Welcome to the club Tony! Show that Bradley and Godzilla some love and finish them up. Again, welcome to the campaign. "Q"

Success at last! I have finished my Upgunned CA-68. I had to use about a cubic inch of putty to fill all of the gaps and correct all of the defects but I prevailed and now my work bench is empty and ready for the cold war campaign.


Is there a gallery setup that I should load this picture into?

Found the gallery, not sure how I missed it before

Hi Matthew -- have signed up the other day. Will be putting in a Pz II in DAK colors. Its the old Tamiya kit and an attempt on using the hairspray method. Haven't started on tracks as of yet. Have a couple more other half-finished ones, but will put this up first. Cheers -- Tat

Good looking ship David. No gallery set up for this one. Just leave it here in the forum and I'll get your ribbon to you once we are complete. Nice looking PzII Tat. Love the worn roadwheel on the front. Nice touch. "Q"

@Tony; thanks!
@Matthew; I have no idea what exactly Hotel Sierra means, but I assume it's good! Thanks!
@Brian; Thanks Brian. Unfortunately for your "Tommycooker" the "seats" are allready taken.
@Tat; nice job on the Pz.II. It should look great when the colours are blended together. But I think that the chipping is sometimes at the wrong places. I think it usually chips the first at the edges and less in the middle of the armorplates.

As for my progress, things are getting more eloborate than I had planned/anticipated.... as usual!!
I got busy on the sewerlid and this is what happened;
I started of by googleing for them and I noticed the old lids often came with a lot of ornaments. This got me digging through my sparesbox to see if I could come up with something to represent that look.
I ended up with a Panther sprocket, a dingowheel and a hatchring from a Crusaderturret. After about 3 hours of turning, sanding, filing, fitting and starting over again I ended up with this:

Inner circel with spokes; the centrepart of a Crusader idler (hence the starting over), than a thin strip of plasticcard. Then the circel with the bolts from the Panther idles, followed by the hatchring. The last ring is a plasticcradring to make the lid fit the underground.
Then I painted the contruction in a panzergrey base, followed by a coat of bronze (both Vallejo)

The 2 washes of lamp black and when dry 2 washes of viridian (green).
I put the lid in it's place and was not satisfied with the result, because the space under the lid lacked depth. I did paint the in lamp Black too, but it still was flat.
I decided to do something drastic and cut a hole right through the entire base!


This was than covered with a piece of firm, black semigloss cardboard, which then was given a decent coat of gloss varnish. I put the lid back in it's place et voilà....




Finally I took some of my own, homemade diorama-soil (your standard backyardsoil, dried, ground and sifted) and I brushed that gently into the slits between the stones. Looks really great and much, much cheaper then pigments!
I added some very small stones and a few tufts of grass and I was a happy camper!

Ron, you are correct...it means something good The manhole cover came out great. Nice piece of gizmology that works! Looking forward to the completed dio once you post it. "Q"

Thanks Matthew. Had to clean it up a bit when after I saw the close-up pic -- sure looked like melted plastic. Cheers -- Tat

Thanks Ron. That's actually my problem -- am trying to represent a Pz II that has worn out / faded paint more than just chipping. Have read that early in the African campaign, panzers came still in their grey coats but received a desert wash of sorts to blend with the terrain. Eventually such light coat came off revealing the grey color. Greatly appreciate any suggestions on this. Cheers -- Tat

P.S. First time to use the hairspray method and am quite happy to know it works -- though fighting the tendency to overdo the chips and scratches is quite tough

Well count me in this fits perfectly. I have the old Tamiya 1/35 StuG IV. I started this kit during down time while I was stationed at Ft Bragg in 1999. Now 10 years later, not having done any modeling since and with the economy keeping me home I think it is time to get back in the game. It'll be mostly out of the box, with the exception of a metal barrel and an additional resin figure or 2. It'll be my first Zimmerit job, first airbrush camo and basically a big leap from where I left off years ago, should be a blast.

Mike,
Thanks for joining the build and welcome aboard! Spent some time at Bragg myself in the early to mid 90's. Were you part of Lafeyette Scale Modelers there in Fayettenam? Was Hobbit Hobbies still around while you were there? There was another hobby shop run by on older gentleman named Gentry, but I can't recall the name of it. We used to have our meeting there upstairs. Ahhh, good times, good times.. Ok, I'm starting to ramble. Again, welcome aboard. Looking forward to seeing your work. "Q"

C CO. 3/73 Arm. BN. 82d ABN Div. '92-'96
The Freeworlds Only Airborne Armor Battalion

Thanks, I am working on the zimerit right now, hasn't been pretty so far but I'm fairly patient.
I have never really been active in the modelling community, wasn't really aware of groups or meetings or such, it was just something I did since I was a kid. Real interesting that you were at Bragg just befor me. I enlisted in 96 got to bragg in early 97. I was in 3-4 ADA, right by 3-73, 313MI and 82 repl., I even attended the deactivation ceremony for 3-73, then 3-4 took over the 3-73 barracks soon after. I only remeber going to Hobbit hobbies and I loved that shop. They had so much of the detailing stuff I never knew existed. My local shop is decent but a far cry from Hobbit.

