Landships II

Nice.

Paul H wrote:

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You lot will find a million things wrong with my attempt...

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We're not like that, here.

Looks great - really well painted.

What did you think of the kit - did it go together easily, and all that?

 

Lovely!

I don't see a thing wrong with it. You did a great job! I agree with Baldwin, the mud looks great. Let us know what you did to make it. The figures look very good too.

-- Edited by plastic fan on Thursday 6th of January 2011 06:53:42 AM

Thanks
The kit wasn´t too bad to put together...the main part that is. For such an old kit all the joins were flush and very very little flash to be removed, mainly where the sprue was attached to the individual parts.
The real pain was the attachment of the steering gear. The main attaching piece at the back of the tank...no problem
The steering gear...wheels fine, fit perfect, the springs etc...also easy .
The real trouble began with parts 34 and 35, with which the the springs are attached to the inner sides of the tracks. It´s not 100% clear as to which way up they go or indeed which up. When they are fitted they dont look right and due to that I took them off and refitted (obviously the wrong way around) and tried to fit ..but then realising my mistake put them on the right way around. Also didn´t work..I had fitted both the tracks and no matter how the locating pins would not go into the holes.
I cut the locating pins off and tried again but by now the glue was making parts 34-35 turn into a sticky mass...so I gave up.
Still...I have the steering gear for the male tank already finished so there´s a plus

The cammo is the scheme on the the box...I started by copying it but at some point went of Scheme The colours I made up myself.

The mud for the dio I made it from sharpsand and wood glue. Basically mix until it goes like thick cream and paste it on. To get the wet look I used Darkbrown Acrylic Textil paint.

The mud for the tank...from woodglue, wallfiller (plaster), darkbrown acrylic paint and a bit of wood glue.

I agree, it needs a bit more mud ontop of the sponsons...it would have fallen there from the tracks

Cheers
Paul

I love the mud. Just looking at it I can almost hear that *SCHLOPP*-sound as you pull your boot out of it.

Thanks plastikk, I have just seen your Emhar whippet....lovely work

A question though...on the new box of the MKI  it says that the scale is 1/76th, the instructions say 1/72nd and on the review here the box says 1/72nd....what scale is it???

-- Edited by Paul H on Monday 10th of January 2011 07:19:35 PM

Paul H wrote:

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Thanks plastikk, I have just seen your Emhar whippet....lovely work

A question though...on the new box of the MKI  it says that the scale is 1/76th, the instructions say 1/72nd and on the review here the box says 1/72nd....what scale is it???

-- Edited by Paul H on Monday 10th of January 2011 07:19:35 PM

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On the original packaging, I believe, it said "HO/OO" which is simultaneously 1/76 and 1/87. Obviously nonsense! I'm told it scales out closer to 1/76 than 1/72 (or 1/87). And there is a noticeable difference between Emhar's 1/72 tanks and Airfix's 1/76 ones.

NB: HO scale is 3.5mm to the foot (1/87), and OO scale is 4mm to the foot (1/76)