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75th Anniversary of 1942 (World at War)

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  • From: AandF in the Badger State
Posted by checkmateking02 on Tuesday, August 15, 2017 6:49 PM

Good looking paintwork, stik.

And thanks for the information!

 

 

 

 

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Posted by stikpusher on Tuesday, August 15, 2017 9:15 PM

Thanks Check. Try out some gel CA sometime as a filler.

A little while ago I test fitted the main landing gear...

 

 

 

Now I feel like giving some Tim Allen grunts of success.. ARRG ARRGGGHH ARR!!!

 

F is for FIRE, That burns down the whole town!

U is for URANIUM... BOMBS!

N is for NO SURVIVORS...

       - Plankton

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Posted by checkmateking02 on Tuesday, August 15, 2017 9:41 PM

Going good, stik.

I do use gel superglue for some filling work--just haven't tried it for wing/fuselage gaps.

That last photo of the 109 kinda reminded me of this:

Very creative photography!

 

 

 

 

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Posted by stikpusher on Tuesday, August 15, 2017 10:05 PM

Check, ya know, you could put a spiral on his nose... Wink

 

the resemblance is purely coincidental... 

 

 

F is for FIRE, That burns down the whole town!

U is for URANIUM... BOMBS!

N is for NO SURVIVORS...

       - Plankton

LSM

 

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Posted by checkmateking02 on Tuesday, August 15, 2017 10:30 PM

Yes

 

 

 

 

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Posted by stikpusher on Wednesday, August 16, 2017 1:26 PM

 

 

Well, the fist paint is on... RLM 78 Blue on the lowers... which revealed some seam clean up needs a little touch up...  

 

 

Im using Gunze Aqueous here. I forgot how much that I really liked that paint. Too bad they are no longer imported.

 

 

F is for FIRE, That burns down the whole town!

U is for URANIUM... BOMBS!

N is for NO SURVIVORS...

       - Plankton

LSM

 

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Posted by rooster513 on Wednesday, August 16, 2017 1:53 PM

stikpusher

 

 

Well, the fist paint is on... RLM 78 Blue on the lowers... which revealed some seam clean up needs a little touch up...  

 

 

Im using Gunze Aqueous here. I forgot how much that I really liked that paint. Too bad they are no longer imported.

 

 

Looks really good stik! Those seams always have a way of popping up. I've heard so many good things about Gunze Aqueous. I'd love to try them if they were easier to get a hold of.

-Andy

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Posted by Bish on Wednesday, August 16, 2017 2:29 PM

Getting close to the end now. The tank and building are done. Just got to finish the figures and bring it all together.

So, first the tank. Some light streaking with AK streak effects were followed by the kit going on. I got a set of value Gear boxes and added a backpack and Jerry cans.

Next some AK dust efefcts. I used dark earth colours lwer down and added light dust effects higher up. As soon as this was done i removed the effects from around the wheels and areas where thye crew would have climbed and brushed dust away.

And then finally some pigments. dark earth colours were applied lw down by mixing in water and slapping it on. Once dry excess was removed. Lighter colours were added higher up followe by brick and concrete pigments all over.

I do need to add some rope that would hold down the equipment, and bare metal for the teeth on the drive sprockets. But other than that, its done.

And then the building. Firstly i needed to add grass around the outside. I used a mix of scatters and grass tufs of different lengths and colours.

And then the rubble. I start with a core of uncolured celluclay. Then while wet add bricks, debris and brick dust. This is built up over several days so as not to pile in to much as once.

Once the vehicle is in place i can add a bit more around it. But for now thats it. Now i can focus on the figures and get this wrapped.

 

 

I am a Norfolk man and i glory in being so

 

On the bench: Airfix 1/72nd Harrier GR.3/Fujimi 1/72nd Ju 87D-3

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Posted by Bish on Wednesday, August 16, 2017 2:32 PM

checkmateking02

Going good, stik.

I do use gel superglue for some filling work--just haven't tried it for wing/fuselage gaps.

That last photo of the 109 kinda reminded me of this:

Very creative photography!

 

Just hope he doesn't start shooting 20mm cannon shells of of the twin barrels Big Smile

I am a Norfolk man and i glory in being so

 

On the bench: Airfix 1/72nd Harrier GR.3/Fujimi 1/72nd Ju 87D-3

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Posted by rooster513 on Wednesday, August 16, 2017 3:27 PM

Bish that tank and building look great! Thanks for sharing your process, it's coming together nicely!

