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Post by Mike on Jun 8, 2024 22:53:25 GMT -5
Here we go again. I started a new project before finishing the countless others I have yet to finish. Not much to say except it's Dragon, it's tedious. Love the detail - hate the parts count. M4A3[75]W by Mike Brindos, on Flickr M4A3[75]W by Mike Brindos, on Flickr M4A3[75]W by Mike Brindos, on Flickr The figures are also from Dragon. Kit No. 6054 U.S. Tank Crew (NW Europe 1944). I May build this one into a diorama.
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Post by stikpusher on Jun 9, 2024 0:45:42 GMT -5
That’s shaping up nicely!
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Post by handiabled on Jun 9, 2024 1:16:46 GMT -5
Bookmarked! The turret looks to have great texture to it.
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Post by Mike on Jun 9, 2024 4:44:46 GMT -5
Thanks, Gents. All I've done yesterday is complete the build up of the Ma Deuce. It's a bit tricky to hide the stupid seam line right down the middle of the latch handle on the ammo box, but it looks like I succeeded. I think I'm going to paint up the figures first and hopefully that boosts my momentum and enthusiasm for all of the tedious bits yet to go. It's a good kit. No warps, short molds, or egregious mold seams. I barely had to scrape the Ma Deuce to clean it up. Its just the typical Dragon plastic we're almost all familiar with where no matter how careful you are with the tiny parts they always seem to break. So I'll be making my own hatch handles and such.
LOL. That texture is my stupid cheat with the Bondo spot putty. I just put a bit on my finger and tap it on the surface. When it dries I knock down the high spots with a bit of sanding and if I flatten it down too smooth I just repeat the process. If you've got a textured part like that turret where there's a huge join seam between the upper and lower halves that trick hides it really well.
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Post by 406 Silverado on Jun 9, 2024 6:24:06 GMT -5
You're off to a great start with this one Mike. Good idea on the Bondo spot putty.
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Post by Leon on Jun 9, 2024 8:57:21 GMT -5
Off to a good start mike! I also like the idea of the bondo.
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Post by lyle on Jun 9, 2024 9:09:06 GMT -5
Going swimmingly, I'd say. Most armor looks pretty good, but the M4 is a classic. The "DC-3 of armor" I guess.
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Post by Mike on Jun 10, 2024 16:24:21 GMT -5
Thanks, guys. The Bondo trick is something I've been doing for years. No brush or any special techniques needed. Just tap it on randomly with a finger and lightly sand.
I did forget to mention that I've got Fruil white metal tracks for this kit, but they lack the chevrons so we'll see how long these DS tracks last before finish assembling them for this build.
The build is going well so far. No surprises.
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Post by Mike on Jun 11, 2024 0:29:04 GMT -5
Hey, Carlos! I don't know if you can get your hands on one of these Dragon .50 cals, but take a look at this one. It's really quite good and far better than that Italeri one. M4A3(75)W by Mike Brindos, on Flickr M4A3(75)W by Mike Brindos, on Flickr M4A3(75)W by Mike Brindos, on Flickr In other news, I know I complain a bit about how tedious a Dragon build can be, but is there any other way I could slow it down to an even further crawl? Darn right I can! M4A3(75)W by Mike Brindos, on Flickr M4A3(75)W by Mike Brindos, on Flickr M4A3(75)W by Mike Brindos, on Flickr Yeah, I carved out the shovel. Of all the multi pieced micro assemblies these kits have you'd think this would've been two parts. Nope. Just a shovel shaped slab. Well I did what I do and don't ask me why I did it. M4A3(75)W by Mike Brindos, on Flickr So today's entry doesn't have any real progress, but by golly I made that shovel look more real. I've got most of the back deck sorted out and you can see the holes I've filled in because I used the wrong sized drill bit and they were too large. This has caused me to try to fill in those holes as best as I can AFTER I glued the pieces on. I'll have to clean that up later and do my best to make it look like I didn't dump a bottle of glue on it. Funny thing is I know way better ways to delete holes and I went with the messiest way I know of for some reason. Guess I just wanted to do more sanding later? (Head down, shaking) Well that's it for today. Thanks for taking a look and enjoy your day!
