Great detailing, Piotrek. It really makes a great difference to the kit. Looking forward to see more.

After changing my mind a lot of times I have finally decided to make the T-34/85 for this campaign. It is the 1/72 UM kit which has a lot of nice details. One of the options in the kit is to fit the rubber rims to the road wheels and another is that the suspension is flexible in height. This gave me the idea of making a burned out tank on a small base.

Construction has already started. Some old school modellers might recognise the base as the Matchbox base from the Comet kit.

More to follow soon.

A little more progress on the T-34/85. The tracks go on well and fit to the ground very well.

More to follow.

Coming along nicely Jesper !

Hello Jesper,
How is it going here in the US? I like the UM kits, I have found the construction easy and the vechicle looks good when finished. I will be happy to see your finished dio.

Bob

Thanks for the comments, guys.

Bob, going well in the US. Very busy with work, but that is a luxury in times like this.

The UM kit is really nice and very well detailed. The tank and base is now ready for a basecoat and the painting process.

It is going to be a whole new experience to paint a burned out tank, but a lot of colour photoes from the net will help. Basically it will be a lot of black as a base and then orange for lightly rusted areas and white for the wheels to simulate the burned rubber which always seems be be fine white ash when burned.

I have added some twisted copper wire to the base to make the barbed wire stand out more and make it more three dimensional.

More to follow soon.

A little more progress on my T-34/85. I might as well have spare the Russian Green base coat as it is ending up almost entirely black. The white Polish Eagles almost disappeared

More to follow soon.

Oops, I forgot to post my progress pics regularly, but figure is still unfinished. So now I'm catching up.

First I've painted flesh parts with artists oils: Burnt Sienna, Titanium White and Yellow Ochre. Then uniform with Vallejo Panzer Aces 317 British Tankcrew.



Next I have made shadows on uniform with Vallejo Model Color 70854 Brown Glaze.



And finally, after many attempts, I painted eyes somehow.


Now I plan to made a base.

Here is my finished UM 1/72 T-34/85 DT-5 gun. It was my first try of making a burned out tank. I am not entirely satisfied with the paint job, but considering the scale it is good enough for the display cabinet

Below is the finished model and some of the pictures I used for inspiration.

Comments and suggestions welcome

Edit: looking at the pictures I notice I missed the seam line on one side of the gun. Damn....

Jesper, what seam line I dont see any without my glasses HEY! nice job for a hotel/motel model.

Bob

Started my little FT-17 with the (wz.18) L/21 low velocity gun. Photos soon.

Anthony

* sorry no Leo 2, went to another project.........

Good work Jesper, I wasn't expecting a wreck, but it has turned out well, Thanks for posting !

@ Tomek - you figure is coming along very nicely.

@ Andrew - its great to see you're about to start I was waiting for your posts. an FT-17 will be excellent !

Cheers Guys, keep up the posts and good work !!

Paul

Thanks for the comments, Paul and Bob Appreciate it.

Paul, I was not planning to make a wreck myself, but when I looked over the model and noticed the rubber rims on the wheels being seperate I got the idea to build a burned out wreck.
I also had the old Matchbox base lying around and it all came together

Not a perfect result but as a first try I am satisfied. The next one will be better

Well here we go FT-17.........









Anthony

Anthony,
Now that is just not fair, mine did not come with PE Love the FT17 I will keep an eye on your build.

Bob

Bob

I must have gotten lucky, I picked up both types in Warsaw, along with the TKS series. Might have to open them up and see if there is PE in them as well. It is being a pain, was hoping to be a OOB. But, alas there is some warpage and some parts will need to be added.

Bugger........................................

Anthony

Love that FT-17 Anthony, I'm looking forward to more

Cheers

Paul

Update:

Worked on the tracks by adding new springs, bolts, supports for the front road wheel, chains, and some kit PE , with some scratch built parts. Off to the paint booth soon.

Anthony

Anthony ,
Did you scratch build the turret? If so great job, like Paul stated it is one of my favorite tanks also.


Bob

Bob

The kit came with two types of Renault turrets, chose the rivited version, but had to scratch some of the parts on it. The instructions are not the greatest, thank god for reference photos of the real deal. I could have gone more into details, but I plan to build another one, more detailed than this one.

Anthony

Awesome Anthony

I was hoping for one of these to be done sooooo much

Thanks for posting !!!!

Cheers

Paul

I'm building a Polish aircraft from 1921 for the campaign using the Roden kit #424 of the Fokker D.VII (Alb late) and the Techmod decals #48061.




Thanks,
Karl

Looks great Carl.

Good luck, we hope to WIP pics soon

Hi all, have been following the campaign and there has been great looking builds and Dio's by all!
Finally made a start on my build last night, a 1:72 Revell Cromwell. Got some work done on the turret and tool boxes onto the hull. With only two and a half weeks left to go I better get cracking!
Cheers,
Tim

G'day Tim !

Thanks for the update, looking forward to seeing your progress soon

I have just finished one of my entries. I'm sorry it was a very off-line build but I had very little time lately and very much to do so I couldn't affort spending more time for taking pictures, progress in building was my priority. I hope it qualifies as "build" although I think I will add few gentle touches to the model in future but the look of the model will not change any more.

Here are the pictures.