Whats the difference between Mr. Surfacer 1000 and 500? Although its fun and challenging to update older kits and make them look nicer, its a royal pain in the ass!

Hey Justin,
Glad to help.
I'm in a bit of a holding pattern too on my Jagdpanzer IV.
With all the snow we've had of late and all the preparations and get togethers involved during the holidays, I've been otherwise occupied.
My plan is to spend Boxing Day, December 26th, starting my build.
Pictures are still iffy, all depends on if I can figure out how to download them to my computer.
Anyway, have a good, safe and warm Christmas !!!
Cheers

John aka jjumbo

Thanks john, you have a merry christmas yourself. Its already christmas eve here! Anyway, i'm working on the welds on the Jagd. I haven't found any pictures close enough to show exactly where the suckers are, so I am using a bit of common sense and a bit of guessing. I called my dad and asked him about welding (he knows quite a bit) and I have a decent idea what might need to be welded on the tank anyhow. I'll post pictures of the welds later today.

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Thanks john, you have a merry christmas yourself. Its already christmas eve here! Anyway, i'm working on the welds on the Jagd. I haven't found any pictures close enough to show exactly where the suckers are, so I am using a bit of common sense and a bit of guessing. I called my dad and asked him about welding (he knows quite a bit) and I have a decent idea what might need to be welded on the tank anyhow. I'll post pictures of the welds later today.

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Hey Justin,
The kit's boxart shows a number of welds that are missing, particularly on the front and sides of the nose armour.
There should also be a weld bead around the driver's vision port.
These photos of the Jagdpanzer IV at the Canadian War Museum show some of them:

http://www.williammaloney.com/Aviation/CanadianWarMuseum/GermanArmor/index.htm

Cheers and Merry Christmas

jjumbo

Great site Jumbo! I thank you very much for it. I just got done laying a weld bead around the roof of the vehicle, i sure hope that was supposed to be welded on! i am also in the processs of beefing up the weld beads on the sides and nose.

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Great site Jumbo! I thank you very much for it. I just got done laying a weld bead around the roof of the vehicle, i sure hope that was supposed to be welded on! i am also in the processs of beefing up the weld beads on the sides and nose.

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Hey Justin,
I hate to tell you this but you shouldn't have added a weld bead around your JP's roof.
The roofs of many German AFV's had to be removable so that the cannon could be swapped out.
They were held down with bolts or screws, take a look at Jari's build on Missing-Lynx:

http://www.missing-lynx.com/articles/german/jll70/jll70.htm



Sorry

jjumbo

hi justin,
i've been following your build from the begining. I did the same vehichle a while back and know what your going through. I may have some steal wheels from a dragon Pz IV ausf J and i think some late indi tracks from acadamy that will fit the Tamiya sprockets. I have to dig in the spares bin but i'm pretty sure I might have what you would need.
Your doing a great job with that old kit so far.

Rob

Hey Justin,
That's a great job you've done with the welds and the cast texture on the gun mantle.
I would have never thought to use a Burger King napkin for applying texture, that's a new one.
I completely forgot about the casting numbers, you usually think of American or Russian vehicles but rarely German having them.
Oh, and I hope you have a great 21st B-day on the 29th, just in time for singing Auld Lang Syne.
Jeez, that makes you legal in all 50 states when you get back home, it's only 19 years old here in our neck of the woods here in the Great White North !
Keep up the good work !!!
Cheers


jjumbo

John, thanks for the encouraging words. How does the "fixed" roof look? When I was adding the surfacer I was looking for something to add the texture. I didn't have an old brush and i was about to use a green scratch pad, then i saw the napkin and noticed that it was a rough texture to it. With the casting numbers, I noticed almost every photo from my previous thread and ones i have found are taken from the right side of the vehicle or are vehicles with zimm. so I only found one vehicle with casting numbers. This is hardly something to go off positively, so it was a bit of a shot in the dark.

I have no idea what Auld Lang Syne is but i'll look it up..you are like a walking dictionary, this and gilded lily!

With all the snow we got this week, I'm going to be away from home and my resource books until the weekend.
IIRC, the rear and front plates of the Pz.Kpfw. IV were fitted in between the side hull plates and the welds weren't very prominent.
I'll have to get back to you later about confirming this.
From your list of AM parts, you are definitely going to town with the improvements.
I've built a few Legends figures before but never seen those 2 sets before.
Legend's figures are usually well sculpted and these ones look good.
Keep up the good work.
Cheers

jjumbo

Hey Justin,
The CAF do what they can with the limited resources given them but they already have or will be getting new gear like Leopard II tanks, F-35 fighters, C-17 Globemasters, Blackhawk helicopters, etc........
With only 33.5 million people compared to the U.S.A.'s 309 million, the defense budget is small compared to other countries.
Snowplow, what's a snowplow ????
I decided to crash at my Dad and Stepmum's place for Christmas Eve through to Boxing Day as we usually don't get much snow in this part of Canada and getting around was brutal.
It usually rains here, much like Seattle or Portland and we don't get more than a few inches of snow at any time.
Some areas of the Greater Vancouver area received more than 2 feet in the past week and the local works yards spent over half of their Winter salt and sand budget.
Anyway, getting on topic, I wouldn't worry about anymore weld beads.
It's an old kit and the amount of AM your adding will improve it immensely.
Like I said previously, the Legend figures are nice and will certainly enhance your build.
Cheers

jjumbo

Hey Justin,
Short history lesson:
Canada has been very involved with the U.N. and peacekeeping duties around the world for almost 60 years.
The last time that Canada was involved in an actual war as a combatant was back in 1950-53 in your neck of the woods.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gulf_war_1#Canada

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_Forces

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Canadian_military_operations

Canada provided ships and aircraft during the first Gulf war and there has been a fairly large contingent of 2500 serving in Afghanistan.
Unfortunately, the 104th Canadian soldier to be die since arriving in country was killed today by an IED along with another 3 others that were wounded.
While essentially socialist, Canada has for years sent troops to many trouble spots around the world including the Middle East, Cyprus and Africa.
Going to be spending a 3rd night at my folks place as we got another dump of snow today.
I've got a wad of CA$H from Christmas burning a hole in my pocket, just aching to go and be spent down at my friend's place, the guy from Seoul who runs one of the LHS.
Looking at getting either a Tamiya Opel Blitz, DML PTO M4A2 Sherman or a DML Panzer IV Ausf. G.
BTW - I picked up the new Tamiya Panzer II Ausf. c, A, B, C last week and it looks nice.
Cheers

jjumbo