decide whether to add more figures or not. Maybe the new set of Miniart winter tank riders due out this month? What do you think? Was thinking of adding these maybe?.............
  9. This is the Bronco kit in 1/350. They pretty nicely detailed with photo etch included for the rails. These are a little fiddly but do look nice on the completed kit. In fact it was the photo etch that caused this kit to end up on the shelf of doom a few years ago, but I decided to either finish it or throw it out. Two options are given, U 37 an U 40. I chose to do U 37. The submarine had a long and successful career, embarking on 11 war patrols between the outbreak of WW2 and April of 1942, sinking 55 ships at 211,000 tonnes. After this, she was designated a training vessel in the Baltic, where U 37 would serve out the remainder of the war. Unlike many U boots, U 37 suffered no casualties through the entire war. On May 5th, her crew scuttled her in Horup Haff. I guess she got this colour scheme during her training days, as the Baltic tends to be a bit icy. Colours used were White Ensign Models schlickgrau 58 for the conning tower and upper hull with schiffsbodenfarbe III for the anti fowling. Decks were stained black with white being sprayed in a rough manner over the 58 grau for the camouflage.
  10. Here is my next 1/48 armor build. This is Bronco's KV-14 or Su-152 (edit: thanks @echen for setting me straight on that). This tank destroyer was the forerunner of the much better know ISU-122. The difference being that the ISU was based on the JS-2, while this was on the KV-1 suspension. Bronco's kit is very nice, and this model is built from the box. I wanted to represent a tank with a lot of dust from tank-rider foot traffic on the rear deck. Originally, this was to have some tank riders on it, but I gave up after several failed attempts at painting the figures. Maybe another time. Weathering was done with dark green washes fallowed by dusting with several different layers of sienna and light tan colored pigments suspended in washes made of buff oil in white spirits. And also applied dry. Not my best work, but I kind of grew bored with the project and rushed it.
  11. I'll be building this kit or, at least, the tracked carrier. The load, the six-pounder may be built in parallel, but won't be a core part of the project here.
  12. My entry to the GB is the Bronco Staghound Mk III. I have always quite liked the Staghound, but I think this is my favorite as it has a Crusader turret (not sure that is correct, but it definitely looks like one). The Staghound armoured car was conceived in the US at the start of WW2, based on a British specification which required a wheeled reconnaissance vehicle with a high level of protection, therefore armour plated, well armed, and highly mobile. The Chevrolet design proposed a large armoured car which, following an extended programme of assessment and testing, went into production in late 1942, too late to be sent to British forces engaged in North Africa. Allied forces were to receive the Staghound in the Spring of 1943 and they were used in the Italian campaign by British and Polish armies In spite of the impressive performance of this vehicle it was not adopted by the US army and so the 3,000 units produced were used solely by British and Commonwealth forces. The figure is a resin one from eBay. A British soldier with a Sten gun (will take a better picture later). Will have to have a look in the spares box for a vehicle commander. I am currently double booked as I am in the Meteor GB also, so progress maybe a bit limited to start with. George
  13. Will start this project shortly after I finish the 1/24 Dodge Charger from the Fast & Furious film my daughter and son in law gave me for Christmas. The Panzer has been loft insulation for several years now so it's time it saw day light, I need to do some research before starting as the right up in the box say's it is portrayed in markings from the Polish campaign but I have read somewhere that the bridge conversions were not carried out until 1940 and there not many of them. Those that were used apparently with the 7th Panzer division in the French invasion so if anyone has any information I would be only to happy to hear about it. Thanks for taking the time to look in, work starts soon Stay safe Roger
  14. Can't resist a blitzbuild. I had this Bronco figure in the boneyard and after some wikipedia-ing I found out about this WAC unit. "No mail, low morale" was the motto of the US 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion, the only American all black, all female unit to serve in Europe during WW2. I needed a different cap and dug through all my spares to find one. The kit is very detailed. I built the two British figures (ATS and RAF) that came with the set and put them in a Blitz diorama a few years ago.
