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Chevy K5 This kit has been with me since ca. 2020 where I used it as a body for 1:24 scale crawling, during chassis rebuilds it sat in the drawer and motivation dried up until recently I decided it is a free canvas to experiment with. Loose goal are - Dents, dirt, discolouration, light scratch building, paint stencils?. Is my train of thought, Working on 1:10 rc projects in parallel had me come across these nicely detailed square shaped LED’s. It reminded me of the Chevy K5 I had and mocked them up. I loved the look so I found most parts I could for the kit and primered the body in black. The chassis was slammed together and in a box since purchase. I reached out to local fellow modellers and I even managed to get an extra full set of wheels which I took the liberty to dechrome. The aesthetic I am going for is a mix between a crawler / pre runner in a madmax / cyberpunk sub tone. No barrels, or ammunition. I’m more for minimalism with a decal or two. I do enjoy how vehicles look with a panel or two subtracted so I will not use items such as bumpers or a rear bed. These sort of projects set my head on fire and take alot of time to wrap my head around so it’s a longer haul one due to lack of scratch building experience. The main item will be tube frame type bracing and bodywork. Neither super accurate as it’s all just for fun!

And hello again, colleagues and interested Suddenly, a beautiful (in the absence of another) model from the 3D printing company "Military Miniature" was extremely pleased with its appearance. The first fully printed product in my collection. The detailing is minimal. Working with 3D plastic was extremely disliked by the fragility of the parts and traces of printing. It took a long time to clean, skin and remove. Also, in some places, unsuccessfully broken supports (outright holes). Despite all this, it is easy to assemble the model (so there are just nothing details). Some completely missing moments had to be reproduced. Spare wheel holder (unfortunately, the photos do not give a complete picture of how it really looked, so what I saw and did) Wiper. It is simply not in the model. Wiring to the headlights. The complete absence of the cabin interior (but due to the thickness of the plastic, in principle, this is not surprising) We have a saddle, a steering wheel and a gearbox handle. I replaced the native dashboard with a product from Quinta Studio Extremely unimpressed with the glass to the headlights. They looked terrible, replaced with what was left in the ELF stash. That's all that can be said about the model. Now about the prototype. "Konstantin Mikhailovich Simonov (birth name — Kirill; November 15 [28], 1915, Petrograd, Russian Empire — August 28, 1979, Moscow, USSR) was a Russian Soviet novelist, poet, playwright, screenwriter, public figure, journalist and war correspondent. Hero of Socialist Labor (1974), winner of the Lenin Prize (1974) and six Stalin Prizes (1942, 1943, 1946, 1947, 1949, 1950). Participated in the battles on Khalkhin-Gol (1939) and the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945. Deputy Secretary General of the USSR Writers' Union." (с) Wikipedia "Correspondent of the newspaper of the Western Front "Krasnoarmeyskaya Pravda" quartermaster 2nd rank Konstantin Mikhailovich Simonov (1915-1979, second from right) with military correspondents of the newspaper "Izvestia" Evgeny Genrikhovich Krieger (1906-1983, second from left) and Peter Ivanovich Belyavsky (1899-1968) near his official car GAZ-4. On the right — the driver of the newspaper "Izvestia" Pavel Ivanovich Borovkov. Quote from K. Simonov 's diary: "We drove and were silent. They were silent for a long time. Then our old engine overheated from a long drive in such heat, and we had to stop about seventy kilometers after Roslavl and wait for it to cool down. We got out of the pickup truck, and Pasha Troshkin said: — Guys, but we got out, huh? But it was said wearily and without any joy. We were not happy that we got out. I just wanted to get to Vyazma as soon as possible and understand something there, in Vyazma. To understand what we didn't understand yet. Troshkin put us at the pickup truck and several times in a row took pictures of us as we were that day — tired, unshaven and, as it seemed to me then, suddenly, in just a few days, aged." The picture was taken on July 15, 1941, after K. Simonov and his comrades escaped from the Chaus, attacked by tanks, and went to Vyazma, to the headquarters of the Western Front." (c) waralbum.ru I tried to reproduce the car from the photo. Tank - overfilled the tank from the remnants into something similar to the one from ZIS-5. From Simonov's Diary: "We went on this trip without Surkov — Troshkin, Krieger, Belyavsky and me. Surkov sat down after the Krasnopol trip for poetry and stayed in the editorial office for the time being, giving us his machine gun for the road." The number in the photo is poorly distinguishable, so what I saw, I saw. Coloring as usual - Akan, Tamiya. Pigments - Wilder Wash from AK Thank you for your attention, enjoy watching.

I've been looking off and on for pickup kits in 1/24 on Ebay for ages without success - the only ones I come across are of 1940s or 1950s vehicles, hardly ever anything more recent. In model shops I scan the stocks in vain for new kits. Does this reflect a general shortage or absence of pickup kits? Aren't these popular? I wonder why... Tony