what a nice topic marcos!!
looking forward to see this one finished!

Koen

Truly stunning! Thanks for sharing, awesome!

Cheers -
Tim

An excellent project Marcos you did a great job scrounging up the parts from the old Tamiya kit well done it looks terrific.

Ron.

Thanks, Gents...

In this weekend, new pictures !!!!!

Well, Gents...

The Mercedes-Benz 4500-R Maultier is finished...

This is the pictures:
I don´t like the sagging tracks ...The wire is visible too much...

I decided to remove them and glue the links with superglue:




But the worst is now:

I put up the track reversed ... Grrrr!!!!!!

I disassemble the tracks and glued it again ...The job was easier because I used a minimal amount of glue and the track to be made of vinyl ...

My old and wise father speaking:
"When the head does not work, the body suffers ..."

It´s true !!!

eheheheheheheheh

The tracks in the normal position:


and the big ugly Girl, after weathering and etc:












Side by side with their normal sister:




and as a bonus, the Normal Girl...
Zvezda´s Mercedes-Benz 4500A heavy truck:













regards, from Brazil...

Hey Marcos,
I somehow missed your post of the finished product !
Your MB truck and Maultier look great !!
I love panzer gray vehicles !!!
Cheers

jjumbo

truly amazing, fantastic! Ant

Superb work Marcos! I'm fascinated to know how you removed those suspension units from the PZ II & got them all flat & the same! Also I'm interested in the Ford Maultier in the background, is that another of your projects or is it a resin kit?

Thanks for the pictures. Great work!!!!!!!!!!!!1 I'm going to get the Zvezda kit....but I'll never be able to do the modifications like you did.
Keep on keepin' on!

Jeff

This is an old project: Ford V3000 cabin with Opel´s Maultier suspension: all using scraps...
This Maultier was a test bed for a chipping article...



regards

Panzerserra


http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v722/Panzerserra/Ford%203000%20Maultier/?start=all

And thanks, Gents !!!!

All the best !!

Hello Panzerserra,

I really love the paintjob you did on your ford v3000, were you using an airbrush ? I would
like to do the same paintjob than you but I dont have an airbrush, and I would like to know how you did the fading effect, how did you get the color to blend and merge together so well please ?

Petit, I use airbrush in my works...It´s a very, very important tool in the scale models world ...

I recommend as a most important tool !!!

regards and take care !!!

Panzerserra

Hi, MARCOS! EXCELLENT WORK!!! Beautifully done!!!

Hi, atahuu! Just some commentary on the use of airbrushes on WWII German subjects- You don't necessarily NEED an airbrush to do WWII German subjects. If you care to look through a HUGE amount of reference material, (SQUADRON's EXCELLENT "Panzer Colors" is an invaluable reference on the subject), you'll find that MANY, MANY WWII German vehicles had their camouflage applied... BY HAND!

Spray Equipment was not always available in real-life German maintenance situations. Hand-painted camouflage was applied by brush, brooms, mops, rags and literally by hands, and not always with paint, either. Dirt, mud and foliage were many times applied to vehicles in lieu of artist-like exacting and lovingly sprayed camouflage patterns, and some pretty darned messy applications of "camouflage" is much in evidence in many reference sources. Perfectly-applied camouflage, as we see in many modelling projects, is sometimes pretty questionable as to accuracy. Sure, it looks really cool to have a beautifully airbrushed camo-job on a model, but it's not really necessary from a historical point of view.

My Uncle Ludwig, (now deceased) whom I've mentioned quite a few times on this site, was a Loader serving in German Pz.Kpfw.IV Medium tanks, with 1st SS Panzer. I had the opportunity to spend some time with him when he visited us back in 1973. He stated, with quite some authority:

"CAMOUFLAGE?!? WHO had time for such nonsense!?! In my unit, we had enough to do just trying to stay ALIVE! We used tree and bush branches with their leaves still on them, to conceal ourselves from JABOS!!!"

So, there you have it. I'm not disputing the fact that many German vehicle DID have sprayed-on camouflage, I'm just offering a very viable alternative to the sprayed-on type of camouflage.

Another alternative that I've had some pretty good success with, is to use Artists' Chalk pastels (Weathering Powders are EXACTLY the same thing) ground up into a fine powder to be applied BY BRUSH, with just a bit more pressure than what you would use to apply as weathering. This is a very versatile technique in applying "camouflage". If you mess it up, a wet, soft cloth, made of cotton, such as flannel or cotton t-shirt material, can be used to "clean up" a mistake. Edges can be "softened" by "feathering" the powder, to simulate a "sprayed-on" surface. Just be sure to seal everything with a fixative, such as TESTORS 1960 "Lusterless Flat", available in spray cans...

Some advice- DO, buy yourself an airbrush, sometime. It may be a bit hard in getting used to this valuable modelling tool, but with patience, practice, and a good "How To" airbrushing book or pamphlet, you'll soon be able to paint all kinds of great paint schemes on your models.

Another comment, and Marcos, I don't mean be a "kill-joy", but ZVEZDA DID make (I don't know if they still do) a 1/35 Mercedes L4500R "Maultier" Heavy half-Tracked Truck, using the suspension components of the Pz.Kpfw.II. This is in NO WAY meant to disparage all your REALLY GREAT WORK, but just to mention that this particular variant of the "Maultier" was/is available. I have one of these in my inventory of "un-built" kits. The kit number for this model is 3603, for those who are interested in obtaining one...

H.P.