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Another "old" project : conversion from LCT-5 to LCT-6 by Pibber 8)
(work in progress)

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Additionnals military bags and tarpaulins on US GHQ's halftracks.
Bags are made with putty from Tamiya (very good putty) and then, they will receive their first layer of paint before definitive painting...

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another exemple, with the first coat of paint, before definitive painting job.
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Post by BurtWolf »

Wonderful work as always, thanks for posting it! Inspiring stuff!!

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Pibber it is wonderful to see you posting and to see your work again. Long may it continue.

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Pibber,

Always a joy to see your work. Your scratch built stuff is an inspiration. Its contributors like you that push me to always try to push the boundaries of what I attempt when painting my miniatures.

Thanks you for the post of your work. Please keep it coming.

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It's always exciting for me to see the great work done by some members on the forum (although I think the forced switch of photobucket to other hosts did a lot of harm to the forum and lost a lot of very interesting pictures of our models). So, in my turn, if I can serve as inspiration and give ideas, I am very happy.

I continue passionately my projects at 1/285, but in recent months, I had a lot of work in my personal job so difficult to find time to complete projects, take pictures and post them on the forum. And most importantly, I struggled to find a simple image host to use to replace photobucket. I tried two hosting sites but it was not convincing.
Now that I think I have found a replacement for photobucket, I'll have to be able to post a little more regularly.
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(Dutch project, to play UK 79th Ard.Div assault on Walcheren... 8) Thnak you very much Gompel for your paper building !)
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Post by Gompel »

Thank you pibber, glad to see them in use. Great to see those pictures.
Your work is absolutely astonishing!

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I like the trays. Looks like a staging area. Homemade?
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Post by BurtWolf »

Finally wrapped up scratch built engineer trailers

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Nice work on the Scratch built BurtWolf. I am always impressed with the talent on this page and especially when it comes to scratch built stuff. I hope that one day in the future, I can get enough patience and guts to try my hand at a scratch built anything.

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Post by Dog Smack »

pibber,

Great to see you posting again. Your stuff is very inspirational. looking forward to see more!

pibber and BurtWolf - how do you guys attach the trailers to the prime mover? Love to hear how you all do that.

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hook trailers

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Thanks guys for yours comments about my stuff :wink: .

To Dog Smack :
I use very thin iron wire and brass wire a little thicker.
The iron wire is used for the ring on the trailer while the brass wire is used to make the hook on the tractor (brass wire is harder than thin iron wire).

Few examples (photos taken quickly :? ) :
first example, hooks on two US M3 halfrack (work in progress...):
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on the second picture you can see better the iron wire glue in front of the trailer to replace the original GHQ ring part.
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The same principe on this sdkfz 10 and Sig 15cm : the brass wire is glue (with cyanocrylate) at the rear of the vehicule (or undercarriage) and the thin iron brass is glue (with cyanocrylate too) on the trailer (or gun).
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Sometime, I preserve the original pewter ring : I make a very small hole throught the ring with a very small drill.
See the example on this german Flak38 trailer :
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...and it works !
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Could be great on sdkfz 251 C & D
On the "ausf. C" with the 12cm Mortar, the brass wire was glue in a hole* (*I make it with a small drill) at the rear of the vehicule.
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On the "ausf. D" (with the Pak 40) the brass wire was glue under the vehicule with a generous coat of cyanocrylate.
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Look great ! and it's very easy to remove the trailer or hitch it. (and very easy to move the vehicule on a wargaming landscape : take the tractor and let the trailer slip behind gently on the ground)
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Look great with Mac NO too :
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You can see the very small hole on my Luftwaffe trailer to hitch a brass wire hook.
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I hope it could help you.
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Post by chrisswim »

Pibber,
Amazing work, great that you elevated the gaming process with trailers and movers/tractors. I do also appreciate the time & effort you put in for the personal storage bags. Look great.
Impressive presentation of your forces at work/at war.
Burtwolf,
Great trailer you created, wonderful.
Thank you for sharing.
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Post by BurtWolf »

Looks fantastic Pibber! What did you use for the ropes to tie down the crates to the artillery? And how did you make that effect? I plan on adding crates and what not to my towed artillery - imitation being the sincerest form of flattery!!

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Post by Hoth_902 »

Pibber,

OMG, that is brilliant. Something so simple works so well. As the kids say these days.. An awesome Hack. I will have to give some serious thought to doing something similar.

Thanks for sharing your mod.
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