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One more 1/72 model i made a few years back and i have rediscovered its pictures , an ACE T-50 burned out.One of my favorites.Hmm all this distruction somehow brings to my mind the idea of a burned out fuso in the battle of the surigao straight as in her last moments...

I've started dabling in 1/35th scale armour between ships - this is currently on the workbench. It's a Tamiya Challenger 1 in a heavily weathered desert scheme. Weathering is ongoing using Mig powders and is almost finished on the hull with work just started on the turret:
John

Yeah, I'm taking a slight break from ships for a bit once they get in... I have a few non-boat builds in plans, all 1/72. Ki-61, Ki-100, J7W1, and in proof that my what-if mania doesn't extend just to ships, I have a tank model planned for construction. A while ago, I was involved in a roleplay, and I wound up playing the leader of Spain. Well, I noticed, they had M60 Pattons in service, and used the Leopard 2 series MBT. I was roaming around, and found the M60-2000/120S upgrade. This is a great upgrade idea, and I realized - the Abrams and Leopard 2 use different guns, notably in the breech, and it would be senseless for a country to use two guns of the same bore, with different breeches. So I came up with this idea of an upgrade similar to the 120S, but based around the Leopard 2A6 instead of the Abrams, and named it the M60-Tiger upgrade. It should look interesting when I get finished with it.

Not a ship?

What about this one?

(Sorry.... far from getting finished...)

A 1/16 Revell '87 Pontiac Trans Am GTA:


Hard to get these days. I got this from a friend who purchased it from an ebay-seller. The kit was already started and I had to dismantle most of it...

Here can be found very good information about those cars

I myself had one of them, a 92 GTA, RPO 80U. Pretty rare if you know what it means... had an accident and the front bumper emblem is the only thing I still can call my own...

Ok, the kit:

Rims were already glued together but as I wanted to look 'through' the 'Diamont Spokes' I had to separate the inner from the outer part...


Taking off material from the backside of the outer part. The dust on my hand could come quite handy for weathering ship models.... hehehe...


Almost done. The spokes are already visible and soon the holes were punched out...


Before/Aft snap. (Well... it's more Aft/Before)...Looks good to me...


Before/Aft snap of the inner part of the rim...


Before/Aft snap of rims...


All four after treatment (one was already painted by one of the previous owners...)



Taillight Lense, a 'clear' part in the kit.
Painted the black 'framework' from the inside with a Rotring pen (thanks JB!), then overpainted everything with clear Tamiya red. The 'bulwark' (let's keep the nautical terms...) painted with Revell #99 (aluminium) with the little areas where the reversing lights will be located left black in order to make them appear darker.


My attempt to rescue the front bumper. What you see is now one single part, like on the actual car. The kit had it in two parts, with the lower one (with the fog lights) running 'around the corner', forming the so-called ground effects. This resulted in seams where there shouldn't be some and which couldn't be filled with putty. On the other hand, seams of the actual car weren't present on the kit. Solution: Nip & Tuck. Unfortunately, the material of the front bumper was as thick as a Bismarck armour-plate and I managed it to break the lower part in half while trying to remove it. It's covered by the yellow Tamiya tape...


The improved front bumper. The thin white stripe is an Evergreen rod which covers the seam of the upper and lower part of the bumper. The actual car has a kind of 'knuckle' there and I think it's a neat solution for the model as well.


As one of the T-Tops had a scratch that couldn't be fixed, I decided to built a hardtop version. The kit has a manual gear box (plus clutch pedal) which makes it a GTA with the 305cui engine and not the 350, which was never available with manual transmission in the 3rd Gen F-Body.


Lots of putty on the roof...


... and more of it... (in 1/16, the roof is almost as big as a cigarette box...)


Parts of the suspension and the exhaust system dismantled... needs rebuilding and repainting...

The car will be painted in the rare "Dark Russet Metallic" (RPO 68U) and I still have to make the decision if it will feature the '87 Porsche-style paddle mirrors or the 'normal' aerodynamic ones...

