just click on the picture frame to link into the gallery, i've a few pictures of the 88


comments welcome

Shane, your 88 here looks pretty darn awesome!!!

Thanks for posting my 88 Greg trying to post the bloody things was driving me mad

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I will be doing a Jagdpanther, candy stripe camo; or maybe a initial production Tiger I. Decisions, decisions....

Byron

Missed the startup on this, but I just joined. I will start mine at the end of July. I'll be building a 1/16th Jagdtiger,using the Tamiya Tiger II kit and Backyard..er...elite cant remember, but the conversion.. ..
how come noones using the banner?

How do you use the banner?


Welcome aboard.

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here she is all finished, now all that has to be added is a crew and a simple base, which i will begin in next few weeks, oh a question how do you get a '88' banner ?

Hi all,

I've been workin on my king tiger on the Benelux.kitmaker.net. But I also can use it for this campange.

I've collected the following stuff for 2 king tigers:



2x Tamiya King Tiger Production Turret
ABER, PE
ABER, Fenders
ATAK, Zimmerit
Voyager, sideskirts
Eduard, PE
Eduard, barrel
Armorscale, barrel
Armorscale, Roosters
Royal Model, Resin Tools
AFV Club, 88 mm munition
Eureka XXL towing cables
Fruilmodel ATL-22 tracks
Fruilmodle ATL-37 tracks
some scratch work

after a build of 2 months I've completed the build:





















Still some minor detail work and it's ready to for paint

I hope you like it

Martin

Nice King Tigers!


I figured out the banner thing: 1) right click on the banner image and copy its web address. 2) go to modify profile 3) paste the banner link into "personal URL" (3rd thing down)


HTH

I agree terrific King Tigers, tons of extras too.

Finished the flak36. Mounted on a slate off my roof with some sand from the
18th at St Andrews, no joke. Thought it might add a bit of class
Detail is a bit soft on the kit but I tried to experiment with weathering and chipping.
First attempt at a base too. White glue and sand. Not so hard. Is this the
first step down a slippery slope?
Does posting here qualify as submitting a build? Or must I upload to the gallery.
I've not got much space there.

Looks pretty good John-Paul,the chipping looks realistic,no wonder the Wyvern had to wait,nice job.I did the opposite,now I'm on to my Tiger I.still got a ways to go though.

Usually John requires at least one photo in the Campaign gallery.

Hey jaypee

I'll tell you what someone told me.
I'm assuming it's the 1/72 Hasegawa offering, if not tell me...
Anyway, it's a Flak 18 with a few 36 parts. To be honest, I don't know the difference except that it's an 88.

Very nice one though

Rich

it is the airfix kit. it is cheap and simple, ideal for gaming.
and yes it is not really accurate although you can
find examples of bastardised 18/36 guns, due to field repairs and the like.

thanks for the comments, and thanks to john for the campaign

How do upload photos to the Campaigns gallery, and where is it ?

Step 1: Click on the photos tab.
Step 2: Login into the Kitmaker gallery
Step 3: Under Catagories, click Campaigns
Step 4: Click Currently Active Campaigns
Step 5: Scroll down to almost the bottom and click the Mighty 88 folder/link
Step 6: Click the Upload Photos right above the search function
Step 7: See the upload section, should be self explanatory.

Hope that helped,
Rich

thats great, thanks rich

There really are some awesome kits being build here. Massive is a better word, I guess...

As for my entry, I have started at last on Dragon's Hornisse.
So far the gun has been done and the basecolour showed quite a few spots that had to be reworked, hence the grey and/or sanded areas.
It is not much to comment to yet, but at least you guys know I'm at it!
The kit itself is nice, the instructions not. I have little or no references to this kind of vehicle, so I have to rely on an article/review on Perth's modelling site and the instructions.

I have done some more on this vehicle. I added the tracks and without any directions on the assemblyguide, I had to make a guess on how much I would need.
On some pictures you can see quite some sag in the tracks and I tried to replicate that.
On the left one I went a bit overboard, using 104 links, ending up with to much sag. On the right side I used 102 and this looks a lot better.



I have been thinking about what to do with this vehicle. Putting it on a shelf on it's own would mean no challenge and a hazard of loosing intrest in this build all together.
So I decided I would pair it up with my SdKfz 250/8-build for the "get the job done"-campaign, would mean it could star in my first multi-vehiclediorama!


The scene depicts a couple of vehicles being camo-painted in the field and all the figures and assets came from the sparesbox.

Still haven't figure out what to build on this one ... and I'm the campaign manager on this one... go figure..decisions...
Blonde / brunette / Red hair , long legs... easy decisions these ones but picking a kit from your stash for a campaign that's hard work !!!

Hello All,
I have started on my JagdPanther in 1/48 scale. The only extras i am doing is a metal barrel/ machine gun.
Hopefully some photos soon.
Cheers,
Bruce

Well, I haven't been doing much on vehicles or figures this time.
I concentrated on the basework instead.
As you could see, I made a single slab of wallfiller and I carved a pattern into it, representing a Marketsquare, somewhere in a town in Europe.
In progress;

Overall view;

Detailshot;


Then I got to work with the painting.
First I gave the entire plate a wash with a dilluted mix of black, white and blue. The main purpose of that was to fill in the cuts between the stones.
This allready created a sort of 3D effect on its own, which I further enhanced by successive layers and drybrushes of grey, mixed with browns, greens, whites and at last yellow ochre. It is quite hard to see on the pictures, but the differences are visible. The place I will be putting the vehicles on did not receive the drybrushes with the white and the ochremix, so they are darker (shade).




When everything has dried I will add little stones, sand etc etc.