Keeff Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 17 minutes ago, Jasper dog said: These pints don't drink themselves! And that Churchill won't build itself!! 😂🤣 But if you're insistant on buying, mines a lager .... 🍻 Keith 😁 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longbow Posted February 16 Share Posted February 16 1 hour ago, Keeff said: And that Churchill won't build itself!! 😂🤣 But if you're insistant on buying, mines a lager .... 🍻 Keith 😁 Omg !! I miss Banks’s mild on tap. 23 years now, without it. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jasper dog Posted February 16 Author Share Posted February 16 Right, by popular demand..... Construction essentially following the given instructions: Decided it was simpler to show the instructions for this stage. Engine cover hatches with interior detail. Part E19 the eye that the hatch stay locates on, if displaying the engine. Four are attached to A41, fine no problem, all present and correct. Four are attached to the hatches, one on each....one survives, three have been propelled across to goodness knows where. These are so tiny I didn't even both wasting time looking for them, I guess I'll have one hatch open then. A quick aside part B11 has been miss numbered, it isn't B11. Hatches temporarily tacked shut. Exhausts fitted along with shields. Moving to the rear end...no cheap jokes please! Bit of pe work, smoke dischargers particularly well detailed imo. Back panel on, getting closer to the inevitable.... So far so good... Both sides have been made up, so far so good. Basically the build is oob following the instructions. Apart from a couple of miss- numbered parts all's going ok 🤞 18 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jasper dog Posted February 16 Author Share Posted February 16 28 minutes ago, Longbow said: Omg !! I miss Banks’s mild on tap. 23 years now, without it. You should have said....All you need is to ask the barman to pour all the dregs from the slop tray into a glass add the contents of the nearest ash tray, sieve and voila....mild! Bon appetit 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longbow Posted February 17 Share Posted February 17 2 hours ago, Jasper dog said: You should have said....All you need is to ask the barman to pour all the dregs from the slop tray into a glass add the contents of the nearest ash tray, sieve and voila....mild! Bon appetit Darryl…. You have a great rear end !! 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bullbasket Posted February 17 Share Posted February 17 Great work Darryl. Just a wild guess here, but I'd say that that kit is a tad more complicated than the Tamiya one. John. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keeff Posted February 17 Share Posted February 17 Yay! Daryls back! Not sure about your recipe for mild .... 🤢 but! The Churchill is looking good 👍 Hopefully parts being lost wasn't linked to visiting the pub and tge after effects? 🤔😂 Keith 😁 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ivan-o Posted February 17 Share Posted February 17 At last after a page of waffling🙄get on with it😂 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jasper dog Posted February 17 Author Share Posted February 17 5 hours ago, Longbow said: Darryl…. You have a great rear end !! Ahh Lee, you're too kind, spent so much time working on it. 1 hour ago, Bullbasket said: Great work Darryl. Just a wild guess here, but I'd say that that kit is a tad more complicated than the Tamiya one. John. Having never built the Tamiya one I can't say with authority but..... I've a small hunch it might be. (Tried to work the small hunchback at the office gag in from the classic film Airplane but couldn't make it work ). 8 minutes ago, Keeff said: Yay! Daryls back! Not sure about your recipe for mild .... 🤢 but! The Churchill is looking good 👍 Hopefully parts being lost wasn't linked to visiting the pub and tge after effects? 🤔😂 Keith 😁 Too kind, its usually oh-no Darryls back. Thought i was being generous about mild, have you tried the stuff, it's like fermented dish water. Maybe the booze would have helped...🤔 I did end up being called out to the mother in laws boiler last Sat night after it packed in, we'd been out for a birthday do. As I pointed out at the time, it wasn't the sort of owd boiler I'd anticipated ending the evening with...Well I laughed. FYI, the wife didn't appreciate it as much as I'd hoped, however I'd got her mothers boiler working....no pleasing some folk! 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edjbartos Posted February 17 Share Posted February 17 Looking good Darryl, coming along very nicely. On a side note, now that Bank’s mild was mentioned, I loved the stuff, my local used to put everything in, even the shorts, you could get absolutely rat ar**d for a quid….🤪 Ed 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gondor44 Posted February 17 Share Posted February 17 3 hours ago, Jasper dog said: I've a small hunch it might be. (Tried to work the small hunchback at the office gag in from the classic film Airplane but couldn't make it work ). Should have tried Young Frankenstein rather than Airplane Gondor 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jasper dog Posted February 17 Author Share Posted February 17 1 hour ago, Gondor44 said: Should have tried Young Frankenstein rather than Airplane Gondor Or perhaps...Naked Gun! