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Offline father ennis

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Re: HMBLT - the Build
« Reply #25 on: June 28, 2013, 06:32:38 AM »
Good to see you back,my friend ... !!!!
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Re: HMBLT - the Build
« Reply #26 on: June 28, 2013, 07:27:19 AM »
I'm glad to see that you're making some progress on this.

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Just letting you all know that this is moving again. Not, perhaps, fast enough to be finished before I have to return to Crab Heaven but it is moving.

Just think of the fortune you could make selling those hideous crab shells as steampunked hideous crab tanks. Or something.
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Re: HMBLT - the Build
« Reply #27 on: July 04, 2013, 12:48:02 AM »
Photo's have been delayed due to a construction alteration. :-X

I have long been unhappy with the height of the "caboose/guard-van" unit & I've finally decided to bite the bullet & make it taller. ???

This will ease some of the trouble I've had building the forklift to fit into the back & allow the crew to stand upright in the cargo area. :)

Thanks for your patience!

Cheers!

Guy
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Re: HMBLT - the Build
« Reply #28 on: July 04, 2013, 04:34:37 PM »
Wow, I like it. A completely different idea and beautifully constructed. Keep up up the great work.  :)
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Re: HMBLT - the Build
« Reply #29 on: July 13, 2013, 02:16:37 AM »

 When you say "Robber Crab" is this what you're talking about?

 Good to have you back -and by the way, the ship images from Christmas are terrific, too!
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Re: HMBLT - the Build
« Reply #30 on: July 16, 2013, 04:05:23 PM »
Very similar, Doc. CI versions seem to be brighter than that one. Also, Robber Crabs are called Coconut Crabs elsewhere.

Still haven't had a chance to download all of my CI photo's to the Bucket, yet, but I have a few good Robber Crab pic's.

Almost done with the interior of the guard van, too. Try for some photo's later this week or early next.

;)

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Re: HMBLT - the Build
« Reply #31 on: July 20, 2013, 08:19:09 PM »
Build has gone even slower than expected (funny how Mrs Wombat seems to want to spend time & do things with me on my 6 week break ???) but here are the photo's to prove that something has happened. I have the housings for the upper hydraulic lifters to fit & then I'll glue in the fuel drum pallet & glue down the lid & seal it all up until I get back from CI in 6 months (or sooner, if K.Rudd's plan to stop the boats works).































As usual, all constructive comments welcome! :o

 :D

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Re: HMBLT - the Build
« Reply #32 on: July 21, 2013, 03:37:57 AM »
All that wonderful detailing sealed up... :(
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Offline Jeffry Fontaine

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Re: HMBLT - the Build
« Reply #33 on: July 21, 2013, 03:45:43 AM »
Guy, have you seen the 1:32 -1:35th scale freight pallets produced by Aoshima?  Three types of freight pallet and a stack of lumber (real wood and very fine grain).  The lumber looks about right for a standard 10cmX10cm (4"X4") post and there are 60 included in the kit along with multiple pallet jacks.  The Aoshima fork lifts are nice but a bit too large to fit inside of your HBMLT. 
« Last Edit: July 21, 2013, 03:48:23 AM by Jeffry Fontaine »
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Offline Old Wombat

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Re: HMBLT - the Build
« Reply #34 on: July 21, 2013, 09:31:34 AM »
Thanks, gents! :D

Hadn't seen the Aoshima pallets before, Jeffry, &, due to time & budget constraints, I probably wont be ordering any in the near future, I'm afraid.

Maybe for later builds, when I finally get to be based back home, either in my current job role or another.

:)

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Re: HMBLT - the Build
« Reply #35 on: July 21, 2013, 09:52:04 AM »
Quote from: Old Wombat on July 21, 2013, 09:31:34 AM
Thanks, gents! :D

Hadn't seen the Aoshima pallets before, Jeffry, &, due to time & budget constraints, I probably wont be ordering any in the near future, I'm afraid.

Maybe for later builds, when I finally get to be based back home, either in my current job role or another.

:)

Guy

Hi Guy,

I found the kits by accident when I stopped in at a hobby shop in Seattle that just happened to have the pallet kit and the fork lift kits on the shelf.  I had a fork lift sent to me by another member here (thanks again Alvis) and the pallets were just what I was looking for.  Price was a bit more than I would have wanted to pay but it was an impulse purchase.  ;)
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Re: HMBLT - the Build
« Reply #36 on: August 05, 2013, 01:48:55 PM »
Thought I'd find you doing something nefarious and vaguely shameful  >:D with some innocent and unwitting plastic armored ground transport!  :o

I like your vehicle immensely (says a lot about me), up to the usual standards I see, ( :) ;) ;D ), brilliant that is, you left this one at home didn't you and not one of the armored vehicle kits you took with you? This is the one we discussed over the either ain't it?

So wots the colour scheme gonna be?