Ok, that's it for the moment... further updates not in the near future as I'm pretty busy with other things and projects...

Bis dann denn ~ Olaf

Haaarrg those traitor ...

Ok Ok maybe me to I am a traitor Just a little
Sorry for the quality my camera was not good

Trumpeter's 1/48 F9F-2 which I built whenever I got frustrated working on USS Essex:

I have to admit to not touching either of my ongoing ships for around 3 months now and here's the reason(s) why both of which are almost finished:









Once they are done, it's back to the IJN Harbour dio which has been 'almost finished' for about 6 months now...

John

Nice Tiger and ISU-152 if I see that right. Looks like the ISU-152 in the upper two pictures. Nice job on both, John.

Sauragnmon wrote:Nice Tiger and ISU-152 if I see that right. Looks like the ISU-152 in the upper two pictures. Nice job on both, John.

Close, it's an SU-100

John

Still, it looks beautiful. Nice job, John.

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Very nice work, I started doing AVFs as a break from all the PE etc on the ships but have found myself buying PE and other detail sets for the tanks now

John

Hell, I do my AFV's and planes just for a change of style. I'd say there's less finnicky details to paint, but when you've got things like aircraft machineguns, flight control sticks, and the like, no there isn't less. It's just a change of style/pace in the construction.

Great work on the 1/72 AFVs! What kits are they? I honestly wouldn't have guessed they weren't 1/35 - the Hummel with its detailed interior is particularly nice.

Ships are my main modelling interest but I also build aircraft in 1/48 and 1/32, especially WW1 and inter-war types. Here 's one: it has rigging and is mostly built from wood and canvas, so maybe it can count as a sailing ship This is a 1/48 WW1 Bristol Scout. It isn't very clear in the photo, but the single Lewis gun (forward and below the cockpit) is on a bizarre mounting which fires at an angle to clear the prop! This was before the development of interrupter gear. How it was aimed, and whether anyone actually hit anything with a gun mounted like this, I've no idea...

As a wargamer I end up building all kinds of things
This one is naval though my 1/72 Italeri Iroquois done up for the Royal Australian Navy.


And in formation with one from the Royal Australian Air Force


Geoff

Well, it's a little further outside the area. I had a real nice inspiration the other day, of aircraft profiles on another forum for Ace Combat junkies. They've been doing other fighters in the Belkan Ace colours from Ace Combat Zero, and it inspired the thought in me of doing a WW2 plane in Ace colours - in this case, a Ki-61 Hien, in the colours of Rot Squadron.





For comparison, here's the original aircraft and scheme:

some more pics of my period in 1/72 armor , all are Revell.

I'd forgotten about this thread

Very nice work, particularly given that they are braille scale.

Here's some pics of my last non-ship, having finished this I'm now about to start back on my hybrid New Jersey...









John

Ouh! Nice Models we have here!
I feel free to drop some in here.
Some are finished, some aint.

Unfinshed:

Italeri 1/35 Dodge WC-54 at the scrapyard.
It should render a military vehicle which was in FireDept Service after the war for some years until and ended up at the yard.







Italeri 1/35 Opel Blitz conversion to Luftwaffe fuel tanker
a view things need to be done, but its 97% before comissioning











Tamiya 1/35 Opel Blitz shallow cargo bay
This one was a large scale pe-orgy. Its cleared to get painted.










Finshed:

Italeri 1/35 Opel Blitz conversion to a wreck. "By courtesy of the USAF"
A real funny project which teached me lots about oils, pigments and hairspray techniques.
It just needs a little environment and a dio base.



















Trumpeter 1/32 Me 262 B1a-U/1 10/NJG11 Germany 1945
Finished excpt the dio base.















It was a long trip away from shipmodeling after i finshed HMS Hood.
But i have learned many things which are very valuable for my upcoming projects.
I strongly believe in the power of interdisciplinary modeling.

Lovely work on the wrecked Opel.

John