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WIP big railroad dio "STRAFE"

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  • Member since
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  • From: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
WIP big railroad dio "STRAFE"
Posted by T-rex on Monday, October 26, 2009 10:51 AM

Remeber this build that I've finish a few months ago.

I've haven't work on it for sometime cause, well its a train, not much to look at, but if it has alittle bit of a context, them i'm in buisness.

STRAFE dio is base on the german railroads system who has been taken a beaten thought out the war by low flying fighter plane. The setting is gemany in august 1944 as a german Jaghpanther pass the destroyed train, an obel half-track tuck takes the dead conducteur of the train.

The idea is base on this box art of dragon's jaghpanther 1/72

What do you all think so far?

Working on: Trumpeter SU-152 (1/35) Trumpeter E-10 (1/35) Heller Somua (1/35)

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Posted by Kevleerey on Monday, October 26, 2009 4:54 PM

Should be interesting. I noticed a couple things you might want to work on though. First, all the shots look like they came in at a 90 degree angle to the metal. If the attack came from above and the side facing us in this picture, the holes should angle down and toward the far side.

 Also, the different types of metal would take damage quite differently. I'm no expert on the types of metal used for what, but cast iron, for example, would be more brittle and thus shatter more easily than , say, sheet steel. Again, I don't know what's what, but the louvres  on the side there, it looks like they should be bent in more, or the plastic thinned or something. I like the way the piping along the top is bent where the hole is, althoughthe way it is bent upwards kind of makes it look like the round came from below.
  Basically, all of this is kind of saying the same thing, but a few small changes that should be pretty easy to make would help the overall look quite a bit. I like the idea, and will follow to see how it comes along!
-----------Kevin

 

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  • From: ladner BC Canada
Posted by stick man on Monday, October 26, 2009 7:02 PM

Cool looking train! This is going to realy look good when it's done

Smile [:)]

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Posted by Tankluver on Wednesday, November 25, 2009 3:06 PM
looks good
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  • From: The Bluegrass State
Posted by EasyMike on Wednesday, December 2, 2009 1:50 PM

 T-rex wrote:
...What do you all think...

I think that by August 44 your Jagdpanther would never be out in the open.  The Allies had air superiority and were shooting up everything they could find.

 Smile [:)]

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  • From: Carmel, CA
Posted by bondoman on Wednesday, December 2, 2009 4:26 PM

Reminded me of my father-in-law, who once told me that european railways steam engines came in two types- pressurized tube or pressurized boiler, and there was only one good way to find out which was which... of course he had four 20mms.

One thing I've noticed in pictures of targets is that they actually get really torn up, plus whatever resultant damage that causes to occur; say that little tooner threw a rod. He had a series of pictures of a single hit he took from a cannon on the ground, probably a 20, which tore a big hole the size of a volleyball through the nose.

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  • From: Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Posted by T-rex on Thursday, December 3, 2009 11:28 PM
Alittle update here, I've try and experiment , which grass wwas better. Usually I use woodland scenic static grass, but I wanted to compare it to a grass carpet, the result is obvious that the static grass won since it is much more realistique even it it take long to place.

Working on: Trumpeter SU-152 (1/35) Trumpeter E-10 (1/35) Heller Somua (1/35)

"The world is your enemy, prince of a thousand enemy. And when they'll find you, they will kill you... but they will have to catch you first ''

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  • From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Posted by zokissima on Monday, December 7, 2009 8:40 AM
Umm...do you have any pics of the update?
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Posted by model maniac 96 on Thursday, December 10, 2009 9:43 AM

Ditto, some pics would be nice!

 

 

    Thanks, Jim

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Posted by EvilFD on Saturday, January 2, 2010 3:32 PM

Sorry a bit off topic...

Im assuming your father-in-law is American? What was he flying w/ 4x 20 mike mikes?

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