Some where on the Eastern Front 1942 /43 1/35 scale

[Mini Me]

What's for dinner Grandpa?? Yum Yum! Cheers Mate.

[Steve Jones]

Nice progress shots mate. I've been doing my Friul tracks for over a month now and just finished one side. Hopefully you will be a bit quicker than me. Good luck with the figures

[Guest]

What's for dinner Grandpa?? Yum Yum! Cheers Mate.

Rick I do all of the cooking less cakes. So what every you'd like buddy.:smiling:

Nice progress shots mate. I've been doing my Friul tracks for over a month now and just finished one side. Hopefully you will be a bit quicker than me. Good luck with the figures

Thanks Steve, I love doing the Friul tracks. get a correct size drill and clean then holes all out while watching tv. Occasional miss and drill the finger:cold-sweat: .

Just ordered some more Hornet heads from Historex, and some new









Thanks for looking in .
John.

[Mini Me]

Why do these guys all look like they are singing Christmas Carols? JR, you aren't planning a Rooskie Kraut sing along, are you? Nice haul on the heads and the cement. What is the active ingredient in that fast setting cancer agent? I normally use small amounts of MEK mixed in with Testor's Liquid. Cheers, Rick H.

[minitnkr]

"Step on a crack, break your mother's back", here in the colonies. Knee modeling comes with scalpel punctures remember. PaulE

[Guest]

Hello John,
This is your sensible side calling...
Good to see the build is progressing and tha things are not slowing you down.
Ref the knee modelling - Please do not do this in shorts, think of th children....
Cleaning the cave, really? The kids are visiting so I have to clean the cave up!!! Get a dining table same as the rest of us, well not really we call our dining table - tv dinner table(s).
Damage Stug, have you not learned that once finished they become attached to their surroundings by cobwebs, that is why the grip was lost.
Robins house, SWMBO's response Ahhhhhh! sweet.
Anyway keep up the great work on the new dio and remember the 'Plastic Magic' is for glueing things together, it was the magic mushrooms that caused the other unspeakable episode that we will not speak about - your handcuffs are in the post along with the zimmer frame and the ladies are all recovering nicely.
Cheers, Mike

[Guest]

Why do these guys all look like they are singing Christmas Carols? JR, you aren't planning a Rooskie Kraut sing along, are you? Nice haul on the heads and the cement. What is the active ingredient in that fast setting cancer agent? I normally use small amounts of MEK mixed in with Testor's Liquid. Cheers, Rick H.

Not sure on the Christmas Carol Rick, most likely singing some dittie about Hitler only having one ***, and cursing him for letting them freeze .
Nor sure on the cement, says it's none toxic , supposed to have less smell thanTET, but thought I'd give it a try .

"Step on a crack, break your mother's back", here in the colonies. Knee modeling comes with scalpel punctures remember. PaulE

Note taken Paul, no drilling or scalpe work when on knee :tired:

Hello John,
This is your sensible side calling...
Good to see the build is progressing and tha things are not slowing you down.
Ref the knee modelling - Please do not do this in shorts, think of th children....
Cleaning the cave, really? The kids are visiting so I have to clean the cave up!!! Get a dining table same as the rest of us, well not really we call our dining table - tv dinner table(s).
Damage Stug, have you not learned that once finished they become attached to their surroundings by cobwebs, that is why the grip was lost.
Robins house, SWMBO's response Ahhhhhh! sweet.
Anyway keep up the great work on the new dio and remember the 'Plastic Magic' is for glueing things together, it was the magic mushrooms that caused the other unspeakable episode that we will not speak about - your handcuffs are in the post along with the zimmer frame and the ladies are all recovering nicely.
Cheers, Mike

Greetings Mike, I can advise not using CA for one, trying to unstick a model from a hairy leg is not easy. Luckily I do have a bottle of debonda .A worthwhile purchase for these occurrences.
I'm currently under " no models in the house ban " and. The cave has soon returned to it's normal tip like appearance, I only have to open a box and chaos ensues. I was completely not guilty in that episode, how was I to know that those nice looking mushrooms would have that effect on the horse !
Have you sent the spare key?

[Guest]

Not sure on the Christmas Carol Rich , most likely singing some dittie about Hitler only having one ***, and cursing him for letting them freeze .
Nor sure on the cement, says it's none toxic , supposed to have less smell thanTET, but thought I'd give it a try .

Note taken Paul, no drilling or scalpe work when on knee :tired:

Greetings Mike, I can advise not using CA for one, trying to unstick a model from a hairy leg is not easy. Luckily I do have a bottle of debonda .A worthwhile purchase for these occurrences.
I'm currently under " no models in the house ban " and. The cave has soon returned to it's normal tip like appearance, I only have to open a box and chaos ensues. I was completely not guilty in that episode, how was I to know that those nice looking mushrooms would have that effect on the horse !
Have you sent the spare key?

Keeping key - just in case - we cam only afford one court case.....

[Guest]

No models in the house ban? Does Christine not see your obvious talents? I usually CA my arms to the table during a build, but I quite like extricating the stuff from my arm hairs while settling down to an evening's TV. Sad, I know. All of my jeans have CA patches on the knees.

[Guest]

Keeping key - just in case - we cam only afford one court case.....

The least said about this the better I feel.:smiling3::smiling3::smiling5:

No models in the house ban? Does Christine not see your obvious talents? I usually CA my arms to the table during a build, but I quite like extricating the stuff from my arm hairs while settling down to an evening's TV. Sad, I know. All of my jeans have CA patches on the knees.

Yes Christine can see the talent, but says she does not want to encourage war into the house. Of course your Russian figure is exempt from such draconian measures and has pride of place.


Guarding the Grandchildren.




Today I started on the figures, love the wrap round coats , each one is in at least 4 sections , mine will need to be filled as there are a few gaps.
Not fitting the torso until the neck are drilled out. I saw a video by Rodger Saunders in which it was suggested that the base of the head was also drilled out and a wire glued in, like wise another hole in the drilled torso, this would enable better placement of the head to be achieved , any one else use this method ?


At the end I attached some wire for the tow ropes, didn't have enough resin end pieces in the box, so used the 4 from the kit.



John .

[BigGreg]

can't wait to see more...

[BigGreg]

can't wait to see more...

[Guest]

can't wait to see more...

Thanks Greg.
Hopefully the heads and the new glue will arrive this coming week. I can't wait to start the diorama:smiling2::smiling2:

[Mini Me]

I've already hid the matches JR! So you'll just have to bash about without any fire this time!
Looking forward to this HaHa! Rick H.

[Steve Jones]

The figures look nicely detailed. Hope you can start the buildings soon