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Post by rustybaer on Aug 3, 2019 12:05:32 GMT -6
After four-plus hours: Slow, lots of teenie tiny parts, three parts to make what Tamiya does with one, but crazy detail. Really crazy detail. Also soft plastic.
So I was looking at the stash, and this one kind of levitated out. I bought it in Vegas, about three years ago. Christy (my wife) and I walked from the mid-strip area to the HobbyTown, a long walk, and after a cold refreshing beverage at the Friday's next door, I shopped. My first impression back then was "LOTS of parts, mostly very small parts". Well, still true, but I wanted some FRESH wine, and also wanted to continue with the theme of wifely associated builds, so here I am. I've already spent a good thirty minutes on my hands and knees looking for tweezer-launched microscopic parts. Good thing I'm on a concrete floor.... More, as it (slowly) happens
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Post by dogfish7 (R.I.P.) on Aug 3, 2019 18:06:57 GMT -6
Kewel! I'm in. 
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Post by JCON on Aug 3, 2019 19:15:42 GMT -6
Nice start fella!!!  |
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Post by BUCKY on Aug 3, 2019 22:17:27 GMT -6
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Post by Robbo on Aug 5, 2019 14:36:23 GMT -6
Lovely tanks I'll be watching
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Post by rustybaer on Aug 5, 2019 20:40:50 GMT -6
Well gents, I'm still on it, but it's a little frustrating: I spend way too much time on the floor, on my hands and knees looking for parts so small I ahve to wear my optivisor to see them. This thing has some stupidly small parts, and a lot of them have tweezer grease on them. So far, I have the hull front buttoned up, with the driver's compartment painted well enough to look the part through an open hatch. I'm also roughing in the hull's fighting compartment partitions (NOT gonna do the turret basket) just so I can't see the emptiness in ther with the turret hatches open.  IMG_4372 by Russel Baer, on Flickr  IMG_4371 by Russel Baer, on Flickr I'm already looking at a couple of recent Tamiya kits in the stash, thinking I may pop one out just for therapy. |
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Post by JCON on Aug 5, 2019 21:46:34 GMT -6
You have this!!!
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Post by dogfish7 (R.I.P.) on Aug 6, 2019 10:45:23 GMT -6
Hang in there Russ! 
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Post by BUCKY on Aug 6, 2019 12:25:09 GMT -6
Sounds like a carpet monster attack!
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Post by ogrejohn on Aug 6, 2019 14:56:22 GMT -6
Looking good Russ! AFV Club? Yeah I know the carpet crawl very well from my AFV Club Stryker.  |
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Post by rustybaer on Aug 8, 2019 11:31:29 GMT -6
It's a new thing, the AFV Club crawl, kind of like a pub crawl..... So once more into the pit, I broke some little thingie getting it off the sprue, tossed my hands in the air, went outside and had a smoke, then came back in and grabbed the M60A3 out of the stash and got my part. The -A3 kit was already missing a couple of parts, like the tracks and drive sprockets, and now a widget. So, now I have lots more parts, enough to move ahead on something else, also M60-ish: that will also end up in IDF sand gray, an ESCI hull started a few months ago. I've got AFV Club parts, Takom parts, Tamiya and Academy parts, resin parts..... I've got parts. So, the AFV Club hull as it is now:  IMG_4428 by Russel Baer, on Flickr I'm using MrSurfacer and sanding to clean up the incorrect texture, tedious. And the "project in parallel", one with running gear test-fitted:  IMG_4429 by Russel Baer, on Flickr  IMG_4430 by Russel Baer, on Flickr Magach-o-mania! |
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Post by JCON on Aug 8, 2019 15:22:06 GMT -6
Nice with all the Parts... lol!!! |
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Post by dogfish7 (R.I.P.) on Aug 9, 2019 6:45:43 GMT -6
Nice detail work.
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Post by Beekster on Aug 9, 2019 7:38:48 GMT -6
Keep pounding away at them, Russ. Eventually you will beat them into submission....
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Post by BUCKY on Aug 9, 2019 11:00:04 GMT -6
Some busy work going on, here!! Looking good!
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Post by rustybaer on Aug 9, 2019 13:09:56 GMT -6
And beat I will! The "other one" caught up to the "first one":  IMG_4433 by Russel Baer, on Flickr  IMG_4431 by Russel Baer, on Flickr I found quite a few useful bits in the resin stash, like the front fender extensions and a bunch of towing lugs. Now it's time to get back on the green one. |
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Post by JCON on Aug 9, 2019 13:42:05 GMT -6
Nice work sir!!!
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Post by rustybaer on Aug 10, 2019 9:25:49 GMT -6
Thanks Joe.
And I can see already I need to change the tail lights on the ESCI hull, oops.
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Post by ogrejohn on Aug 10, 2019 10:09:23 GMT -6
Nice work on both Russ!
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Post by MARCO on Aug 13, 2019 4:52:28 GMT -6
Nice work Russ! Some time ago I built AFV's M60A2 and liked a lot! Very good kit wqith very good details. Not easy to build, that's true, but great model!
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