I am building the DUKW from the Airfix D-DAY 60th anniversary set, no box but here are the bits:
Instructions:
I am tempted to do this as a diorama but am quite busy work wise this month.
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Finally get some time at the bench and spend most of it trying to decipher the instruction sheet.
Eventually sussed it out (thanks to pictures of past builds) and made a start:
Not much progress but I get the feeling that this should come together quite quickly now.
Eventually sussed it out (thanks to pictures of past builds) and made a start:
Not much progress but I get the feeling that this should come together quite quickly now.
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With work, the nice weather and watching the World Cup I have been a bit short in time spent at the bench, however some progress has been made:
Construction has been completed OOB apart from a piece of "grid" behind the seats from the spares box.
Base coat of Olive put on, looks like it needs a bit of a touch-up in the cabin. At some point the driver has gone AWOL!! Probably fed up with waiting around.
Construction has been completed OOB apart from a piece of "grid" behind the seats from the spares box.
Base coat of Olive put on, looks like it needs a bit of a touch-up in the cabin. At some point the driver has gone AWOL!! Probably fed up with waiting around.
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With no work due to the wet weather, and England out of the World Cup I have been able to get a bit of time at the bench.
The body has received some detail painting, weathering and the decals put on;
and it would have been completed except for a minor mishap. I use an office chair on wheels to do my modelling from, and after dropping the windscreen onto the floor (which I had just painted) I pushed the chair back to pick it up before it got paint on the carpet. Annoyingly I ran over the part and broke it into 3 pieces:
Oh well, lesson learnt. It should be repairable with a bit of PVA glue.
The body has received some detail painting, weathering and the decals put on;
and it would have been completed except for a minor mishap. I use an office chair on wheels to do my modelling from, and after dropping the windscreen onto the floor (which I had just painted) I pushed the chair back to pick it up before it got paint on the carpet. Annoyingly I ran over the part and broke it into 3 pieces:
Oh well, lesson learnt. It should be repairable with a bit of PVA glue.
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Re: Chip's DUKW
Just call it battle damage
I recall build one back in the mid sixty's and had great fun playing with it, is it still a good kit or has it started to show its age?
Regards Splash
I recall build one back in the mid sixty's and had great fun playing with it, is it still a good kit or has it started to show its age?
Regards Splash
My work bench is starting to look like Portsmouth Naval Dockyard.
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Re: Chip's DUKW
You're lucky!Molly-new wrote:I use an office chair on wheels to do my modelling from, and after dropping the windscreen onto the floor (which I had just painted) I pushed the chair back to pick it up before it got paint on the carpet. Annoyingly I ran over the part and broke it into 3 pieces:
Normaly, the creature that lives under my workbench is more faster than my wheels chair, and grab the pieces....
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I think that modeling is a subtle mix of zen philosophy and absolute crazyness - but in my case I would not dare to specify the respective percentage of each......
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Battle damage is a good excuse.splash wrote:Just call it battle damage
I recall build one back in the mid sixty's and had great fun playing with it, is it still a good kit or has it started to show its age?
Regards Splash
It is still a good kit and has gone together with no real issues, with a bit of scratch building to add the necessary floats and stowage it could make a really nice kit. I will probably build another outside of the time constraints of a GB so as to add a bit of realism to it, and also do a diorama. (One day )
I think he is still full up after eating the driver, as he still hasn't been found.giulio_gobbi wrote:Normaly, the creature that lives under my workbench is more faster than my wheels chair, and grab the pieces....
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Re: Chip's DUKW
Windscreen repaired and fitted after another coat of matt varnish. This is a finished as it is going to be:
Quite an easy build but outside influences meant I could not dedicate as much time and effort to this build as I would have liked. Thanks to Lancfan for suggesting the subject and looking after us all during this.
Quite an easy build but outside influences meant I could not dedicate as much time and effort to this build as I would have liked. Thanks to Lancfan for suggesting the subject and looking after us all during this.
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Re: Chip's DUKW+++Completed+++
Looks great Chip.
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Re: Chip's DUKW+++Completed+++
Just back from a trip where I saw several of these, modified or just modern equivalents, now used to carry tourists for sightseeing ....
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