Kyle Lord is making me a 1:72 63-foot ARB which was used for SPEC OPS in Italy in 1944. Here are a few in progress shots.

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And here's the real boat:

ARB22 by Tim Connelly, on Flickr

Tim

Tim,

Nice start.

Mark

Thanks Mark. Kyle does do nice work. I can't to see the completed model.

I had two rocket launchers from Shapeways sent to Kyle. He placed them on the model just to show me. What color were the rockets? They were molded into the launchers.


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I got updates from Kyle about my ARB-22 model … This what he said –

" I also got the remaining walls fleshed in and filled. Will let the putty dry then I can sand. I’ll likely work on that extension to the top cabin next. I made window frames and left a small lip on the inside I can attach the clear windscreen to.”

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On the advice of Tracy White, Rick E. Davis and John Snyder, Kyle is using Ocean Grey, and Deck Blue:

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He turned a pedestal from brass:

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Tim