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  17. DocRob
    Thank you Alan, I liked the look of that Spanish version instantly, when I saw it first and added the Schneider kit later. I just recently re-read some of Hemingway´s books again and traveled a bit in his footsteps, but that was merely by accident and not intentional. Last year, we have been to Pamplona, where he wrote "The Sun Also Rises" and had our coffee in the lovely belle epoque Cafe Irun. This June, we have been to Valencia and had the same room like him in the beautiful Hotel Reina Victoria. Unfortunately the often mentioned classic hotel bar didn´t exist anymore. Cheers Rob
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    What would be a tank used by Spanish Anarcosindicalistas without a little agit prop . Decals were very thin and most were good to work with, but some disintegrated and needed to be repaired. Cheers Rob
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    You are on hyperspeed with your French monsters, Greg. I like your Schneider with the vivid camo. do you brush paint? Your weathering blended the camo very believable. I can´t see any chipping, which is hard to believe with a heavy used vehicle like yours. Cheers Rob
  23. DocRob
    As I mentioned above, the twist with this build will be, that this outdated fossil from 1916 was still in use in 1936 in the Spanish Civil war with the Republican forces against Franco´s Nationalists. I guess, over their period of duty, the six? Spanish tanks served in Maroc and with their age, I assume, their state of maintenance not to be the best. I will try to show this appearance through the camo paintjob, which was sprayed translucent and freehand over the black primer, with heavily thinned AK Real colors. I made a second pass with both colors, adding a drop of Insignia White and tried to work a bit with highlight, shadow and modulation, which is not easy with a non-monochrome body. Anyway, that will be the starting point for further painting and weathering stages and of course for decals. Cheers Rob
  24. DocRob
    It seems, you go for a more delicate camo scheme than me, French style. Cheers Rob
  25. DocRob
    After a fellow modeler over on LSM mentioned it, I opened the Meng FT 17 box and found the tracks to be ready cut and easy click and after 10 minutes, I had two with the suggested length of 32 links per side. There are some spare links as well. They don´t look bad and I may use the Meng plastic ones for the Schneider, where they are not so visible. Meanwhile the Schneider itself got black primed with Mr. Surfacer 1000. Cheers Rob
  26. DocRob
    I got the tracks done, thanks to my established second effort, it went rather quick. It is much faster to build a chain of the inner track links and then the track pads drop in place with a bit of CA. Building up every track link from two parts and then connect them would have extremely more time consuming. I needed 34 links per side, which results in a loose fit, but there are no half links . The manual suggests 32 per side, but the plastic ones may be different. I will blacken the tracks later with a burnishing fluid. Unfortunately my black CA glue dried up, which will lead to non blackened areas, where there are CA residues. One pad fell off and is reglued now. The closing link remains without pad until I finally mount them. Cheers Rob
  27. DocRob
    What a nice project, Mike. It had somehow skipped my attention, possibly holiday related. I can only marvel at your ability to work highly detailed in that scale. Cheers Rob
  28. DocRob
    While preparing the track construction, I realized, I needed to add the running gear to the hull, to be able to determine the length of the tracks. I would have liked to add them after painting, but that wouldn´t be a big problem. The spoked rear wheel is still movable and not glued in place, because with it´s eccentric arm, it can be used to tighten the track. Then I started with the tracks. Every link consist from two parts, which need to be drilled out with a 0,5 mm bit and then glued together with CA. It proved to be very difficult and time consuming to put the links together and then connect them with the next link, that´s why I leaned back and thought about another way, to simplify the construction. I found it much easier to connect the inner link parts with wire and secure them with CA and then finally add the running pads, which fell in place and were glued with CA. The HobbyBoss manual suggests 32 links per side, but I will need 34, possibly 33, but that might be millimeter too short. Cheers Rob
  29. DocRob
    Nice one, Alan. I like the slightly arrogant look of him best. Cheers Rob
  30. DocRob
    Today, I finished building the Schneider minus the tracks. Almost everything worked like a breeze and the fit of the body parts was very good. The manual suggests to add the side MG´s with their gun carriage glued to the base of the tub and then add the sidewalls with the fitting hole on. That was somehow impossible to achieve and I suggest to cut away the lower part of the gun carriage and glue the ball mount direct to the side wall hole. Cheers Rob
  31. DocRob
    One little tip, as I finished the build right now. I followed the manual for the installation of the machine guns and it proved very difficult to get the ball mounts in the center of the holes of the hull plates. It is easier to cut the gun mount away and glue the ball mount directly into the hulls hole. I didn´t one on side and the gun sagged after everything was sitting right and now I have a small gap. Cheers Rob
  32. DocRob
    Deja vue time, wasn´t that on my bench yesterday . Have fun with the kit, Greg. Cheers Rob
  33. DocRob
    You can´t go wrong with the kit Greg, it´s far from perfect, but there are no serious issues. The supplied tracks are fiddly to build, as there is no guiding aid for assembling the single track links and clean up is tedious. I opted for Friul tracks for a Renault FT-17, which have the same links. Cheers Rob
  34. DocRob
    When I see my Romfell kit, I always think about a steam punk modified version, made from patinaed copper and bronze, but without the Batman twist. Cheers Rob

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