Colin M Cosford £5.00 build.

[papa 695]

Very nice start Colin, how's the eyes after working on such a small kit.

[Guest]

As I thought a nice job Colin keep up the good work

[colin m]

The king of glue is only inferior to the 'god of glue' made in Japan

The god of glue is an ancient myth. No man has ever held such ancient artefact. Or so I heard down the pub last week.

[Thorbrand]

The god of glue is an ancient myth. No man has ever held such ancient artefact. Or so I heard down the pub last week.

Legend has it that there is only one mortal being which can yield such a glue, they call him butter fingers, for his fingers are oil based and impervious to the unworldly strength of the glue. They also say that once the god of glue has bonded it can only be parted by the holy file, even an atom bomb cannot break its bond....so i heard from some bloke called dave in the pub.

[colin m]

....so i heard from some bloke called dave in the pub

Well if Dave said so, fair enough.................................

Right, just a bit more done.

Look, it's a horse.
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Tiny tank is built, primed and pre shaded.
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Colour is on. Don't shoot me, it's just a generic green I happened to have - I build aircraft not tanks. But don't worry, the green is not actually that light.
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Now for something quite new to me. Oil dot filtering. I thought I would have a go at this process. So, on with the dots.
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Then after 'splodging' all the oil around, it looks like this.
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The difference is subtle, will it be enough ? I'll let you know in about a month when it's dry.

But look, even the horse didn't escape the oil treatment. He has a nice shiny coat now.
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Now then, I know these tanks were small, or is that horse huge ?

Colin M..

[spanner570]

Neigh! The 'orse looks fine - as does the tank.

Nice work Colin.

[yak face]

Looks mighty fine colin, the oil filtering worked a treat. The hoss looks great too and i reckon the sizings about right , the stuart was only about 16 foot long , cheers tony

[papa 695]

Great work Colin.
I must crack on with mine big Ron's on my back.

[Guest]

Looking great bro, I was a bit sceptical considering the kit didnt look the best quality but its actually turning out quite nice Good Job so far!

[eddiesolo]

Cracking work Colin! Nice, very nice.

The take on the horse is probably the fact that originally the horses were the cavalry this term crossed over when they went mechanised.

[colin m]

the kit didnt look the best quality

It's not a great kit Scott, but it's so small, there's not going to be a lot of detail anyway, so it doesn't matter too much.

Cracking work Colin! Nice, very nice.
The take on the horse is probably the fact that originally the horses were the cavalry this term crossed over when they went mechanised.

That was our guess as well. But the instructions leave a lot to be desired. There is no indication of why the horse is included, but a sort of then and now scenario makes sense. It's hard enough stepping into armour world, but now I've got an animal to paint as well. Flippin' horse.

Anyway, the oily tiny tank needs a fair portion of time to dry, so, what about a scene / base type display. Yes why not. There's no point in stopping at armour and animals, let's do a dio' as well.

So, the ingredients. This box had a couple of bottles of French wine in it, but I just couldn't through it away. Modellers seem to have a sixth sense that some old bit of tat might be useful one day.
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The rest of my ingredients. Nothing extra has been purchased, this is all old stuff I've used in the past.
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These rocks are actually a bit of mortar of the back of an old paving stone I liberated at the weekend. And the white plaster type stuff, some of the Cosford Massive might remember me winning this at a Cosford raffle some years back.
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So, the rough idea (I do mean rough, chip in with easy suggestions) is below. The tank commander pauses when he realises he is about to cross a field of next seasons Beaujolais. Can he do it, or will he go around the field. Straight away there are problems here. Vines wouldn't be growing on a ploughed field. So maybe he's just stopped to read a map.
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That's it for now. Bed time.

[monica]

Well, a kit for £5.00 or less, I thought it would be a bit of a challenge finding one, but surprisingly, there was plenty to choose from. So for me, I thought I would try something a little on the esoteric side, well for me anyway.

To start with, I'm going to put this to one side for tonight, I can't have my nice tidy aircraft mixing with a dirty tank. Tank, what ever that is ?
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So here is the 'Science Technology' Stuart, light tank. It's tiny, 1:72 or 1:76 I think.
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The price.
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Sprues. Quite tidy, a little flash. Yes, you can see a horse. A flippin' horse. Monica does a 'mean' horse, I'll send it to her, see if she can have it done by the end of the week !! Those decals, aren't decals, they're stickers. I kid you not. I've bought a toy, not a model. The tracks, nice rubbery tracks.
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But luckily, the box also contained this. 'The King of glues' I suspect you're all a bit jealous now, having laughed at my stickers.
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Time to stick plastic. Although I might use a different glue. I'll save the 'King of glue' for a special project.

Colin M..

ha,oh lol,ta for such a nice compartment,
I do enjoy doing them,

[monica]

all looking real good on this build,
do real like that mortar,

[monica]

Well if Dave said so, fair enough.................................

Right, just a bit more done.

Look, it's a horse.
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Tiny tank is built, primed and pre shaded.
[ATTACH]280601[/ATTACH]

Colour is on. Don't shoot me, it's just a generic green I happened to have - I build aircraft not tanks. But don't worry, the green is not actually that light.
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Now for something quite new to me. Oil dot filtering. I thought I would have a go at this process. So, on with the dots.
[ATTACH]280603[/ATTACH]

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Then after 'splodging' all the oil around, it looks like this.
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[ATTACH]280606[/ATTACH]

The difference is subtle, will it be enough ? I'll let you know in about a month when it's dry.

But look, even the horse didn't escape the oil treatment. He has a nice shiny coat now.
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Now then, I know these tanks were small, or is that horse huge ?

Colin M..

looks about right,to me,as its a small tank,much like a sardine can ,would perfore to be on the horse can run away faster,

[papa 695]

Liking the idea and build so far Colin.