1st WAB Modelers Contest - Page 2

RustyBattleship · 02-19-2007, 19:43 PM

Here's a 1:32 scale model of an M-41 Walker bulldog I built up. It is basically from one of the original kits that showed a painting of the tank on a blueprint floor (I think that was Renwall).

I also had a 1:24 model but didn't like it because the barrel was at a fixed elevation and some of the attachment items were too small.

Anyway, this is the 2nd one I have built as the first one got "played" with a little too hard. But I found problems with the accuracy of the model. I didn't do any corrections to the engine compartment because most people wouldn't see that the real tank had 4 batteries instead of 1.

But the blast deflector was all wrong, at least for the standard issue Walker I drove. The kit used a prototype blast deflector so I took two solid cylinders of plastic from a 1:24 model, drilled and glued them to look like the real thing.

Then the pioneer kit was way too small so I scrounged that off the 1:24 model and put it on the left fender (though it should have been the right fender). What they used for tarpaulin packs were merely little slabs of plastic. I glued two of them together to make the ammo box for the M-2 machine gun. I used the tarp packs and off the 1:24 model and their proportion on the 1:32 was amazingly close.

The M-41 (real one) had two machine gun mounts on top but we only mounted one gun for the TC. The other mount was actually for a spotlight. So a friend gave me a Navy signal light that was just the right size.

Now I had something that looked like a miniature of a real tank instead of a toy copy of a tank.

leib10 · 02-19-2007, 20:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Ironduke

Heh, should of made a few things more clear.

Five photos of one piece of scale modeling work can be submitted.

The helmet is ineligible, it would be classed as a replica, I believe.

Sorry, my bad.

romail · 02-20-2007, 10:36 AM

Motive Power - Steam
1)NP 2-6-6-2 #3100
2)L&N USRA 0-8-0

Motive Power - Diesel
3)PRR F3 A&B Units
4)RS-3 #4045
5)SP U30C # 7932

This is Done.

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texasjohn · 02-20-2007, 13:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Ironduke

Texasjohn,

Only one work can be submitted to be judged by the membership for the award. You can submit other works in future contests

Sir, allow me to withdraw the Tirpitz! Should I delete the post?

RustyBattleship · 02-20-2007, 15:13 PM

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Originally Posted by Ironduke

Texasjohn,

Only one work can be submitted to be judged by the membership for the award. You can submit other works in future contests

I missed the meaning of that. I thought it meant one work per entry. If you mean only one work per entrant, then withdraw the M-3 tanks on the Railroad Cars. My entry then will by my M-41 tank as it was a result of cannibalization of other models for accuracy and really sparking my inventiveness (like the MG ammo box). No, the blast deflector on the muzzle is not bent but a lens distortion.

**Ironduke** · 02-20-2007, 16:13 PM

Current Entries:

RustyBattleship: M41 Tank
TexasJohn: F-14
Romail: Military Steam Locomotive

One thing I would like to remind all members... if you have submitted your modeling work in The Modeler's Corner in the past, you can re-submit it for this contest. (ex Dale's P-47)

MarquezRazor · 02-21-2007, 09:09 AM

Wild Card entry.

Close support and ground attack aircraft designed from imagination quite a while back.

**Ironduke** · 02-21-2007, 13:42 PM

4th entry:

MarquezRazor: Self-designed close support and ground attack aircraft

romail · 02-21-2007, 13:43 PM

Well Dear,

if u are saying only one model is allowed then just take my first attachment model as participant in the contest .

Thanking you,
MR ROMAIL ,PK

RustyBattleship · 02-21-2007, 15:08 PM

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Originally Posted by romail

Well Dear,

if u are saying only one model is allowed then just take my first attachment model as participant in the contest .

Thanking you,
MR ROMAIL ,PK

I was wondering about that, but being a train collector myself I didn't want to say anything. That 4-6-6-2 is an ideal entry (though the 0-8-0 isn't bad either).

What scale are they in? The porportion of the 2-rail track in the first photo looks like it might be American Flyer O scale but I thought complex steam locos like that only came in HO scale.

from: Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul & Pacific.

bull · 02-22-2007, 06:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Ironduke

1st WAB Modelers Contest

For a moment i thought we had to paste our own "model photos", that was scary.

romail · 02-22-2007, 13:33 PM

Thanks for taking interest in Steam Motive diesel engines

romail · 02-22-2007, 13:54 PM

An Old English Said:
If you have money you got the honey
No Money No Honey

RustyBattleship · 02-22-2007, 15:27 PM

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Originally Posted by bull

For a moment i thought we had to paste our own "model photos", that was scary.

You mean you don't have a personal model to photograph like this one of mine? Actually the photo is about 5 years old (she will be 27 in April - and still not married) and is the daughter of one of my best friends. I just wish she was smiling when this candid photo was taken of her in Hawaii.

**Ironduke** · 02-22-2007, 18:34 PM

I don't think Julie would approve

02-20-2007, 16:13 PM	#21 (permalink)
Ironduke Burgomaster Join Date: 08-02-03 Location: Minneapolis Posts: 6,785 Country:	Current Entries: RustyBattleship: M41 Tank TexasJohn: F-14 Romail: Military Steam Locomotive One thing I would like to remind all members... if you have submitted your modeling work in The Modeler's Corner in the past, you can re-submit it for this contest. (ex Dale's P-47) __________________ The Buck Stops Here

02-22-2007, 13:33 PM	#27 (permalink)
romail New Member Join Date: 09-18-06 Location: USA Posts: 13 Country:	Thanks for taking interest in Steam Motive diesel engines __________________ ROMAIL THE CKONE

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