Hey all! Long time no post. Life has kinda found a way to creep into my modelling time here the past few weeks. Between work, the wife, remodelling a room in the house, and having been sick I haven't had many long durations at the bench lately. But most of all we've had a lot of doctors appointments for baby boy #2!!! The wife is 22 weeks today! He'll be due on March 20th but, due to our first son's passing, will be delivered by C-section around march 13th! Thus, not much to show in updates until tonight.
Everyone's builds are looking and look great. I've been following in the shadows as time has allowed and am impressed!
Finally go some more paint on the Stug. Decided on the tri color camo scheme with the markings indicating a Stug at Kursk. An overall wash of WN raw umber, followed by some dot filters, a pinwash of WN raw umber, and (not in the pics) a fliter coat of Migs grey for PZ yellow to tie (hopefully) everthing together. The tracks are painted and slightly weathered with pastels.
The four pieces of stretched sprue on the front slopes of the hull either side of the manlet are for spare tracks the crew added as extra protection.
Just realized in the following picture how crooked the MG shield is. Will have to fix that. The piping in the commanders hatch was added as well as the MP40 and a seat on the right side of the hull. Clearly it still needs some weathering to tie into the rest of the interior.
Added the rust texture to the mufflers using mr. surfacer 500 and painted with vallejo acrylics. Pastels will be added for more effect. Not sure what happened to the PE metal Screen above the mufflers, but lukily I have a spare.
About half of the tools are installed, with the other still awaiting some paint. The coupola is painted but needs some drybrushing and weathering then will be fit into place. The other hatch doors are a work in progress.
Sorry for the long post. Like I said I haven't had an opportunity lately. Any and all comments, suggestions, or anything you guys see please let me know!