-Andy

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Posted by Bish on Wednesday, August 16, 2017 3:29 PM

Cheers Andy.

I am a Norfolk man and i glory in being so

 

On the bench: Airfix 1/72nd Harrier GR.3/Fujimi 1/72nd Ju 87D-3

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Posted by stikpusher on Wednesday, August 16, 2017 6:20 PM

Bish, both your base and Panzer II are looking fantastic! Excellent work!

After breakfast I was able to get in another airbrush session... first I did a coat of dark gray for the canopy frame interior color, again using Gunze...

and then the upper surface color of RLM 79 Brown. 

After work tonite I'll clean up that horrid seam on the chin scoop, and then tomorrow I'll touch up that, and the side fuselage demarcation between the 78 and 79... 

 

F is for FIRE, That burns down the whole town!

U is for URANIUM... BOMBS!

N is for NO SURVIVORS...

       - Plankton

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Posted by checkmateking02 on Wednesday, August 16, 2017 7:03 PM

Nice work, stik.  Good looking color!

I hate when I find a seam--after painting.  Bang Head

 

 

 

 

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Posted by checkmateking02 on Wednesday, August 16, 2017 7:05 PM

Both the panzer and the building are exceptional, Bish.  Fine work, and marvelous!  Great weathering.

 

 

 

 

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Posted by stikpusher on Wednesday, August 16, 2017 7:07 PM

checkmateking02

Nice work, stik.  Good looking color!

I hate when I find a seam--after painting.  Bang Head

 

Me too! I can tell that I'm rushing this build. 

 

F is for FIRE, That burns down the whole town!

U is for URANIUM... BOMBS!

N is for NO SURVIVORS...

       - Plankton

LSM

 

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Posted by EBergerud on Thursday, August 17, 2017 4:55 AM

I do like the project Bish. One thinks of big battles in Russia (or ETO for that matter) as being in the open steppe, hedgerows, etc or in cities - Stalingrad, Berlin, Caen. But anywhere you found buildings - small villages, small towns, bigger towns or even farms there was a very good chance for a shoot-out. Buildings are great cover for anything - snipers, tanks in ambush, infantry strongpoints - and the ability of getting the bad guys out of buildings is the operational art of war at a high level. So I look forward to seeing the dio. And that kind of fighting would likely increase dirt on vehicles. I know a lot of people talk of "over-weathering." If you're talking about buckets of chipping, lots of rust, super fading the criticism can be valid. Very few tanks stayed in the field for long, although those that did could certainly look a fright. But unless you're talking the depot, vehicles in the field would have been always dirty. Whether you're going across dry dirt, mud or snow any tank is going to be dirty and dusty. Tank tracks guarantee it. And when a tank was on the move, it was rarely alone, so the guy in front of you is kicking dust right into your face. (I've talked to quite a few tank crewmen, and dust in the interior - and in the lungs - was an unending problem.) Anyway, your tank looks, above all, really blinking dirty. That fits the dio like a glove. 

I've decided to do the Tamiya Panzer IVD - and it will be a casualty of the dreadful fighting in the first three months of 1942. (So base building info on dios is of interest.) It came out in 1976 and was built for an electric motor. This is the third early Tamiya tank I've built (my first tank was the ancient PanzerII). It's actually a real step up. Some odd holes to fit electric junk, but no problem, I'm going to be adding holes of my own. I'd say the detail is good - I'd guess the part count at about 140 - high for those early kits. I won't bother with pics for a while - no real excitement about construction. Right now I'm doing road wheels. That's a job I like - one of my favorite tasks in modelling. You only need about 30% of your brain when you're assembling them, so there's a lot left over to listen to Chopin or Beethoven. I'll check in before priming.

Just saw a very neat video build from Andy's Hobby Headquarters (the guy isn't great, but builds very fast and ends up with very nice kits: his videos are great for those learning armor modeling. And he's prolific and his 30 min builds are more informative than a box review.) He just did a new Dragon-Platz Panzer IVD. Get this. Dragon is beginning to understand that as the market ages, and Tamiya is putting out super armor kits with part counts under 300, that they can't stay completely with their super detail kits. Platz is a Japanese firm (they did a series of kits to accompany one of the strangest anime series I've ever heard of coming from Japan - High School Girls and Panzers) and has a good rep. Dragon took the new tool Platz PZIV and added some Dragon touches like their great DS tracks. The part count is 175 - a 1/35 kit from  Dragon. (Clearly labeled Dragon-Platz) A few years back they did the same model with battle of France box art and the part count pushed 1,000 (I know they aren't all used, but a Dragon project can be a long one.) I think that's great. My hand-eye coordination is not going to improve with age, and a bad fight with very complex PE for a German battlecruiser proved to me that without a doubt that for yours truly PE is "less is more." I find weathering and making dios much more fun that creating the perfect kit. I admire the people that do pursue fine detail - the best ship and armor modelers set a very high bar. But when I was in junior high, I prefered art over shop - maybe that says something.

