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  1. Latest off the bench. Having waited for a newer kit to come out in vain. I dove in and tackled Emhars simple, but accurate effort. I used a Falcon canopy-the kit one is usable, but Falcon’s is, as usual, better. A resin cockpit from True Details added the detail needed under the very clear canopy. I added a scratch nose-wheel bay and plumbing to all the gear and airbrake wells. Thinning the intake splitter plates helped a lot and I added the small intake on top of the nose. The dihedral is 8deg buy the way, a lot! The rest was trying to duplicate the natural metal finish using Alclad II over Tamiya gloss black. I never have any luck with Alclads own primers. Kit decals were used, because there are no aftermarket ones. Anyone following me, put the USAF titles an insignia on before the pods, then use another decal on the pods. The real aircraft was done that way, and there is no way the decals will settle around the compound curves-ask me how I know this! The kit decals are very thick, I would recommend replacing whatever you are able to. Anyway, it is not as good as I hoped, but looks good on the shelf. Final photo is a family portrait.
  2. The first of the 150 Mark I tanks left the factory in August 1916. Then came 50 Mark II trainers (made of unhardened steel) and 50 Mark III trainers, followed in May 1917 by the “definitive” Mark IV with significantly increased armour. Like the Mark I, the Mark IV was also manufactured in Female (armed with 5 MGs) and Male variants. In the latter, two (forward) sponson MGs were replaced with the 57mm cannon. Of the 1,220 Mark IV built, nearly 600 were Females, 420 Males and 200 unarmed vehicles used for supply work. The last variant that emerged from this ancient design was the more powerful Mark V, of which just over 1,000 were built. Crewed by 8 men, the Mark IV was powered by a Daimler 105 hp inline six-cylinder engine. Armed with 5 Maxim, Hotchkiss or Lewis 0.303 machine guns, the Female variant weighed roughly 28 tons (compared to 7 tons of the contemporary French Renault FT), so the “landship” nickname given to all these lozenge-shaped dinosaurs seems to be fully justified. The 1996 Emhar kit consists of only 31 styrene parts and two continuous viyl tracks. The EM5001 is the Male variant, but I preferred the more common EM5002 Female. While far from being state-of-the-art, it is still considered a better kit than the 1:76 Airfix Mark I. The model was made almost OOB, i.e. only a few modifications were made. First, the rails along the top of the hull had to be reversed – Emhar makes them with the horizontal ledges facing outward from the vertical walls, and the original ledges faced inwards. I took this opportunity to replace the mid-length supports with beefier ones, as the ones supplied by the manufacturer looked severely anorexic. Then the rear fuel tank had to be rotated 90 degrees so that the hatches were on its top (level) surface instead of on the vertical wall as suggested by Emhar. Due to this, the open end of the box-shaped tank was facing the ground and had to be filled with a plastic card. On this occasion, an applique armour wall with four small holes was added above the fuel tank. After selecting the C.56 Crusader II of the 3rd Battalion (which fought in the December 1917 Battle of Cambrai) as the reference vehicle for my model, I also had to shorten the exhaust pipe (a widely noticed modification to prevent exhaust fumes from entering the interior easily) and replace Maxim MGs with fat-barrel Lewis guns. These new barrels were made of the Aber 1.0mm brass tube. Like most (if not all) Mark IVs at Cambrai, the original was painted in the “standard” Khaki Brown, which looked really very close to the Humbrol 26 I used. The enamel was applied (as usual) with an Italeri brush. Decals are courtesy of my drawer: yellow C 56 comes from Tamiya Mitsubishi A6M, yellow 2604 from RS P-39 Airacobra, white C.56 from Revell BRDM and white Crusader II (cut and applied individually, letter by letter) from WarlordGames WGB-DEC-030 sheet. Finally, Vallejo acrylic matt varnish was brush-applied overall. The pictures are taken with an LG smartphone. Comments welcome
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