Lisboa, Portugal
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Posted: Monday, November 18, 2013 - 05:47 AM UTC
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Texas, United States
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Posted: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 - 03:12 AM UTC
Louisiana, United States
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Posted: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 - 05:12 AM UTC
In a gray and clunky sort of way! Rather like the runty, oddly-shaped bow-legged kitten with the kinked tail in the litter of otherwise tall, straight-legged, long-tailed lanky and sleek beauties!
Hey! I'm really quite partial to these odd little contraptions, and it looks to be a right fine job, by me!
Bob
Lisboa, Portugal
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Posted: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 - 05:39 AM UTC
Thanks Vance & Bob !
I liked building this odd Panzer !
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Canelones, Uruguay
Joined: December 27, 2006
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Posted: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 - 02:53 PM UTC
Hi
98% done, just some retouch around the sharp edges, and the "sourvenir" french helmet.(Ultracast)





Regards
Alvaro
Arkansas, United States
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Posted: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 - 03:14 PM UTC
Alvaro: Awesome build! That is the kind of quality I reserve for competitions. Everything else is just practice. I can't wait to see your final result.
Ideals are peaceful. History is violent.
North Carolina, United States
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Posted: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 - 03:51 PM UTC
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Individual track link tools
Louisiana, United States
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Posted: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 - 02:23 AM UTC
Alvaro;
VERY nice panzer!
Looks properly dark and gray and I love those mufflers!
One thing you should, I think, hit would be that balkankreuz decal on the rear - looks to me like the decal spans or stretches over the step between those rear plates and creates an odd discontinuity with the adjacent painted surfaces. Maybe carefully slit that decal so that the resulting ends can fit into the crack, apply a drop of solvaset or whatever you use on decals and reset those edges, and dab in a little pigment or chalk dust to weather things back to where you had them.
Otherwise, a spledid panzer, by me!
Bob
Canelones, Uruguay
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Posted: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 - 01:25 PM UTC
Thanks Matt & Bob. Yours words inflate my ego! hahaha.
I declare it done.
Some pics of the tank, now with the retouched edges and areas.
The old one show how difficult can be guess the properly camo colors from a sepia photo the brown camo dissapears.
Regards from the South.





Lisboa, Portugal
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Posted: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 - 02:02 PM UTC
Great work Alvaro !!
The stowage and the rusted mufflers are great, the light weathering is superb.
Congrats on the Uruguay's road to the World Cup
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Canelones, Uruguay
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Posted: Thursday, November 21, 2013 - 12:12 AM UTC
Thanks John, I paint them rust first and later add rust pigments, and some orange touch with chalk pastels. Also, I add some true rust from an old pipe. As Bare Metal foil said, looks rust as its rust!...
Obrigado, como sempre sofrendo!. Um quarto no último mundial, teve que jogar por uma vaga, pois o Brasil já qualificado, caso contrário, não poderia ir de outra forma. Vergonha, mas estamos no mesmo lugar onde nós ganhamos em 1950. Maracana!
Thanks, as always suffering!. From a fourth place at the last World Cup, had to play for a spot because Brazil was already qualified, otherwise, could not go. Shame, but we're in the same place where we won in 1950. Maracana!
Lisboa, Portugal
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Posted: Thursday, November 21, 2013 - 01:48 AM UTC
Quoted Text
Thanks John, I paint them rust first and later add rust pigments, and some orange touch with chalk pastels. Also, I add some true rust from an old pipe. As Bare Metal foil said, looks rust as its rust!...
Obrigado, como sempre sofrendo!. Um quarto no último mundial, teve que jogar por uma vaga, pois o Brasil já qualificado, caso contrário, não poderia ir de outra forma. Vergonha, mas estamos no mesmo lugar onde nós ganhamos em 1950. Maracana!
Thanks, as always suffering!. From a fourth place at the last World Cup, had to play for a spot because Brazil was already qualified, otherwise, could not go. Shame, but we're in the same place where we won in 1950. Maracana!
That's a terrific job with the PzIII, you should be proud !
Wining Copa America they should got a place, but I'm not making the rules.. it's a difficult team, Suarez, Forlan, Cavani, Maxi, Rodriguez..