Keep things rolling gents - good GB here.

Eric

 

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Posted by Bish on Thursday, August 17, 2017 7:01 AM

Thanks guys, much appreciated.

Eric,. yep, i know exactly what you mean. Even just on excersise, it didn't take long for our wagons to get covered in dust and dirt. It soon got to the stage where you couldn't even make out the camo. And it sure is not fun spending all day in somone elses dust trail. I spent 2 tours in cities in Iraq, i can only imagine what it must have been like in Stalingrad and places like it.

I am a Norfolk man and i glory in being so

 

On the bench: Airfix 1/72nd Harrier GR.3/Fujimi 1/72nd Ju 87D-3

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Posted by stikpusher on Thursday, August 17, 2017 2:33 PM

 

After work last night I decided to go with some gel CA as filler to clean up the chin scoop seam. This morning after I got up and got going, I went straight to work on sanding. A few minutes of wet sanding from coarse to fine and all cleaned up.

 

 

Then I prepped the airbrush and paint and did touch ups on the RLM 78 Blau on the chin scoop and along the fuselage sides.... especially over the wings and on the supercharger intake scoop... much better now

 

 

 

 

 

 

After giving that time to dry, I began removing the masking tape... 

 

 

 

and in direct sunlight...

 

 

I'm really liking this now....

 

F is for FIRE, That burns down the whole town!

U is for URANIUM... BOMBS!

N is for NO SURVIVORS...

       - Plankton

LSM

 

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Posted by rooster513 on Thursday, August 17, 2017 2:39 PM

Nice cleanup on that chin scoop Stik! I like that RLM 79 color tooYes

-Andy

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Posted by Bish on Thursday, August 17, 2017 2:56 PM

Looking god Stik, nice job on the paint. Are you useing the kit decals.

I am a Norfolk man and i glory in being so

 

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Posted by checkmateking02 on Thursday, August 17, 2017 4:26 PM

Very fine, Eric.  I've updated the build roster.  Looking forward to seeing your work!

 

 

 

 

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Posted by checkmateking02 on Thursday, August 17, 2017 4:27 PM

Outstanding fix up, stik, and great looking paintwork.  Those colors really look good together.

 

 

 

 

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Posted by EBergerud on Thursday, August 17, 2017 6:31 PM

Wanted to mention a couple of tools I've found useful in my past two builds - you may know about them, but I miss stuff all the time.

First, Xacto is now making a new #11 blade that they call Z-Series. The claim is that the blade is coated Zirconium Nitride (whatever that be) and is three times sharper and more durable than the standard #11. Price is a little higher, but not much. I can testify that the blad is sharp probably sharper than a standard blade - but a new standard #11 blade is sharp also. It definitely keeps its edge and point much longer. I used one blade on two kits and replaced it out of principle - the tip was still very sharp. It's sold at Blick Arts and is displayed in a gold-tiped knife and blade. The knife is identical to any light Xacto, so just getting a 5-pack of blades will do the job. Definitely worth it.

Second is what RB Productions (a very neat company for tools and PE) calls a "pick-up pencil." You're more likely to find them if you search "Rhinestone pick-up pencil" or "wax pencil" or "nail art." RB sells one for 2 Euros. The pencil is filled with a white wax which you don't want sharp at the point, but a little blunt. The wax tip is tacky enough to grasp small parts or PE: it is not so tacky that it won't drop the part easily. You can see one in action in a YouTube video from Harry Houdini Models (the guy's an Aussie and makes nice kits) "How I do PE with a Wax Pencil" . There are suggestions for home made duplicates - one person suggests melting candel wax and coat lightly anything that's pencil shaped and let it cool. I'm not sure about how long that would last. I tried a sharpened wooden medical Q-tip (infinitely better than standard types) and tried it with hard beeswax and that would work. I also tried it with soft beeswax, which I use to lube my airbrush, and it picked up bits just fine, but wasn't so good at letting them go. I used a pick-up pencil on the PE on my last ship where it was really useful, and it's helping out now fixing road wheel caps and other very small parts that even this relatively simple kit has in large numbers.

