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Raskolnikov38 posted:Well to be fair it wasn't so much threw an idler as it was lost one to a fuckoff large anti-tank grenade. Could you give me more info on what a Voroshilov's Kilogram was please. It's not something I've heard of. Thanks! EDIT: All I've been able to find is this: http://www.lexpev.nl/grenades/sovietbalkan/russia/rpg41.html
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big_g posted:Could you give me more info on what a Voroshilov's Kilogram was please. It's not something I've heard of. Thanks! RPG-41, an anti-tank grenade with 1400 grams of HE that could penetrate 25 mm of armour by sheer concussive force. Against suspensions or roofs of tanks, you don't need more. The device was pretty drat heavy for a grenade, and only had a range of 15 meters tops.
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Here are the final pics of the Ferdinand for you all. Thanks for following the progress and commenting. Really happy with how the modulation effect tones down with filters and weathering. Really enjoyed it as a first go. It's probably my best model to date. Next I have a Tamiya Panther Ausf G turning up on Monday which I'm totally itching to get started on. Will probably try the same effect again but will be a bit more complex as it has more broken up shapes to shade. To be fair the Ferdinand is just a big box.    
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Very nice! Why is the gun completely black? I made a Tamiya Panther somewhat recently, it's a pretty nice kit. Are you going to do Zimmerit? Also, I found a T-35 for sale yesterday. I'm pretty excited to get started on it, I've never seen one for sale before, not even on eBay. Edit: pictures. Ensign Expendable fucked around with this message at 00:40 on Feb 16, 2014 |
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Ensign Expendable posted:Very nice! Why is the gun completely black? Please tell me where you found that kit? It seems to be the only T-35 kit out there and looks like it is OOP. I probably have a snowballs chance in hell finding it outside Eastern Europe (I think ICM is Ukrainian). In short - I hate you and love you at the same time and I want that kit. I forgot to add: Land Battleships! 
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Feb 16, 2014 01:23
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Spitfire Emporium. Good luck getting another one, they just got in someone's old stock, and they only had one of these. I know it's rare as hell, so I'll lovingly document every step of the assembly process so that others may live vicariously through me.
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Ensign Expendable posted:
That thing looks amazing, reminds me of the Indiana Jones tank. I love the weird looking pre-war stuff that never quite made the big time. Speaking of, I just finished:   Grumman XF5F 'Skyrocket', 1/48th from Minicraft. A really nice kit this one, the only things I added were seatbelts, the antennas and antenna wire. I used that 'EZ-line' stuff for the wires and can confirm it's ideal for that sort of thing.
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Unkempt posted:That thing looks amazing, reminds me of the Indiana Jones tank. I love the weird looking pre-war stuff that never quite made the big time.
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Lovely job! I also enjoyed reading about the building; I'll remember that 'dots' technique. Possibly of interest to the thread: I have a blog now.
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T-35 assembly, day one: transmission and engine.  Nice and clean in their compartment to the read of the vehicle. The size of this compartment is reasonable compared to tanks that aren't insanely huge, but it only composes less than half of the length of the hull. Traditionally, the engine will be flanked by radiators, but there don't seem to be any in my reference photograph.  This photograph also gives away the simplified natures of the clutch braking mechanisms, but they won't be seen when the model is assembled, so that's acceptable. You can also see the remains of the fan above the transmission. In this kit, the fan is mounted on top of the hull. Also, those two boxes circled in red are missing from the model. I think these are gas tanks. Anyway, they do make the compartment seem a lot less lonely than mine is right now. It's also ridiculously clean. I'm pretty sure in real life, it won't remain this clean throughout the assembly process, let alone in  Much better. Might as well paint the hull too, since it will be a massive pain in the rear end to do once the suspension is in place.  Also, I discovered a nasty surprise lurking in the box.  Over the many years this box spent on various shelves (the date on the hull tub is 1997), the top armour section has warped. Thankfully the plastic is not brittle, and it is still intact. I'm likely going to have to bring in some C clamps when gluing it on, though. Coming up next, the suspension!
