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Quote from: Wardukw on May 28, 2024, 11:32:21 AMJust scored a model I'd never had and been after for decades ..yes I was lazy and could have gotten one from overseas but ..ya know 😁
What I got is a 1/35 Renwal Blueprint Scale Model Kit 8 Inch Self-Propelled Howitzer .

From memory Renwall stated 1/32 on the box back in the day, but that was always an approximation.

I've got one of those, may even build it one day, SP guns have always fascinated me.

Quote from: NARSES2 on May 29, 2024, 05:20:22 AM

Quote from: PR19_Kit on May 29, 2024, 12:56:17 AMI'm wondering what sort of a Whiff you could make with only 3/4 of an F-4.......................... 

An F.3 ? Sorry couldn't resist it 

Yeah, right...............................

Trying to remember what an F-3 was, and it was a McD Demon of course. And they were pretty much 3/4 of an F-4 too! 

Quote from: PR19_Kit on May 29, 2024, 05:31:08 AM

Quote from: NARSES2 on May 29, 2024, 05:20:22 AM

Quote from: Wardukw on May 28, 2024, 11:32:21 AMJust scored a model I'd never had and been after for decades ..yes I was lazy and could have gotten one from overseas but ..ya know 😁
What I got is a 1/35 Renwal Blueprint Scale Model Kit 8 Inch Self-Propelled Howitzer .

From memory Renwall stated 1/32 on the box back in the day, but that was always an approximation.

I've got one of those, may even build it one day, SP guns have always fascinated me.

Was it Renwall who did the Atomic Canon back in the day ?

Quote from: NARSES2 on May 29, 2024, 06:00:33 AMWas it Renwall who did the Atomic Canon back in the day ?

They did, a veritable MONSTER of a kit it was too! I built one for a window demo model for my mate's shop in Oxford. Like all them, it had the 'invisible gluing areas' designed in to the kit, very clever.

But didn't Revell take over the whole range later on?

Quote from: PR19_Kit on May 29, 2024, 06:18:35 AM

Quote from: NARSES2 on May 29, 2024, 06:00:33 AMWas it Renwall who did the Atomic Canon back in the day ?

They did, a veritable MONSTER of a kit it was too! I built one for a window demo model for my mate's shop in Oxford. Like all them, it had the 'invisible gluing areas' designed in to the kit, very clever.

But didn't Revell take over the whole range later on?

Revell released that in 1983 and then again as Revell/Renwall 2011

Gondor

Quote from: Wardukw on May 28, 2024, 11:32:21 AMJust scored a model I'd never had and been after for decades ..yes I was lazy and could have gotten one from overseas but ..ya know 😁
What I got is a 1/35 Renwal Blueprint Scale Model Kit 8 Inch Self-Propelled Howitzer .
Yep it's crap as armour models go and it says 35th so hopefully it is cause I've got plans like replacing the tracks..road wheels and drive sprockets..most small hull details ..the .50 cal and the main gun .
The barrel clamp will most likely be scratch built or just refined .
Finally got one   

It's definitely 1/32nd scale rather than 1/35th. I built one back in the mid-'70s. It was purchased at a hobby shop in Reno, Nevada. We were there on a "family trip" and had driven down from Longview, Washington in a 1975 International Harvester Travelette 4-door pickup (long bed, 164" WB, 392 V8, bucket seats up front). The primary purpose was to visit Harrah's automobile collection, my Dad wanted to see the Bugatti Royale.

The Travelette was basically a cross between the IHC Travelall and an IHC pickup.
Ours wasn't 4WD and it sucked in the snow.
Looks like this:
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But with this paint scheme.
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Quote from: Dizzyfugu on May 28, 2024, 02:20:33 AM

Quote from: zenrat on May 26, 2024, 04:04:23 AMShorten the landing gear.  No need for those long stalky legs if there isn't a prop.

That was/is an idea I had, too, even though the fins might have to be modded, too, since they reach far down and carry small "bumper wheels" to protect the original prop As a serious wartime "prop-turned-jet" design these might have to stay, together with the stalky legs, though.

And IIRC I have actually seen a reversed Shinden somewhere - maybe even her in the forum, LONG ago. I also know of a reversed F4U somewhere online that much resembles the J7W.

Looking at photos of the landing gear of the Shinden, shortening it would have been very straightforward, as the oleos aren't long stroke. It looks like they took a fairly standard landing gear design and just made the strut tube longer. This is very apparent on the nose gear.

Quote from: jcf on May 29, 2024, 06:58:43 PM

Quote from: Wardukw on May 28, 2024, 11:32:21 AMJust scored a model I'd never had and been after for decades ..yes I was lazy and could have gotten one from overseas but ..ya know 😁
What I got is a 1/35 Renwal Blueprint Scale Model Kit 8 Inch Self-Propelled Howitzer .
Yep it's crap as armour models go and it says 35th so hopefully it is cause I've got plans like replacing the tracks..road wheels and drive sprockets..most small hull details ..the .50 cal and the main gun .
The barrel clamp will most likely be scratch built or just refined .
Finally got one   

It's definitely 1/32nd scale rather than 1/35th. I built one back in the mid-'70s. It was purchased at a hobby shop in Reno, Nevada. We were there on a "family trip" and had driven down from Longview, Washington in a 1975 International Harvester Travelette 4-door pickup (long bed, 164" WB, 392 V8, bucket seats up front). The primary purpose was to visit Harrah's automobile collection, my Dad wanted to see the Bugatti Royale.

The Travelette was basically a cross between the IHC Travelall and an IHC pickup.
Ours wasn't 4WD and it sucked in the snow.
Looks like this:
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But with this paint scheme.
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That's almost a 14' wheelbase.  Must have been fun to park.

It was bloody awful to park.

A 35th scale Hobbyboss Leo 2 A5/A6 MBT turned up today ..a very nice kit for smeg all ..lovely 

Received from eBay yesterday

1 x 1/72 Airfix 04045 Gloster Javelin FAW 9/9R still sealed.

From SMS

HATAKA Red series boxed set of Modern Brazilian AF paint set Vol1
Vallejo Gloss Acrylic Varnish

Gondor

In the post today several sets of decals from Aircraft In Plastic

1/72 AIPD 13 Middle East Eurofighter Typhoons

1/72 AIPD 41 AMX A-1 Brazilian Aircraft

1/72 AIPD 51 D0-228 World Service Pt 3

Gondor

Hmm, some interesting stuff there Alastair. 

Quote from: PR19_Kit on May 31, 2024, 07:45:53 AMHmm, some interesting stuff there Alastair. 

They give me "options"

Gondor

The last arivales at my stash.

Excellent haul, Chaos!



I have the same Revell-Monogram B-25J in my stash (mine looks to be the 1999 Revell boxing) which, given my recent purchase of the HK 1/48 B-25J, is likely to end up as a "B-27K", which is a later version of my 1/72 scale B-27A;