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So its been a journey, ive learnt plenty of new skills, well started to learn them and it has been a ride, warped side skirt, shrinking and cracking clay and many other minor booboos along the way.
Kit as in the title is mengs superb m2a3 with full interior, hermarines are tamiya as are the sand bags and brick walls. Paint is mostly vallejo with some citadel and tamiya, washes are Ultimate, pigments are mig and revell and pretty much everything else came from a local craft shop or hardware store, thanks to everyone who gave advice or compliments they do mean a lot to this poor soul!
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Well done John..... Looks the "dogs danglies" mate.. :th: :th:
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excellent! well done! :clap: :clap: :clap:
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Very nicely done.....
Looks superb :clap: :clap:
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Awesome ! Really great dio ! Like a lot the end result of the Bradley and the way you have compose the scene ! Real Nice !

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I'm with Andy... only with less smilies and more danglies.
Nicely done dude. Tonnes of hard work and lessons learned means a first rate build in my books.
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Thanks all, roll on the next one eh, just have to find a jagd something or other that takes my fancy, might even try another dio or more likely some type of vignette.
John, whats on my bench? Usually a mess and a couple of different models a week.
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Lovely finish, really like the groundwork. :th: :th:
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Amazing work well done :th: :th: :th: :th:
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Smashing work mate
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:cheers2: :thumb1:
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Cheers norm, one of these days i will try out your optics trick, christmas decorations are in the shops now so i may have to actually put them to good use!
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Nice dio, great job.
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Great work wookie, really like your dio. With the troops, looks like there going take some savages down! Great build and that's for the pics they really help on my M3A3 BRADLEY build.
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Happy to be the guinea pig lol, thanks.
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You did a great job here, that Bradley looks difficult to build.
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Surprisingly given the parts count it wasnt difficult at all, trickiest part was figuring out how and when to paint the interior without stalling the build totally.
John, whats on my bench? Usually a mess and a couple of different models a week.
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For myself that's the intimidating part of the build - this going back and forth between building and painting the interior - which is also the impressive part of the build as well.
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The way i did it was to paint the interior and the larger sub assemblies separately and then get all gluey, there was some slight adjustment to the bottom of the engine but i dry fitted everything first to check for issues.
John, whats on my bench? Usually a mess and a couple of different models a week.
My motto? I'm not lazy, just energy efficient.
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That interior looks superb. Great dio and build. :clap:
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