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That T-35 is pretty cool. Awesome find! I would love to know the thought process behind that tank besides, "bigger is better comrade". Also shows you how thick the armour was in that thing since it's only 0.2 tons more than a Panther. (yes I know there was about a 10 year difference in production dates) Apparently the tanks were prone to transmission failures and almost all of them were abandoned without seeing any combat.
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There are two things a tank can do on the battlefield: destroy things with armour, and things without. 45 mm guns are good at shooting a small shell quickly, which is good for piercing armour. 76 mm guns are good at shooting a big shell slowly, which is good for putting lots of explosives in. Technology to handle the recoil of a gun that can do both and fit into a tank at the same time wasn't quite there yet, so tanks had to be good at one or the other. The T-35, with both kinds of cannons, should be able to deal with any threat on the battlefield, and effortlessly cut through any obstacle on its way through enemy lines. In practice, the tanks were huge, complicated, difficult to command, and unreliable. Less than 100 were built, and few ever saw combat.
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I guess the Soviets assumed they would be fighting an enemy without the superior weapons required to defeat 30mm armour.
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Unkempt posted:Grumman XF5F 'Skyrocket', 1/48th from Minicraft. A really nice kit this one, the only things I added were seatbelts, the antennas and antenna wire. I used that 'EZ-line' stuff for the wires and can confirm it's ideal for that sort of thing. That's a really cool color scheme. Do you have any pictures of the cockpit?
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SkunkDuster posted:That's a really cool color scheme. Do you have any pictures of the cockpit? Not a massive amount to see in there, but here you go:  The silver/aluminium with yellow wings scheme is pretty standard for pre-war US Navy planes.
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Bloody Hedgehog posted:Beauty job on the Crusader! I'm a sucker for anything in Desert Yellow. Thanks! I don't know if this belongs here or in the terrain thread, but I'm planning on putting my Crusader III on a hardpan desert base. Anyone have any recommended materials for doing this? I'd like to have tank tracks left behind the tank, so it'd need some sort of give to the material if possible.
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Commissar Canuck posted:Thanks! Lots of different ways you could go with that. If it was me, I'd probably mix up a batch of something like Hydrocal/Plaster of Paris/Durhams Water Putty, and then "paint" that over an understructure. Texture it with some sculpting tools and some rolled up tinfoil, maybe a bit of coarse sandpaper. Sprinkle on some sand and small pebbles for interest. You can press the tank tracks down in it once it's set up a little so make the tread pattern. Once it's dry, just paint up and any other little bits for scenery.
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After a long hiatus: I have made a new tiny tank.  Dragon 1/72 Panther G - with steel wheels. I painted it with Ambush camouflage - dots were put on with a brush. The red-brown I mixed up with acrylic paint bought at Wal-mart when my model paint failed me. Worked pretty well, I'd say!  Kept it fairly clean of mud, only doing a little splattering on the back. The tracks I painted black, then painted brown, then blasted with solvent from my air brush. Then I did a steel highlight over top. I used a very light (IE really thinned) filter over everything when done - Tamiya buff, who's dust effect I like.     e: Oh, and the background is a white bristolboard on the stove in my kitchen. Got the idea from the internet...feel dumb that I didn't think of it before! Nebakenezzer fucked around with this message at 02:26 on Feb 18, 2014 |
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T-35 assembly day 2: suspension. The suspension has a LOT of parts. Here's one bogey:  There are eight of these, 14 parts a pop. Plus they don't fit together very well, so there's a lot of sanding involved.  There are also six return rollers (two pieces) and one of those little shock absorber wheels (8 pieces each) per side. The idler isn't just stuck to the hull, they model the track tightening mechanism (if crudely).  Here's how it looks with all the wheels. But that's not all!  There are still some screens in between the wheels that have to go into place. Phew. Now that this is done, the tank is ready for tracks! Edit: forgot the reference photo!  Looks about right. Ensign Expendable fucked around with this message at 02:34 on Feb 18, 2014 |
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Nebakenezzer posted:After a long hiatus: I have made a new tiny tank. That is a very nice tiny new tank indeed. You have the colours down really well for the three tone cammo. I'm starting putting my 1:35 Panther together tonight hopefully.
