Zon & Robert,

The scale is 1/144, and the hull is approximately 1.5" long.

Here are some pics of the other Tiger I Initial - s. Pz. Abt 502 "100" Leningrad that I finished earlier this month for a local AMPS contest:











The black base is approximately 3" square. It turned better than I thought it would.

@Jeff: Interesting camouflage on the Tiger, this gives me idea for my own painjob.

@Robert: Your work on the infantrymen is very good. One idea thou, being a uniform enthusiast with a few original pieces in the collection I would mix more Grey into the basic Feldgrau colour of the Feldbluse (field jacket.

A small update from my wokrbench. Knowing the Hasegawa Kfz.7 is not very accurate I decided to do a small conversion. I removed the whole cabin for the gun crew and will make a flatbed instead. I didnt remove the fenders because this would be a too complicated conversion, so in the end this will be hybrid between the classic flatbed and the early flak version(without the flak of course). I have no idea if such vehicle existed and the result will be in the what if area.

@ jeff.
I'm not too strong on the inch stuff but fromehat I remember from school that is roughly 4 cm. That is very tiny. And that in turn makes your work very impressive.

@ naseby
I know the uniforms should be a darker grey green tone. But in the view of continuity I will paint the rest of the figures like the first two. Don't feel much for repsinting thosr guys. Plus the brighter color is done on purpose as i want to create the feeling of a very sunny day. Since I can't depend on the lightcircumstances everywhere I place this dio I have to solve it with the use of color. Colors can do a whole lot in translating the surroundings.

@Robert(Faust) - the figures are looking good. Wish I have the skill like yours
@John(Big John) - you're doing a marvellous job on the Sherman. Looks like it will be back to life after 12 years in storage

@Alan(Alan L) - love the engine on the Churchill. Are you planning to leave it on show?
@Jeff (majjanelson) - I'm impressed with the built and the paintjob considering the scale. Good job
@Naseby - your build certainly is going to be an interesting one. Please keep us updated with the progress

I've been spending a lot of time on my dio base rather than the SPG (hopefully this weekend), and here are a couple of photos of the ammo dump






Regards

Sorry for the late response guys.As you will see,I've been busy "Friuling "around
Jeff S....I like the Sheridan too.It has an interesting history.Kind of a Jack of all trades but master of none.
Jeff...(Majjanelson)Sweet work on the mini.I,ve been looking all over for the Panzer Korps kits and really can't seem to find any.Where do you get your kits?

Zon... The kit has not been too bad,some filling and not much flash.I found the instructions for the Turret MG and armor plate not very clear.Thank goodness for Prime Portal I'm still trying to figure out the armor plate in front of the MG,there just does not seem to be any good way to mount it.
Guy...Your Jag is looking good.Do you have a camo plan yet?
Naseby...Who cares if your build is real or not?If you're happy,that's all that counts
Muhammad...Nice work on the bunker.The figure looks great,how did you get him posed that way?
And last but not least,here is what I have been up to...
Got the Friuls done and dry fitted.
They look pretty good,and went together well.BUT,here's the question.The instructions say there is a left and right hand side.It makes sense to me that the open end of the links should face towards the hull.One side does,and one side doesn't.Did I get two of the same side maybe? Or am I having a brain cramp?
Jeff T.

Hi Guys,

Great progress,.

Mohammed - Howitzer looks terrific and the bunker/fire point is looking well advanced - excellent stuff.

Robert - figures are looking terrific.

Paul - nice finish.

Both Jeff's - looking good guys.

John - Sherman is looking good and the T70 the same.

Guy - nice progress.

Irvan - nice Merk, excellent work.

This is progress so far on the Churchill.











Mohammed, Yes I have something like this in mind, which will hopefully show a fair bit of the detail



Cheers

Al

Alan,

How much of the interior is scratch built? Is the engine compartment a resicast kit? It looks great.

Irvin

Hi everyone!!!
This is something that I have been postponing for some years and now I want to finish, so I want to join this campaign with this vignette.
Most of the scene is ready, but I want to add some little details. I have to paint the soldiers, and this is going to be a good chance to practise some new techniques with oils. The first try with oils was good, but the quality of them wasn't so good. Now with new ones (Winton) I expect to improve my skills.
This is going to be a slow work because I´m actually involved in a bigger project and all my effort is focused on that, but I think this vignette is going to be a little relax from time to time from the other main project.
Here are the pictures of the base and the soldiers for this campaign.