  15. I'm in with a 1/32 Kittyhawk OV-10D Bronco with markings for VMO-1 or VMO-2 from Desert Storm. I've also got a fair amount of after-market to go with it: And decals from Caracal: I'm not quite sure on the final markings yet - looking at the references it seems that most of the OV-10s left the US in standard 3-tone camouflage or grey but them were repainted into two-tone brown with grey under-surfaces. More on that to follow. I've also bought this: With all of the extras and the vague-ness of the Kittyhawk instructions it might come in useful.
  16. Sand A Sturmgeschütz III Ausf D, in North Africa Four of these were sent to help Rommel: one sank on the way, two were captured. And of the fourth? I know not? Of the captured examples, one survives and was restored to running condition, AM stuff I doubt I'll represent the Desert Fox, but some of the other figures here may make the build. The decals are, possibly, overkill, since the kit contains all that are needed.
  17. On a bit of a roll with submarines. Here is my attempt at the Bronco Models 1:350 kit of the USS Seawolf SSN-21. Very simple to build, but made a bit challenging with a very hard black plastic. The decal placement diagram was also pretty much useless. Terrible stand as well, which I will need to do something about. That being said, ended up ok as a relaxing build. Brush painted with Tamiya and Italeri acrylics and photographed in the very non-maritime environment of my backyard. Thanks for looking.
  18. Picked this up as a way of getting back to the bench after a long dry period in 2020. Brush painted with Tamiya Acrylics, finished with a brush painted coat of floor polish. Base is an old piece of scrap wood (I think it was from an old chopping board that split) with a couple of coatings of decking oil. Build thread (limited that it is) can be found here. thanks for looking.
  19. My next armour project arrived in the mail today. Tamiya 1:48 quick build this ain't! Looking forward to getting started, this will take longer I think than some of the recent kits I have built. Anyone know what the British markings are?
  20. Here is my first ever 1/350 scale model. Bronco models 1/350 Song type 039 Submarine. The Type 039 submarine (NATO reporting name: Song-class) is a class of diesel-electric submarines built for the Chinese PLA Navy. The class is the first diesel-electric submarine to be fully developed within China and also the first Chinese diesel-electric submarine to use the modern teardrop hull shape. Apart from a scratch built 1/1200 scale Oberon class built in my teens, this is also my first ever model of a Submarine. The Bronco kit is quite basic but in my opinion has good general surface detail. The top of the fin was modified to better represent the prototype, from pictures I found on the web. I used Tamiya acrylics, and rather than pure black, I mixed several shades of very dark grey for the main hull with some areas in pure matt black (mostly the upper hull walkway and under chin (bow) sonar below the torpedo tubes. The lower hull is Tamiya Hull red with a dash of extra pure red. Upper deck details and fin windows in various shades of grey, and the emergency buoy release doors in bright orange. The torpedo tube doors were added from very thin plastic card, as much of the scribed fine door outline was moulded across the doors and became almost invisible after clean up. Draught marks on the original were moulded on, so these were rubbed off and replaced with aftermarket decals. The WIP can be found here: So here she is complete: Next Submarine project will be an Astute class. The difference in size is very noticeable! Thanks for looking Terry
  21. So with work on the Vosper continuing, and a couple of other "offline" projects going on (each of which will get an RFI), I decided to start my first ever venture into 1/350 scale maritime modelling. I have great ambitions for this scale, having watched others on here producing superb examples, @robgizlu, @Ex-FAAWAFU, @beefy66, @Courageous, @longshanks and @Nick Charnock to name just a few. You have all conspired to inspire me into this scale, so in short, this is your fault! I wanted a quick subject - is there such a thing as a quick Terry build I hear you ask? Well, surely a 1/350 "smallish" submarine with so few actual parts to bring together, must be a ripe candidate? I have only ever built one submarine model in my life. That was a scratch built Oberon in 1/600 (if my memory serves me right? which was done as a "bet" with a long standing friend, at the age of around 15. I seem to recall I won the bet, but he and another good friend ended up joining the Navy, so with the benefit of much hindsight, they won hands down........... So the subject is this, acquired at a very reasonable price at a show earlier this year. I got much change from my £10. Submarines have always fascinated me. Such mysterious, quite deadly things that lurk below the surface. Silent invisible delivery systems capable of immense destruction from the unthinkable armageddon scenario, through to the ability to sink any surface vessel, the ability to launch