Hi, I've just joined the campaign as well. I've been modelling for many years, but in the last 4-5 years I've focused on model railroading in H0 scale. It's great to be back in 1:35, everything seems so big! :-)

I'll finish a kit that has been lying around for some time, namely the Alanger kit of the German Pz.Sp.Wg 202(r) Schienenwagen. It's the German captured version of the Soviet BA-20, fitted with either road or rail wheels. Both are included in the kit, so I'm not sure which it'll be.

When I begin the construction again, I'll be sure to post a lot of pictures here.

This is as far as got when I initially started the kit a long time ago:



Inspired by this campaign I spend some hours modelling in a couple of evenings and suddenly the vehicle began to take shape, even though the parts didn't fit too well:



When building plastic models I always like to add some weight to the model. Somehow this makes it feel like it is of better quality and more solid as well. Quite irrationel, but it works.
Of course, using coins adds something to the usually high price of the model, but I guess small pebbles can be used in a tight spot as well.



This is as far as I got last night. I have tried to fill the worst gaps with putty, and the model will receive a light grey coat in order to be able to see all the imperfections that still needs to fixed before painting it.

Looking good Occam. Keep at it. Thanks for sharing your progress. "Q"

Hi All,

I have finished my unfinished Krupp Boxer and SdAH51 trailer as shown on an earlier page of this campaign.









I still have a few more things to add (cargo and personal gear) and still have to touch up the weathering.

It's nice to feel closer to finished...

all the best
acav

Congrats on finishing your Krupp Acav Nice to see somebody making progress. I've been busy working on my build for the "What if" campaign elsewhere on the site. Thanks for posting. "Q"

Hi all!

So, finally I got another one done... Slow builder... AB41 from Italeri. Built pretty much OOB with a new gun barrel and replaced the rivets on the turret sides as they were so small they broke off...




Cheers!
Stef

Looks excellent, Stefan. Very nice camouflage and weathering.

Occam, nice start on the BA-20. I remember this kit as I have build it twice. It needs a lot of dryfitting to go together well, you seem to have gotten a good fit.

Looking forward to see more

Occam: Sweet looking BA you got there. And you've found your own way of adding some value to it!
Acav: Your Krupp Protze sure has turned out splendid! I like the colours and the weathering. Well done! What are those bumps under the windshieldcover??
Stefan: Your AB41 looks terrific! Great colours. The weathering appears to be quite lightcoloured, though. Is it the picture or is it really that light?

I've been tinkering with my 250/8 too, adding odds and ends.
I added some PE too and it isn't all that hard, but I keep it simple.

The right topside got an MG42 with sparebarrelcontainer and a weaponmaintenancepouch. The MG-fasteners were homemade by using leftovers.
I also added the cable for the antenna, which runs from the antenna across the roof to the radio in one piece.


The left topside got a homemade gunbarrel cleaningrod and some wiring for the radio.


The interior received alot of things, such as ammoboxes, personnel gear and foldable seats. I thought the interior looked quite empty, so I added some gasmaskcontainers too.( I saw this in a restored 250/3)






Now all I have to do, is paint the damn thing!!

Thanks for the words about my Krupp, fellas - it's been a long journey.
Now for the diorama...

Ron - I really like the detailing on the interior of your 250/8; people lived out of these vehicles after all, and it's important to think yourself down to that scale and add those extras which seem logical. Nice work on the gasmask containers too.

As for the 'bumps' under the canvas over the windscreen...



As shown in the photo above, the Krupp Boxer windscreen could be fitted with folding side screens. These folded inwards and could be covered with the canvas windscreen protector. I made a bit of a hash of the kit windscreen frame, so decided to model it under the protective cover and added the folded side screens as another point of difference.

Hope that clears it up.

all the best
acav

A couple firsts for me...my first military kit completed and my first campaign completed. Sorry for the image quality, I took the picture with my cell phone. They came out sort of blurry.


I may ask my daughter if I can use her camera so I can get some clearer pictures.
Tony

Looks good Tony. Thanks for posting your work. "Q"

Suppose I'll play...

Just getting back building after a couple year hiatus. Had a Revell 1/72 Abrams that was started then delegated to drawer. I'll see if I can finish that up.

My 250/8 is nearing completion!
I assembled it, painted it, added decals and will start with weathering sometime this weekend.
I went for markings of the 19. Pz.Div., because they appearently did receive some 250/8's.
Here are the pictures;

Really nice! (For me this is the dangerous part. I usually just stop saying why risking screwing up all this work with the risky steps of weathering. )