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StuG III Ausf F
The-Mechanic
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Posted: Saturday, December 22, 2012 - 04:45 AM UTC
Hi All

Haven't been around for a while, life been a bit busy at work and home.

Here is a recently finished project. The kit is a Dragon CyberHobby kit of a StuG III Ausf F built straight out of the box. The figure were included with the kit. The base is a Russian street from Mini Art and the crates, bags, tents, etc are from various manufacturers.









Tiger_213
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Posted: Saturday, December 22, 2012 - 05:14 AM UTC
Very nice Mick. Was the slacked track on the front and rear hull from a reference picture or your own idea? Nice work.
The-Mechanic
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Posted: Saturday, December 22, 2012 - 05:45 AM UTC

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Very nice Mick. Was the slacked track on the front and rear hull from a reference picture or your own idea? Nice work.



Hi Christopher

I have seen a few photographs of StuG III's carrying tracks like this. This practice was also done on Panzer III's and IV's. Mind you, they used to stick spare track sets where ever they had space to put them. Even around the spare road wheels.
GregCloseCombat
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Posted: Monday, December 24, 2012 - 05:56 AM UTC
Very cool looking scene! GReat work on it. I would add washes to the stug to get the detail to pop more in places. Nice work
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Posted: Tuesday, January 01, 2013 - 11:18 AM UTC
hi;

nice and clean work.

I have question for you,

How you get this broken glas efect?

retiredyank
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Posted: Tuesday, January 01, 2013 - 11:49 PM UTC
Quite good. Not sure about the tracks in use being yellow. I like how your camo turned out.
The-Mechanic
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Posted: Wednesday, January 02, 2013 - 08:09 AM UTC

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hi;

nice and clean work.

I have question for you,

How you get this broken glas efect?




Hi Jazz

Thank you for your comment.

I did the broken glass by cutting out panes size panels from acetate sheet, then scored in the cracks with the back of the scalpel blade. Once this was done, I then cut along the cracks randomly to create the broken panes. The larger pieces were then glued to the frames and the smaller left over pieces glue below the windows.

Mick
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Posted: Wednesday, January 02, 2013 - 08:13 AM UTC

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Quite good. Not sure about the tracks in use being yellow. I like how your camo turned out.



Hi Matt

The tracks were painted steel colour then a rust wash over the top. The just changed colour whilst I was weathering the model with the earth colour via my airbrush.
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