The knife and pencil sit on top of the kit - some boards require kit photos to somehow prove that you made the model and not your wife or kid. (Never figured out how that would work.) Anyway, the box art is good as is the case on Tamiya models.

 Kit-tool by Eric Bergerud, on Flickr

Eric

 

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Posted by stikpusher on Thursday, August 17, 2017 7:09 PM

Bish, Rooster, Check, thanks for the kind feedback. 

Bish, I'm going to be using some Aeromaster Decals from their "Wings Over the Sahara" set. This one will be Red 3 from 5. JG-27. Supposedly the mount of Ernst Börngen. He arrived in North Africa with 5 victories in 1941, take command of 5. JG -27 and score 13 more victories between December 1941 and November 1942.

 

F is for FIRE, That burns down the whole town!

U is for URANIUM... BOMBS!

N is for NO SURVIVORS...

       - Plankton

LSM

 

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Posted by jgeratic on Friday, August 18, 2017 12:48 AM

Stik, that is some fine work you got going on with that old Airfix kit.

Bish, really liking the look of the light panzer now that it is dusted up.  Can't wait to see the dio you got planned for this.

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Check, I've got a change to make for my entry.  I started working on a bust a couple weeks ago as a change of pace from military machines , and would like to enter it here.  It will be a Soviet female lieutenant in the Red Army.  The scale will be 1/12, with the basis of the subject being a genric bust from Nocturna.

The below photo is what I will be basing it on, with much of the scratch building relying on green putty and apoxie sculpt.

Someone on the inter web colourized the photo, which I think looks quite good. 

About the red collar markings, this type of rank system was used until 1943, when shoulder boards replaced them.   Officially the colourful tabs were discontinued by an order dated July 1940, with ranks displayed in subdued green and no branch colours.  So to be totally accurate I should make them green, but have read this changeover was slow and not immediately widespread, and even as late as during the Stalingrad battles coloured ones could be found.

Anyhow, this where the build is currently at.

Started off by cutting out her jaw in order to close the mouth.  Also added some putty to the face in an attempt to capture some likeness to the wartime photo.

... and some decent progress on the garrison hat, known as 'pilotka'.

regards,

Jack

 

 

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Posted by stikpusher on Friday, August 18, 2017 1:10 AM

Thank you Jack. I am pleasantly surprised to see how nice this kit's raised detail looks under a coat of paint. At least the stuff that I did not replace or lose in seam clean up.

That is an interesting project that you have going there. That photo makes you wonder who she is or was, what was her role in the war, and did she live thru the war....

 

F is for FIRE, That burns down the whole town!

U is for URANIUM... BOMBS!

N is for NO SURVIVORS...

       - Plankton

LSM

 

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Posted by ManCityFan on Friday, August 18, 2017 8:41 AM

Stik, that 109 just gets better and better.  The seam has been conquered.  Really like the look of the Gunze paints.

Eric, thanks for the tips.  I have yet to tackle PE, but the pick-up tool you described sounds incredibly useful.

Jack, a very interesting subject for the GB.  I will be watching with great interest.

D

Dwayne or Dman or just D.  All comments are welcome on my builds. 

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Posted by jgeratic on Friday, August 18, 2017 10:42 AM

Thank you Stik and Dwayne.

Yes, the female lieutenant  photo can be found on many Russian sites, but mostly are captioned with no relevant info, not even a name.  I did find a blog where someone claimed it was their grandmother who was a medical officer at Sevastopol.  Someone argued that they were lying becasue he could not reveal her name and posted this link:

http://education.simcat.ru/school59/museum/6

Her b/w photo is sandwiched between two other females but I'm not sure if they are one in the same.  The image files all share the name stepanova_danilova, but could be just credit to the photgrapher's name, or maybe a combination of the subject's first name and photographer's last name?

regards,

Jack

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Posted by Bish on Friday, August 18, 2017 12:33 PM

Thanks jack.

Now thats a build worth watching. Looking forward to seeing how you do this.

I am a Norfolk man and i glory in being so

 

On the bench: Airfix 1/72nd Harrier GR.3/Fujimi 1/72nd Ju 87D-3

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Posted by rooster513 on Friday, August 18, 2017 12:48 PM

That's very cool Jack. Looking forward to seeing this come together.

-Andy

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