This is a weekend build of ANY 1/35th military subject for those of you with a sense of adventure, hands that are too big for Braille scale or those with poor eyesite (all those little 1/72 pieces!!)
Guidelines- Any 1/35th scale military model (tanks, soft skin, artillery- what ever you think you can do in a weekend.
Mediums- OOB recommended. If you want to buy PE and your crazy enough to use it, go ahead
Dates: January 29th and 30th, 2005, but we will have the times as 10pm Friday to 10 pm Sunday just to give you guys a little earlier start. (your time) If you missed this, midnight to midnight is fine. I realize it was a late change
Members: (this is tenitive from those who expressed interest. You can let me know if you are a maybe or in for sure and I will split up the list. Also the kit list is also tenative and can be changed, just let me know)
edog
zokissima- Italeri Kubelwagen
phroosh
feldgrau23 (Italeri T-26)
tigerman (Dragon Pak 40)
model grampa-Tamiya’s SU-85 Russian tank destroyer
kennethc (M-20 Armored car)
jwest21(Taiya M-48)
Dwight Ta-ala (Tamiya Tiger I Mid pro.)
panther18
rebelreenactor (Tamiya SdKfz 222 or Pz II)
tediam (1/35 tam35238 VW-82 Kubelwagen Afrika Korps)
Ga.modeler (M-107 Cyclops)
cplchilly-(moogram 1/32 panzerspahwagon 232)
wildwilliam (possible)
ddayomaha
tanker42-hummer or bradley
Ako sprue
Poniatowski
fightnjoe (academy panzer 4 ausf h)
Jeff Gunn (Panhard 178 B)
targetdriver
jimfredd (pot-luck)
djmodels1999 (AGA’s Wz.34 Polish armoured car)
lodni_k- Academy’s M-998 Cargo/Troop Carrier
tankergeoff- tamiya’s BMW motorcycle w/sidecar
balta1-Tamiya Panther A
pmm736-Tamiya T-34/76 1943
tsteenbergen-Italeri Hummer
Sniper Zed- T-34/76 “ChTz”
rocky the goat- Italeri STEYR Tractor
Steel Snail- T-34/85 or the old Panther A.
stuka_69- Tamiyas Kubelwagen
Gygaxx-SS Wiking Grenadiers
gderue- CMK Volkswagen Type 87
matinhouston-Tamiya U.S M16 quad .50 gun truck
ausf- Tamiya Pz I
After all I did finish an M1A2 on a weekend…with some cheating on a Friday night…[(-D][(-D][(-D][(-D]. But anyway I have to check my schedule because as some of you already knows…I work until Saturdays. So I have to check whether I can freee myself on that day.[:p] That’s why I am still a “probable member”.
That date is fine. I’ll have to chalk it up on my board so i won’t forget. Unless something changes i will be doing a wheely vehicle. Probably a M20 Armored car.
I’m thinking maybe Tamiya’s Stuart or M5 Gun Howitzer might work for this build also. Just some ideas I thought I’d share with the group. Easy OD paint scheme.
Well I can tell you I WON’T be doing any of Dragon’s kits. I am putting the tracks on their Panzer III M and there is no way I could do 240 parts in a weekend with out going insane
I built the “Honey” version and it’s not something I would attempt again in a single weekend…tracks are indy blocks with individual connector pins on both sides that take the connector piece as a separate individual part. The pins and connectors stagger so that one pin on each block goes into the connector. On the surface this doesn’t sound so tough, but you have to do it with both sides and the blocks will not be workable once they set up. On top of that the indy blocks and pins are small for a 1/35 kit so easy to break/lose one to the carpet monster if not careful. Ended up doing them in groups of three and then daisy-chaining them together. It was slow going and only did one track per day just because of the frustration factor.