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- half my posts here are concerning little model tanks - if I am the first one in the lunch room, i turn the TV to Star trek, and then when one of the cool kids show up, I quickly change the channel to the news - my winter project is to ready my motorbike for the zombie apocalypse - i know...

Hi, I did 3+ yrs in the Air Cadets and 2 yrs in the PRes (Infantry). After High School, I went to RMC. During the selection process, my interviewer seemed to look favourably on the fact I had some cadet leadership courses, and had qualified TQ2 (Mortars) in the Infantry. IMO, leaving cadets for...

For the Health Services Unit* for TF 1-06, they are looking at the Role 1 Coy medics as being eligible and the Role 3 mbrs ineligible. There is going to be a lot of hair splitting (ie, Role 3 medics who back filled Role 1 guys on HLTA, Role 1 guys that never left the KAF UMS, etc). * I don't...

Going to say this one is built now. The turret parts did not go together as smoothly as the rest of the kit. Getting the launchers squared up took some super glue, and the MBSGD (did I get that right this time?) have separate caps that are hard to keep looking round when they are cut off the...

Just got the turret left and some small bits to add.

Yep - that set would definitely set the LAV off nice. The kit comes with some printed paper IMP/Water/Pop stock, which might be a lower resolution copy of the real models stuff. I just ordered this set for mine:

Here's the Trumpeter kit. I reckon I am 4-5 hours into it so far. The plan is to build it straight from the box, with no additional after-market parts or scratch building. Kit includes some PE POL/H2O can holders. The fit is not great as the joining edge does not take into account the stepped...

LORIT: LAV Operational Requirement Integration Task. Easiest ID feature is the large stowage bins (3 on one side, 1 on the other) and the belly armour. There's more to the LORIT than that, but I'm not sure how much is public domain. As for the upgrades... yes, you could spend 5x the price of...

Hi, I'm about 3 hours into my TUA. I'm building it straight from the box. So far, I'm happily impressed. The overall fit has been pretty decent. Trumpeter would have you build the lower hull complete, and then the upper hull complete before mating the halves. My only deviation from the kit...

Wow, good times to be a modeller of Canadian AFV's. Looks like Trumpeter had the test shots of the Grizzly and the Cougar at the Tokyo. Grizz appears to be final production variant (no marine drive, Bison mirrors), while the Cougar looks to be early (marine drive, coofin box instead of turret...

I do. On the first and fifteenth of each month.

Coming soon from Real Models. Also, detail set for the Trumpeter LAV-III:

It's how one gets 'points' for 'leading change' when tasked to work in a HQ. Gotta love it when a TLA like MBSGD takes the same time to say out loud as "Smoke Grenade Launcher"!

^ what he said

Kit comes with 2 frets of PE. One covers the perforated turret basket walls & floor, the other has the two circular engine deck grilles, the convoy-white-cross-on-a-shield frigamajig, some gunner sight frames, and what I think might be a guard for the SGL.

I spewed over the front-part-thingy on the 1:1 scale HMCS Skeena though!  ONG - that's not my kit, it's a photo taken at the IPMS Nationals last week.

Heavy Reader - any follow up to this? Market out here took another stumble this summer. Looks like I will be asking the CM to keep me here for a 5th year to avoid losing on the house. At this point, I'd rather take the hit to the career than the wallet...hopefully the branch gives me that...

Mike, did you see Resin Ship Yard announced a City Class frigate at the US Nats?

Does it come with a cardboard cut-out of the XO shagging some sailor? :-*

I don't think the HB kit will come with PE. There is PE available, but its designed for the Tamiya kit. You can make a 2A6M CDN from the Tamiya kit, but in addition to the slat armour PE, you'd need the Storm Mini's resin bits, and some Echelon decals (not that there's many markings). I'm...