1,000 Roadwheels - 2009

marc - great mud set up; whole thing looks great! Really like the paint/weathering job... if you want to show some of the "details" hidden by the skirts, you can always remove 1-2 to show them wheels. Looks to me like another APMS winner

castelnuovo - nice set of (tank) wheels! ;)

TacoBuff - very nice figure; I agree with what you say about figures.. and if I could paint one like yours, I would add them to my builds.

detailfreak - great start! lots of gooddetail, look forward tothe rest!

Mobious-you are righht, there is something about a Pz in a skirt.  Not as hot as what I used to see on my lunch break when I worked in NYC but still hot

DF Thnask for the comments Your progress is looking fine.

Warhammer-thanskf or the comments.

Jmart-I am going to call this one a schurzen practice run.  the camera hides lots off stuff beleive me. I'll just have to do another one

wing_nut wrote:

Thnaks DF and yes I have a little surprise for my 2nd stripe. So dupes... who by the way is MIA... I will be claiming the badge with the stripe if  that's OK.

Marc - Wow, superb stuff. I still can't get over how quickly you're able to produce such high quality work! You've certainly earned stripe number one!

Now, about this stripe number two surprise...???

Not MIA, just unable with my current internet situation (i.e., dialup) to process that last page fully - sooooo many pics. 

Tacobuff - great fig! I guess I have to agree about the eyes. Otherwise very nice! 

Afternoon all.

Wing-nut Your Panzer IV is superb, I love the schurzen and the paint job, fantastic.

I'm really nervous now about my little Nashorn, but here she is:

The tracks were a real pain in the arse, the small indy links especially. The overall fit and finish was ok, no major issues, I'm getting a taste for small scale. All painting was done by hand using Vallejo paints and Mig Pigments. 

One down, one to go:

Mark

MMC - Sweet! That's a fine looking Nashorn, IMHO. Weathering looks good, whitewash is cool. Only critique I could say is that the "Panther" decal could use a bit of wear to make it blend a bit more with the rest of the vehicle - looks like it was added as an afterthought.

Nice stuff! Snag your first bar! Looking forward to your Jagdpanzer.

Dupes, MMC... thnaks of rthe comments guys.

MMC that look real nice.  And that is a kick butt base you got there Actually it does look good on that wall.

My little surprise for my 2nd stripe as it turns, I don't think it qualifies.  These erae the times when I are how little i know about armor.  I remembered seeing the Stug IV on the list of qualifying armor.  I figured there Stug III was an earlier version.  I am guessing I am still correct but the II is the II because it is based on the Pz III chassis and the Stug IV is the IV since it is based on the Pz IV chassis.  Did i finally get it right?  The long and the short of it is a am working on a Stug III so it seems the surprise is on me.

Wingy - you are now correct. The StuG III was based on the Panzer III chassis...and the StuG IV was based on the Panzer IV chassis.

Dang. I was looking forward to the surprise! 

Thanks guys, I thought the same thing about the decals, It's all sorted now. Time to start on the Jagdpanzer.

Mark

 Nice work on the Nashorn, mmc. Like the lichen its settin next to, I could use some of that! Very nicely done and a cool series of pics.

 wing_nut, The Stug III and the Stug IV shared the same upper superstructure. It was adapted for the PzIV chassis as the PzIII was phased out of production. The Jagdpanzer IV was intended to replace the StugIV against Guderians advice.

 Mobious

Except for doing a lot of other stuff, I've been busy painting figures!

I haven´t decided which figure to use yet, but I think I'll go for the winter dressed chap!

Cheers,

Azgaron

I finally found to time to build again. I worked about 30 hours the past 4 days so my time has been devoted to sleeping and school work. Anyway, the upper and lower hulls are now one. There were some minor gaps but thet were nothing a little putty couldn't handle. Tonight I was working on the hangers for the skirts. If I get adventurous I may start working on the PE skirts...

And yes, those are PE rivet heads...

Erik

I am thoroughly impressed by the builds thus far...as usual.  Top notch.  I'm glad none of you live in my general area, I'd hate to have to compete against some of these.

Here's my tiny Hasegawa Jagdpanzer.  Note to Hasegawa, stick to winged things in the future.  For $10 though, not too bad. 

I tried doing in progess shots, but my camera wouldn't focus on it no matter what I did, so I ended up with 15 shots like so:

So I finished slapping the thing together and laid the base coat down:

All that detail on the lower hull is molded on, as are the tools on the rear.  I'm dreading these roadwheels....

It doesn't have skirts, but I think I'll pick up a DML 1/72 Pz.IV which gives PE and styrene skirts and use one of them on this one....Maybe.  I'll see how it finishes first.

