Fantastic idea for a cover story for the magazine - The scratchbuilding issue!

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The scratchbuilding issue!

  • Some graphics we can download for MRE boxes of all generations. The pattern, so we can cut them out and fold them like the boxes
  • How to build Ammo Cans
  • How to use sheet styrene the right way
  • how to use putty to make sandbags, tarps
  • how we can measure (give us 1/35 tables) to make armor plating for german armor
  • best way to make bolts and how to use the
  • best glues to use for each materials
  • how to bend PE properly

I would love that issue.

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Sounds like a great idea and I’d love to see it.

However, I wouldn’t hold my breath. I sent an inquiry to the FSM editor (in accordance with their own published guidelines) 6 months ago about doing an article (or articles) focusing on my scratch-built conversion of a Pz IV into a Bruckenledger IVc…they didn’t even bother to answer my e-mail. The article would have hit on several of the topics you mentioned above.

Here’s hoping we see something like this (even in bits and pieces) in the future.

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Robert, I’m really glad that you submitted your Bruckenledger IVc to FSM. However, it makes me frown when you are saying that nobody there even bothered to even answer your e-mail, a shame really, as your scratchbuilt project was something that I found extremely amazing [tup]

I would love to see your article in FSM (HINT), it would, IMHO be a real treat for a lot of armor fans, and people that love seeing something out of the ordinary being built. Not only is it a not often seen subject, but the techniques that you used could be something that almost everybody could maybe apply to their own build some day. My [2c] anyway.

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Robert,

An e-mail’s on its way.

Matthew Usher

Editor, FSM

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That would make for an interesting special issue topic. We got painting and weathering this year. How about scratchbuilding basics for next year or the year after?