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Swords to Plowshares GB / Re: Swords to Plowshares Inspiration Thread

« Last post by Story on Yesterday at 07:29:34 AM »

Yeah, I posted drawings of a ATS-59 ' [Soviet medium artillery tractor of the 1960s] with suggested components suitable for this group build.

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Land / Re: A few 1/35 IFV's and AFV's

« Last post by Ramba on Yesterday at 06:36:13 AM »

Good modelling   Are the tracks of your MTLB too short ?  Have heard many complaints about that but mine are ok unless they shrink with time.

Thanks! Yes, the Skif tracks were way too short. They were probably short by 12-15 links if they were individual links. I also have the Skif 2S1 kit and those were also too short. They both use the same tracks. What I am going to do is take the longer set of tracks from the 2S1 kit and combine them with the longer set of tracks from the MT-LB kit but then they are too long so will need to be cut to the correct size. I will use the shorter tracks on the 2S1 but will show the tracks as thrown off so the length won't matter.

Trumpeter makes a set of 2S1 tracks I was thinking of getting but the Skif kits are cheap and not worth spending the money on. My MT-LB is a what if project anyway so the kit tracks are good enough.

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Land / Re: A few 1/35 IFV's and AFV's

« Last post by Ramba on Yesterday at 06:28:33 AM »

Prolific!

I have very limited time to paint so I put together as many as I can during the winter months. I can only paint outside in the spring and autumn. I can only paint mid spring as late spring into early summer there is a lot of pollen. Early spring is still way too cold to paint outside. Roughly middle/late spring though, there is a lot of pollen as I live in the middle of the woods in the mountains. Between the pollen, heat, humidity and wildlife, it is hard to paint outdoors without ruining the paint. Hopefully, all those I put together will eventually get painted one day. I did manage to prime eight kits over the weekend between the humidity and rain.

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Land / Re: A few 1/35 IFV's and AFV's

« Last post by raafif on Yesterday at 05:41:43 AM »

Good modelling   Are the tracks of your MTLB too short ?  Have heard many complaints about that but mine are ok unless they shrink with time.

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Aero-space / Re: XB-51, B-51, EB-51, etc...

« Last post by finsrin on Yesterday at 05:22:59 AM »

Right on Carl 

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Swords to Plowshares GB / Re: Aer Ab-11 'L-BUCD'

« Last post by robunos on Yesterday at 05:14:10 AM »

Okay . . .
Got a bit behind with this . . . this is because the engine exhaust pipes have to fit from the inside, but because of their length, they have to go in before the fuselage halves are joined. So I had to paint and finish them before i could assemble the fuselage,






and the wings attached.






That's All For Now, Stay Tuned . . .


cheers,
Robin.

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Aero-space / Re: XB-51, B-51, EB-51, etc...

« Last post by The Big Gimper on Yesterday at 04:47:32 AM »

After Martin XB-51 lost Light Tactical Bomber fly-off competition to Canberra, Martin selected to build the Canberra (designated B-57) under license. During early 1951 Martin Company offered new blended design that incorporated top features of British Canberra and its XB-51.



Drawing by Erik Simonsen.

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Aero-space / Re: Hawker Typhoon/Tempest

« Last post by The Big Gimper on Yesterday at 04:43:36 AM »

Just a nice photo of the Hawker Tempest Mk.I with the wing mounted leading edge radiators.

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Profiles and Pixels / Re: Apophenia's Offerings

« Last post by apophenia on Yesterday at 04:00:55 AM »

The original sport utility vehicle. Or cross over. Or whatever.

And the winner is ... "Or whatever." 

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Aero-space / Re: BI-1 Missile

« Last post by apophenia on Yesterday at 03:59:27 AM »

And looking good here as well, 'Mog