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Post by handiabled on Jun 11, 2024 1:58:23 GMT -5
Vast improvement on the shovel. I like the addition of the rear stowage
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Post by stikpusher on Jun 11, 2024 8:03:02 GMT -5
That shovel DOES look much better Mike! Bravo! And I don't know about getting ahold of a Dragon .50, but I do have a whole bunch of .50s in my spares bin from various sources.... nearly all of which will be a marked improvement over the kit part.
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Post by lyle on Jun 11, 2024 8:08:02 GMT -5
I like how you have improved things. I believe the designers simply get tired when it comes to the final bits and pieces and simply decide, "Eh, good enough." Definitely an improvement.
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Post by Mike on Jun 13, 2024 19:13:28 GMT -5
Going swimmingly, I'd say. Most armor looks pretty good, but the M4 is a classic. The "DC-3 of armor" I guess. I definitely agree with the DC-3 analogy. The M4A3(75) is definitely a classic Sherman. I didn't realize it was my favorite version until I started noticing just how prominent it is in historical film. The shape of the turret just screams Sherman to me. I have my E8 and I love the suspension and how much of an improvement it is. I even have a second E8 in the stash partially started. But the A3(75) is just classic like a DC-3. Bang on. Obviously I'm distracted with the SU-85M right now, but I'll either get back to building this kit or switch over to the Leopard and finish that one next.
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Post by rbaer on Jun 17, 2024 17:08:52 GMT -5
It's the little things that count, right? Dragon's Shermans are funny: The majority of the kit may be 1st class and very realistic, but then they'll throw in a sprue or two with six parts to be used out of the fifty on them that are left over from when Dragon simply copied the Italeri Shermans.
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Post by Mike on Jun 17, 2024 21:24:28 GMT -5
Is that why there's such a difference sometimes? Now I know. lol
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Post by Mike on Jun 18, 2024 3:06:00 GMT -5
So today's endeavors were all about stowage. Tissue tarps, resin packs, and the loader's hatch. Well I guess that hatch isn't stowage, but it's taken care of until I add the rest of the pieces. M4A3(75)W by Mike Brindos, on Flickr M4A3(75)W by Mike Brindos, on Flickr A little ink in the glue will keep bits of random white from showing up later. M4A3(75)W by Mike Brindos, on Flickr These photo etch hangers are a royal PITA! I had to run out to wally's before they closed just to get some more liquid CA. The gel stuff was making a mess. M4A3(75)W by Mike Brindos, on Flickr Then straps were applied and now it looks like the gear is hanging as it should. M4A3(75)W by Mike Brindos, on Flickr Then it was on to that hatch hinge. This one is a tiny little bugger and most tricky to get the right angle with the drill, but I managed it. Very carefully. M4A3(75)W by Mike Brindos, on Flickr M4A3(75)W by Mike Brindos, on Flickr M4A3(75)W by Mike Brindos, on Flickr It still amazes me just how much time this stuff will eat up. Now those tarps should fully dry by morning and I'll see if they need any further encouragement to stay in place. Have a good one, Gents.
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Post by stikpusher on Jun 18, 2024 8:02:43 GMT -5
Excellent attention to detail on this Sherman of yours Mike!
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Post by handiabled on Jun 18, 2024 8:48:42 GMT -5
Fantastic detail work! Your addition of the tarps really adds to the look of the stowage
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Post by rbaer on Jun 18, 2024 17:45:08 GMT -5
I like the stowage, good stuff. I REALLY like the hatch hinge pins. Welcome to the truly OCD world of armor detailing.
