Hello Forum,

here my E-10 by Trumpeter, revalued with a Friul "Ostkette Pz. IV", an Amorscale-Gun and the Voyager-Kit for E-10.

I used Hobby Colour Acrylics for painting. Hardedgecamouflage was done with the help of Micromask. All camouflagecolors were given a "singlefading/-filtering" with oils of 502-Abteilung. Then several washes of details and on the whole kit were done. I used different MIG-Washes. I brushed the national crosses with the help of some masks. Chipping an aging is not really done because i wanted to built a tank, which immediately came from an underground-factory and has to be tested before get into service. A larger diorama, were the tank is standing in front of the "secret-door" is in work now. Once the dio is finished, i will add some dust and pigments apposite to the periphery.















Best wishes from Germany...

Nice job! Great paint job and subtle weathering.

The only thing I'd do different would be to "metallize" the tracks a bit more to give them a heavier, meaner and more ... well ... "metallic" look. But that's just my own personal taste.

I like the unusual camo scheme. That's the beauty of these "paper panzers" - you can experiment and play around with various ideas, without being scolded by the "purists" for "getting it wrong".

- Steve

SWEET!

Your camo is really cool- nice "non-traditional" scheme and colours. The use of "ostketten" sets it apart from the general milieu of E-10 builds, and makes a rather interesting configuration... being as this was by design a rather modest and light "tank", at about 10 tonnes, the use of ostketten would make it really "float" on almost any snow-field! Sort of like an armoured "snow-mobile"!

I am looking forward to seeing this beast appear in its dio- sounds like a cool concept- underground factory, newly assembled tank -ready for testing and putting into action.

You've done agreat job!

The E-10 is perhaps my fav "paper panzer". I just recently returned to the hobby after over 35 yrs and built the Trumpy kit with some styrene scratch- first time I ever saw this vehicle and it was a fun build indeed!

Here's a pic for contrast - I went with some mods and some wear n tear, and a rather more "conventional" sort of camo and colours.

@Steve

Thanks! Yes, i do understand your idea with the tracks and of course it is an old "discussion". But in my case we have to mind that 1. tracks are absolutely new and 2. tracks were painted with a special black-rust-prevention-lacquer. I made three washes with brown too - unfortunately not visible through the cam-pics. Here an example of an original track made in a historical way:



Here the look of the original NIRESIT-tracks after sandblasting:



I think you mean that look, right?

@Bob

Thanks!

Of course i am sure, that those tracks would not have been working well on that road-wheels (i think they would side-slip), but i always hate to see very narrow tracks of a normal PzIV or Hetzer because of the well known problems on mud and snow like you say - it's a problem of the pressure. There are a lot of points i think are not really correct or crude on that kit like the Notek instead of a Boschlight and a missing commanders-hatch/turret with periscopes and so on, but as you say, it is just unforced because of the missing originals. That makes fun. The colours are from the last paintings on Tiger B/Kingtiger.

Dio will be finished the next months because all the panzers of the E-Reihe (25, 50, 75, 100) will be presented there.

Your one is a cool E-10 too with lot of interesting ideas.