The Neglected Kit Resurrection Groupbuild

21 December 2014, 18:52

Dave Humphreys
Great start! It's good to see some older kits being dusted off and built.

21 December 2014, 18:58

George Bacon
Thanks Dave. It is dated by today's standards, but fun to figure out how to improve it (or at least try) 🙂

21 December 2014, 19:05

Hunter Cummins
Count me in George 🙂

26 December 2014, 05:32

Fabian D.
Another example of your great work. I like the T-34s, because you can do so much on your own. (Which you've brought to perfection) 👍

26 December 2014, 08:10

George Bacon
Thanks mates! After assembling the individual plastic tracks from Mirage (which required a lot of cleaning!). I think it's ready to start painting. 🙂

26 December 2014, 13:09

Acki
Count me in George. Another great kit from your bench.

26 December 2014, 18:35

George Bacon
Thanks Aki! 🙂. I won't get much done for the next few days, but can't wait to get this one finished!

26 December 2014, 23:48

Matthias Weiss
Nice George! Where did you get the resin wheels from?

27 December 2014, 10:19

Es-haq Khosravi
Great job!

27 December 2014, 11:35

George Bacon
Thanks Mates! 🙂. I hope it turns out in the end... Matthias, the wheels (and tracks) are plastic kits from Maquette. The are very inexpensive, and will work nicely (especially if they are going to be covered in mud😉 ). I don't know if they are still produced, or if Maquette is still in business. I think you can find them on eBay.

27 December 2014, 14:22

Matthias Weiss
Hella George, I mean the ones you marked as rubber rimmed road wheels. Are they from Maquette, too?

27 December 2014, 14:42

Vorya hidaryan
So far so good 🙂

29 December 2014, 09:12

George Bacon
Thanks vorya 🙂. Matthias, the pierced rubber road wheels (white ones in the pictures) are all plastic from Maquette. All other wheels come with the kit. I think I have the wrong Maquette wheels displayed as being part of the project. Sorry. 🙁

29 December 2014, 18:04

George Bacon
Finally done! It only took nine years of procrastination... 🙂

8 January 2015, 17:08

Fabian D.
Sometimes things just have to take a while.😉
Nicely done! 👍

8 January 2015, 18:06

Dave Humphreys
That's a great build, George. I love the restrained weathering🙂 Brilliant!

Dave

8 January 2015, 20:10

M.Julian Marles
Great finish, I had the same Maquette tracks, they are actually quite nice!

8 January 2015, 20:13

George Bacon
Thanks Fabian and Dave! 🙂

8 January 2015, 20:16

George Bacon
Thanks M. Julian 🙂. Have you used the Maquette tracks? They have nice detail, but the plastic seemed a little odd. It seemed like it took a lot of plastic cement to get them to bond...

8 January 2015, 20:19

M.Julian Marles
Yes, I did have trouble...in those times the Eastern European manufacturers were not like the ones today - ICM, Masterbox, Zvezda have really decent quality for their new stuff. The old Maquette/ICM/Alan/AER Moldova/Mirage/Alanger stuff had sub-par plastic, you can see lots of multicoloured swirls in the plastic, huge attachment points, tonnes of seams, flash, knock out marks, etc....I ended up using epoxy to fix them to each other 🙂

8 January 2015, 20:25