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maddoxx77 Posted February 17 Share Posted February 17 I have build the the old tamiya kit and i can say ( with authority ) that this looks way more complex. Not the building stuff that goes together with a few pints. However, you are doing a good job so far. Nice that this kit has working suspention. Doesn't look too complicated. Keep it up! 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jasper dog Posted February 18 Author Share Posted February 18 On 17/02/2024 at 18:17, Maddoxx77 said: Nice that this kit has working suspention. Doesn't look too complicated. There's always one.... After the early bout of confidence things got a touch more complicated.... These go around the spring suspension units. The instructions would have you sandwich the swinging arms between the two halves but I found it easier to install them afterwards due to lack of trained cephalopod. Now it gets fun...particularly when you realise some TET had managed to glue one of the sprung suspension units into place....180° out. No matter what I couldn't ease it free and then, of course, it broke. I've glued it back into position, the correct position, this time. (I've the same problem to deal with on the other side too.... I'm blaming the instructions, they don't specify clearly which way around these need to go!) Hopefully once set I can get at least one side fully assembled. 🤞 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longbow Posted February 18 Share Posted February 18 Darryl… That bit there… right there… goes in that hole, right there. That way round…. 👍 There. Fixed it, for you 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jasper dog Posted February 18 Author Share Posted February 18 Secondary build for this aft.... Not completely sure this is the right section for this build but if Lee's thread includes a foodie section, or should we call it Spudgate! Mine can include this..... A pottery hen. No idea what this will turn out like once fired and glazed but I couldn't get a decent panel line wash, any modulation or dry brushing to work on it! Apparently its feet are a little too large too for absolutely accuracy, hope we don't get plagued with rivet counters! 1 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jasper dog Posted February 18 Author Share Posted February 18 26 minutes ago, Longbow said: Darryl… That bit there… right there… goes in that hole, right there. That way round…. 👍 There. Fixed it, for you Dude, don't know how I could have managed with out you..... Your Mrs must love you with helpful asides like that! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keeff Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 We'll excuse the hen incursion Daryl ....... but it's those feather counters you need to watch! 😎 Hopefully, and with thanks to Lee's helpful guidance, you've mastered the suspension units .... Now, if you'll excuse me .... one, two, three, four, five, six ........... Keith 😁 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jasper dog Posted February 19 Author Share Posted February 19 All thanks to Lee's timely incursion.... Don't know what I'd have done without him. It was as if those hands reached across the pond... One side almost done, just needs the side of the sponson and wheels. 8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jasper dog Posted February 19 Author Share Posted February 19 22 minutes ago, Keeff said: Now, if you'll excuse me .... one, two, three, four, five, six ........... Keith 😁 So many wheels, just so many wheels..... 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maddoxx77 Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 13 hours ago, Jasper dog said: There's always one.... I jinxed it didn't i..... Your welcome! 🫡 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Retired Bob Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 4 hours ago, Jasper dog said: One side almost done, just needs the side of the sponson and wheels. Don't worry Darryl, it will be much easier when you build your next AFV Club Churchill..... bridge layer isn't it? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edjbartos Posted February 19 Share Posted February 19 Looking good Darryl, I had to double check if this was a Miniart kit your doing, looked like it with all those parts in that assembly. Now that you have had a taste you'll be knocking out Miniart kits in no time 😁 Ed 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jasper dog Posted February 20 Author Share Posted February 20 18 hours ago, Retired Bob said: Don't worry Darryl, it will be much easier when you build your next AFV Club Churchill..... bridge layer isn't it? That'll be a while off yet, didn't someone mention a number of GBs on nthe horizon... Just grateful a British WWII bridge-layer GB hasn't been mooted.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jasper dog Posted February 20 Author Share Posted February 20 17 hours ago, edjbartos said: Looking good Darryl, I had to double check if this was a Miniart kit your doing, looked like it with all those parts in that assembly. Now that you have had a taste you'll be knocking out Miniart kits in no time 😁 Ed Steady on Ed, I'll need time to lie down in a darkened room after this! I've no idea what sort of masochist even entertaines one of those, particularly the full interior ones.... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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