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Love it, Mark! As usual, super clean. Can't stop being amaazed how some of you do it.

Hmmm... Looks to me like paper modeling

Pure pleasure to watch your build, Martin!

Love it! I will repeat after others: great photos that make it even more realistic. Pleasure to watch!!!

.. and most of the details on the turret are ready.

Very nice! I'm impressed how convincing paint chipping looks. I used color pencils for such purpose, but with much less success. Your cockpit convinced me to give it another shot and work on my skills.

Skinning the turret taught me some humility. The front piece has quite difficult shape. In addition it supposed to sit perfectly between 4 other skin parts. That's a lot of things that could go wrong, and they had. I'm the only one to blame I got two large gaps on both sides of the front of turret, terrible fit on the bottom, seams in some places overlapping instead of creating a butt joint, wrinkles... I even manage to tear some of the print on the top while removing tape. At some point I was ready to buy another kit and start the turret over. Before giving up completely I decided to try to fix things using rather ugly method of filling gaps, sanding and painting. Wonder where I got that idea from ... Larger gaps where filled with strips of paper, smaller with CA. Result looked pretty scary: Mixing paint to match print color is always a challenge for me and this time was no different. My only hope is that with final weathering, the differences will be minimal. I tried with various results mimic welding seams that were quite prominent. This time I went with Vallejo plastic putty, that has nice applicator. Maybe with some practice I can create better effect. Anyway I think I can live with the outcome, even if I'm not particularly proud of it On to detailing it now! Thanks for looking!

Love it!

Hi Peter, She looks great already! Really glad you enjoy the process. Keep it up! Sagging of the fuselage skin between formers seems to be a paper modeling curse. Very common problem that happens not only to beginners. Not sure how this can translate to plastic, but in paper modeling there are some few things that help. First, the formers have to fit absolutely perfect. They can not be even tiny bit too big, because it will show. One should be able to slide them in and out without effort, there can not be any tension. Second, choice of glue. It's safer to go with a glue that will not make card soft (contact cement, CA, etc.). Any water based glue is a recipe for "cow ribs", especially for a novice. I'm sure you will be able to figure out if any of this solutions can be adapted in your build. Good news is, your medium is plastic and this is just the beginning. No harm done, and with little effort things can be fixed. In paper modeling that would be over .... Love your work Peter!

I missed your build entirely Martin. This is great! Some shots are very deceptive ... Is it a reference photo or a model .... Will be watching from now on.

Looking good Peter! Keep it up!

Thanks Harvey and Mark! With my son's school year started I have limited time for modeling. Still, I'm trying to find few moments here and there. Hope this way even slowly I will move forward with this project. This will be also a rather small update. The turret cardboard structure is ready. Little bit worried about skinning it, especially front of it. Tricky shape there to pull out from paper... Will try my best. Photo source PrimePortal:

Looking good Peter. I'm sure that cutting plastic card of this thickness is no fun ... and you have to cut all the parts ... Sending you some positive energy to bust up your patience The role of the hole inside of the former is purely auxiliary. It gives some space to grip the former while inserting it inside the skin (in paper modeling forming and gluing section of fuselage skin is done first, then the former is inserted to support it ). I wouldn't worry too much about ascetics of the hole inside, unless you planning to make it visible Just an idea how to make your life bit easier. I found assembled paper model of this kit (quite good IMHO): click. This should give you some idea what to expect. You're right Cees. There are some hand-drawn paper kits that have great fit, and there are computer-designed ones that suck. But if I can make any generalization, that would be that the use of computers and 3D software made designing less laborious and increased quality of paper kits. Some of them visually become really stunning.

Hi Greg, From what I've seen on Papel3D website these are original Halinski add-ons to the kit Matt is using. They will fit this exact kit. I haven't seen the laser cut parts (cardboard of various thickness cut with laser), but based on common practice among paper model publishers, they include all, or most of parts that need to be laminated. I have a kit, and I took photos of 3 sheets of parts that most likely the laser cut package will include. I hope Matt will not mind I hope this helps.

