Kind of a quick update. The bolt thrower, crew and Bugman’s cart was primed black.
As well as som parts for the choppers.
I need to paint the interior and probably the bombs as well before continuing with the build.
I’ll try to solve it somehow with masking of some kind.
Next up on the table was my Ironbreakers and Irondrakes.
I made 2 groups of bodies with 10 in each. There are 4 of each body with a slight difference between them.
The Ironbreakers was assembled first.
The figures are fairly easy to build with very nice fit. The Irondrakes was a bit harder as both arms had to fit together in order to hold the weapon properly.
Games Workshop have made quite a few versions of the White Dwarf on their magazine with the same name. The figure is called Grombrindal and it turned out that I have one of the early ones.
I just have to paint him with white beard and all.
I also have two of the newer versions, the slayer and the latest 400th ed WD.
Some of the figures I have are made of white metal and even if I bought them recently they’re fairly old.
It takes more work to build a metal modell and the fit isn’t as good on newer ones in plastic.
Once I got all the pieces sorted and glued in place my Bolt thrower looks like this.
Next I’ll sort the crew for it. Not as much to do except cleaning them up and glue them to their bases.
I also have Bugman’s cart to build, which also is in metal. That will be the next project on my table.
Some time ago I bought the Mountain holds battalion box, which I haven’t started building yet. I also bought a few other boxes.
The first one was the King and Thane with shield bearers.
I could say that it’s fairly easy to build and being quite new, it is.
The three shield bearers.
The king built as well! I opted for the Odin helmet and great weapon.
I also thought it would be best to paint the shield bearers first, but after checking the fit, I had to rethink that a bit. More about that later.
There’s also a Thane figure, that I for some reason forgot to take pics of.
Next up is a set of Hammerers. A box with 20 figures that can either be built as Hammerers or Longbeards, or 10 of each with full command. I choose the latter option.
With them done I moved on to building some cannons.
The kit is a bit old, but went together pretty well. It’s possible to either build 2 cannons or 2 organ guns, or one of each.
Each crew member can have different arms which gives them a bit of variation.
It seems like I’m forgetting to take pics, but here’s the next one I’ve built.
After checking GW’s site about Grombrindal, I found out that the Slayer is one of the versions. I just have to paint his beard and hair white.
Here’s a pic of how the army looks like right now.
Next up will be these two boxes.
Once they’re built and painted I’ll have well over 2000 points or closer to 2500 even.
I got a little parcel today.
With this content!
So hopefully I can get this sorted and in place, so I can continue with the kit!
After sorting the instrument dekal, the IP was glued in place.
A little weathering and it’s done!
Some push rods was cut off!
The engine parts was painted.
Then I started assembling the engines.
I used Tamiyas panel wash on the back row cylinders.
I then decided to use the wash on the whole engine and the fuel lines was glued in place.
It wasn’t easy to get all the fuel lines right, and even worse was the exhaust pipes that had to go inbetween push rods and the other pipes.
Some more parts was painted interior green.
With the engines done, I did a little test fitting.
A little touching up to do, then I can glue them in place and start adding the exhaust pipes.
I assembled the wings.
Even if the fit is good, be sure to check that every part goes where it is supposed to. Some of them needs to be fit under the wing surface. I’ll wait with the lights until later, except for the three lights on the wing tip, which I nearly missed to put in place.
Then I started with the engine. Removing all the nubs and cleaning up took a while.
I read on a build that there was some issue with the push rod and after checking pics I realised that HK had made twice as many. There is as I understand it only two per cylinder.
I removed the parts for the other engine and will use 2 of the cleaned up push rod rings, and 2 rings where I’ll remove the push rods.
The reason is that the assembly will need all rings to fit later.
I’ll sort that next time a the desk!
I did some work on the backsides of some of the panels for the bombbay, painted the instrument panel black and sorted a few ammo lanes.
One strange thing is that the 1/48 scale version actually have a premade weight that goes with the kit! There’s none with this kit but I think there’s clear evidence that there was supposed to be one.
I measured 80g of bullets and put as many of them I could in the nose.
Then I used blue tack to hold the rest of the bullets that I put in the empty space behind the front landing gear well.
As can be seen I’ve also repainted the cockpit area with dull dark green.
I added the bombs to the side walls.
Then I assembled the bomb bay.
Lastly I added the ammo lanes to the rear gun.
I still need to paint a few more details and sort the mid guns. I’ll probably add a few wires to the guns as they seems to have that.
Hopefully I can soon start to assembly the interior and then the fuselage halves.
The bombs was painted dark green.
The interior was painted interior green, and I’ve also started painting a few details.
I’m not happy with the seat belts as they don’t sit as I would like them to do.
I’m thinking of moving them backwards into the seat, and just let the rear end where it ends when that is done. Otherwise perhaps a Quintas set would be the best solution, but that would take some time, and I don’t like delays.
It’s possible to work with the wings, engines and other stuff meanwhile. I’ll think about it.
Yet another build for the LSP Silver jubilee group build. As I’ve already built a P-47D in “silver” I thought I had to find something “25” as well. So I got myself this kit.
I brought the kit with me to the build weekend I was attending last weekend.
I started building the interior as usual.
The instructions are a bit unclear, not telling exactly where the seats should go, and the parts doesn’t help much either. It’s a bit of guess work, but looks alright to me.
I also built the bombs as they’re part of the interior and needs to be in place before closing the fuselage.
More parts was assembled and I even started working with the PE belts.
PE isn’t my forte and the belts are driving me crazy. Besides it wasn’t easy to work with them with the seats in place, so I used some Tamiya glue and removed them.
I also started painting the interior parts, but messed up a bit, so I have to redo parts of it.
At that time it was time to break up the build meeting and travel home.
More pics later when I’ve sorted the paint and hopefully even the belts.
Painting the figures seems to take longer than I had anticipated. Everytime I look I find more parts to paint or fix somehow. But now it looks like I’m getting there, at least with the grunts and the shaman.
Soon time to finish off the soldiers as well. Then all the bases need some kind of dekoration in the form of dirt and grass.
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