The Children of Doom

[Stuart]

Superb fix on those decals - they came out really well.

[Stikpusher]

Thanks Stuart. The fix turned out well enough.

[Stikpusher]

Well the past few days were the final push… since the pilot reminded me of Adolf Galland, I made a cigar from stretched Sprue and added that in the corner of his mouth. The only change I made to the kit aside from hollowing out the exhaust pipes and cannon bores





Then he was glued in place…





Then I glued the canopy in place… the rubber band kept it in place while the glue set





and then I added all the last bits…



All finished now!!! I’ll get some multi view photos up in the finished section tomorrow

[keavdog]

That's just awesome Stik! Pilot looks fantastic - what a fun build.

[Stuart]

LOL! That looks excellent Carlos and I'll look forward to seeing the final pics. Adding that Cigar was a great idea.

[LyleW]

Well done. Very well done! The stogie is a perfect addition.

[Stikpusher]

My latest resurrection project from the Shelf of Doom… I started this for a So.Cal AMPS Panzer IV GB about 10 years ago



I was going to replace the kit tracks with some AM tracks and eventually settled on some Modelkasten indy links



Since I wanted to do a DAK Panzer I decided to replace the crew figures with a set from Verlinden and the kit decals are replaced by a set from Bison





I got most of the basic assembly finished, but then hit a snag when I tried to fit the AM tracks to the kit sprockets. The sprockets were too wide as engineered. So I put it onto the shelf of doom after getting this much completed















So yesterday I decided to pull this one off the shelf and tackled the reason for the stop first. I cut the sprockets in half, sanded away some of the middle section until they would fit the MK tracks, then glued them back together.



Then a test fit onto the lower hull





This won’t be my main project, but I will be chipping away at it for the next while until it is finished.

[speedgraflex]

Man those Verlinden figures look great! Nice progress photos, too.

[KSaarni]

What a fantasticly fantastic Emil there!



- Kari

[Stuart]

Good to see another shelf Queen on the go Carlos. Interesting what you say about the drive Sprockets, I had a similar issue on my Chieftain when trying to fit AM tracks. The teeth were far too large. I actually wonder if that was intended by Tamiya, in order to beef it up for motorisation.