Way to go Peter! I keep my fingers crossed for your project. Word of advice. This kit is rather old, and if I'm not mistaken designed in the era when it was done by hand, i.e. without the help of computer and 3D modeling software. That alone may cause some slight inaccuracies. I've seen the kit built but I don't remember any particular issues it may have. I would also advise checking the kit against your references. I'm not convinced the designer did his homework and his work is reliable. Good luck! I wish you a lot of perseverance. I would really like to see a paper kit transferred to plastic someday.

Thank you guys. You are way too nice ... It could be done better. I not overly worried about all the details, and as you can see there are places that need to be retouched with paint, or simply smoothed out. There will be time for that later. As I'm handling the model, tempera paint rubs off from the edges no matter how careful I am. Anyway, very small update today: rear lights, towing pintle, and two couples of mounting for towing shackles. Next, the turret. Thanks for looking in!

Thanks guys! I just learned that this project can be entered into a theme contest in my modeling club. That should give me extra motivation. Not much time left though... Good one, but I have actually intention to finish it Cheers! Thanks Mark. Spacing is tricky, isn't it? Here, paper pieces were quite flimsy, and even though I used spacers the result came out not too great. Hey Peter, I hope I will keep modeling too. I almost forgot how fun it could be! Another little update. It's time for driver's and his assistant doors and various ventilators caps and such. To ease forming round edges of these elements I de-laminated them (removed some of the layers of paper). Thinner parts where much easier to work with, with less danger to get any wrinkles. The smaller half spheres were formed using a round tool and an eraser. The kit has some shortcomings in regard of some of these elements. The shape of the ventilators in the rear, near the mud guards should be more round, or the look of the drivers' periscopes is overly simplified. I did not improve any of these. I tried to experiment further with imitating welding seams behind the front plate. I mixed thick white glue and paint and tried to "build" appropriate thickness of this solution by applying several layers. There were a lot of problems with this method. It's hard to match well the color, because it dries darker (and it's shiny), also it's hard to model round wrinkles imitating welding beads. I used round end of paint brush, waited until the mix of glue and paint was almost dry and try to impress beads. The window for this is quite short. I will try rolling modeling putty and painting it instead. As it is now, it doesn't look to good, but I believe after final weathering and filters color differences will be minimized. Thanks for looking!

Congrats Brian! She looks great:) I love your restrained weathering. Looks very convincing. As usual, hats off for your magic with Reynolds foil - this alone puts your model a level higher.

Just great! Pleasure to ogle such model. Superb weathering!

Thanks guys! Aha! Now, I know why I felt so guilty by neglecting the hobby Thanks Mark. A little update. First, the air outlet. It was a bit tricky to align all the flimsy grill parts. It's not perfect, but must do. The bottom part of the star had to be painted, but the task was so much easier with a template provided with the kit. Air inlet and outlet are ready, except few minor details (hinges, nuts, etc.) The hull finally got its mud guards. Sorry for poor quality picture. I will try better next time.

Thanks Kevin! It's been awfully long time since I modeled something. Work and family seemed to always win. For my own sanity I decided to find time (even if just a little) for the hobby. I missed it a lot.

It's been two years since my last update in this build . The tank spent most of that time safely in a box, waiting for better times... Recently, I finally have found some time for modeling and It seemed like a good idea to warm up a little bit before returning full steam to the Cub. This model looked perfect for that purpose. I manged to complete the whole set of wheels. While working on them, my concept for this model finally crystallized. I decided do something similar as in Komatsu build, only using different techniques (got to learn something new!). The undercarriage with printed mud detail will be covered with my take on it; the top stays as it is, except some light weathering. Hard not to agree, that the printed mud looks flat, so something has to be done with it. The wheels you can see below will be heavily weathered (it's not a final product) Cheers and thanks for looking!

This final update on the dozer is just to show the base I built for it. Still a lot to learn about modeling a ground, even basic one as here. Looks better on the photos than in reality

Hey Lee, I'm sorry this project did not take off well. I only hope this is not the end of your ventures to the dark side

She looks great! Nice photos as well!