next meeting

Our next meeting is Wednesday April 10th

as always at the Starbucks 1309 North Main St. Roswell..

Come join us---

The Grant

FROM BRUCE

1 Mar

Well after a hiatus where life and working around the house on things I had to do rather than something I wanted has again passed, I finally have some progress to report on my Academy Grant tank project. I finally finished the suspension and moved into the interior, whereupon I found myself with a quandary.  When I started modeling 20 something years ago, the armor was a shell.  I began this project with the idea to finish it quick and use it to resurrect my techniques.  However as I move forward, I’m finding that the models are now incredibly more detailed than when I was a child.  My Grant tank has a complete interior with much small detail.  I now have to decide whether to skip the interior parts and complete the shell to practice my weathering and painting or complete the interior in as much detail as I can, using the entire model for the practice.  The problem being that it will of course, significantly extend the time it takes me to complete my practice model.

I’m inclined to complete the small details of the Grant, but this will move the start of my planned North African diorama back quite a while.  I’ve painted the main hull assembly and am doing my research on the Grant interiors. For those interested. I found a couple of very informative webpages..

Medium Tank M3 Lee

And

Model Otaku: M3 Grant - Sheperd Paine Tribute Diorama

And one with more incredible detail than I will EVER achieve

www.network54.com/Forum/110741/.../M3+Grant+-+WIP,+round+2

The last one is a Verlinden upgrade kit from resin

I’ll be working a little more tomorrow

Go big or don't go at all

We continue to meet, every other Wednesday at the Roswell Starbuck's at 1309 North Main Street at 1900hrs if you are interested--the next meeting is 02-14-13...feel free to join us for coffee and military modeling talk. 

I've changed my modeling philosophy--and decided to go big---buy a few kits, each of which may take several months in the construction process--I'll take my time in their construction, and will always have something going on. First I purchased the smaller of my two most recently acquired models.

The Karl Gerat Mortar. This tracked siege mortar fired a 24" shell 6 miles. It was originally devised for attacking the French border forts. However the blitzkrieg happened and the 6 morsers produced were used on the Russian Front. This model is approx. 21 inches long when completed and I purchased it's accompanying Munition Schlepper based on a panzer MK III chassis. This track mortar is the baby of the recent purchases. 

My Second purchase (and the kit i will start first) is the German K5 Railway gun known as Leopold to the Germans and to the American's it was known as Anzio Annie.

The K5 railway gun was also designed to attack the French Border fortifications as with the Karl Mortar other uses for it--such as shelling England from France (!!!) were found. This rifled cannon fired a 16 inch shell over 11 miles. 

This model when completed will be 37 inches long--and i will have support rail cars and a diesel locomotive on display with it...

Like I say go big or don't go..............and I will supply pictures of the build here on our club blog.

Come join us for coffee and make jokes on my new giant modeling projects---

That's where the real fun is.................

update

We are still here and meeting--the next coffee and get together will be Wednesday, Jan. 30th as always at the Starbucks at 1309 N. Main St in Roswell.......new posts here on the blog soon------