It's going to be a great World Cup !
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North Carolina, United States
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Posted: Thursday, November 21, 2013 - 02:16 AM UTC
interesting little panzer John,looking good.
New York, United States
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Posted: Thursday, November 21, 2013 - 07:04 AM UTC
@Alvero outstanding job I really like the bundle of branches and the camo work on the gray
@John and Smokeynice projects looking forward to seeing more
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Canelones, Uruguay
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Posted: Friday, November 22, 2013 - 12:39 AM UTC
Thanks Sal!
The branches are of a small tree, like a willow, I cut small pieces and glue with CA. The wire that connects them is a cable from an old computer mouse
Regards
Alvaro
Møre og Romsdal, Norway
Joined: December 03, 2012
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Posted: Friday, November 22, 2013 - 10:39 AM UTC
@Alvaro: Excellent Panzer III!
Progress photos on my Pzkpfw II:
Interior painted and weathered. Quite happy with the result. Unfortunately I realized that I had glued shut the only hatch that would allow a view of the interior. Oh well.
Canelones, Uruguay
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Posted: Friday, November 22, 2013 - 12:17 PM UTC
Thanks Vegard
I like your work in the interior, I have the same model, but don't qualify for this campaing as have more than 25% of work.
I shut down all the hatchs, as I don't made any of the interior details....
Regards from the south
Alvaro
Møre og Romsdal, Norway
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Posted: Saturday, November 23, 2013 - 01:05 AM UTC
Thanks.
I didn't have the proper ivory color in my stash, so I used Vallejo Light Brown instead. Vallejo Black for the engine, dry brushed with Light Grey and the new Vallejo water-based washes for the weathering.
Arkansas, United States
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Posted: Saturday, November 23, 2013 - 01:36 AM UTC
Quoted Text
Thanks.
I didn't have the proper ivory color in my stash, so I used Vallejo Light Brown instead. Vallejo Black for the engine, dry brushed with Light Grey and the new Vallejo water-based washes for the weathering.
Did the early panzers have a different interior finish? From what I have seen, they were much lighter.
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Møre og Romsdal, Norway
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Posted: Saturday, November 23, 2013 - 04:28 AM UTC
@Matt; Yes, they used RAL 1001 Elfenbein (Ivory) for the interior. It's almost white as far as I can tell, but I didn't have that color in my stash. Besides, the hatches on my model isn't going to be open.
Scotland, United Kingdom
Joined: February 15, 2013
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Posted: Saturday, November 23, 2013 - 10:08 PM UTC
Some great work going on here.
John I like your little panzer my friend.
Here is some more progress on my Tiger1 early production Wittmannn.


Turret

Tracks

etch on cables


with turret on



A little way to go, but geting there.
Pete
Canelones, Uruguay
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Posted: Sunday, November 24, 2013 - 04:36 AM UTC
Pete
The decals come with the kit, or where I can found them?.
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Alvaro
Scotland, United Kingdom
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Posted: Sunday, November 24, 2013 - 09:35 AM UTC
Alvaro
If you mean for the Academy kit I built, no I got them from my spares, as the one from the Academy has S03 which is wrong, the balkencruz is from the Academy kit tho.
Pete

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Madrid, Spain / España
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Posted: Sunday, November 24, 2013 - 11:07 AM UTC
A due update,better late than never! (I've been struggling with many things at the same time, not least those tiny photoetchs!)
Now, for the zimmerit.
Many good models here, the stakes are high.
Javier
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Canelones, Uruguay
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Posted: Sunday, November 24, 2013 - 12:22 PM UTC
Nice work Javier
Saludos
Regards
Alvaro