Thank God for Tamiya-simplicity.
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Gut-wrenching John. I feel your pain, pressing down on one end while the other end pops up, not allowing a bonding surface for the glue…having liquid cement run under masking tape…working against spring tension while trying to fit precision parts…the horror.
This update depresses me greatly as I have the AFV Club Churchill AVRE kit in the stash, with a PE set and Friul tracks, calling my name lately. It’s a bang-up kit, but now…
I’m leaning toward the ILK DUKW for this campaign. We’ll see. It will be a couple of months before I can start. I’ve got at least 3 projects in the queue before that one. I do have PE and Thatchweave bumpers for it though so it should be a good build.
Sorry about the Churchill suspension. What was AFV thinking? Like we’ve got 4 hands or something?
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Please do this one, I would like to see how it goes together.
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Well, normally I don’t take requests, but for you Ryan, okay, because you’re special. 
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Truer words were never spoken 
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That DUKW sounds nice Matt and along with Ryan wouldn’t mind seeing that built up…
I was pretty disappointed with the running gear sections, and it is going to take time to build them up but it won’t worry me again. I think it just blind sided me initially that it was so much drama to get it built … definitely over thought in my opinion… It has pluses as a kit, like with most AFV kits it seems nicely detailed.
I cracked on with the running gear section and decided to build up one as a whole, then do the other one, not both together as the instructions say.
Road wheels, rear panel, and the 2 front rails are now on.
I think the 2nd one will be easier this time round now I am prepped for it and have a plan of action to make the build process smoother…
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Bit more building …
Slow process as some of these parts are small and fiddly… Also, some are fragile as they are joined to the sprues at 3 or more points, and delicate so when trying to remove them, they got
stress bends and there were a few bits that snapped, but all got fixed…
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Got some more done on the RH side running gear
Once I’ve finished this bit I can get the lower hull started
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The back section on the lower hull is finished… Nice and easy, PE gives it a nice look.
Next, starting the upper hull.
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Just finishing the Summer vacation - spend 3 days in Normandy. Absolutely beautiful and historically great.
Picked up some kits with Normandy markings, so I will be making one or more of these for this campaign 
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Sounds good Jesper … Looking forward to it 
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Was thinking … Is there anyone who is up to speed with designing a campaign medal ? Its not a big priority for me, but I know some people like them.
If anyone has the skills to design one in the required format and along the lines of D Day +80 … I would be more than happy to have it to award for completed builds
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have a word with Petbat, he might be able to help you
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Found this while buying paint for another build. Never built armour from Revell before. First acquaintance suggests an old kit (edit:Scalemates says old Matchbox kit from 1983), plastic is soft, injection gates are large and part numbering almost impossible to see. Fit so far is pretty good, but I can’t assemble too much as the only colour I don’t have is bronze green. Will build it as a unit of 5th Assault Regt, 79th Armoured Divn, landed on Juno Beach around 09:00 on 6th June. I will use this in my refit of my LCT(5), I already have two AVRE Churchills for it, now need a Sherman Crab.
LCT2477 as she is now, she needs a repaint, new steering linkage, new bridge rails, Oerlikon and armour on port side, the Churchill Crocodiles replaced with AVRE and Sherman Crab.
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The AVRE looks to be a 1983 Matchbox kit.
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Fitted the upper hull area… Smaller detail parts to be fitted next and then front section of glacis area
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Almost forgot the counter weights for the fascine needed to be added to the inside rear before I put the front hull section on…
2 large flat stones with a slavering of gorilla glue …
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Well you’re in luck Andrew as Bronze Green is a post war color and your AVRE wouldn’t be painted that. It would most likely be SCC2 Brown, or slightly possibly SCC15 Olive Drab, but most probably SCC2 Brown.
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Ah, I knew green pigment was almost unobtainable in Britain during at least part of the war, but didn’t know what the substitute colour looked like. As a ship modeller I have spent hours confirming LCT Colour schemes for various parts of the war but not vehicles. SCC2 Brown sounds a similar colour to WW1 PC10 used on aircraft in which the pigments were lamp black and ochre, giving a chocolate colour, my nearest is Tamiya Khaki Drab. What colour (apart from MIG colour which I would still have to go and buy) is SCC2 Brown?
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