WOW guys your all doing such GREAT work!!!!

Geez you miss 2 days and sooooooo much great work........

Azgaron, Geist, Glamdring - great work, fellas! Keep it up!

Like seeing those advanced promotion badges out there already...

I've started working on the PE skirts for my A/O. They are not as bad to work with as I expected. Yeah it's a slow process, but I think they will look good when they are finished. I'll post some pics once I have some measurable progress.

Erik

Hey guys,

Been a little busy the last couple weeks, so I have done more lurking than posting...  I wanted to just chime in and tell all of you that have made some progress that your doing a great job .

Marc, mmc, really nice builds for both of you! 

I will be tackling the 251/4 this week (for 'THE OTHER' GB ), so it'll still be awhile before I get to the Nashorn, but hopefully it won't the too long.

MMC, sweet little braille Nashorn. It looked like a really detailed kit.

Geist, good luck getting the tracks on with the draping schurzen hangers. I pondered that on my Huber Jagd. It's still in the box.

bbrowniii wrote:

I will be tackling the 251/4 this week (for 'THE OTHER' GB ), so it'll still be awhile before I get to the Nashorn, but hopefully it won't the too long.

Excellent. (Said in best Mr. Burns voice while steepling fingers! )

Thanks tigerman, I really like the Revell 1/72 and 1/76 scale kits, they aren't to complex. The gun itself is made up of 30 parts, but the tracks were the biggest headache, the links are so small.

Made a little progress on the Jagdpanzer, will post some pics when I transfer them to the computer, it's my day off tomorrow, so hopefully will have a good day at the bench.

Mark

Dupes and all,

In bits of time here and there during the last several weeks, I've managed to get a start on my contribution of 64 road wheels with a dual build of the 1/35 Trumpeter Bruckenleger and the 1/35 Dragon Panzer IV ausf F1.  It's been an interesting contrast.  The Trumpeter kit certainly requires more time and effort because almost every part has at least some flash that requires attending to prior to assembly and mucho knockout pin scars that need filling.  At times, the kit fights tooth and nail and at others, goes together like a charm.  Dragon, on the other hand, has excellent fit and finish, very fine detail but still requires attention to the instructions and some dry fitting to ensure proper fit.  First, the Bruckenleger...

It's really 2 kits in one.  The first is the chassis, built on a PzIV ausf D (I don't know why the kit says IV b).  What a struggle with the running gear; parts didn't mate well, had flash on mating surfaces.  I ended up grinding off virtually all of the mating pins and fit the pieces manually.  The road wheels required drilling to mate properly on the axles.  Nothing major but alot of work and effort which was made even more evident when compared side by side with the effortless assembly of the Dragon F1 running gear.

The fenders each had 16 (count 'em, 16) knockout pin scars to fill and sand.  Trumpeter provides indy tracks as well as vinyl one piece tracks.  But I chose to use a set of Dragon Magic tracks that I had leftover from a previous build that I used a Fruil set on.  They fit the Trumpeter drive spocket like a charm.  Everything is dry fitted in the photos and I'm just about ready for final assembly.  Then it's on to the second part of the kit, the assembly of the bridge mechanism.

The Bruckenleger also came with a nice interior consisting of transmission, and driver and radio compartments.  This went together beautifully but since I was planning on having hatches closed, I used it on the Dragon F1.

Required a little surgery to remove a set of the side braces to make it fit but in it went.  also cut out the center hatch to make the transmission visible.

Here she is dry fit with a bag o' wheels ready to go.

I picked up this kit after finding a set of Bison decals of DAK Pz IV F and G, about the same time that wbill76 started his F2 WIP thread in the Armor forum.  This one will be modeled after tank 403 from the 5th Leichte division in Tobruk in summer 1941 and will be the earlier Tropen color scheme consisting of RAL8000 with RAL7008 camo (as opposed to Bill's 8020/7027 scheme).  Here's a look at the colors:

That's all for now.  The Bruckenleger chassis is almost ready for paint whereas the F1 requires a bit more assembly.  Updates soon.

 Don

 Hey pordoi, the Trumpeter kit looks fantastic. The molded detail looks way above average. A nice looking start to an unusual vehicle. It's a shame to have to deal with all the flash.  I thought the B model had a straight front plate? Hmmm, wonder why they called it a B? A question about the tracks. This being a D model and having the early drive and idler, would it have been equipped with the early 36cm tracks?

 The DML F1 kit also is looking very nice. The interior fit looks pretty good. Looks like you've got a great start on a couple of neat projects.

 Looking forward to updates.

