Bunkerknacker w/flak 18 , in a dio setting .

[deafpanzer]

WHEW! You had me scared there... thanks a bunch! Great work!

[bbd468]

Hey Carl, your one "Twisted" Dude! J/K bro,!   Nice save man, that rascal was a tad outta sorts werent it.

[paulh.]

Been watchin without commenting- kinda rude I think so apologies. Superb accurizing going on here Carl.
Great ideas for tweaks and stuff to really bring this up to a different level .
Another prize winner for sure!
P

[thug626]

Good Morning Carl,
What an outstanding build to get caught up on over a cup (or two) of java. The weathering on the engine and chassis is simply amazing. It's certainly given me a fair bit of inspiration to hit the bench today.

Dave

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Hey guys hope everyone is doing and feeling as goog as you can ........i for one am .
I went to bed at 2 am local time . Dozed off . And an hr later woke up thinking bout his piece of molded plastic that i have spent so much time with here . Rediculouse ! No wonder mu Sun Andy ask about marrying these things ....after all we spend so much time with them ................and just like a woman they are fickle and stuborn ! Anyway i kinda sorta got things lined up but unless i take the suspension apart and look at the chasis ............well that would be going over the top to sorrect what minor tweaking is left to do . That little bit can be done with some shims and sanding , cutting and other maniale contributions at the bench , I didnt stop till 7 am local . Fooooffff !

Pete that mud held onto the plastis real well durring the take apart .

Andy my Sun all is well and when i get things back together i'll click a pic .

Gary , i wanted to take a pic of the twist i puttin into that frame but me hands were full bro .

Paulh , good to know your out there looking in , never enough audience to be watching my frantic model fabrication / de-fabrication .

Dave , always good to know i can inspire a fellow member .

Well now my internal clock is really fouled up !

Later guys .

[wbill76]

I've been there before Carl! My wife swears up and down that I've woken her up in the middle of the night in order to explain to her how I was going to fix something on a proper build...in my sleep! That was back when I used to do model work in the evenings before I relegated it to weekends only.

[Deleted]

LMAO Bill !

Your poor wife !

I guess weekend nights must still be a problem though huh ?

Thanks for the laugh my friend .

[craigcole20b.]

Great job on the mud

[406 Silverado]

Fantastic work Carl. I am sooooo tempted to break out my Trumpy kit and have fun with the motor. I need to dig up ref pics of the motor and firewall so I can add detail like wires etc.
Nice fix on the tracks btw.

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Craig thanks , may need to re apply some of it after my re- build .

Rob , there's are some good motor ref pics in this thread if you go back thru the previous pages .
thanks for looking in boss .

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Got the alignment fixed . I'm leaving the front fenders off till I get them painted . Meanwhile I went ahead and did more weathering on the tracks , wheels . Took some mud off the tires . This may or may not be the final look of the running gear .

[Deleted]

nice! that superstructure is gonna look good!

[Leon]

Looking really good Carl .I like the looks of the weird cab.

[406 Silverado]

Carl I have the Nuts and Bolts book on the Famo somewhere. Will dig that out when I get to the model....next year, it will be part of the rail car dio.

[Tojo72]

Hadn't checked in yet,this is another great one Carl

[Deleted]

This just keeps getting better and better.

G

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I cut out from the bench early last night . Got some more weathering/muddage/chalkage/pigmentage done on the rest of the running gear .

Pete and Leon , aint that the weirdest looking thing ?! Imagine trying to see where your going out of them little viewing ports . Probably that's what caused this rollover .


Rob , ooooohh ! Rail dio you say ? That's gonna be something for me to be looking forward to Boss !

Tojo , well its good haven you check in my friend !

G, I hope so , I'm tryin to keep it that way .

Nems , yes it did feel good to get er fixed straight . Turns out it was a combination of about four places that were misaligned just a smidgin .

[wbill76]

That kind of 'incident' would ruin your day for sure! Nice save on the alignment recovery Carl, cab gives it a mean look...almost a 'post apocalypse' feel.

[Deleted]

Bill , I think that's what gets us interested in German WW II armor isn't it ? the weirdness factor .
Thanks for looking in . Time for me to go look at your Tiger now .

[bullardino]

Sorry for being late to the party, Carl. I really liked the muddy look of the tires, and I really like the way they look now. The chassis save was a masterpiece, mate. Can't wait to see more of this

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Lui , I've done some more changes on the muddification and more tweaking was required last night . I added some shimes on the right side of the vehicle between the frame and fenders to get it alligned better . Hopefully that's the end of the tweaking .

Here's the parts for the engine cover after I thinned them to scale , more or less accurate . As they came in the kit they were about 2 inches thick in 1/35th scale .



This is one strange looking vehicle already .Should be fun getting the paint and weathering on it .

[bullardino]

What an awkward beast... Surely Nazi designers lacked in sense of humour. Great job mate

[TRM]

LOL...LOVE IT!! Nice job on the thin down! Almost could have used some thick brass shim stock to fabricate some mirror images....but you got this licked pretty well!!

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Lui , it does make a person wonder what the designers had in mind ! This thing setting out in the open firing at a protected bunker with nothing but sheet metal for protection ?

T , or sheet plastic ? Heck , I didn't think of either of those options . Eddy used either copper or brass on his rendition of this model .......but I went for the sanding technique ........why ? Hey , its how I am .

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The dirty ending .

[TRM]

Great dirty effects there Carl!!

Working with what you have in front of you!! Not always a bad thing!!! The brass or plastic would have been fairly straight forward I think with those nice flat panels...maybe even a bit fun with the soldering, of the brass of course. Maybe the next time around...LOL!!

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I haven't tried the brass soldering yet but this would of been a good place to start .I've gotta get one of those mini solder guns for some of the p.e. work .
T , I looked at a lot of pictures of muddied vehicles vehicles and the mud looked the same shade of color as what I have in the garden ......at least IMHO .
Only thing to watch out for is those dang cat dumplings ! I was also wondering if some of the seeds I planted out there might sprout now in my warm house ? Some new kinda of Chia pet pot .

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Dec 9, 2013 18:52:32 GMT -5 @dickyf said:

I was gonna say Tolstoy, soldering styrene gives absolutely ferkin' rubbish results fella

Carly - This is lookin' glorious fella - lovin' yer dirty rear end! ....... WHAT??.......Did it?.......How bad?..........You sure?

That's ok Nems , I don't show it in the public ........ .......is this place public ?

[bbd468]

Most excellent modeling Mr.Carl!  I think your "Dirty Rear End" is pretty cute as well.

[Leon]

I haven't seen a rear end that dirty since i changed a baby's diapers .Very nicely done Carl.