Hi Guys
I'm calling this campaign finished.
I have submitted a photo to the gallery.


All comments welcome



Looking forward to seeing the remaining builds being completed.


Thanks Paul for a great campaign

Cheers all
Martin

A little more progress on my old Matchbox Havoc. The fit is great and details soft as always with Matchbox.

More to follow

Got some painting done on the cockpit.

Cheers Rob.

hello all, here is my progress.
steph

Finished painting the cockpit.

Cheers Rob.

Rob, I'm liking the cockpit. I don't have the hands to do fine painting anymore so I can appreciate the work. I had that kit but never started it.

Bench time has been hard to come by the last week and a half, but I managed to get some primer on this old girl monday afternoon.

sorry couple of missing images



Finally getting the hang of it



Martin

I'm getting close to jumpin' in here. I've been toting this resin nose around for about twenty years waiting to get "'round to it", I saw this campaign and am using it as an excuse...

First,let Me say,there are a lot of great builds going on here.
Although I am not enlisted in this Campaign,I have been following it from the start,being a bit of a Dino My self
I ran across this the other day,and thought I would throw it into the mix
Here you go


How old is THAT? And it's still good.Jeff T.

Well, I remember prices like that, then came along Tamiya and Humbrol... makes me miss the old days of getting a bunch of stuff costing under a dollar.

Testors paint (just like that) is now $1.59 a bottle.

Thanks Jeff!










~ Jeff

I'm thinkin' late 60's early 70's.I remember those days too,and miss them like he&&. Jeff T.

Jeff,
The chemical make up of the old paints contributed to their long shelf life. Your posting may lead me to paint the Seahawk using my older Testors and Pactera paints.

Hi all, nice to see you have made some cool progress in the last 5 days:

@ Martin: thanks for joining us and a lovely little build you have produced there. Hope you´ll take part in #2 when it comes around

@ Jesper: cool, I´d forgotten what those 2 tone kits looked like

@ Rob: what can I say to that dude, apart from super cool
I hope you haven´t squeezed a resin cockpit in there lol. Only joking, looks fantastic keep it up

@ Steph: coming along nicely as always, I really like that little kit

@ Pedro: what else should we expect from our SHerman profi . Keep it comimg buddy.

@ Mike: Welcome and go for it mate. I really like the B24, it´s just bad a$$ with those 50 cals bristling from it

@ Jeff S. and Jeff T.: well fellas, why don´t you both go and spend 5 minutes looking through your stashes I bet
you can find something fitting for this and then you could both join in the fun . We still have just under 1 1/2 months playing time, and that is more than enough for some of these kits . Anyways, lads of your generations
should be able to put these things together in your sleep,
with one arm tied behind your backs


Paul

Update.

The Bergepanzer IV is basically assembled. I'll weather and wear her up a bit. I'm thinking about scratching a rack to hold extra track, road wheels (for both Pnzer 3 & 4s), Jerry cans, etc.


And my little Panzer II/F. I painted the road wheels. I used regualr black, mainly to get some added contrast from the rubber against the dark gray of the tank's base color. Unless I change my mind, I'll start white washing it this weekend. I'm going to brush it on to try to replicate how crews would paint it on using rags and even straw brooms. I left some of the equipment and the turret guns off until I paint.



I guess that's it for now.

Well I believe I’m finally calling this one done. Only thing extra I added to the build was the 8” shell in the load tray and the radio set up consisting of a radio from verlinden, speaker, control box, and antenna base from pro art.









My source of inspiration.

Christopher,
I really like that! Well Done!

I want to finish mine but am so disappointed in the AM tracks I got.

Cheers Rob.

Got some more sanding done It's taking awhile trying to sand around all the raised panel lines. also got the front fuse glued and filled. Oh look more sanding.

Cheers Rob.

@ Alex: coming along nicely, I trust you won´t leave the Pz2 all nice and clean though

@ Christopher: fantastic , that is a beauty.
You should check your camera though, there seems to be
a foggy spot on the lens It´s on the mid left of all pics.

@ Rob: you´ll master it. Looking good even though your sanding everytime you add a new piece


Paul

Christopher, That old kit really turned out looking great.

Paul, I actually thought about building the panzer 2 super clean and like a kid would have back in the 70s. No weathering, wear, etc. I was even going to use tube glue. I scrapped that idea pretty quickly though. She'll we wearing white and a scruffy coat of white at that.

Good job on the 110 Christopher -- especially with the dirt effect on the blade!

Cheers,

Tat

Hello,

I was toying around with some camo options googled awhile back -- but finally decided to go for the box-art itself, or at least close to it.



Since I couldn't trust myself to spray free-hand at this scale, the old, trusty mask technique was the option for me.

I painted in reverse by starting with olive green. Masking took about six hours -- spread over a couple of nights.



I gave it a coat of black, and then shot dark yellow this morning using a rattlecan. It was still just a few hours dry, and I just couldn't wait for the outcome. So just like one mad scientist eager to see his creation, the masks were off:







There are signs of seepage, which need to be re-touched. Will also need to do sanding on the camo outlines as well. Hopefully it shouldn't be much of a problem.

More to come...

Cheers,

Tat

Hi Tat: looking great there, take it steady when start sanding though, don´t want take too much off


Paul

hello, here is a little update. I just started the weathering
steph

Bergepanzer IV Update.

Now to start adding the goodies. But first we'll need some sort of stowage rack. A length of styrene strip, stretched sprue, and, a few extra panzer 3/stug 3 fender supports later and we have a rack for the rear deck.


And now we'll jump ahead after I've added everything. I figure that there'd be StuG 3 in service as well so I added a couple of road wheels for them. The crate is from the old Tamiya Marder, I cut it down.





I think I am calling this one finished. I'll go back and touch up a few places and take care of other detail bits. Like there's still some white showing through. After that, I'll go ahead and upload to the Campaign Gallery.

This particular kit was a pain. I really hated building it but didn't mind the painting and finishing parts. I'm glad it's finally been removed from the stash...and I'm just glad it's done.