Panzerjager GB (March 1st - June 30th, 2011)

Fine looking radio Ben.

Terry, yup I think so.  It's a lazy Sunday and I am home sick to boot so no household duties.  Just sweet bench time.  Should wrap it up today.

Which brings me to a question for the exalted Lord High Master and Grand Pooba of the GB.  What is the official word on a badge sir?

Hi guys,

A quick update:

Okay, I've tidied up the radio painting and have changed the headphone leads to a much finer wire and it's looking a lot neater and generally better.

The build is basically in 5 separate sub assemblies i.e. the main structure, the PaK 40, the radio side of the fighting compartment, the cast barrel hood and the rear tailgate (not forgetting the Friuls too).

I've put down the basecoat down on everything else which will get the week to fully cure now seeing as I'm back to work tomorrow

I've been trying some dry fitting and I think I'm going to have to do some detail painting of these sub parts whilst they are off the vehicle.The cast hood is a VERY tight fit and according to the instructions it should drop straight between the compartment walls but it's waaaay too tight! I think I'm going to have to detail paint the PaK along with the fitted fighting compartment wall and the floor and interior. The cast hood needs to be fitted and slid into place from a funny angle - I'll then have to fit the radio wall to lock it all in place followed by the tailgate - simple!

I'm looking forward to weathering and detailing the rest of the build with all them rivets and such - they should look nice and really pop.

Anyway, so far so good - a tricky build but I'm sticking with it. I hope you like her so far:

Next weekend I need to finish off the rest of the fighting compartment interior (gas mask holders and fire extinguishers) then I can do the basic painting of the seats etc and get the cammo scheme on followed by the decals and start the detailing.

Many thanks for looking,

ATVB

Ben  

Dang fine work going on here! I've been a lazy sluggard in getting started on mine. Hopefully, I'll get a good start today and be able to post up some pics later in the week.

Hey Andy,

Thanks for the compliment budy. It was fun as it goes!

I've chopped the headphone leads off and have replaced them with some far smaller wire that I found.

I had to pinch a headphone set from my StuG III B as the other one snapped so after I've painted this new headphone and the leads up I think it will look a lot better.

I'm about to start some air brushing now. WIP update later!

ATVB

Ben

Love this!!!    Bet it was fun, huh? 

Ben-very nice work on the interior.....your Marder is going to be very impressive when complete.

Both yesterday evening & today were planned for working on the Jagdpanzer, but things change.  However, I do feel a sick day coming on for Monday......cough...cough....

Nice Panzer Jager there Nate, Looks great.

Thanks eveerybody for the kind words,  Bob the  Pz  Jg is comming along grand. Marc  looks like your going to get to the finish ahead of me.  Ben  great work so far on the interior of the fighting compartment.

Terry.

Nachtflieger

Nice job on the radios Ben.

Nate

Thanks Nate,

It was my first attempt at anything like this so I'm fairly pleased with the outcome.

The very close up shots that I've taken show up every nook, carnny and little detail and they appear to make the radio look a little 'untidy' but in the flesh it looks just fine.

For the wiring I used the finest wire I could lay my hands on in my spares tub and I drilled little holes in the radio facsias and the headphones and simply pushed the wires into the holes with a dab of CA gel on the end.

There is a part on a sprue that is shown as a 'part not used' in blue - it can only be described as a little speaker and think it would have had a place in this command vehicle? I'll look into that as I might fit it yet.

Tomorrow I'm planning on getting the pre shade black laid down followed by my basecoat DY. When that's dry I'll fit the two gas mask holders that go on each side of the fighting compartment and the fire extinguisher. Ther's also a little storage box and a drawer thingy to go on.

If I get them parts all fitted and the paint applied by the end of tomorrow I'll be very happy. Next week I'll start some detailing of the fighting compartment and get the tailgate fitted. Then onto the drive gear and weathering.

Still nowhere near finished - I'd say it's 60% complete!

Cheers buddy,

Ben   

Nice job on the radios Ben.

Nate

Looks good Ben. At least someone is still a building. LOL

Yeah, I powered down the the past week and I have a full week of yard work ahead, weather permitting.

Hi guys,

It's been a bit quiet on here lately chaps? Nothing much going on I assume.

To be honest I took yesterday off work as I have accrued a lot of time off that is sat doing nothing so I thought I'd make a long weekend and really get stuck into my Marder but ALL of yesterday and a bulk of this afternoon was spent decorating the new loft extension so my much hoped-for build time has been reduced to literally a couple of hours this evening and a few hours tomorrow afternoon (I'm working in the morning from 7am - 2pm).

