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Work In Progress / Re: LVT Project - TS1 Assembled 180105

« on: January 05, 2018, 05:25:04 pm »

They look nice.

There will be the conflict between utility (my forces can use LVT-4s) and shinyness (Amtanks).

Mildly disappointed that you can only build a waterline or a full height version, a lot of spare parts if you choose the former.

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General Discussions / Re: Have you changed your plastic?

« on: January 05, 2018, 04:17:05 am »

I have had occasional issues with some kits not being impressed by my usual Humbrol liquid poly. I have not tried the Tamiya liquid poly (recommended by Pinky) on those kits but it has worked on subsequent kits (such as the M4A3E8).

I have not tried cleaning the sprues, though I have found sanding the surfaces works.

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Showcase & Gallery / Re: UVS models

« on: January 05, 2018, 02:48:36 am »

The wheel is 9mm diameter, I have just measured it.

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Showcase & Gallery / Re: UVS models

« on: January 05, 2018, 12:52:55 am »

Looking at the photographs of the HVSS page on the Sherman minutia page it looks like the hub has eight holes for bolts and two for positioning studs.

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Showcase & Gallery / Re: UVS models

« on: January 05, 2018, 12:29:29 am »

Weird the wheel has extra holes , the mount has 8 but the wheel has 10 ?

If you look on the photograph of Dalmatian you will see that the spare wheel is bolted on using the middle hole of the top pair.

The mount has three holes and two posts, the others look like fade or paint.

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Showcase & Gallery / Re: Somtecs builds

« on: January 04, 2018, 08:00:32 pm »

Have you seen:
http://forum.rubiconmodels.com/index.php?topic=366.0

I have some Westwind SOTR figures and the US heads.
http://ultravanillasmurf.blogspot.co.uk/2011/07/five-rounds-rapid-chap-with-wings.html

http://ultravanillasmurf.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/allies.html
The latter is a Westwind US head on a crooked dice minion with SMG.

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Work In Progress / Re: T-26 Soviet Light Infantry Tank - TS1 Assembled 180104

« on: January 04, 2018, 05:28:48 pm »

Very nice.

I was running up a Bolt Action Tank War reinforced platoon for T26s. There are a lot of them (by contrast my JPzr38 platoon had four JPzrs and two carriers with infantry). A use for the GAZ trucks as well.

Strange ideas on tanks lingered, just look at US tank doctrine in World War 2.

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Showcase & Gallery / Re: Somtecs builds

« on: January 04, 2018, 05:19:37 pm »

I have a comparison of Perry's and a Warlord BEF metal here:
http://ultravanillasmurf.blogspot.co.uk/2014/04/perry-miniatures-eighth-
There are some  more on this search.
http://ultravanillasmurf.blogspot.co.uk/search/label/Perry%20Miniatures

They are nice subtle figures.

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Showcase & Gallery / Re: UVS models

« on: January 04, 2018, 05:13:11 pm »

Thanks Pinky, you are right there is a photograph showing the bracket (four angled clips that support the bogie wheel), it is the one with the 8072nd's M4A3(105) HVSS with sand shields. I had not looked closely enough. I had been looking for a bracket with no wheel in place - the colour contrast on that photograph is such you can see the bracket. Well spotted.

I only found the page after initial assembly of the M4A3E8, it is well hidden ^__^.

Somtec - the IDF ones are bolted, but only using three bolt holes, Pinky's find makes it look like the TOD ones are held in by gravity.

Somtec and Ripley, that is a possibility, but not convinced that it is within my capabilities. You could use two copies of the rear bogie wheel to remove the flat spot. The existing bolt holes and stub axle would need drilling out.

I will need to look at them for the sizes. I think the tyre is proportionally too thick for the Cromwell wheel in a smaller scale.

Thank you for the ideas.

Not quite off topic, but does anyone know why one of the spare VVSS bogie wheels is in two parts?

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Showcase & Gallery / Re: Somtecs builds

« on: January 04, 2018, 12:24:20 am »

Very good. Love the stowage.

I look forward to seeing it painted.

So what are you doing for crew?

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Showcase & Gallery / Re: UVS models

« on: January 04, 2018, 12:19:28 am »

Thanks Somtec, that is the set of thing I was after.

Thanks Ripley, interesting stowage. Is that a crate of cans on the glacis? Most of the tanks illustrated have the spare wheel strapped/wedged in place. The US in Korea tank has a lot of spare wheels, you can see one on the track guard, one on the turret bustle and possibly one on the front.

Maybe some HVSS spare wheels in the next stowage set?

I am thinking of using the inserts from the two part Sherman wheels for the mounts for the HVSS spare wheels. I will have a look later.

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Showcase & Gallery / Re: UVS models

« on: January 03, 2018, 05:18:21 pm »

Thanks.

One minor thing missing from the kit are spare bogie wheels for the HVSS. One of the features of the Korean War tanks refitted in Tokyo is the spare wheel. This is also the case on the IDF ones.

Thinking about it, there must be fitting on the turret or hull, so it would be possible to just add the mount.

If anyone knows how they are mounted, that would be useful.

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Showcase & Gallery / Re: HOW TO - Easy kit improvements

« on: January 03, 2018, 05:03:15 pm »

Yes many years of kit bashing  , can't really say that no plastic kits weren't harmed in developing these skills , must of trashed 100s over the years...

Good to hear it's not just me who's done that.  There's that moment when you realise that a project hasn't worked out.  Or that no amount of stowage is going to conceal the mess you've just made...

Yup, me too....

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Work In Progress / Re: T-26 Soviet Light Infantry Tank - OT-130 & OT-133 180102

« on: January 03, 2018, 05:00:04 pm »

Well done.

Now we have to build one of each....

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Work In Progress / Re: T-26 Soviet Light Infantry Tank - OT-130 & OT-133 180102

« on: January 03, 2018, 12:52:05 am »

Is that mantlet in the right place on the second picture?