standoff tactical cruise missiles over vast distances, the ability to carry out surveillance duties and even act as a silent taxi service to land special forces in discreet places, all potentially without detection, although not always of course.............. If you have read this far, you probably know all that, so to the model......... The obligatory sprue shot: Not much there really. I have always had a mind to mount 1/350 scale maritime subjects in a sea scape. It normally feels right for me, but in this case, I've chosen full hull. So, the two "big bits" are first. There is an impressive amount of detail on the hull. and being a Chinese subject I have no idea how accurate it is, but it looks good to me! In aircraft modelling terms, this next part can take me weeks, often months, but we are already "closed up" And with some putty applied to smooth out the join, surely we are almost there.... Well, almost... Clearly there is smoothing to be done, then the other parts to apply, but already I am feeling the pleasure of such a quick build (so far) after all that scratch building going on with the Vosper! Hopefully next episode will see the fuselagehull cleaned up and ready for paint, with a handful of other parts in place. I suspect the real fun will be the paint job, as I won't be satisfied with "just black, and a red bottom............. Thanks for looking Terry
  22. This is my conversion of Academy's 1/72 North American OV-10D to the earlier YOV-10D Night Observation Gunship System (NOGS). 2 OV-10A's, 152660 and 155395 (note there is one of many typos in the Squadron Gunships book with lists 155660 in one place and 152660 in others). These had a lengthened nose with an FLIR turret and the sponsons removed and an M-197 20mm Gatling gun turret added. There is a MPC kit purporting to be of the YOV-10D but it is inaccurate as far as the M-197 and FLIR turrets and is pretty crude so I set it aside and used the Academy kit instead. I did use the M-197 mount from the MPC kit. To start I have to say that the Academy kit was a pleasure to to build with mostly good fit and finish. Removing the sponsons was fairly easy. I fabricated the m-197 turret from some 9mm brass tube and Master Models' brass 3 barrel M-197 set. The Academy FLIR turret is the later Texas Instruments one so I made the earlier one using the tail end of a multiple rocket launcher. Also note that the Academy kit uses the later type engine exhaust but includes the correct early type too. Other then all that it is pretty much OOB 😀 except for some Eduard seatbelts. I was going to use the MPC decals which were for 152660 but the Academy kit came with decals for 155395 which they say was used in Desert Storm. The only issue was that the type decal said OV-1D instead of YOV-10D but, the MPC decals had the same error so I decided to ignore it. The camelflage was roughly the same 3 color gray scheme used on the AP-2H. So here it is: Next up is the Fantastic Plastic (Anigrand) P4M. This will be the start of my blue period since the next 4 kits (P4M, AF-2S, TBM-3S and P2V-5) will all be painted Dark Sea Blue. Enjoy
  23. Uh oh...new obsession I'll never finish anything.....
  24. OK here's my KUTA build. Started at the beginning of the year and flew as a build but has been languishing ever since, mainly due to a couple of reasons. firstly being tail heavy - which the kit warns about and says to weight the nose - I did (by gluing some ball bearings in and also some just behind the cockpit) but obviously not enough. This means I'm going to have to make her 'in flight' which will be a pain. Secondly there's an awful join just behind the cockpit area, which I'm not entirely sure how to fill - given there will be the multi-piece clear parts to attach. There's also a hole behind the rear seat - I'm not sure if that needs filling too. Anyhow let's attack it and see what I can do, better to try than leave the kit languishing.
  25. Having recently posted an A13 in the RFI section, I was keen to have another go at one of these nice little models from Bronco. I’ve had this in the stash for a number of years now, having picked it up for a bargain price at the Saumur model show. I say bargain because not only was the price good, but it came with two sets of Miniart figures, all for the desert, which was handy as I intend to finish this as a North Africa based tank. This was one of the later issues of Bronco’s A13 and I’m glad to say that they made some modifications, such as individual link tracks and corrected the engine deck. There are four options on the decal sheet, three in N.Africa and one in France. The three N.African ones are all finished in differing versions of the Caunter scheme, so hopefully, I’ll be able to pick up a paint set at Saumur, weekend after next. Also included are a couple of etched sheets which negates the need to spend out more money on AM sets. All in all, this should be a pleasant build. If memory serves me right from the last Bronco A13 that I built, it doesn’t hold any nasty surprises. Update soon. Thanks for looking. John.
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