Hello again.

First eastern front subject, first time with MK tracks and first time painting panzer grey. Comfort zone come home, I miss you.




The kit is from 2005 and with the exception of the on vehicle tools, looks pretty nice. Even the OOB tracks look ok, but they're not magic tracks.

Going with these markings from the 14th Panzer Division.



I chose this because the division was made up of veterans from the 4th Panzer Divison who went through Poland and France.  Also Yugoslavia as the 14th.  I figure this gives me an opportunity to weather this little beast pretty heavily since by '41 she'd been through the ringer.

I plan to add one or two figures to the tank, but I'm not married to the tristar ones just yet.

Got about 2hrs into it tonight and this is where I left it.



Nice fit so far.

Thanks for looking.

Jeff

Chipping away at the Bronco workable track links for my M3 Grant:



5 tiny pieces per link times 83 links per side times two sides equals hours of fun for the whole family!

My hat's off to you, sir.

Getting pretty close to primer time.





The figure is from a Tristar set with a Legend head, he scooted forward for the photo, but fits in his spot pretty well. I also got one run of MK tracks finished. The Eduard set hasn't been great, to the point where it probably wasn't necessary, a lot of the kit details were better then the etch. If I had to do it over again I'd probably buy brass MG barrels instead.

Replaced the OOB vehicle tools with spares box newer DML and Tamiya pieces which were nicer.


Will try to keep everyone up to date.

Cheers

Jeff

Hi again.

Got the MK tracks on, and primed. Sorry about the quality of the photo, black is a pain even without a crappy camera.



Decided to paint the figure 1st for a change. With the photo blown up I see some mistakes I should fix, but I'm relatively happy with it.




Take care,


Jeff

Tedious work, Mark. I am sure it wll be worth it in the end.

Jeff, looks good so far. ood job on the crew man.

Looking forward to see more.

Thanks for the comment Jesper.

Got a little bit of paint down. A few small repairs, then on to some detail painting.



Thanks for looking.


Jeff

All done.

Just to recap.

DML Panzer IB
Eduard P/E set
MK Tracks
Tristar figure with Legend resin head.
Home made base.






Fun little build. If I had to do it all over again I would have probably purchased AM MG barrels.

The group has gotten a little quiet in the last month, but hopefully it will pick up soon. Really enjoying the builds.

Jeff

That is an awfully nice Panzer I.

I have had this Italeri re-box of the Esci Matilda II for ages but the tracks in the box have always put me of. OKB recently released resin tracks for this so it would now fit here:



The extras, then, are the OKB tracks, Milicast figures, Aber gun barrels, E.T.Model Allied stowage sets. I'm sorry the box isn't on holiday with us so it's not in the picture.

Alan

All, sorry to report I'm going to have to drop out of this one. I've still got way too much to do on this build, and with an unexpected move back to the US suddenly bearing down on me next month, there's just no way I can wrap up in time. Rather, going to focus my time and energy on knocking out a couple other campaigns in which I'm already enlisted. Guess my Grant will be ready for the next unfinished business/hangar queen campaign.

Best of luck to all with your builds!

WoW So many Awesome Projects and builds, I hope this has been a great Campaign for everyone. So inspiring everyone. Great Work!!!

Beautiful result, Jeff. The figure really helps scale the small panzer I. Well done!

I have decided to build this particular Bulgarian panzer IV. I will use after market antennas, main gun, tow cables, decals, and road wheels.

I posted the start picture a long time ago. I have reposted it here since I will finally get started this week or next.

Work is progressing on my Pz. IV. The first few bits of AM are on - two worn spare road wheels. Obviously not the last AM to hit this tank. Despite the old age of this kit - 1975 - it is actually a decent kit and the fit is excellent as always with Tamiya.

More to follow

Some good progress on my Bulgarian Pz. IV. The main construction is done. It felt weird to melt the tracks together - a trip down memory lane. The gun is a vast improvement and the tow cable and worn wheels help fit the Pz. IV to the picture I am working from.
Other AM accessories are the antenna and decals.

More to follow soon

Hi guys!

So, I started this challenge. The suspension is done, I liked the final result, but the instructions are .

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After that, as I want to finnish the chassis, I started to build the chock absorvers:

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Is that fo now. Hope you like guys.

Cheers!

Marco

Time gets away sometimes... I'm just now pulling all my T62 stuff off the shelf. There's no way I'll finish by completion time, but I'm going to have fun anyway.
First off:
I stated pulling pieces out of the Verlinden bag, and looking closely at the turret. I'd heard it was a copy of the poor Tamiya kit turret, and it's pretty close. On top of that I had some shrinkage which compounded the major fault of the Verlinden turret: being too "squat". So I trimmed out the ring from one of the Tamiya turret lower halves and attached it to the base of the Verlinden turret, which oddly enough was an excellent fit. I then filled the gap at the base of the Verlinden turret with Aves 2-part putty and roughly shaped it. I still have a lot of texturing and such to do, but here it sits so far, almost as tall as it should be:


More later, cheers.
And Marco: looking good!

Hi Russ!

Thanks man!

I want to se more about this T62.

Cheers!

Marco

Looks good, Russell. Nice choice. Looking forward to see more

I have made a little more progress on my Pz. IV. Base color is on and the first light layer of mud.

More to follow

Jeff that diorama base for your Panzer 1B looks great! Still can't figure out how people source such a realistic type of sand, have a number of diorama ideas that could benefit from this.

Marco, as I can, but there's a lot going on now....
Jesper, Pz. IV is looking good, very good.
So I have a bunch of Mr.Surfacer on the turret now, still need to clean up around some details, and then start working on the actual texture I want to end up with. I'm starting to think it may have been just as easy to modify one of the kit turrets....

Coming along nicely, Russell.

I am almost done with my Pz. IV. All I need is the AM antenna and a bit of weathering such as darkening around the bullet hole in the schutzen and some gloss on some of the mud areas.

More to follow soon

I have now finished my Pz. IV for this campaign. After market items used were turned aluminium barrel, resin road wheels, new decals, new antenna, brass tow cable.

My inspiration was the Bulgarian Pz. IV ausf. H in the below picture.

Comments welcome

Very nicely done, sir! I like the history behind German armor operated by their allies, always interesting.
Okay, I jumped in last night and did the major hull surgery and adding of the Verlinden parts, some wheels, a couple of adjustable idler mounts from Trumpy T72 parts, and a fair amount of filling, the latter mostly due to my errors in cutting hull parts. The Verlinden parts are actually well-molded, no short shots, minimal flash, and fit well.
Pics:




More later, hopefully sooner than later.

Hi guys!

As I was on vacation, I didn't build anything for two weeks.

But now is time to restart this project.

I did most of interior PE. Lots of work so far and lots of work to do (Did I heard anyone interested in an extension?)

Now I show you some images. Hope you like:















Cheers!

Marco

Really nice work, Marco.
I got some more done myself, last night. Fenders are on, storage boxes on, from a Trump T55 and one from the Tamiya kit, and the exhaust, from an Esci T55 kit with a little bit of the Tamiya part grafted on to get it long enough. The Verlinden fenders are really thick,but I was able to to a little bending on one to get it looking beat up. I may wrinkle them some more. I also used MrSurfacer on the hull sides, both for texture and to obscure the plastic angle I had to add to give the dfnders a more secure mounting point. The red arrow is pointing to the Verlinden engine exhausts, which clearly don't line up with the actual exhaust outlet. I wonder who's right there? Anyway, the pics:





I'm also curious about how much the Verlinden engine area slopes down towards the rear. This is not what Tamiya depicts, and to me doesn't look right, but there's nothing I can do about it now....