The Duke Finishes More Armor

[Duke Maddog]

In this post, I have two finished models for the collection and two models that I built for my wargame army that do not count toward my finished armor collection.

First off, this is my first model that I finished up for my collection. This is Dragon's 1/72 scale StuG III F that I built during my AMPS club's Four Hour Build Challenge. The rules were:

1) No snap together models
2) the box could be opened but the sprues needed to be still sealed in the bag.
3) Anything goes; just see how far you could get in four hours.

This little StuG was done in that four hour period:





In addition to that, I finished up these two Revell of Germany M4-A1 Shermans that I had bought from an estate sale. I completed both of them in the same four hours that I completed the StuG. These will be going to my war game army:






Finally, the second model for my collection is this 1/72 scale UM Models M4-A1 Sherman with the mine roller attached to it. This was a real bear to do and I'm glad this is finally finished:






That's all for now from my workbench. Hopefully more will come flying off on the way to the shelf. I need the space!

Thanks all for looking in, comments are welcome.



Note: I have tried to post my completed ship in the Ships and Submarines Forum and I keep getting a "Error 403" message. Is the ships portion of these boards broken? Please check on this. I'll be repeating this alert in the troubleshooting/error Forum.

[speedgraflex]

Mark,

So excited by these incredible armor builds as well as the speed with which you built the first three! Awesome job all around! Exquisite craft and artistry with their different surfaces. You capture so well the complex sheen of paint over metal. I meant to write earlier up in your gallery that your "ambush build" is simply stunning and fast becoming one of the most memorable models I have seen this year; I saw a high resolution black and white photograph of a tank from the same time period in an incredible photograph and thought it was one of your models... then I realized I was looking at the real thing. Kudos. Congratulations. I hope the posting situational snafu is temporary. I have never had that error before when posting images to SPA Modeler. Best wishes!

[Duke Maddog]

Thanks Bruce! I am honored by your comments. It did feel great to finally finish something.

I'm gonna try again to see if I can post that post.

Thanks again for looking in and for your awesome comments!

[Stikpusher]

To finish one kit, let alone three, all with painting, decals, and weathering, in a four hour period, is most impressive my friend! It was a treat to see these this past Friday at IPMS. Keep up the great work my friend!

[Duke Maddog]

Thanks Carlos! It felt good to know I still got it!

[speedgraflex]

Hell yes, you still got it, sir!

[BlackSheep214]

To finish one kit, let alone three, all with painting, decals, and weathering, in a four hour period, is most impressive my friend! It was a treat to see these this past Friday at IPMS. Keep up the great work my friend!

The “Name That Tune” gameshow of the modeling world...

I can build 3 kits in 4 hours....

[Duke Maddog]

To finish one kit, let alone three, all with painting, decals, and weathering, in a four hour period, is most impressive my friend! It was a treat to see these this past Friday at IPMS. Keep up the great work my friend!

The “Name That Tune” gameshow of the modeling world...

I can build 3 kits in 4 hours....

That's hilarious! Maybe I should add that to my sig line!