Tomcat's MENG World War Toons Churchill

[Tomcat64]

It's time for the lads annual Easter outing and this year they're adding another Allied tank to their collection


On breaking open the box they found a couple of sprues




Some assorted bits


And some guidelines...


They normally try and get these done over the long Easter weekend but that might be a bit tight this year with other stuff we've got going on but they're going to give it their best shot

Happy Easter folks

[Twokidsnosleep]

Excellent !
Keep an eye on that purple guy, he can go a bit crazy

[Tomcat64]

Excellent !
Keep an eye on that purple guy, he can go a bit crazy

[Tomcat64]

The chaos commenced yesterday when the lads inadvertently followed section 1 of the instructions to the letter...


Although they also installed some weight to get the thing to sit properly


This outlandish behaviour was enough to attract the attention of the orange enigma down from the shelf of doom to supervise the assembly of the wheels


Picking up this morning they assembled the upper hull


And the turret


Then after drilling out some of the attachment points to make things a little looser they started on a dry fit


Oh yeah... Dave volunteered to "drill" out the machine guns since he's apparently an expert in making holes in things


Here's how it all looks minus the assorted greeblies that will be painted and added separately


Talking of paint...




As a tenuous side note I only found out recently that young Will Robinson was played by the same actor that played Lennier in Babylon 5...

Thanks for looking & stay tuned...

[Tomcat64]

Well Easter Monday's project time was cut short with an unplanned visit to the vets - Bonniepuss was a little under the weather but happily she appears to have picked up now.


So a quick update from last weekend where the lads had successfully sprayed everything with British Light Stone (the instructions called for Light Earth but they knew best...)


They also sorted out the painting of the wheels which inevitably involved some masking tape


And they started sorting out the tracks & assorted bits n pieces


Onto this week and a decision was taken to brush paint the camo pattern (mainly due to me not wanting to let them near the panzer putty...) So suitably equipped they put down a couple of coats of Medium Olive


They then pulled the two hull sections back apart and installed the wheels & tracks and gave the undercarriage a grimy wash


Then they added some of the tools & bits and put the upper hull back on permanently - the spare track piece is currently drying which is why there are still a couple of locating holes visible


And finally popped the turret back on


They still need to add the decals & pick out some details but we're nearly there... if we get some time in the evenings this coming week we should hopefully get it done

Thanks as always for looking

[Twokidsnosleep]

Coming along nicely
Well wishes to the cat

[Stokesy44]

Splendidly wacky!

[RangerNeil]

The chaos commenced yesterday when the lads inadvertently followed section 1 of the instructions to the letter...


Although they also installed some weight to get the thing to sit properly


This outlandish behaviour was enough to attract the attention of the orange enigma down from the shelf of doom to supervise the assembly of the wheels


Picking up this morning they assembled the upper hull


And the turret


Then after drilling out some of the attachment points to make things a little looser they started on a dry fit


Oh yeah... Dave volunteered to "drill" out the machine guns since he's apparently an expert in making holes in things


Here's how it all looks minus the assorted greeblies that will be painted and added separately


Talking of paint...




As a tenuous side note I only found out recently that young Will Robinson was played by the same actor that played Lennier in Babylon 5...

Thanks for looking & stay tuned...

Lovely job thus far!!!
As an aside - the actress who played his Mum in Lost in Space", June Lockhart, was also in an episode of Babylon 5 - the one where the alien healing machine first appears.

[Tomcat64]

So close to getting this done before we went away on holiday but didn't quite make it...

The lads did manage to get all the decals down


And then this afternoon it was finished off with a dusting of an earthy tone to provide a suitably used look, and picking out some final details


With that done the lads can take the rest of the year off to work on their next project


I'll break up the grown-up camera to get a final reveal up over the weekend

Thanks as always for looking