Great work Tony,
the binoculars are a nice touch. would you recomend the DML kit i have one at the LHS and its been nagging me to buy it for few weeks.
Cheers,
Mat

Tony, she's worthy of a dio ...
Nice job!

Mathew oh yes I recommend it as long as it's the newest offering. I hear it's a lot better kit than the older one and Thanks for putting a smile on my face too.

Thomas i've never built a dio but i'm thinking of one for this. The lower hull is not really weathered up like it should be because it needs to match up with the dio groundwork I hear. If you look at the tracks again you'll see some city rubble dust has already been added,hint hint.

Thanks again you guys
Tony the Mutt

Jeez, Tony, I just now looked at this and it's great! The interior makes it real.
Question: Is Tank Rat's track treatment as corrosive as "Blacken It"? I tried it (Blacken It) with some assembled tracks and it ate the pins.....

Russ I would say so that's why after I take them out of the solution I put them in a mixture of baking soda and water (about a teaspoon of soda to a glass of water) to neutralize the acid. I use a tooth brush to scrub them down and work the tracks to get the soda water in the joints and then rinse in clear running water

It must be doing the job as you can see for all the bubbles.So far so good.

Thanks
Tony the Mutt

Great stuff Tony. You should put this one in for a feature. Make it a build feature. I think this one came out awesome. How did you make those stripes?

As I mentioned earlier Jim this was a camo scheme used by the 2./s.H.Pz.Jg.Abt.560 in 1943.
I bought the Hummel and sometime or another ran across the pattern while doing some research and when I first saw it knew that was what I wanted for a camo scheme.

Since i'm new to the hobby each of my models is a learning experience and is different from the others.(the Hummel being number 6) I used masking tape already on one so this time I bought a package of "Poster Tack" to do the masking, next time I need masking i'll try "Silly Putty".

I used Tamiya Primer first and then pre-sprayed Tamiya Red Brown where I wanted the wavy lines. While that was drying I took some chunks of the Poster Tack and rolled them out using a square of Plexiglass to the diameter I thought would be about right.



I worked on one side at a time instead of masking off the whole thing at one time joining the ends of the Poster Tack as I progressed around the model. I used Tamiya Dark Yellow cut with about 40 to 45% Tamiya Buff to lighten the DY so it wouldn't be so dark after the filters and washes were applied.

As soon as the Tamiya paint dried a little I would peel off the Poster Tack and continue on around to the next side until I was back to where I started. When the lines were completed I did a blend mist of 95% thinner and 5% of my Dark Yellow mix to pull it all together.



My "Beginners Luck" held out for me one more time.
Glad you like it Jim
Tony the Mutt

Hi Tony
I knew this one was going to be good one and she certainly is!
Fantastic work. Definately a candidate for a good diorama
Thanks for posting an excellent build, Im sure i speak for all when I say Im looking forward to your next one.

Regards Paul

Thanks Paul I really appreciate your support but I still think your Nashorn is much better.

Don't argue with your elders
Tony the Mutt

Nice work Tony. Hey very well done. Thanks for sharing. Also what are those rods for on the back? I've seen them before but I don't know what they are or what they are for.

They are called aiming post and are set in the ground about 25 to 50 meters out in a line. The sight and the gun barrel are calibrated together on a compass heading to the target and then the gun can be adjusted right or left of these to zero in on unseen indirect targets.
Now days they are painted green and black,wonder why?

Tony the Mutt

Hmm yeah I do so much for my theory. I thought they were cleaning rods.

Wow, the tracks are really good!
Also thanks for the explanation of the range poles! I also have them on "my gun" and didn´t know what they are used for.

Hmm, did you cleaned your model kit? In my opinion, it looked better, before the "wash" (11. October pictures).
In the newer pictures it has a cleaned look.

greetings...
Soeren

Soeren I think the Oct 11 picture had not had the flat clear coat applied yet so therefore the light would be reflecting off the surface differently. That's the only thing I can think of that would make it looked cleaned.

I also called those Range Poles but an old Artillery guy corrected me,the correct name is Aiming Post.

Thanks for coming by and posting
Tony the Mutt

Tony,

I was surfing the net looking for a review of this kit and ran across your build. Looks great as always.