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Re: Gingie's Build Thread
« Reply #300 on: December 31, 2013, 09:33:53 PM »
Just had a vision of a Leo 2 equivalent of the turretless Stuart ARVs of WWII.  What do you recon, a MG3 or a 50 cal?

If you were going for an automated turret why stop at 120mm what about a 127/62 from a Mk45 Mod 4 naval mount, or even a 155/62 AGS? ;)

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Re: Gingie's Build Thread
« Reply #301 on: March 24, 2014, 12:20:58 AM »
Sat down at the bench for the first time in 2014. Actually, not even the bench...out local club had a build night and I decided to try airbrushing on the road. Managed to get a rough pattern on before a clogged needle confounded the rest of the night.

I hadn't originally planned on the more modern NATO camouflage, but when I learned it made its appearance as early as 1985, I figured the Tracked AVGP would for sure still be in service.

Hoping these pics will show.. seems like Flickr is not letting me direct link on some other forums.



(outer road wheels left off to ease painting of the track)


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Re: Gingie's Build Thread
« Reply #302 on: March 24, 2014, 12:37:26 AM »
The old Cadillac Gage Turret, twin .30, used to have .30/.50 combo on the M113s I used to crew, tight fit for a rugby union player. 

Looking very good Gingie and now all painted I noticed it actually has a bit of a Chinese look to it, almost like something the Chinese exported and say Thailand westernised, weird how that can happen with a wiff sometimes, you use well known shapes and end up with something that sort of looks like something else.
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Re: Gingie's Build Thread
« Reply #303 on: March 24, 2014, 01:03:46 AM »
Oh boy, you're right.  Very much like a Type 89/ZSD89.



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Re: Gingie's Build Thread
« Reply #304 on: March 24, 2014, 02:41:43 AM »
Yep! Chinese Type 89 APC resemblance was noted by a couple guys at the club too! Kind of a convergent evolution of a Sino-Canadian MICV. I had not even seen a Type-89 before the weekend...really incredible how close it came to looking like that by accident.

There's an ex-pat Aussie in our club who crewed the 113 with the 50 & 30..he's a big lad too, I bet it would be very cramped indeed.


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Re: Gingie's Build Thread
« Reply #305 on: March 27, 2014, 11:45:34 AM »
The worse problem with the T150 turret was that most .50cals and quite a .30cals couldn't lift a full belt the necessary distance from the ammunition boxes on the floor of the turret basket to the gun.  This resulted in numerous stoppages.  In Vietnam they often mounted one of the .30cals on top of the turret, where it could be fired by the command reaching a hand out of the hatch.   While the T150 was a bit of a tight fit it was still preferable to either the original completely open position or the MG shields which preceded it.  It was also a lot more roomy than the other turret they trialled briefly (can't remember the designation) which had a .30cal under armour on either side, which very, very cramped indeed.

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Re: Gingie's Build Thread
« Reply #306 on: March 27, 2014, 12:41:23 PM »
It was tight but I liked it, simple robust and did the job.  Many of my fantasy assault guns and tank destroyers would have a T-50, in fact if I could find one in 1/72 my RAR DFS Platoon S Tank would have one, I am considering buying and M-48 or M-60 to get something at least.

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Re: Gingie's Build Thread
« Reply #307 on: April 03, 2014, 10:21:50 PM »
tightened up the cam a bit on my Tracked Grizzly:





And re-re-re-sprayed (yes, its on it's 4th cammo pattern now) my Puma IFV. I tried an urban scheme of greys, didn't like it. Tried a overall desert, didn't like that. Tried Swedish desert splinter cam..nope. So, here it halfway through #4, and I've just realized it looks like Israeli Air Force cam!




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Re: Gingie's Build Thread
« Reply #308 on: April 03, 2014, 10:59:30 PM »
How about an Australian sand green and black  ;)

Looking good in IAF cam though.

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Re: Gingie's Build Thread
« Reply #309 on: April 04, 2014, 02:22:12 AM »
I do like that Aussie cam. I think I have an idea for it.

Here's the Puma with the cam refined a bit. The "black" paint is actually just dark sea grey (not even EDSG like on the Tracked Grizzly). I'm surprised at how black it looks on the model. My go to colours for NATO black will now be DSG / EDSG depending on how faded I want it to look.





