What do you do while the paint's drying?

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Or, do you have a time-killer on the bench, a “safe-zone”, something to fiddle with while the main project is at an impasse? Of course this is for those with more than one project in the works at a time…[:D] Some of my current back-burner pots…

Some have been in progress for years…OMG.

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That’s when I’ll actually pay attention to what my wife is talking about… Sorta…

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I go into the other room and play PC games or something like that.

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Oh yeah, I forgot… Post in here…

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Thats an easy one,research,research,research on my next project,Digger.

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Command the Southern Sector of the eastern front…

By the way, some nice-looking back-burners…

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LOL! [(-D]

I’m on here, of course! [:D]

Actually, doing these cars, I have a LOT of “paint drying time”! [sigh] I can’t wait to start my Revell Panzerjaeger Kanone!

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  1. Sleep - when scheduling works out that way
  2. Surf the Net - more than I should
  3. Eat - often forget to do this when cruising on a project
  4. Chores - all the things put off for 3 days because of modeling
  5. Run Errands
  6. Anything else I think needs done…
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One word: Beer.

Prosit!

Brad

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I wait for Revell’s Panzerjaeger Kanone to show up. Where’d you get yours from Karl?

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Ha! How do you get back to the project after beer? Kinda like Lays potato chips, can’t have just one…

EricVon, thanks, that’s just the stuff that wasn’t boxed up…

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Assuming a full day, subtracting sleep, eat, work or chores, family time…

  • Reading and writing to these threds
  • Internet and book research on the next build
  • Preparing for shows (if they are coming up)
  • Piddling around, always improving the work bench area
  • Thinking of what else modeling related I can do

Rounds Complete!!

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I found mine in a little hobby store in Bad Arolsen, Germany, where we were staying. (About 1/2 hour south of Kassel, mid Germany) I walked in, saw it, and even though the weakness of the dollar was going to mean it would be waaaymore expensive, I snatched it up. At the counter, the clerk explained to me in broken English “No credit cards!” [sigh]So I had to swallow my pride and beg my girlfriend for her last E20.00 to make the sale! [:I] (love that girl! [:X])

It wound up costing me somewhere in the neighborhood of $80.00? [:O] Where’d you get yours from? How much? (braces self for info!)

Here’s the kicker–I just ordered the correct hull corrections and correct tracks from PerfectScale Modelbau for another E67.00 or so–about another $100.00!. [:-^]

Hey, if I’m gonna finally build this kit, I might as well do it up right?

Cool–when you get yours…“Jagdpanzer Kanone Group Build!” LOL! [(-D]

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Okay, what is a Revell, “Jagdpanzer Kanone”…is this a Jagdpanzer IV?

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Nah, I’m gonna go solo on this one! [:P] I have yet to aquire one but I’ll do the same (not beg a girl for cash) but get the correct tracks for it. Until I see the kit first hand, I’ll probably pass on the upper hull resin pieces. Might go for two kits though! [#offtopic] [swg]

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No prob–I plan on doing a full WIP build post on it. I should be starting it in a couplw weeks here–I’m waiting on the mail for the ipeces from Germany–so you’ll be able to see it taking shape!

Manny–the Jagpanzer Kanone was the 70’s-era Jagdpanzer based on the Leopard I chassis. I’ve been waiting for one for years…

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Cool, looks like a Jagdpanzer IV on steroids…

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Cool. I bet I’ve been waiting longer than you have. I can’t count how many of the Tamiya 1/48 motorized ones I have built since 1971. I still have a few of them left.

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Doog - the Jagdpanzer Kanone was actually a late-1950s design, produced for the Bundeswehr, Swiss and, IIRC, Belgian armies in the mid-1960s, before the Leopard I was designed or produced. The two are entirely different designs - count the road wheels!

However, by the time it enterd service, its 90mm main armament had been outclassed by tanks like the M60 and Centurion V and VIII, and the T-64, whose frontal armour was well able to defeat 90mm rounds at most ranges, was starting to enter service with the Sovs. Ex-Wehrmacht tankers who had driven Jagdpanzers for real in WW2 also pointed out that the gun had very linited sideways traverse, even by Jagdpanzer standards, and that this would have severely limited its usefulness in action. It was thus used mostly for training.

The Revell Germany kit has been in my LHS for about a month, for £19.99 (say USD39.00). I’d been looking forward to it, but first inspection showed it to be disappointing, For a start, the tracks are entierly the wrong design. since there are several in German museums and as gate guardians, you do wonder how Revell Germany could have got this wrong.

For the time being, at least, I’ll be giving it a miss.

Cheers,

Chris.

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Hammer your first comment was[(-D] and like most of you I do all the things I put off once I started my project. An it’s a long line of things I would need to do.