wbill76 wrote:

Congrats on the scholarship! Not having to worry about your first year's tuition ought to be a huge relief...just don't forget there's 3 (or more) to go afterwards.  Nice work on the scratch details for the light guard, impressive work with the wire.

Thanks for the congrats on the scholarship and for the comments on the build! Now with first year tution paid, I won't go into debt untill my second year.

Glad to see you are still beating this one into submission Mikael i like the extra's you are doing the kit definatly can use a little extra and seems to me you are in control keep it coming i have one to build one of these days.

Still haven't got the doors on permanetly. I've been doing some sanding, filling in of bad gaps, and painting of the base coat. However I did get some work done that's worth mentioning.

I've went ahead and scratched the headlights lens out of clear plastic. The Zvezda kit supplies lens but their out of thick green stryene....thus pretty much useless. Luckily the headlights are hollow aka already drilled out, so time is saved there. I simply cut the clear plastic lens in the size needed from the plastic casing from a Tamiya kit. Most 1/48 Tamiya kits come with a cast hull packaged in plastic, thinking ahead I saved some from my last build. I did this because I realized the plastic was perfectly clear, strong, perfect thickeness, not brittle, and cheap. Thus a great product to make lens out of.

 

 

I also started work on getting one of the doors to fit properly. There's too big of a space between the door and the hull.(Yet small enough some flash could have filled it in. Geez!) So I took some stryene scraps I had and after trimming to the miniscule size needed I glued it the side of the gap. The hinges had to go, since fitting would have been alot more difficult(I did save them nevertheless they could be easily scratched.) That's why their's gaps between the styrene pieces I added. Now I just have to putty, trim, sand, and slice the parts I added untill I get it matching the door.

All comments & questions welcome!

Looking good Michael, your idea about using plastic shell packaging for the lenses is a good one. What did you use for glue?

Mg.

Looks absolutely fantastic! Wish I had the time to build right now, but with my wife just out of the hospital, it would hurt her feelings to tell her I am going to build a model or as she says " YOUR TOYS!" Ouch! I love her, so I let it be. I so want to cut some barrels on my Taig lathe! Let me know if you need anything to complete your build! I would love to help, but so far it looks fantastic, reeaally!!

Your Friend,

Newarmorman

Got around to my building my scout car again, been sidetracked by another build I'm scratching parts for too.

About ninety-five percent of all the hull portions are completely on, by that I mean sanded, modified, and painted. Thus soon my work will be moving into the more detailed parts like the guns, gun mounts, tools, tarps, and other random accesories. However here's whats done with the main hull parts. The windshield is in(terrible fit, by that I mean gaps left all over the place.) So I used Testor's Clear parts glue to put the winshield in and to slightly fill in the gaps the best I could on the sides. I also masked off the wiper area(that's why their's some blue-ish tape on the winshield) for weathering that will happen at a future time(will be too hard to mask properly later, so be sure to do it beforehand.)

The upper armor plate on the passenger side is also in place with the scratched hinges also in place. As for the drivers side(it's not in place yet), I'll be leaving the armor plate in the down position. (NOTE: I pretty much have to leave the driver's side armor plate down since it wouldn't fit properly in the up-armored position due to the skate rail. However the passenger side did fit properly up-armored so that's why that side is up. I know strange fit issues.)

As for other parts, I've glued the two gun mounts for the skate rail together. However their fit just isn't bad its non-existent! The pieces look like garbage, so I'm gonna have to putty, sand, and slice till they look presentable. As for the tools they have all had the seams removed and the shovels handle area was drilled out(it was a solid piece of plastic where the opening should have been.)

All comments, questions, and suggestions welcome!

Looking good so far, Mg.  It's kind of funny that you had fit issues with the windshield- that's probably the 1 piece that fit perfectly on mine!  I think that the wiper's are a little on the small side for such a large expanse of glass, but that's what they gave us to work with.  Those MG mounts... <shudder>.. I left them off of mine.  The kit tarps and whatnot could use replacement or a lot of work to look right, but given what you've done with this so far you should be OK.

 

  Looking good Michael glad to see this guy isn't getting the best of you.

  I'm in the process of building a Zvezda BA3 armored car so I know how much fun these Zev kits can be. Especially those doors!

I think I missed this one entirely.  gettin caught up on all my missied posts and threads.

Looks good MG.

Here's my next update.......unfortunatley, won't be home the next two days so I won't get any bench time till Saturday. Along with no computer access till Friday night at the earliest(so I'll be absent from the forums.)

Anyways I'm here now and here's the work, all the accesories are comin' along. Base coats and some dry-brushing done. The two helmets are from a Revell kit, along with one of the guns, a PPSh-41.

The SMG "grease gun" is the only kit supplied gun I'm using. The .30 cal and .50 cal are from Tamiya's US Infantry Weapons Set. These Tamiya molds are pretty old too, but their a hundred times better then the Zvezda ones. The .50 cal mount was scavenged from the kit supplied .50 cal. (It's mount is pre-attached to the Zvezda gun, but a little bit of snipping can take it off.)

The kit supplied ammo cans lack detail, so I decided to use those just as stowage in the cabin. I replaced them with a .30 cal ammo box and .50 cal ammo box from Tamiya's US Infantry Weapons Set. The .50 cal ammo tray had to be replaced though,  since the kit supplied ammo tray is too small for a correct .50 cal ammo box, so I had too scratch the tray for the new ammo box I was using. The .30 cal ammo box fit the kit supplied tray without a hitch.

Yes the ammo boxes are open, but I'll be putting an ammo belt in there that feeds to the gun.

All comments, questions, and suggestions welcome!