Goliath

Good afternoon everyone. I was going to introduce this tomorrow on the Web Call as many of you have been following it's progress. I still may make a few tweaks, but it is complete and as you can see, on groundwork with the Warhammer figures in the foreground for reference.

As you may remember, y'all sent several sci fi artist pics to give me ideas on what to build back in May ??  So, this is what resulted from all that experimentation. The intention was to look somewhere between a wargaming vehicle and Steam Punk.  It may be difficult to recognize the three main armor hulls used in this monstrosity.

KV-5, M113 (2). Most of the rest was scrap built or modified components of the KV-5 kit. You can see that the track systems worked out near perfectly in spacing and alignment. Since the vehicle is 1/48 scale, I was able to use Tamiya German crew figures inside the turret. 

Of course at this size there was room for some lighting and circuits. Lights look better in person so be at the next meeting in November.

The groundwork depicts a battlefield where Goliath and troops have routed the enemy and overrun their emplacement.

Normally a scrap build design project like this takes a year or so working sporadically, but this was so much fun, the work moved along rather quickly.

Vince B.  10-1-20

 ENTHUSIASM INJECTION

I've been working on 2 builds for a while, an entry to the John Baker Commemorative Build and one for the Engineering Vehicle Build.  Both have laid siege to my bench and as of Tuesday night I had lost my modeling Mojo.  The Engineering Vehicle is from Rye Fields Models and has about broken my will to live with all it's minute detailed micro components.  I read somewhere that a remade for loosing your modeling Mojo is to step back, clean your bench and then take a shot at a one day quick build.  This is my attempt at this course of action with the hopes of injecting some enthusiasm back into my efforts.

I've had in mind a vignette that would include US Comms team maintaining a remote solar powered antenna array.  I have all the other components of the vignette (not yet built) but I had nothing for an antenna.  So here is my shot at a one day scratch built one

01 Hours - Plan made & materials collected

04 Hours - Coarse build complete

05 Hours - Primed & Dry (most warts now hidden) 

08 Hours - Painted and Weathered

Well so much for a Wednesday!  Still got some clear coating and weathering to do.  I'll get to that when I do the vignette.  I think it did work on helping me regain my Mojo. The problem now is I have enthusiasm for this new vignette and absolutely none to go back to the two builds initially mentioned at the beginning of this post.  I guess that's how some of us have 5 to 10 projects going at one time.

Thanks for looking.  -  George

Rheintochter R-1

 Well it wasn't so hot today so I was able to finish the groundwork in the garage. 

This is the AMUSING Hobby kit of the German's attempt at guided missiles. I must say that it came out a lot better than I had expected. You would not believe the amount of fidley bits, NOT photoetch, but lots of stuff I could have lost or launched in the tweezers. I was able to complete this out of the box.                                                                                                                                                          This was actually a 2 stage rocket.  The main thrusters and fuel tank was at the bottom. The guided portion and warhead were the upper sections.

I have seen some varying information on the actuality of this rocket and launcher. It did exist.  There are some great museum photos on line of captured rockets.

Rockets were launched.  The design was modified to reach higher altitude and I believe some were actually used in combat against allied bombers but to little effect.

The rocket fins were actually made of highly polished wood which lightened the weight of the rocket.  These were the first Guided Missiles.  The small fins on the tip of the rocket were control surfaces.

Vince B.  9-5.