Some mud work…
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That look’s very dirty !! I like it.
I did the first step with my Campini Caproni in 1:72 from 1980 . A realy vintage kit in poor quality, but i wanted this plane for a long time . Next week at the club meeting we would try to find new glas parts, the original pieces are lost , so i just took the parts together to see what shape it should be.
I like the massive rivets on the fuselage, they fit the design of the aircraft .
One good point is the real circular round intake, and there is a lot of flesh for some sanding on it .
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The beginning of Plan B for a RWS on the AGDS Abrams.This one was fewer parts than the AFV Club M151 RWS, notably losing the hedgehog of screening grenades attached to the mount.
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Started another old kit, Hasegawa F-102A Delta Dagger in 1/72.
An old kit, 1969, I have the rebox from 1970.
Decals look horrible so I got a replacement set, not sure yet which version it will become. Could make it Turkish or Greek…
In the discription it says:" Today, the sleek interceptor is in use in South East Asia as one of the main combat aircraft".
Just shows this is indeed an ancient kit, which is also visible in the cockpit detailing, or rather, the non existing… which means I can use pictures and my imagination to spice it up a bit…
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Today…
i took the front wheels on my 262 Dragster.
And tested the new glossy PU varnish as the base for the decals.
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Love the triple wheels on the rear !
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Nearly finished the M9. Have to blend the sand dirt on the lower hull and put back the rear step, darn thing keeps falling off. I think the vision blocks are a better color now. Complex and challenging this build was……
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VERY COOL! One of the inputs to the AGDS was this Canadian ADATS project and experience! Good luck, and I look forward to the end-state!
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Looking good!
I did one of those 6-7 years ago. What I remember most about the build was hacking the sides off the hull?
From the non US M113 variant department of the wooden toy collection:
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WHOA!
Yes, KM, it is a complete sentence.
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I’d be interested to hear how that Legends conversion set works out. I was looking through the stash today and I was reminded that there’s the M88A2 conversion set sitting there.
For when I ever get to the OIF modelling phase of my stash. 
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Busy today, only a little hobby time but wrapped the turret today. Added texture, maing gun & small parts.
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I think I found what @Killnoizer smokes when he starts his projects! And I took a couple of drags myself. Look what came out of it.
The impressions from the set itself are not very good. It is immediately clear that the humanities were doing it. Tell me, how can one not know that walkers weighing up to 50 tons are equipped only with an asynchronous Manikevich-Volsky double converter, due to the fact that their mass is not enough to quantize reductive spatial output. And therefore, an initiating pulse of the zeta field is required, for which an external energy source is used. Most often, an internal combustion engine. Even children know this!
You know that this is still a secret technique and engine, and most importantly - the starters of the double converters, I am showing you purely out of acquaintance, and so that it does not go anywhere further. You see that they can not even be photographed!
But seriously, it was made by humanities people anyway. And by this I mean not specialists in the humanities, but clueless ones in technical fields. Actually, there’s nothing good about this model except the legs. They make up 80% of the plastic in the box. What pissed me off the most was that the halves of large thin plastic body parts had to be glued end-to-end.
Just put any tank next to it to see that real tanks are hung and studded with all sorts of things on the outside: staples, cables, boxes, entrenching and repair tools, spare tracks, etc., while here the body is clean and smooth. Why do you need wings on a walker? To keep dirt from flying out from under your knees? On an armored thing with two guns - and not a single machine gun. Radio station without antenna? And so on.
Remnants from the PzKpfw38(T), Pz.Kpfw sets acted as donors for additional parts. (Pz.Beob.Wg.) IV Ausf. J kits. Decals were bought specially.
So what about the headlights? Inspired by.
Maybe these are “combat light” headlights to blind the enemy.
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Doing inventory for the next project- Danish M113 G3 EXT with too many road wheels.
I’ll be using a 1994 vintage Academy A2 kit for the incidentals and an A3 sprue for the fuel tanks and late stuff.
Diehl 513B tracks and running gear are 3D printed one piece sourced elsewhere.
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Finished the sand dirt weathering on my M9 ACE. Not happy with the airbrushed Tamiya matt clear, so used Tamiya’s rattle can equivalent - much better result. Added 3 (overlooked)
small pieces to the outer hull and started working on the tiedowns on the M870 frame.
Pics to follow once the track is cinched down on the trailer.
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