I am trying to finish all the models I started some time ago, but for some reason had to put them away. The first in the line is E10. After taking these pictures the model was primed. Hopefullly, I will start painting tomorrow.

Looks great, Alex.

I like the added smoke launchers - they change the look of the vehicle. Why did you rebuild the roof plate?

At first I just tried to enlarge the hatches. They are way to small to scale, I think. Hatch above the driver had to go. For a driver it would be way too small. To use it for anything else... Like waht? Loading ammunition, maybe, but then location of the hatch just makes things more complicated. The main periscope (if compare to similar vehicles, such as Hetzer) should be moved. And so on. After torturing the kit for awhile I decide to cut the roof out and make a new one. I am glad I did it. Learned a lot about scratchbuilding on this one.
This is the original look out of the kit.

It's one of those " paper tanks" where, I think, you can participate in the designing process.

The progress so far...

Time to do some weathering...

Nice work on your E10, progressing along well so far. Camo job ended up well, nice weathering. Thanks for sharing your pictures. Scratch-building is top-notch!

Cheers -
Tim

Thank you, Tim! I'm glad someone likes it

I'ts a real beauty , weathering and camoflage are perfect Bob

Well, it is finished. Maybe I will add a couple of figures later, and place it on some kind of a base/street (from MiniArt?).

Well, that's a true piece of art. Excellent job, Alex.

Thanks, Ales! I am glad you like it. Any comments?

Such a ugly vehicle, but you have done a wonderful job of painting and weathering it. Makes it look lean and mean lol. Well done.

Darryl

Alex,
it looks pretty cool, nice camo and subtle weathering, I like it very much. Thanks for your pics and happy modelling.
greetings ro

Super work!

Lars

Great job Alex. Mine didn't come out as well. I had a real tough time with the axels, they simply didn't want to go together properly. Did you use the PE sideskirts or the plastic ones?

Thanks to all for a nice feedback!
As far as axels, or wheel suspensions, James... This is my third kit from Trumpeter so far, and I had problems with those in every one. They don't realy fit together, and usualy have huge gaps between two halves. The big advantage of E10 is that you only see (if you try hard enough) the first one on each side. So I left the rest of them as they were.

The side skirts are plastic. They look pretty good and thin, so I decided to save PE for something else in the future.