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Swords to Plowshares GB / Re: BTR Arctic Explorer

« Last post by apophenia on Yesterday at 02:57:22 AM »

Ooo ... that is nice! With that bubble dome on top (and maybe without the Finnish url), that could easily pass for an off-world transporter 

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Land / Re: Canadian Leopard C2 MEXAS

« Last post by apophenia on Yesterday at 02:50:55 AM »

Part 5, my other canadian Armour:

Model from ca 2019:

Great to see your Canadian Leo 2s again. I especially love your Leopard 2 A6M CAN build complete with 'Roll Out' placards 

... conversion based on the ESCI Piranhas, 30 years ago. The Husky is the Trumpeter kit ...

I had no idea that you had modelled the AVGPs! And the 'prototypes' to boot ... too cool 

... "what if", Canada was once interested in this ...

Another blast-from-the-past! Perhaps that 'Marten' was a "what if" but also very much a 'should-have-been' 

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Swords to Plowshares GB / Re: BTR Arctic Explorer

« Last post by Buzzbomb on April 29, 2024, 08:14:26 PM »

This really came out well.
What did you use for the snow?

Same as what Kerick said.

Thanks for the kind words.

For snow I use salt. Ordinary table salt is a bit coarse for 1/35 so I grind down using a mortar and pestle as best as possible.
Salt I find, being a crystal shape will sometimes give that glint real snow does, given my very limited exposure to Snow in Australia, which is not much

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Other / Re: ladybug & Leclerc, red : hybrid aircraft/animals e.a.

« Last post by ericr on April 29, 2024, 07:50:04 PM »

 

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Other / Re: Random Diorama Ideas

« Last post by Story on April 29, 2024, 06:42:23 PM »

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Land / Re: Fire Brigades/Departments - Fire-Fighting Equipment

« Last post by GTX_Admin on April 29, 2024, 06:25:44 PM »

Great Idea !  I have photos of many ex-military vehicles -- M8 High-speed, DUKWs, M-113s, various Russian T-tanks, Maz Scud truck, German half-tracks and a motorcycle-sidecar etc.

The Colet has to be the sexiest fire-engine out there !

That deserves to have a sci-fi movie written just so that it can be the star

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New Model Kit News/Reviews / Re: Takom Models

« Last post by GTX_Admin on April 29, 2024, 06:22:00 PM »

Or mount on a high wall for a zombie defence system

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Land / Re: Soviet/Russian Tank and derivatives Ideas and Inspiration

« Last post by GTX_Admin on April 29, 2024, 06:20:43 PM »

 

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Aero-space / Re: 48th scale Kinetic S-2 Tracker What-If WIP

« Last post by Old Wombat on April 29, 2024, 03:15:47 PM »

Um, crew access, Jeff?

Through the bomb bay or out the top if an emergency.  Since the S-2 has a doorway of sorts between the seats at the flight station, it now becomes the entry way into the flight station via the bomb bay.  Simple and definitely not up to current safety protocols but as a war time expedient torpedo and attack bomber it is not that much different from the A-26 that required crew entry through the top of the aircraft canopy.

 

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Land / Re: Canadian Leopard C2 MEXAS

« Last post by Marderman on April 29, 2024, 02:10:10 PM »

Part 5, my other canadian Armour:

Model from ca 2019:



conversion based on the ESCI Piranhas, 30 years ago. The Husky is the Trumpeter kit



"what if", Canada was once interested in this