 Mobious

tigerman wrote:

Geist, good luck getting the tracks on with the draping schurzen hangers. I pondered that on my Huber Jagd. It's still in the box.

Don't worry, it will work. 

Ok, I think I'm done with the skirts. I didn't use the included bolt heads though. They are about as small as Lincoln's eye on a penny. None of my twizzers could pick them up. Oh well...

Next on the block is painting. I'm probably going to prime the skirts first. I built a Panzer IV with PE zimm and I didn't prime it. I'm afraid to touch it now becasue the paint scratches off easily.

Erik 

Thanks for the comments Dupes and Jmart!  To everyone else, eyes are fixed, more later.  Azgaron, those figures are coming along nicely.

Looks like we're all makin great progress.  The PE work i've seen is phenomenal!

Pordoi -- looking excellent, you're making a very professional job of these projects, and it is indeed so interesting to look at models from different manufacturers in parallel.

I've been able to make some progress on my Itaerli Jagdpanzer, I'll have a first WIP shot in the next day or two. Basically, I've assembled the lower hull and am working on the suspension. (Does filling sink holes on the back of swing-arm units count as persnicketyness or paranoia?)

The kit provides parts for two different variants, I believe the one I'm building is the Ausf. F with Pz IV muffler and all standard-type wheels (the other variant has twin vertical exhausts and the foremost two axles carry steel roadwheels -- not sure of the ausfurung.) The first thing I've noticed is that Italeri's return rollers bare no resemblance to those of the Panzer IV series at all! Does anyone know if you can get asccurate return rollers as AMs? I could pattern and cast them but I'm not sure I can be bothered in this heatwave...

Cheers,

Mike/TB379

Evening all.

Finally got the pictures onto my computer. Made a steady start to the Jagdpanzer Lang, so far it seems to be a nice easy build. I am building OOB, don't think I have the skill yet to add any major AM stuff. First is the contents:

The moulding seems very nice and crisp, the part count is low, when compared to newer kits. The first step deals with the wheels, but I'm going to leave this part until last. The 2nd step is the rear panel, a little bit of surgery had to be performed to make the exhaust muffler fit.

The next few stages deal with the lower hull, lower gun mount, schurzen and hatches.

The next stages deal with the upper hull,will post an update at the weekend.

Mark

Finally got the zimmerit attached. Not sure it was worth the hassle. Marc, the piece over the tranny had to be trimmed on the top and one side and a little trimming on most every piece. Didn't go on well with my 2-part epoxy, so I CA'd it. I almost glued it to my fingers a few times.

Construction will continue and if I'm lucky I might be able to paint Monday. I decided to leave the zim off the schurzen. Still need to do the PE schurzen. Gulp.

Geist and MMC -- I'll be most interested to see our builds proceed, we're all building Jagdpanzer IVs, but from three different manufacturers -- Dragon, Tamiya and Italeri.

Here's a first look at mine (note styrene angle bracing the corners, 'flatpack' hulls always seem inherrently weak to me):

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Thirty-one parts mounted so far. I decided filling sinkholes in the back of the swing arms was definitely paranoia.

Now working on the upper hull, five parts mounted. The fit of the hatches is attrocious, they are really meant to be displayed open -- too bad, I don't do interiors yet! The periscope covers are separate pieces but there are no persicopes under them... Some styrene 2x4 bar will fix that. Overall, my observation is that all parts need at least some modification to cater to molding inaccuracies before ever beginning mods to accepts the AM haul.

I'll pick up some slow-cure gel superglue to mount the Cavalier zimmerit next week. It'll be an interesting experience to carve off styrene detail in some places, and cut notches from the zimmerit to allow detail to show through in others.

More pics as work progresses,

Mike/TB379

Hi All,

Here are some WIP photos of my 1/48 Ausf J.  I'm just making use of the usual Tamiya quality engineering, but with an Armorscale barrel. The only other mod to this one is to blank of the see through look with some plastic card, visible in the third photo.

Next stop is the paint booth for some primer.

I'm finding this GB really interesting and I find myself dreaming up other variations of the IV chassis that I may contribute.

Cheers

Tony

Mobious wrote:

Hey pordoi, ... A question about the tracks. This being a D model and having the early drive and idler, would it have been equipped with the early 36cm tracks?

Hmm, I think that you are correct Mobious.  I picked out the Magic tracks from the DML PIV ausf D Superkit just assuming that they were correct but apparently DML provided 40cm tracks in this kit.  Well, they're not installed yet, so I can go back and look at the indy links supplied with the Bruckenleger to see if they are the earlier version.  Thanks.

 Don