Pawel,

Excellent work as always my friend! So far very good all around. My knowledge of these paper panzers is very limited so I can't say too much on the 'accuracy' front.

The paper panzer parts all look very good. Interesting to see how those Photo Etch casting numbers work out, could prove very useful for a variety of applications. Likewise keen to have a look at the figures when they arrive. Hopefully I can do them justice.

As I mentioned to you, but for the benefit of all, the roof armour may have been good to assemble by adding rods to the upper sheet of armour then adding the second sheet and finally adding the whole lot to the turret roof. Either way, looks to be a fiddly job and good to be out of the way!

Keep up the good work,

James

My question was not whether it's right or not, because it does look properly placed, rather, if the bracket is occupying the bolt holes originally intended for the inner exhaust cover flanges, does that mean there are now only 3 bolts holding each exhaust cover, on the outer flanges? Or if the bracket was positioned over, or on top of, the inner exhaust cover flanges, and both units bolted together on the same, but longer, bolts. On the prototype, that is.

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My question was not whether it's right or not, because it does look properly placed, rather, if the bracket is occupying the bolt holes originally intended for the inner exhaust cover flanges, does that mean there are now only 3 bolts holding each exhaust cover, on the outer flanges? Or if the bracket was positioned over, or on top of, the inner exhaust cover flanges, and both units bolted together on the same, but longer, bolts. On the prototype, that is.

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Ola Biggles
To answer your question. It was our thoughts that the towing bracket was simply mounted on top of the inner brackets of the exhaust covers. We kinda figured that that middle section would be secured through and through with longer bolts in the factory. It would have been the easiest solution. When I made the master for that set I decided to have the bolt detail on both the exhaust covers as well as the towing device for the simple reason that some modelers might not choose to add the towing device. And if they did shaving off 6 bolts would have been easier then adding and aligning 6.

Pawel.
Great job so far mate. It's a joy seeing this built come together. I'm currently working slowly on putting a late panther G together to mount the einheitsturm on it.

Hi James,

nice to see you back on armorama. It's always nice to have old friends close by. Thank you for the kind words. You know the good thing about the paper panzers is that they never existed (most of them) and we can do whatever we like! So no need to be an expert.

The casting numbers and all other PPP items are really, really nice and... original. The only fear I have is the tiny size of those numbers. One careful must be to

I'm sure the figures will be really outstanding after your treatment.
About the turret plates. The whole problem here (at least it was for me) that there are 12 holes so 12 rods to fit in. The main issue is that the rods or at least not all of them are 100% straight. This makes the second plate almost impossible to fit in. There surely will be at least one rod not aligned and when you'll e trying to fit it in another one will slip away. That's what happened to me with the rods on the turret.
For me one of the solutions (not the one I've chosen) would be to put the two plates together and put some spacers between them. When ready, you could put the rods into both of them at the same time and glue the whole structure to the turret. Why I haven't chosen this solution was the fact I remembered doing it on a Panther and the issue was that the rods were not very well glued to the roof. It was quite fragile structure. That's why in this build I made the 5 PE supports, CA glued the plates and only than used the 0.5mm copper wire rods an again CA glue. I almost finished adding the loops to both sides. I like the way it looks. Pictures soon.

thank you all

spit

Hi,

Believe it or not but the model was transformed yesterday into a U boat and dive into tap water with soap

spit

Hi Folks,

It has been a while since I posted a build log here on Armorama. This time I've chosen to model the E-50 German tank. It will be upgraded with several items from Paper Panzer Productions ( http://www.paperpanzer.com/ ), a new company coming from Belgium driven by my friend and a long time Armorama forum member.

So what do we have here:

the base: The E-50 Tank by Trumpeter, well.. I'll need few parts from this box



A newly designed Paper Panzer Productions (PPP) turret which is accompanied by a RB model gun barrel (it is included in the PPP turret set)



An additional armour plates for this turret (it's not yet listed on the PPP site and I think I got a pre production set! It's good to know the owner LOL



Resin PPP wheels:



Resin set of exhausts, exhaust covers and ... a towing device seen for example on a unfinished King Tiger in the Kassel factory









Set of "mystery brackets" seen on some Panthers and Tigers during WWII. As the name says they are quite a mystery today as no one really know what was their intended role (if any one knows ... just share this information pls ). It's a short way from Panther to a E-50 (let's say so..) so I decide to use this item here



If I have enough of skill and patience I'll use some photo etched PPP casting marks



Finally, with ha help of a friend I should add those figures at the end of the journey "Panzer Crew 1946"






I'll post some build pics very soon. I hope you'll enjoy it. Any comments are welcomed.

spit