Good day to you Gents.

Well, here comes yet another finished kit from me. This time, it's a paper-panzer from a relative new company called Amusing Hobby. And the vehicle is called '' Lowe ''

I decided to buy a set of voyager etch for this baby regardless of its own etch parts and this will be the last time I will buy Voyager. It's too complicated. Anyway, most of the tank is build out of box apart from the voyager set, the IR devices, the commander cupola replacement and roughing up the cast texture even more.
The IR devices was bought from Great Wall Hobby and one salvaged from my Trumpeter E-100.
The Commander cupola was, in my opinion, directly behind the breech so I moved a bit further to the left like the Tigers or Panthers.
The cast texture was roughened up even more just for some visual interest.
I also bought a box of Tamiya German Tank crew so that I can both add more visual interest and practice painting figure.

I painted this all in Tamiya colours; dark yellow, red brown and olive green. Clear green was used for the optics. Chippings were made with hair-spray and I chipped with hull-red to show the primer colours. Only a small amount of chipping with Camo Black-Brown was made. The crew were painted with Vallejo for the skins, Tamiya and Vallejo for the uniforms ( I am ,however, not happy with the condition of the figures)























The close ups shots for the muds, the crew. the on-board equipment, the exhaust, the wheels and as usual, my show case photos from various angles can be found on my blog so just follow the link ( I had to take a lot of photos so sorry guys )


http://modeller-innovation.blogspot.co.uk/2013/09/amusing-hobby-135-panzerkampfwagen-vii.html


Thanks in advance for any feed back you guys might have. Thank you guys for always supporting me.
Until Next time.

looks good to me, I really dig the weathering

Looks pretty good, Gary. Nice paint, great job showing wear on the markings. The only thing I saw that you need to keep in mind for future builds is that the handles for the wire cutters were made out of bakelite. They should be a reddish-brown, not wood toned.

The voyager PE does get pretty detailed, but it's hard to complain about the results when it's all finished.

I think you did a great job! nice work

Many thanks

Ah.. that I have never known. Bakelite eh ? Many thanks for the heads up. Now I can paint the next ones in proper colour.
The Voyager is quite detailed, yes.. but I don't want to burden myself with too much steps u know... that's why

Thank you so much

Here's a pic of a couple of different styles of the cutters. A pretty wide range of colors for the bakelite is evident.



I can understand you're feelings on the Voyager sets. You can spend a lot of time trying to do the complete set. A lot of times I won't use it all, but I do like the old adage that it's better to have too much, than not enough. The leftovers eventually get used on other builds.

Great work !

Thank you

WOW.. thnak you thank you thank you thank you ....