Anyway, I've got the part that I was expecting to cause me the most trouble painted, wired up and detailed with some headphones so I'm happy. I couldn't find a picture of this radio wired up as it should be so I've used some artistic licence and have just used my pictures of standard radios and have tried to work out how this should look. I'm not too worried about the wiring accuracy as when this is complete it won't be very visable.

Everything else is ready to go so tomorrow I can start on getting the basecoat down on everything else and I can start detailing the Fighting Compartment, finish the build and get the decals & cammo down.

Here we are so far with todays work:

Thanks for loking guys - WIP update tomorrow!

ATVB

Ben

Sorry that I haven't been on in a week or so...my laptop died and just got back from Best Buy..

.Bought a new HP Touchsmart PC. Just got it up and running.

Beautiful Jagdpanzer Nate.

Thanks Guys. The kit was a JOY to build. No troubles at all.

Nate

Thanks Nate-I'll be referencing this pic a lot.  Very nice build too.....nicely weathered.

Sweet looking ride Nate.

Hi Bob,

I built that kit about a year and a half ago......great kit! Here's a pic of the engine deck with the tool stowage. Hope this helps.

Nate

Looks like I've got all of the AM parts assembled for the Sturer - just doing a bit of research on this beast and then I'm off!

Nice stuff so far, btw.

                      So sad about the very limited interior, but all is not lost,it will have an outstanding exterior. Looking good so far Bob be watchin for the next update.

                                                  Greg"Detailfreak"Rowley

tigerman

 

 

 

Roof. Non-turret enclosed would become a casermate.

Good to see some progress Bob

I need to get my tracks done so I can start painting.

 

Thanks Eric for the explanation-needless to say I haven't spent enough time hanging out with the armor group.

Did get the hatches and such on the roof.  One minor stumbling point-the periscopes....I'm going to be a little OCD and mask off the lenses, paint it white then black (I'm guessing-someone please let me know if they should be the same color as the rest of the vehicle).  Dunno if it will make a difference, but I just want to give it a try.  Probably not realistic to think that I'll get it primed over the weekend, but I'll give it a shot.

No color instructions for the tools-I'll be trying to find some builds of Jagdpanzers on some of the other forums (Hyperscale, Missing-Lynx, etc)  for reference.

bobbaily

Terry-great work on the Marder.  Very nice camo.  Not to mention the rate of progress that you've achieved.....you're making me look bad....just kidding....I don't need any help there....

Back a few pages, someone requested a pic of the interior of the Jagdpanzer-here it is:

Gun & radio detail are great....but that's about it.  Guess it keeps the aftermarket folks in business.

Working a bit on the turret top (is it still a turret since it doesn't turn?)....anyway, you know what I mean.

My goal is to get it to the point that I can primer it this weekend and maybe work on the tracks.  We'll see.

Roof. Non-turret enclosed would become a casermate.

Good to see some progress Bob

I need to get my tracks done so I can start painting.

Terry-great work on the Marder.  Very nice camo.  Not to mention the rate of progress that you've achieved.....you're making me look bad....just kidding....I don't need any help there....

Back a few pages, someone requested a pic of the interior of the Jagdpanzer-here it is:

Gun & radio detail are great....but that's about it.  Guess it keeps the aftermarket folks in business.

Working a bit on the turret top (is it still a turret since it doesn't turn?)....anyway, you know what I mean.

My goal is to get it to the point that I can primer it this weekend and maybe work on the tracks.  We'll see.

At work I build ads on Macs using In-Design. We have so-called graphic artists. I often tell sales people that I'm "not" a designer (that's what they get paid for! LOL) . Anyway, it gave it a shot, but I like any of yours. The first was a clever angle, so it gets my vote.

Well since it's your GB I guess that's the only vote that counts  LOL.  The photo is actually one of my PBP's

Here are a couple of different angles...

A quickie update.  Got some MIG pigments on and some pin washing.  Needs to be lightened and brushed.

I must say yours is more original then mine. It gets my vote. LOL I was just seeing if i could throw something together.

Better in black Eric

I added the months to mine for the member vote.

Here''s a revised image resized.

Does the forum automatically resize the picture? It should be smaller then this.

Okay, i have an idea. I'll make the background black with red lettering. I wish I had photoshop here, but I'll have to squeeze it in at work.

Hi, Marc, I learned theh oil technique doing figures, I used to do large comic/movie/TV characters for customers and needed to have a turn around of between 7 & 10 days so on a scale of 1/10th a quick bang of oils carefully removed could easily be taken as carefully applied shading. Especially when all is dried and a coat of matt applied with Mr. airbrush.

I'm laughing here.....

Terry.

Thom, Terry Thanks.

Terry... And here I am coming around the club house turn and WOOSH... you blow by me. And it looks great too.  I knew there would be one of you that has done that oil shading.  I picked that up at Planet Figures.