A great start!
Did you fit the turret “cylinder” with a cap, or is the kit made that way. IF you cut/fitted a cap, how did you cut and center, please?
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Isn’t she honorary Colonel of the Regiment?
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Back in the fold after a difficult season with lots of medical adventures. Wife has now had four surgeries since late July, and I one in November. Story telling can wait.
I got permission to use the sun room (in winter) as my shop. So I set it up and started working again on the Abrams AGDS project I started just before all the fun began in late summer. A few pics for a tease:
The green 3D print comes from Banana Tank in China. The hull and many donor parts are from an Academy Minicraft #1345 early M1A1 kit.
I did have to open up the hull turret ring. Got a Fiskars hole cutter and after experimentation I was able to open it nearly perfectly. That’ll do.
I’ll run more pics and commentary on the nuts and bolts at my AGDS thread. Link forthcoming.
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@bwilt That composition is superb!
@yaman Your BMP is looking great! A++
@Ted_Dannemiller Nice job so far!
Not much happened today; I prepped my oil paint palette for my Takom Flammpanzer 38(t) and did a little testing on one of the wheels:
(The thread: Takom Flammpanzer 38(t))
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The upper hull was molded from the factory with the cap. I’m not that good……
Looks like you solved your problem though. Nice work. Looking forward to your completed AGDS.
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Still trying to get the wading trunks on a M4a2 finalized. The tiny photo-etch latches are beating me like a drum.
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Finished the second track run. No photo. Need to mention that when attaching the end connectors it’s important that you put on the right way. The post they slid onto are mushroomed on the ends. One side of the connectors has slightly smaller holes which should face out so when the mushroom shaped post push through they won’t slide off. Works pretty well as none of my connectors have fallen off despite frequent handlings. Care should be taken however.
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Finally some bench time, a day off for me being rare at the moment due to sickness and vacant positions at work needing to be covered.
So assembled some more Warhammer figures ready for priming and started to put down some paint on the big siege dreadnought.
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Army, not Royal Army. Irish Guards, not Royal Irish Guards.
Pedant mode off.
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As a fellow pedant, I would just say don’t be too hard on Reynier - the British Army is fiendishly difficult to understand, from its organisation to its history. It took me a mere 45 years to obtain a working knowledge - but then - I might just be a slow learner(!)
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The M9 in Future gloss with the ‘dozer blade stacked (‘cos it fell off !). Tomorrow, decals and pin wash with some weathering to follow. Dull coat as a final step.
Then to chain the little darling onto the M920 and trailer.
Onwards!
ETA the vision blocks are as per instructions but they’ll be more of a blue when its’s done.
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Used the recently acquired AK markers to do a little touching up, then went wild and applied a marker to the panel lines. All while watching Dr Who at the proms 2024.
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Good idea !!
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Okay, so the Army is not as Royal as the Air Force or Navy. Got it!
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Partly because in the English Civil War the Parliamentary Army won (and was also a template for a standing, professional Army - vide “New Model Army”) plus they also removed the King’s head, which was quite an un-royal thing to do.
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Indeed. Very un-royally.
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Nice to see some WH40K love here. VBG I have about 3 full Ultramarine companies I have been working on for decades. Love to build but no longer play. Ours sons grew up and don’t play any more. I have a stash of WH40K stuff in our place and some on my desk waiting to be finished. To make this about armor I have about 20 armor kits for 40K to finish. VBG. have fun!
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@RandyT
Well I have 4 Space Marine armies on the go, first I started after I got back into the game was Iron Hands then added Raptors the sneaky stealth guys and the only marines to actually use camo, Carcharodon Astra (Space Sharks) which is what the figures above are for and lastly Dark Angles. I started back in the 80’s when the game first came out then stopped around early 90’s then restarted just before Covid. I also do have some armour, some primed and two waiting for some detail work before going for primer, on that I also have some Guard armour which I painted in a WWI style French camo as a start on a Death Korps of Krieg guard army.
I love the background lore behind the whole 40K universe.
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Littorio I have part of my Imperial Gaurd tanks. Sold a lot of it off after Covid but I did keep two Baneblade kits. I never started them. My wife wishes I would sell all of the unbuilt kits I have under the bed, in a hall closet and in our sons room. He has Spacewolf army. Younger son told me to sell off his Tau army. Will start doing that in February to make room for my 1/35 scale armor stash. VBG. I now mostly read WH40K novels. I like the genre. It is a dark and dangerous place in the future. VBG
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