Victor, as always your stuff looks really sweet, cannot wait to see that one done. Here is the latest on the merkava:

Naseby: Thank you for your comments! If you want clearer images of the camo pattern, take a look at Bill Plunk’s Tiger I Initial build. I've since found out that this winter camo pattern is incorrect for Tiger "100" before it was captured by the Russians.

Robert: You are close enough; the hull is about 3.8 cm long. It is a bit tiny to work with. I’ve made many parts over and over because they just “disappear”.

Muhammad, Alan & Jeff T; thank you for comments. Jeff, I picked up the kits at two different HobbyTown USAs, one for $4 in Augusta, GA, and the other for $5 in Charleston, SC. I got them to practice on and build quicker, but that sure has turned out to be a farce.

In the spirit of "Get'r Done", I join this group having completely blown the deadline for the support vehicles campaign.
Here's the last photo I submitted there, from 2 weeks ago...

Since then, I've been poking at it, now and then,


(This shows my rudimentary pattern for uniform hand-holds.)
and finally, this is where it stands now...

I hope to do well in this campaign. Thanks for having it!
Seeing what awesome work everyone is doing above with textures, I hope I'm not in over my head here. You guys are really nailing it!
Cheers!
-Sean H.

Well, here's another disappointment of mine. But I Got 'er Done!










It was and is a junk of a kit originally for a prior PATTON Campaign, but it's completed now.








~ Jeff

Jeff S...Another notch in the belt.Way to go dude.
With all the stuff your getting done,when you get your AB up and running,you'll have plenty of stuff to practice on Jeff T.

@Jeff T(imatanker)- the figure is Hobby Fan HF523. No modification was made. Love the look of the tracks. Always have a soft spot for the Sheridan; can't wait to see the end result
@Alan(Alan L)- looking good Alan
@Sean (windysean)- your scratch building looks amazing

Below are some updates

Command post










M110 and the cargo trailer









I am a bit disappointed with the photos as the M110 and the trailer look grey even though they still retain the lighter green in real life (perhaps it's the surrounding lights or the camera ). Maybe once the weathering is done, things might improve (fingers crossed)

regards

@ windysean- great to see your still working on the BARV! I'll be watching this one!

quite a few people are finishing up, and my Merk took a backseat again...lousy B/C armor! Guess I'll order 2 packs of chain this time!

Time to move forvard a bit. Im late with the pictures again, there was actualy more work done already, but I dont have the camera with me now, so just a small update. I completed the flattbed construction. Nothing complicated, I think a wooden floor and sheet metal sides with reinforcement would be sufficient. This is supposed to be a quick and easy build after all.

This veteran of my shelf of Doom and I have served together on the model-bench for over 20 years. So it is fitting that it gets an honoured completion and retirement with this campaign.
Many,many years ago I decided to build all the Renwall kits of my youth in 1/35th and I managed a goodly few. This list included a 75 mm M551 Skysweeper and M8 Tractor with a suitable body pack and M18 Generator set. So in the late 1980's I picked up the Nitto M8 and upon suitable measurement discovered that the hull was 1/40th whilst the cab and body were 1/35th ish. Or the other way round, it was long ago. So like many I picked up some Tamiya M41's to hack away at.This proved not fun at all and to the shelf it went.
The arrival of the AFV Club M41 and track set was reason enough to bring it down and sharpen the razor saw but this still looked a bit too much like hard work so I then built a new lower hull from scratch. This in the early part of the new century exhausted my interest till today.

Top left to right: Me, AFV Club, bottom Nitto, Tamiya.


So all I need do is plumb the engine, build an interior, and an M18 Generator, rework the dozer blade, paint and fit out.
Sorry about the long preamble but if I tell the sad tale I will hopefully be too ashamed to back out now and leave it unfinished.
regards

Glad to see that every one is making good progress.I have been putting a lot of time on the Fruils on the Sheridan,they are turning out to be time consuming But I think they are worth the effort.
Some pics
Painting the pads...
One side done,with one to go

You can see the link count for each side,don't know why they are different. Thats a total of 198 links,two pads per link for a total of 396 links.Thank God for optivisors
Got the guide ears done
Scraped some paint off to show some wear,a little dark brown wash to soften the shine and weathered the road wheels with the same wash
Thats it for now,should get the lower hull done today,then on to the upper hull.Jeff T.

Thank You Jeff for the info, I decided to try out this winter camo. I also have Dragons 6606 Pz.III ausf.N with Winterketten which also has this camo so its a good way to try it out before I use it on the Pz.III.

