Meng Toon Sherman Firefly - update 13/06/22 - FINISHED

[PlaStix]

Having finished my 1/48 Tamiya Firefly I decided, for the last month of the GB, that I’d build something small and, hopefully, quick to make.

And this is what I picked:

 

These are the contents of the box:

 

I have made a start - getting the hull parts assembled:

 

There is quite a lot of clean up required - the mould seams are quite heavy in places.

 

 

 

Mig Eater added the bolts strip across the front of his Toon build using skill and patience. Me, I was lucky to find this in the spares box:

Cut to size and glued in place plus some other parts added:

 

 

It has been a bit fiddly at times but okay……so far!

 

Comments and suggestions welcome.

 

Kind regards,

 

Stix

[PlaStix]

Managed to get a bit more done on this over the weekend. First I got all the parts cleaned up and some parts assembled - for the turret - so they were ready for some paint. There were quite a few heavy seam lines on some parts and some flash that needed to be removed - so it took a little longer than expected.

 

Then I got some paint on, followed by my usual initial base weathering:- a wash of very, very thinned Gunship Grey, a targeted wash of thinned Anthracite, applied in and around all the details, followed by a dry-brushed on, lightened version of the base coat - in this case I decided to use Humbrol's Olive Drab (155) for the green parts.

 

Main, bigger parts:

 

Everything - including the parts which had thinned Anthracite applied and a few parts with some Gunmetal already dry-brushed on, including the tracks:

 

Decals will probably be next.

 

Comments and suggestions welcome.

 

Kind regards,

 

Stix

[Ozzy]

Cool

[dnl42]

This is very cool!

 

On 5/19/2022 at 1:27 PM, PlaStix said:

 

I'm thinkin the kit designer had either Darth Vader or a Minion in mind when they were designing this kit. 

[PlaStix]

Thank you @Ozzy and @dnl42.

 

Decided I needed to get the running gear and tracks on next, but, before fitting them in place, I lightly weathered the sides of the lower hull, as I knew they would be difficult to get to with everything in place:

 

 

 

 

 

I then got the got the decals on:

 

 

 

Next up I will start work on the proper weathering.

 

Comments and suggestions welcome.

 

Kind regards,

 

Stix

[PlaStix]

Over the past weekend I managed to get this one finished. Following getting the weathering done, I got all the bit'n'bobs fitted together. Most didn't require any gluing. Anyway it was a fun little build. I can certainly recommend these Toon kits:

 

 

 

 

 

 

Good luck to anyone still working on their projects.

 

Kind regards,

 

Stix

[dnl42]

Bravo! That's a cute critter! 

[Corsairfoxfouruncle]

Always nice work Stix, definitely interesting and I can see the appeal of these. 

[PlaStix]

On 13/06/2022 at 14:05, dnl42 said:

Bravo! That's a cute critter! 

 

On 13/06/2022 at 18:52, Corsairfoxfouruncle said:

Always nice work Stix, definitely interesting and I can see the appeal of these. 

 

Thank you very much dnl42 and Dennis. I enjoy these toon kits as a bit of light relief. The ones I have made so have been fun to do. You can do as much or as little with them and they still look interesting/funny!

 

Kind regards,

Stix