I am about to post George Schachinger's article on his Stug III dio of Alfred Mueller's famous assault gun. This is one researched and highly detailed piece of work. Post your comments and feedback to George here.

Here is the article.

Great work George. I especially love the shot of the mechanic and the tool in his back pocket!

Cheers,
Jim

That is great work. Very, very nice and richly detailed. Love those well used road wheels.

What a masterpiece you did!
I specially loved the battle damages and the painting techniques.
Keep up the excellent work (and don't mind to take about half an year to complete such beautiful pieces! )
Cheers!

Simply outstanding work...marvelousness! :-)

Modeling at its best. George, you have me torn between giving up the hobby (since I will never be able to produce such beautiful pieces) or kidnapping you to my basement, where I will make you show me exactly how to reproduce the wonderful techniques you used. You really should be proud of what you accomplished. And, thank you for the terrific article. I know it's good when I find myself saying "Shit, why didn't I think of that" over and over as I read how you did it. I hope we see more of your work on display here.

Mike

Wow!!! Great work there! The painting, the figures, the tank interior. The little details like the damaged road wheels. It's the little details that make a great model better. I can relate to the builder when he says
Heh, I've been reasonably upset when a model I was building just wasn't turning into what I wanted!

YodaMan

Well, I'm sure everyone thinks that about their skills. The trick is to just keep trying!

This is precisely the reason Armorama exists! And if George dosen't want to give us a how-to at first, I'm sure someone will bug him until he does!

YodaMan

Thanks Yoda, for the vote of confidence. I know practice makes perfect, but man, people here produce some really high-grade stuff.

What I meant by the second part, about watching George do his thing, is about how people learn, I guess. In grade school, given a project to make paper Thanksgiving items, others would make lovely Pilgrims, turkeys, etc., and I was the guy in the back with one thumb glued to his eyelid, and the other up his "blo-hole". I just have a little trouble visualizing instructions off a written page. But, if I see something done once, I can usually duplicate the effort quite nicely. For instance, I read a number of articles on painting and weathering aircraft. I played around with a few techniques, but wasn't real happy with the results. Then I found some Video Workshop tapes by Charles Davenport, who covered the topic. Just seeing how others did it, improved my work considerably. It was the same material, just basic painting/weathering techniques, but seeing it done made all the difference for me.

I do appreciate the written tips and techniques, don't get me wrong. They get me thinking and trying new things. But sometimes I think how nice it would be to actually watch a master at work.

Mike

Yeah I know what you mean. Sure it's easy to tell people how to do stuff, but it's a lot easier to learn if someone's there with you.

YodaMan

Outstanding work! Museum quality stuff.
Look on page 10 of the article and you will find a link to more of Georges work. It's worth a look.
Good stuff George. :-)

Hello friends!
Thank you for your positive reaction to my dio! As "mj" stated: I played around with a few techniques, but wasn't real happy with the results. it was also on me to "play". Sometimes I try two month to finish the colors of a vehicle in the desired way and on the way to the result it sometimes looks as if I´d better throw it into the waste basket...
So my painting sometimes also consists of "recovering" bad stages of paintwork. One must knock his way trough this problems to get to a somewhat acceptable result. The problem is: how to tell others about the growing of the paintwork? My next item will be an Afrika dio about the L.R.D.G. (next year?)
In the meantime visit:
Wikinger´s Panzermodellbau or:
Die Luftwaffe im Modell (German "Luftwaffe" in models)