Keep up the amazing work fella, I look forward to the finished vehicle.
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Offline Old Wombat

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Re: HMBLT - the Build
« Reply #37 on: August 05, 2013, 07:26:17 PM »
Yep, left it at home. Can't bring enough stuff to do the work required to finish it. Brought 3 tanks with me to be built OOB: a M-41 to be a RAM's tank ca. 1968 in Viet Nam, a Pz.Kpfw. 35(t) to be finished as either a Polish or Frech Invasion version (no Whiffing! :o ) & a T-62 to be completed as a KO'ed Somali tank to accompany an ex-USMC Imperial Ethiopian Army M-60A1 in a ca. 2000+ diorama. These I'll just build & take home to finish as-&-when I can.

Royal Australian Marines camo... Which I haven't fully realised, yet, but which will probably include a blue-grey & be based on the regular Army camo.

:)

Guy
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Re: HMBLT - the Build
« Reply #38 on: August 05, 2013, 07:30:38 PM »
Guy.. this just keeps humming along.

Like it a lot
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Offline Old Wombat

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Re: HMBLT - the Build
« Reply #39 on: August 05, 2013, 07:35:57 PM »
Thanks, Brian! :D

Pity it'll be 6 months before I get to see it again. :(

Guy
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Re: HMBLT - the Build
« Reply #40 on: August 05, 2013, 10:37:41 PM »
 Don't feel too bad - I suspect that more than one of us have more than one build that we don't
 get back to for six months ( or more. ) The interior work is terrific! As an irreverent aside, I looked
 at the vehicle acronym again this morning and the first thing that popped into my head was "Her
 Majesty's Bacon, Lettuce, and Tomato"....
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Offline Old Wombat

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Re: HMBLT - the Build
« Reply #41 on: August 06, 2013, 01:07:54 AM »
Close, Doc! ;)

My private version has been Honey-Mustard, Bacon, Lettuce & Tomato. ;D

:o

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Offline finsrin

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Re: HMBLT - the Build
« Reply #42 on: January 18, 2014, 01:18:57 PM »
This is another way to good build.  :-* 
Suburb - I be all green.
First rate details everywhere  :)
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Offline Old Wombat

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Re: HMBLT - the Build
« Reply #43 on: January 18, 2014, 01:56:03 PM »
Thanks, finsrin!

Hopefully not too long now until I can get back to her. Depends on how long it is after I get home (in 11 days! ;D ) that my wife lets me set up my modelling spot.

The urge to build a cargo trailer has built up to be almost irresistable :-\ , so a couple more Strykers are probably going to suffer extereme surgery at some time, too.

:icon_music:

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Re: HMBLT - the Build
« Reply #44 on: October 07, 2014, 07:31:22 AM »
Well, here I am, again!

The HMBLT has been primed with Tamiya grey primer & is sitting on the dining table waiting expectantly because (Ta-dah!) yours-truly has broken out the airbrush equipment!

I'll be trying to fit in a crash-course on operating it today & will try to get the basic paint work done on this before the weekend, when I intend to take it to the SAPMA Expo as a WIP.

Paint job on this will be more difficult than for the RAM M41AS because it's going to be a 3 or 4 tone scheme using tailor-mixed colours - which I'll make in bulk for other modern RAM builds, if I get them right.

I've also started work on the cargo trailer unit & a fast recon. vehicle by violently bashing 2 kits together.
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Re: HMBLT - the Build
« Reply #45 on: October 07, 2014, 12:06:23 PM »
'Bout time you got back to being violent to helpless plastic fella, love to see some progress ........... :D
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Offline Old Wombat

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Re: HMBLT - the Build
« Reply #46 on: October 29, 2014, 02:50:42 PM »
Well, it's been a cruddy 6 weeks on the modelling front - I've barely been here at all because I've been using what little time I've had to build.

This has been primed & I've gotten a fair way with the cargo trailer.

I haven't taken any photo's & my camera's packed away 'coz I fly back to CI too-early tomorrow.

Sorry! :icon_crap:
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Offline Brian da Basher

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Re: HMBLT - the Build
« Reply #47 on: November 08, 2014, 04:47:59 AM »
I feel your pain, going through the busy season at work to boot.

No worries, we'll be here to enjoy your next update!

Thanks for keeping us in the loop,
Brian da Basher
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Offline Old Wombat

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Re: HMBLT - the Build
« Reply #48 on: November 08, 2014, 11:43:19 AM »
Thanks, Brian! :)

I've been drowning my sorrows with kit & accessories purchases that I shouldn't really make. :icon_beer:

(God help me if the missus finds out just how much I've spent! :o )
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Offline finsrin

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Re: HMBLT - the Build
« Reply #49 on: November 08, 2014, 03:49:21 PM »
Splendid :)
Another BTS example of a fine should I take up knitting or jigsaw puzzles build.
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