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Post by JCON on Jan 24, 2021 0:30:50 GMT -6
I agree Bruce!!!
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Post by rustybaer on Feb 12, 2021 18:21:47 GMT -6
Basic assembly finished! I suppose I'll add some basic stowage, but the models themselves are finished. Really.  IMG_6845 by Russel Baer, on Flickr  IMG_6846 by Russel Baer, on Flickr I have some basic crew gear bags that would be nice on these, gonna check references.... |
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Post by JCON on Feb 12, 2021 18:36:00 GMT -6
Cool, bring on the paint!!!
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Post by Beekster on Feb 12, 2021 18:43:18 GMT -6
Good work on the only games in town, at least nowadays. I once had a resin turret that I sold; I mastered it using an Asuka shell and used Dr. Manasherob's drawings and photos to fabricate the bustle and the trunnion box. Neither DML nor MP Models got the shape of the bustle correct, but they can be improved upon as you have done. I despair of ever seeing an accurate M50 in styrene, though I've been told that when Tamiya visited the collection of the late Jaques Littlefield to measure up his M51 they also measured up the M50.
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Post by dogfish7 (R.I.P.) on Feb 12, 2021 19:01:29 GMT -6
My hat's off to you!
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Post by rustybaer on Feb 14, 2021 15:53:38 GMT -6
Good work on the only games in town, at least nowadays. I once had a resin turret that I sold; I mastered it using an Asuka shell and used Dr. Manasherob's drawings and photos to fabricate the bustle and the trunnion box. Neither DML nor MP Models got the shape of the bustle correct, but they can be improved upon as you have done. I despair of ever seeing an accurate M50 in styrene, though I've been told that when Tamiya visited the collection of the late Jaques Littlefield to measure up his M51 they also measured up the M50. I HAVE that turret with associated parts, in the box, waiting for my "crown jewel", the "same" M50 that MP models did, but with shall we say "better" parts. Every time I pull it down to look at it and think about using it, my mind goes: "No, dude, wait for the full-on M50 on the -A4 hull w/ HVSS, engine cover louvers and a three-piece FDA housing that you're wanting to do" and back in the box it goes. I will admit to just pulling it out and looking at it though, it's nice work.
And if Tamiya kitted that tank, my wife would immediately wonder why the closet in "my" hobby room will no longer also hold her three guitars in cases. |
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Post by Beekster on Feb 14, 2021 20:44:38 GMT -6
Fortunately, Russ, I have my hobby room closet and adjacent semi-insulated attic space to myself for kit storage. It would be explaining to the wife why I needed to order a dozen of those theoretical M50 kits that would be the real challenge...
Though only a couple of hundred of them were ever built, the variations in the M50 are far more extensive than in the M51, not least because nearly every original Sherman hull type was converted. If a new-tool M50 kit were to appear, it would instantly trigger one of my crazier project ideas: Five decades of one tank. I would start with an M4A4 in Commonwealth markings, followed by a 1956 radial-engine M50 in French OD. Then an HVSS/Cummins M50 from 1967, and a 1990s M60 HMGS from Chile. One tank, three nations, four configurations, five decades of service.
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Post by rustybaer on Feb 15, 2021 10:23:50 GMT -6
I like it! I've done something very similar with the M660 series, but just US and IDF examples, and am currently trying the same theme with Shermans, but just US and IDF. The earliest M50 I have in progress is the M4A4 based one in this thread. I had to do a Cummins powered VVSS example too, just because of the pic in T. Gannon's book showing a line of them next to some Continental powered M51s, which is next, along with an M50 on a big hatch M4A1 hull, using another MP turret and Tamiya's IDF M4A1. Piece 'o cake, right?  And I may yet start a long hull HVSS project, but not yet. And yes, the Holy Grail of IDF Shermans will come along, I feel it. Working on my story now..... |
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Post by rustybaer on Apr 13, 2021 14:34:02 GMT -6
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Post by JCON on Apr 13, 2021 14:42:34 GMT -6
Sweet shades of OD!!! I'll take mine shaken not stirred!!!  |
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Post by dogfish7 (R.I.P.) on Apr 14, 2021 8:21:23 GMT -6
Pretty soon, you and Beekster will be able to film your own movie. |
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Post by JED on Apr 15, 2021 13:46:36 GMT -6
Looking better in greenage
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Post by rustybaer on May 12, 2021 17:18:55 GMT -6
I need to get on the stick, these two, the M51 and the 'E8 all have decals on them now.....
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Post by JCON on May 12, 2021 17:40:24 GMT -6
Yeah get back on the stick!!! I still need to find the stick myself!!!  |
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Post by rustybaer on May 19, 2021 17:22:08 GMT -6
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Post by JCON on May 19, 2021 17:37:25 GMT -6
Nice!!!
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Post by dogfish7 (R.I.P.) on May 20, 2021 7:57:29 GMT -6
Lookin gooood!
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Post by JED on May 22, 2021 10:27:02 GMT -6
Getting there Russ
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Post by rustybaer on Sept 20, 2021 13:43:06 GMT -6
Done. Finish is what I wanted, but there's a bunch of little things about both that I'm not totally happy with. Next time!  IMG_1904 by Russel Baer, on Flickr  IMG_1905 by Russel Baer, on Flickr |
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Post by dogfish7 (R.I.P.) on Sept 22, 2021 7:44:15 GMT -6
The Red n Green storage boxes, really don't help much Russ. Just drop a sheet or 2 of copy paper behind them.  |
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