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Re: Gingie's Build Thread
« Reply #310 on: April 04, 2014, 02:31:20 AM »
Looking good, a bit of a South American flavour to it actually, not sure why I think that but that's the thought in the front of my mind with that cam.

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Re: Gingie's Build Thread
« Reply #311 on: April 04, 2014, 03:03:13 AM »
I don't care which country it is decided to become…the scheme simply looks great!  Certainly nice to see a Puma in something more colourful.
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Re: Gingie's Build Thread
« Reply #312 on: April 04, 2014, 03:22:49 AM »
Yeah it does look great, but so does all Gingies stuff  :)

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« Reply #313 on: April 04, 2014, 04:10:11 AM »
Looking good, a bit of a South American flavour to it actually, not sure why I think that but that's the thought in the front of my mind with that cam.

Hey... now that you say it, it does remind me of that too, and I don;t know why either. Will have to google up some latin cam and see if it matches anything.

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Re: Gingie's Build Thread
« Reply #314 on: April 04, 2014, 06:15:33 AM »
Yeah baby !

That scheme is very nice.
Really like that turret setup onthe Puma... got me thinkin' around the final layout of the Bushpig.



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Re: Gingie's Build Thread
« Reply #315 on: April 04, 2014, 08:28:31 AM »
Ah, not South American... it was right under my nose the whole time. I should have sussed it out as soon as you mentioned Australian cam, because that is what the palette reminds me..not of the AFV, but the hearts & bunnies uniform:



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Re: Gingie's Build Thread
« Reply #316 on: April 04, 2014, 09:23:33 AM »
Ah, not South American... it was right under my nose the whole time. I should have sussed it out as soon as you mentioned Australian cam, because that is what the palette reminds me..not of the AFV, but the hearts & bunnies uniform:






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Re: Gingie's Build Thread
« Reply #317 on: April 04, 2014, 10:43:50 AM »
That Puma looks rather fetching in that assortment of colors Graeme.  Definitely not the usual NATO camouflage scheme you would expect to see on that vehicle.  If you had been a few days earlier you could have wound some folks up with a statement about Australia procuring the Puma and your build could have been the "official" sales model to support the rumour :)
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Re: Gingie's Build Thread
« Reply #318 on: April 04, 2014, 07:54:40 PM »

I see the hearts. Where are the cute fuzzy bunnies?

Think stylized Playboy Bunny logo in need of a weight loss programme

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Re: Gingie's Build Thread
« Reply #319 on: April 05, 2014, 03:41:57 AM »
If you had been a few days earlier you could have wound some folks up with a statement about Australia procuring the Puma and your build could have been the "official" sales model to support the rumour :)

Don't laugh yet - the Puma is a contender under Australia's Land 400 programme.
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Re: Gingie's Build Thread
« Reply #320 on: April 05, 2014, 05:47:58 AM »
I didn't even know Germany was exporting the Puma. I got it back when Canada still had the Close Combat Vehicle (CCV) project. Wanted to do the Puma and the Marder as Mech Inf bn whiffers.

I might have to reconsider now and make it Aussie!

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Re: Gingie's Build Thread
« Reply #321 on: April 05, 2014, 05:53:52 AM »
Rheinmetall Defence certainly thinks it is a chance ;)Going up Down Under

Some more info, including a list of potential contenders here
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Re: Gingie's Build Thread
« Reply #322 on: May 05, 2014, 01:38:01 AM »
Some Daddy-Daughter rainy day projects. These are the Academy "Da Vinci" series which are also boxed by Italeri. Every now & then, Lucky has them on sale for $6 a pop, though for some reason, the Italeri ones are double the price. Oldest daughter Zoe (7) builds them with help from me. They can get a little fiddly so some experience is required - I think the age on the box says 14. However, they are all snap-together, and if we take our time it can easily take an hour (which is roughly her attention span). We also make the Tamiya animal robots. Academy has a nifty spider walking thing, but on its maiden voyage, it walked off the counter to an early demise.   

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Re: Gingie's Build Thread
« Reply #323 on: May 05, 2014, 02:47:11 AM »
Good work, maybe when my Zoe (3) is older I could give something like that a go. Already done a F-84 and a Tiger 1 with my eldest that at age 6 went better than the submarine at age 5.

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Re: Gingie's Build Thread
« Reply #324 on: May 05, 2014, 03:11:00 AM »
Great work!
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