M6A1 Bearhound(What-If): Part-1

This is for a campaign build entitled "In Another World" from the Modelers' Alliance forum. I decided to source all the parts from my large collection of left over bits and pieces. No real plan just going to see what comes together.

After an hour or so here is the basic idea I came up with...should be interesting!

Let the FUN begin!!

Tamiya M4 Sherman Practice Build: Part-1

A simple out of the box (OtoB) build with a focus on painting the weathering...

    The built up kit...

    Next came the priming and base colors...

    And lastly some highlighting...

M3 Stuart(Tamiya)-Finished

Finished up the Stuart project. Used a lot of new products with excellent results...at least I think so.

What's On The Bench?

For my work area I have two benches, one for building and the other for painting. 

The Build Bench...

...and the Painting bench, plus the Airbrush Station.

So, what projects am I working on currently...the Build Bench

Currently on the Paint Bench. This is a practice paint and finishing project using the old Tamiya M3 Stuart. 

Welcome to Armored Sprue!

Just a place to display my modeling efforts and for sharing the techniques that I use along with my perspectives on many aspects of this hobby.  This is actually my second attempt at a modeling blog and I wanted to give it another shot as I still feel it is a great venue for sharing the modeling experience with my fellow enthusiast and anyone who is interested.  As with all things there is a beginning.  

For me the journey of plastic modeling started back on Christmas day 1980, I believe it was.  My sister and husband, then boyfriend, presented me with my first 1/35th scale plastic model. The Tamiya Tiger I, TM30611. Along with the model was one of the early Squadron in action photo books, “Tiger I in Action” which I still own to this day. I was bitten by the bug, and there was no cure. Over the course of the next few years I continued to build and became a member of the local IPMS chapter and participated in several shows and contests

But like most young people, high school and other “distractions” pulled my attention away from building models, but not totally away.  I continued to buy the magazines and books and every once in a while I would actually dabble in a little building.  My love of the hobby ensured that I never totally left it. Even after high school I kept involved just a enough so that I could keep up with new trends and fads within the hobby.   Shortly after high school I committed the next twenty-one and half years to the U.S. Air Force. With duty requirements, extensive deployments and meeting my loving wife it became increasingly hard to provide any time to the hobby, but I managed to when I could.

Below are two of my builds from the early 1980s..

In the closing years of my military career I made a conscious decision that once I retired I would reenter the hobby. I began to read everything I could find on the latest model building techniques and newest painting and finishing trends.  After I retired I found myself working the Washing D.C. area. Getting accustomed to civilian life, which was nice, and starting a new job placed new demands on my time but I was actually able to start my first serious project since the 1980s, an M4A3E8 ETO.

So join me in my little corner of the scale modeling world, as it were, and share with me the joy that we find by gluing increasingly smaller, and fuzzier, bits of plastic together to form what we feel is a respectful representation of these ingenious machines and the noble men and women from the past, present and future, which employed them.