Impressive line-up & the colours look A1. Although I have to say that posting an image like that without a prior health warning is going to give figurefobes (& phigurephobes) nightmares 
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Well put this together, received as a Christmas present.
Just need to glue the top engine panels in place as they are to loose, other than that it’s all push together.
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Installed the electronics and here is a test lift off sound effect on my Mattel Eagle One.
**added direct video link for those who hate / don’t use twitter.
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super time saving tool 
So how did you use them,can you elaborate on your process,thanks
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Fighting with decals…
Glad I had 2 sets so I could use new ones…
And added the hoses for the watercooling of the machineguns…
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Buh-loody hell! And I’m struggling with a mere half-dozen!Jeez.
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Apparently I like digging holes to climb out of.
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I’ve been working on a 1/35 scale cradle lift:
These were/are strange little trucks. Apparently the early equivalent of a forklift for use in lumber yards. I remember seeing a few as a kit and wondering how they worked, and now, I know a bit more. I looked at lots of prototype images, ranging from pretty primitive to more advanced. I’m opting for something somewhere in the middle:
The tractor on top is from Thunder Model, and while a basically nice kit, man - the connection points are pretty unforgiving, and the PE is very thin, almost like foil. Anyway, I built up the front as you can see, but then cut up and reworked the transmission and driveline. You can just see a short driveshaft linking to a new rear axle. The rest is evergreen and remnant sprue.
On we go -
Cheers
Nick
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The Cromwell stalled waiting on aftermarket tracks & barrel to arrive.
So into the next project on this year’s hit list, Tamiya’s 1/35 M26 Pershing from ~2002. It’s an outstanding kit for that era. Really wish I hadn’t waited so long to start building it.
The workbench of Doom, Captain Clumzie strikes again…
…but the M26 proved the luckiest model in the whole stash! It caught the tipped over bottle of Tamiya Liquid Cement.
Note the red, it sort of looks like Tamiya might have kicked around the idea of a motorized kit.
Working suspension is novel but I locked🔐 it all down as an,articulated suspension isn’t in my plans for the model.
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Zimmerit and a hedge cutter, Wayne? Interesting. You never cease to amaze me.
After getting side tracked by holidays, selling one of my cars and ten or fourteen inches or three feet of snow, depending on you listen to, I added some ochre colored oil pastels to this thing. Getting close to the end….top bridge section next.
For real, the bridge section would never be in this position; it would be three or four feet off the ground as it was extended.
Edited to add this:
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I retired from Alaska, I start to sweat and twitch when I see snow nowadays 
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Al, I wanted the experimental Cromwell ready to roll and do “yard work” 
Your bridging vehicle and bridge is stunning 
that model will want an entire shelf of its own!
The M26 Pershing grinding forward. Definitely one of Tamiya’s very best kits from the early 2000’s.
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Well, it got its shelf after fixing some boo-boos I noticed in the pictures although after I got it on the shelf I realized I hadn’t done anything with the periscopes.
And speaking of pictures, I can’t figure out why everything is so contrast-ty in my pictures. The pastels are a lot more subtle in person.
Anyhow, did some stuff with the 14 meter bridge carrier.
I’m thinking I may not even use the second 14M bridge to show off the general weirdness of this thing. What do ya’ll think?
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Al, that’s an incredible model 
I think the second bridge looks great as it adds context. However, definitely agree there’s always appeal to showing off the vehicle.
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I see the one pic of a model with its armor removed.
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I saw that too!
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