Build a Photo 3

I’ll definitely join in on this as my first GB, very cool idea!

I’m planning to recreate this photo here, I like all the machine guns on the IDF modified BTR-152s.

Also from what I can tell these 2 photos are of the same vehicle but just in a different location. I’m super stoked to make and paint figures for it! (It’s got a lot of 70s mustache action, it’ll be sick :joy: )

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Does anyone make aftermarket 70s moustaches? Quinta studios perhaps?

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Phil i think a lot of the millennial’s are sporting porn’staches, so could be a good place to start?? :joy::rofl::rofl::rofl:

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You know I’d pay ALL the tariffs for that…:joy:

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Been having a hard time thinking on a possible build entry for this and at the moment, I am thinking about 3 possible candidates ….

The M60A1 Dozer and this image ….

I think its been done a few times but I quite like it …..

Or this image of a King Tiger with the limited version turret and also the bren carrier

or possibly this one …. but from a different angle.

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I’m thinking too, but my thoughts are headed in a different direction. Many years ago when Tasca was “new”, I built a tank based on photos from Groningen, covered in graffiti. (In this build review: Armorama :: Tasca Sherman III by Tom Cromwell ) There was a second tank in the pics, and I’ve always planned to build it too. Maybe now is the time? I can build the second tank and the road as a base, but obviously not the urban buildings around them! Any thoughts? The one I already built is in the background with its turret cranked to 90 degrees, while the one I’d build for this campaign is the other Sherman in the foreground with the flat-fronted driver’s hoods.

PS: John, tackle Tiger 2 “11” - you know you want to!…

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John, I might be wrong but your top pic looks like the suspension’s burned out, which might be a problem replicating in a model. And is that a Bergepanther towing it/in front of it?

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Interior fires in Tigers and Panthers usually softened the torsion bars, letting the suspension collapse onto the bump stops. It’s not too difficult to reposition the arms, but it’s best to use indy-link tracks to get the right “set” which is harder to achieve with rubber-band or link&length tracks…

As for the identity of the large shrub towing the KT, your guess is as good as mine!

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I do like the KT 11, but I keep getting drawn back to the burnt out wreck of the KT and Bren carrier .. I just like the imagined movement of the Bren as it goes by …. The tracks and suspension won’t be an issue as I have the Dragon smart kit with magic tracks, metal barrel etc so that collapsed suspension will be fine ….

And Brian @BootsDMS , yeah it is a B-Panther …. I recall a article I read somewhere about it and it was caught by air to ground attacks while being towed I think …. I wouldn’t do the Panther as I don’t want to trash 2 kits and it would take up to much space sadly

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So, the perils of looking through different types of WW2 images has reared its ugly head, and I am now thinking of going down a different route altogether for this proposed campaign build …. No armour …. but a flying thingy ….

Image from online and for reference/discussion only.

Thoughts ? there are a few different angles of this crash, so it would just be down to deciding on which view to depict it from ??? and it would be in 1/32 scale …….

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I looked at a couple of plane crashes and talked myself down fairly quickly. I’m looking at trams and there’s a cool picture of burned out trams in Stalingrad but there’s a downed HE-111 in the background. I can’t imagine doing an HE-111 in any condition in 1/35….

But if YOU do it, I’d love to see it :smiley:

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1/32? That house in the background will be huge…. :grin:

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Thats why I mentioned different angles of that scene lol :grin:

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And he’d need a barn to hold the diorama base big enough to fit that field between plane and house! :wink:

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Just doing a testrun for this in the IDF campaign, what you think?

These pictures gave me the idea…

How accurate does it have to be to the picture?

And if you are leaving the house out I will do the same with the other 16 Centurions :grin:

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I think one Cent will be fine …. plus for mine, I have several different angles for that Me109 image, without the house in it ….:+1:

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I’m thinking of this. There is another photo with a Tiger and two guys on a motorcycle in the foreground that I like too. I think they are both from Schwere Panzer Abt 501, but I’m not sure.

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Here’s the other pic:

Maybe @DByrden can tell us whether they are related - same tank, or tank from the same unit?

This one might be easier to build - not sure about the cycle crew.

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The first image looks cool, and would be great …… the 2nd image I am dubious about it being real or very altered if parts are real…. It has an odd look to certain parts of it …. or is it just me ??

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So you’re saying AI generated pictures aren’t allowed? :upside_down_face:

I downloaded this from reddit, but have seen it elsewhere. The trouble is I could go down the rabbithole of picture books on each of the Tiger abteilungen - I could see myself doing that.

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