@ Jeff. 3,8 cm is really small. Our cat would quickly classify that as food. Or at least some elaborate kind of bug. It is even smaller then the figures I paint. My hat is off to you.

@ Muhammad
Wouldn't worry too much about that mate. Your figures look pretty good. As does your dio and the vehicle. Love the clutter in the shelter and the figures having a rest there. And the painting and markings of the vehicle is top notch.

@ Jeff T
Neat work on those friuls. Lots of pads to paint but it will definately be worth it when you installl the brand new shoes on your sheridan.

@ Alan
Love the work on the Churchill. Did the Brits already use that silver interior color that early. I remember somewhere that some sources quote it as a late or even post war thing. Still keep in mind I know nothing of brit armor at all. I only quote from memory.
Also quite a cool way to showcase the interior that way. Maybe you could even put a mirror under the turret to show it that way. Otherwise it could be quite hard to view it when it is on that cart. It is pretty hard to think up good ways of showing the interior. I have a lot of vehicles with full interior sets but with showing that stuff you pretty much have 2 options. Halfway in fabrication or an internal explosion blowout.
And thanks for the compliments on the figures.

@ Damon
Neat work on the anti slip surface of your Merk. Comes together more and more. Love it.

@ Jeff S
I think you got the best out of it. It certainly looks like a simplified kit but still Good paintwork and weathering go a long way. Decals are done very well and I like the tools especially the shovel blade with the silvery surface where it was used.

@ Victor.
That base is absolutely awesome. The workmanship and finish so far is very very good. Also great colors. With the figures in it it will look brilliant. Looking forward to seeing it finished.

@ Sean
I have absolutely no clue what I'm looking at. But the workmanship in scratchbuilding is very cool. Looking forward to see this odd vehicle finished.

@ Naseby
You surely ressurected this vehicle. Great job in rebuilding the SdKfz 11 and the paintjob looks terrific. Will look cool once weathered.

@ Mecanix
Simply stunning. Love all the scratchbuilding and the little details. Might have come a long way but look at it. With paint on it will look like the real deal.

I also have a little update on the Steyr 250 project. The 4 marching figures are finished. Sadly no pics of that yet. However I started on the fleshtones of figure 5 and 6 and I spend some time on the electricity pole. I decided to toss away the electricity pole from Mirage. On account of it looking like a toothpick. And decided to see what I had at my parents home. And found there among the lot of derelict projects something from years back. It was a tamiya Electricity pole. it never got finished. So in the light of this campaign I took it with me and finished it. Wires were done with copperwire. And all the painting done with Humbrol and pigments.

Fleshtones of figure 5 and 6



The electricity pole


Details of the electricity pole. The painted markings on the bottom to make it better visible for traffic and the never ending bird crap on top.

Naseby...Good looking camo,what color did you use for the base?
Robert...As always,nice figure work

Well,we have a lower hull with tracks

Been working on the .50 cal for the turret.This seems to be the weakest part of the build,along with fitting the armor plate around it.I had to mess with the mount and ammo can holder,also the cocking lever rod was too short so I had to scratch build one.Jeff T.

@Robert(Faust) - thanks for the compliment
@Jeff T (imatanker) - looking good despite the problems you've been having
@Naseby - looking forward to see the completed camo on the build

Over the weekend I've been busy completing my diorama. Hope you guys like it

DML's orig 88 built mostly way back when, three moves and one wife ago...
I have NO idea why I got it so far painted and weathered and did not finish the cable spools..

Poorly finished the first time around.

Finalizing construction with a few minor fixes and then going back into the paint/weathing shop.





it's glossed now to allow for current style enamel over acrylic weathering.

I guess the plus side is that I can now add scratched paint in the places where the orig paint coat scraped off the metal barrel. Who's going to tell me I'm wrong...

my hobby dungeon is below ground and poorly lit.
The paint job is less brown in real life to my eye.

@Robert: Very good choice of the last figurines. Did You do the Pole from scratch ? Its very convincing.

@Jeff: I do mix the colours a lot, this was mixed from Tamiya grey XF-24 and medium blue XF-18. I dont remember the coeficient, I just mix it by the eye. I admire Your patience with the tracks. I would probably cheat with a bit of sand pigment

@Muhammad: Its a shame to close up the nice done interiour fo the bunker with the roof but I guess without the roof it would not make much sence. Great work.

I finished the Kfz.7 with a medium grade weathering. The worst part of the whole kit were the tracks. They look terrible, but I dont want to spend money on replacement since its just a fast build to check new techniques. I did misplace the steering wheel somewhere so I will have to do a new one but other than that I call it finished.