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Post by Mike on Jun 19, 2024 3:51:06 GMT -5
Excellent attention to detail on this Sherman of yours Mike! I'm not even scratch building anything. The kits details are quite good with just a bit of imagination on my part. You know the usual trouble I get myself into lol.Fantastic detail work! Your addition of the tarps really adds to the look of the stowage Thank you. I will honestly say that I'm simply copying those that have come before me. I like the stowage, good stuff. I REALLY like the hatch hinge pins. Welcome to the truly OCD world of armor detailing. Have you forgotten who I am, Russ? LMAO. This is old hat, my friend. What you've been up to is astounding.Thanks, guys! Today was a long one, indeed. It took me almost all of my day just to finish the turret. Wow. There's a lot of details on this thing. I'm tired lol. I had a whim and used my micro saw to free up this dumb barrel mount for the .50 and I love how it turned out. I hinged it so I could move it around and I'm glad I did. I've bumped that dumb thing so many times today I'm sure I would've broken it off. M4A3(75)W by Mike Brindos, on Flickr M4A3(75)W by Mike Brindos, on Flickr Functional for no reason at all. M4A3(75)W by Mike Brindos, on Flickr There's so much that went onto this turret and as it turns out I used the wrong hatch, but that benefitted me in the end as I didn't have to modify it to have it in the open position, although in hindsight I wish I'd hinged the TC's hatch too because it gets in the way of the loader's hatch opening. I suppose that's okay. I only want it to open for painting reasons. ANyways, I'll let the pictures do the rest of the talking. M4A3(75)W by Mike Brindos, on Flickr Yeah, I know my Driver is taking a nap lol. I won't have his mount secured until the very last bit of the build. I can get him to balance where he should be, but then any movement sends him into the hull plating and he's out again. M4A3(75)W by Mike Brindos, on Flickr M4A3(75)W by Mike Brindos, on Flickr M4A3(75)W by Mike Brindos, on Flickr M4A3(75)W by Mike Brindos, on Flickr M4A3(75)W by Mike Brindos, on Flickr M4A3(75)W by Mike Brindos, on Flickr Now on to the front of the hull. Glad the parts count is smaller for that.
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Post by Mike on Jun 19, 2024 6:31:55 GMT -5
Last bits. M4A3(75)W by Mike Brindos, on Flickr I cut out a drain slot for the antenna pot, removed the molded tightening bar from the MG stowage mount and added my own, and painted the turret with some Vallejo Sky Grey mixed with some Vallejo Clear Satin as a primer to check my textures. Looks like everything turned out acceptably. Have a great day, Gents! I'm off to sleep finally.
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Post by handiabled on Jun 19, 2024 9:04:53 GMT -5
The amount of detail you have packed into the turret is just outstanding
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Post by stikpusher on Jun 19, 2024 10:04:05 GMT -5
Looking better and better! Not too much longer until you get some OD on it… 🤔 Gotta love those Dragon US Tanker crew figures
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Post by adt70hk on Jun 19, 2024 10:24:36 GMT -5
Looking very good indeed!!
Loving the attention to detail and the shovel has turned out great.
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Post by brandonk on Jun 19, 2024 12:52:37 GMT -5
Glad to see Mike at it again. Love the work as always. Bookmarked. ![JcY94N](https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img923/9696/JcY94N.gif)
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Post by Mike on Jun 19, 2024 18:38:59 GMT -5
The amount of detail you have packed into the turret is just outstanding Thank you. I feel like I'm getting back into my groove again. It's been almost a full year and a lot has and hasn't happened. I'm starting to feel like "me". And to their credit, DML has done most of the work for me already. I'm just taking advantage of it. Looking better and better! Not too much longer until you get some OD on it… 🤔 Gotta love those Dragon US Tanker crew figures I do like me some Dragon figures lol. I'm still deciding which O.D. I want to start with as a base layer. Looking very good indeed!! Loving the attention to detail and the shovel has turned out great. ATB Andrew Thank you, Andrew! Going to OCD levels of detail and usually scratch building them is what I used to be known to do all of the time. I've been off my game for a while now and it feels good to be getting back to something I used to do. Glad to see Mike at it again. Love the work as always. Bookmarked. ![JcY94N](https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img923/9696/JcY94N.gif) Always happy to see a comment from you, my friend. It's good to be back in the zone again. Now, on to a little detail I almost missed. Something I do a lot is study my own pictures and spend a lot of time in my own threads looking over every detail and it helps me spot things I've missed or things that just don't look right and I make mental notes for later. It's not an ego thing lol. For instance I noticed that the MG stowage clamp on the turret looked incomplete. So I went back to the instractions looking for something I missed. Well, as it turns out "I" didn't miss anything, Dragon did. In typical Dragon fashion they included a picture of the completed part but mentioned nothing about the other part involved. So there's a bit of PE that should go with that clamp to complete it, so that's the first thing I've done today. Such a minor thing, but I caught it. M4A3(75)W by Mike Brindos, on Flickr M4A3(75)W by Mike Brindos, on Flickr M4A3(75)W by Mike Brindos, on Flickr I also noticed that my TC's hatches didn't have any bolts on the hinges so I fixed that as well. I still wish I'd thought of making those hinges functional much earlier in the build.