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Ensign Expendable posted:T-35 assembly day 2: suspension. Reference Photo? Have a video! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Owf2e7Xtx70
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Hey guys, I've been building this boat recently and I just need to glue on the masts and set up the rigging. Though I'm not entirely sure how to attach the rigging, do I cut the string into strands and glue them on separately or attempt to tie the rigging on? Any tips or resources would be very helpful, thanks!
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Ensign Expendable posted:Sadly there are no photos of the internals from that outing Request some? Most operators of these types of vehicles are happy to share detailed photos.
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T-35 Day 3: tracks. The tracks aren't anything special. They come on 5 sprues, 72 track links on each. The plastic is sturdy enough that none of them snapped when I cut them out of the sprue.  The tracks don't lock together at all, they just have two small placs that overlap with the previous track link. Primitive, but functional. One nice thing about the kit is that it comes with a LOT of extras. Out of the 360 track links in the package, I only used 279, despite very liberal sagging.  I'll leave the tracks flat black for now and do all the fancy effects after I'm done.  Side note: I am now out of glue. I could have sword I had half a tube left when I started.
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You know you're a historical nerd when you happen upon an inaccuracy in the model kit you're building. The tank on the right is in the assembly manual, the tank on the left is the one that the decals are supposedly from. You can tell it's a completely different tank, and yet this particular one was unique.
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Could be worse man, could be the Airfix 1/76 Sd.Kfz. 234/4.
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Arquinsiel posted:Could be worse man, could be the Airfix 1/76 Sd.Kfz. 234/4. Just googled it. Ahaha, what a joke. Whenever I see "Airfix 1/76", my eyes roll.
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Ensign Expendable posted:Just googled it. Ahaha, what a joke. Whenever I see "Airfix 1/76", my eyes roll.
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They're also really old. Airfix is doing a lot of new tool kits that are really nice, though they're mostly aircraft. I think they're doing a few 1/48th modern military vehicles.
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They also did a brand new 1/76 Cromwell and KoenigsTiger a year or two back and both of those are pretty solid. I just tend to model for wargaming though, so the insane internal fiddly detail makes me go  unless it's integral to the structure of the kit, in which case it's more 
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Nebakenezzer posted:A useful list would be "Airfix: the good kits."
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Arquinsiel posted:They also did a brand new 1/76 Cromwell and KoenigsTiger a year or two back and both of those are pretty solid. I just tend to model for wargaming though, so the insane internal fiddly detail makes me go Yeah, I was one putting together a GAZ-AA truck from some obscure Ukrainian manufacturer, and half of the drat thing was somehow connected to the shoddy engine that barely went together. Incredibly annoying.
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T-35 Day 4&5: small and medium turrets The small machinegun turrets seemed like too small an update to do on their own, so I got more glue and rolled the medium 45 mm cannon turrets in as well.  Here is a machinegun turret from the inside. Kind of bare, but better than some. The MG is there, so is some details opposite of the pistol ports and vision slits.  Here it is assembled. Since there's something actually inside, I left the hatch open to show it off. Sadly, the same cannot be said for the 45 mm gun turrets. They have nothing on the inside, not even the machinegun or cannon breech. Their hatches are closed.  Also, the 45 mm guns had no bores. The barrels were solid. I had to carve one out with a soldering iron. Ensign Expendable fucked around with this message at 00:38 on Feb 21, 2014 |
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Ensign Expendable posted:T-35 Day 4&5: small and medium turrets Soldering Iron?!? I presume you didn't have a pin vise, I think you should get a pin vise. Maybe it is more a tiny mans tool than a scale modellers tool .
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I've never even heard of a pin vice before now. Looks like a great tool for long barrels you can look into, but a soldering iron is good enough for making a small hole in the end of the barrel so that it doesn't look flat and ridiculous.
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I find it to be very handy for drilling a guide hole so I can tidy up the muzzle brakes of stuff TBH. It's a great tool in general, and you should get one in case you build one of those mad Tamiya kits that doesn't bother to pre-drill holes for you to stick things into...
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A pin vise is an absolute necessity if you really wanna get into this hobby. Dozens of uses. Tamiya does that for their car models too, kinda annoying.
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