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  1. Made a start on one of my Famos. Not sure if I'll build the Revell 21cm Morser to go with it or to build the tank transporter trailer that came with my other Famo. My early efforts at putting the tracks together are posted here. The large number of parts. Some parts have a little flash and others do not quite match the destructions which can be found on the Henk of Holland site. I started work on the engine. The block is in two halves, each moulded with a head and rocker covers. The front of the engine is moulded in one piece with the dynamo and cooling fan. Part of the destructions show this part and elsewhere a separate fan which looks much better So I resorted to a mini disc cutter and, after initial tidying - Methinks it looks a tad better. Then, after some carving of the front section to ensure level engine mounts the engine is dry-fitted in the chassis.
  2. Evening all, Although I am primarily aircraft focused, I do like a good tank now and then for the fun of it! As with everyone else, I've been watching events in Eastern Europe with keen interest, including the deployment of a British Army battlegroup to Estonia under Operation Cabrit- including the Challenger 2. Having just built Tamiya's superlative 1/48 desertised CR2, I wanted to another in the more usual overall green and dressed up in foliage as seems to be the norm for ops in Estonia. The Trumpeter 1/72 kit was available at my local model shop (the Mecca that is Model Junction in Bury St Edmunds, run by David and Owen - all round top chaps!) and that seemed ideal. I think there is a Dragon kit around, but reviews indicated the Trumpeter kit was better without being perfect. Negative comment was made about the size of the front armour plates of the turret, but a quick vernier comparison and a couple of sums later showed them to be the same proportionate size as the Tamiya 1/48 - good enough for me! The build itself was straightforward and quick no cockpits or canopies to snarl things up! It was OOB aside from a chunk of roofing lead glued into the hull to get a sense of weightiness. I use Tamiya paints in the main...in the end I used a base shade of xf81 with overspray of Xf81 and xf67 mixed for to tonal variation. I applied xf57 buff for the running gear and side skirts...that gave a very close rendition of the light Estonian mud/dust judging from pics, and I finished with tamiya weathering powders in green and sand. I was keen to do the foliage that graces CR2 in most pics in Estonia...for this I used lawn moss! Sprayed green and applied with PVA, this looks to my eyes at least pretty convincing. I added the tank registration decals, but CR2s in Estonia mostly seem bereft of additional markings, which suited my purposes nicely. Trumpeter do give you a whole mass of decal options, but oddly only one scheme is alluded to in the instructions...I am sure that those much more knowledgeable about the CR2 could make good use of them! So, a nice addition to my AFV shelf...I was hoping that Tamiya would bring out a range of 1/48 CR2s, but the very specific way they have done their moulds for the desertised Op Telic machines seems to indicate they won't, which is a shame. I might well have a go at another one of these in BATUS green and sand colours; anyone know what their CR1s are like accuracy wise? In any case, the pics...
  3. Evening everybody... Id like to present my 1/72 Trumpeter F-107 Ultrasabre. I built in the “They also serve group build”. I built mine as 55120 which did indeed serve with NACA/NASA from 1957-59. I however was not inspired by the factory test scheme of silver lacquer with red panels. While researching NASA test aircraft looking for photo’s I came across two of Convair’s Aircraft. The Delta Dagger and Dart in a striking ADC Grey and Gloss Sea Blue scheme. Thats when the gears started to slowly grind through the rust that is my brain. I decided to build the 107 as a Whif in this scheme. Theorizing that NASA kept it for longer and decided to repaint it in a different guise at some point to match the Convair types. So I present you my F-107 circa 1971 in the later Scheme. Please feel free to ask questions, post comments, and or add thoughts. Dennis
  4. I have begun building the 1/72 Trumpeter Wellington Mk III intending to use markings SR*F of 101 squadron as it appears in Ian Allan's Bomber Squadron at War. I choose these markings as the captions suggest the bomber was lost on the Thousand Bomber raid to Cologne. I am developing an interest in this raid and have already purchased the Italeri Stirling Mk 1 to be modelled as a 15 squadron aircraft which also flew on the raid. From the pics I have of the Wellington it is unclear as to whether the waist guns were fitted. Can anyone help? Was it the norm to fit these weapons?
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