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Post by 406 Silverado on Jun 19, 2024 18:48:11 GMT -5
I like the stowage, good stuff. I REALLY like the hatch hinge pins. Welcome to the truly OCD world of armor detailing. Right??!! Jeez.....tarps, shovel enhancements, bad a$$ .50 cals, stowage and all these PE details.....I think my head is starting to sp...... ![](https://imagizer.imageshack.com/img924/8416/cCRZMc.gif)
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Post by Mike on Jun 20, 2024 6:43:28 GMT -5
Todays efforts went well. I'm not a big fan of PE when it isn't necessary, but the light guards are all rubbish for this kit. I used the one guard but thinned it out as much as I dared to. It could be thinner, but I've already removed a significant amount of plastic from it and it may be on the edge of collapsing under a good, careless bump. Any more attempts to thin it out just flex it out of place and I don't have any PE to replace that with. M4A3(75)W by Mike Brindos, on Flickr M4A3(75)W by Mike Brindos, on Flickr If I can replace PE with good old sheet styrene, I will. The track skirt hangers were definitely easy enough to replace. I just had to take a rudimentary measurement and glue it on longer than I needed it to be. I then taped the three pieces of PE over the styrene strip and used them as a template for where to drill the bolt holes and add the separation lines with my micro saw. M4A3(75)W by Mike Brindos, on Flickr I've added the PE mud guards, driving light guards, and the rest of the pieces to the front of the tank. Nothing to make note of here except that I really didn't like the PE driving light guards. They just didn't want to stay in shape and moved and flexed inexplicably for seemingly no reason at all. Frustrating. I test fitted those things so many times bending them into shape and then they kept doing weird things. M4A3(75)W by Mike Brindos, on Flickr After that I figured it was a good time to add the tow cable. Well, as it turns out DML gives you this really stiff steel wire that I used the entire length of when making my cables over a week ago. Well guess what ended up being too long? DML provides these lovely cable clamps that you can mount on the hull and I decided I'd try at least one of the PE pieces and see if I could actually bend it into shape. That didn't go well, so guess what I did? I got out the styrene! I was able to shape and bend the hinged clamps and I used those to figure out what thickness I needed and that worked out very well. The PE parts would've been far too thin for this to work properly. M4A3(75)W by Mike Brindos, on Flickr M4A3(75)W by Mike Brindos, on Flickr M4A3(75)W by Mike Brindos, on Flickr I also scratched up some brackets for the transmission and added a piece of "lumber" for the crew to climb on. To those of you who really wanted to see the turret in green, you got your wish!I sprayed it with my usually Krylon primer this afternoon and the paint was still tacky to the touch this evening so I was about to use Vallejo Olive Drab, but that stuff is waaaaaay too brown and course corrected to Tamiya's XF-62 and I got to remember just how nice it is to spray Tamiya acrylics. Went on like a dream with no problems at all and it looks gorgeous. M4A3(75)W by Mike Brindos, on Flickr M4A3(75)W by Mike Brindos, on Flickr M4A3(75)W by Mike Brindos, on Flickr M4A3(75)W by Mike Brindos, on Flickr I want so badly to get the paint on the rest of the model now it's crazy. I think now, that all I have left to build are the 15 piece Driver's and Co-Driver's hatches. I stalled on those because they're way over-engineered and I know those would've taken up most of my time today. I will leave you with one last pic for this installment. Have a great day, Gents! M4A3(75)W by Mike Brindos, on Flickr
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Post by handiabled on Jun 20, 2024 8:37:48 GMT -5
The time you are putting into this shows in the quality and quantity of detail on it. Just outstanding Mike!
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Post by brandonk on Jun 20, 2024 10:12:33 GMT -5
You can certainly drive yourself nuts with all the fine tuning and extra details. And it seems like it's all in vain, but the end result is a build of the highest level of skill and technique. Well worth the slow progress in my opinion. She is looking exceptional.
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