Bish, this is a true beauty shaping up.

Among heavy work time, earthquakes, heatwaves and other distracting events, I managed to finish assembly of the Flakpanzer and its crew.

The hull, tracks and wheels were dusted with a combination of brown/sand dry pastels. Tracks details were then picked up with a 2B pencil.

The base scenery was aurbrushed with several tones of green & green-yellow, until it looked good to the eye.

Tools and spare tracks were added to the hull with the aid of small blobs of white glue.

Some micro details painting and small corrections remain to be done.

The crew commander was placed at the forefront, scanning the horizon with his binoculars. The crew has the guns locked and loaded.

Cheers Zvezda. Nice work on the Wirbel, like the scene and nice job on the base.

Zvezda: That looks great! Love the camo and base. Were there any problems getting the figures to fit inside the turret? 

Gamera: Yes, a little. I had to first install the gunner on his seat, then attach the loaders on their seats with some white glue and finally the guns+gunner assembly was installed & glued inside the turret, adjusting the position of the loaders from above (white glue had not dried yet). Guns assembly was glued by applying thin cement from the lower turret opening and let capillary do its job.

Some detail painting on the tools was done, an antenna of stretched sprue was installed and the kit is proclaimed completed.

I'm not surprised, they really look scrunched in there. Again great job there, love the camo, figures, and the groundwork. 

Great work there everybody! I gust got back from my vacation and can now actively participate in this GB again. I have been looking through the past post and am amazed at the quality of the buils that are there. Keep up the good work and I hope to join you in my build soon.

I felt like doing something mindless, so I assembled the Modelkasten tracks for the Flakvierling.  After an afternoon of work, they were done.

MK's plastic is very hard and brittle, and I noticed some segments I had assembled earlier had stress cracks in the rubber blocks.  So I used liquid cement to grease the blocks on to the pins molded into the track shoes to see if that helped.  I think I just push fit them in earlier.

I have not yet fitted the MK sprocket and wheels, so I left a couple of track segments off to see how the track tension is afterwards.  The sprockets are appreciably smaller than the kit's.

BTW, MK's claim that it is best to snap the tracks off the sprue to get the cleanest break is a bunch of hooey.  You'll get exactly what you would expect from tearing parts off the sprue.

Can't believe its been 2 weeks, but now seeing this coming together. Final parts were added and the inside masked ready for painting.

Next came the paint, decals and a very light dry brush. The kit supplies markings for vehicles in France, Greece and Russia, but i wanted to do one in the Polish campaign. Photo's are few and far between, so i made an assumption. I used the markings for a 1st Pz Div vehicle in France 1940 and simply switched the national markings for the French campign with decals from my /6 for the Polish campaign crosses.

And then a pin wash which gives a nice start for the dusty look i want.

Just got to get the tools wheels, tracks and other bits added and then the final dusting. Next pics should be the final ones.

Got the 251 wrapped up last night so time for the final pics. But first a few of the finished vehcile before i fitted it to the base. Final touches were to add all the last parts, some AK dust effects folowed by a flat coat and some pigments.

And then onto the base along with the figures. I also put the rest of the soldiers equipment onto the rails. Despite this being the most figures i have put into a 35th dio, i wanted to keep it compact.

My info on Polish uniforms is none, so i just went with what i could find online and am hoping its ok. Really pleased with this kit, can deffinetly recomend it and will be getting more. This is 251 number 6 on the completed list and really glad to have it.

Thanks for hosting the GB and allwing me to enter this hear. I am hoping to get to a Tiger I before the end of the year, if so i'll add that to the list. Please use which ever pic you like for the front page.

That's really cool Bish!!! I wouldn't have noticed it as an early model 251 till I looked more closely at the front. Nice to see something a little different. And nice work there on the base and the figures too! 

That is an amazing build Bish! Keep up the great work.

Thanks Gamera. Ye, there is not much differance in the shape between this and the more common Ausf C. It is nice to have these early vehicles to build, my stash is full of C's and D's, so i am really glad to have this on the shelf.

Thanks Dutchman, and thanks for hosting the GB.

That’s a nice finish Bish!

I have to get back to the bench.  But I am on Maui at the moment, so no access to my stuff!  “Suffering” at the pool bar drinking a Mai Tai and thinking about modeling...  Darned company retreat.  

Thanks G.

Now that sounds like hell, i feel for you.

Haven't posted much progress on the King Tiger in a while (got sidetracked by a couple other GBs).  So, the tracks are finally on and I'm finishing up the external stores to apply them soon:

That looks good!!! 

Alright, calling the King Tiger DONE!  Added a commander figure from an older Tamiya model, plus a commander's cupola MG from the spares box, and some weathering and camouflage touches.  Dutchman, you can use either the first or last image of this group for the cover photo.  Thanks!

Hey Dutch!  I haven't forgotten about this GB!  Had to shut down the bench for a few months while family members temporarily moved in but now the model assembly line is back in production!

First I have to say what a great number of builds that have been completed!  Just had time to review Bish's Sk.Kfz 251, Zvezda's Wirbelwind and AA's King Tiger!  Great work all!

I've finally decided on my entry.  I was reminded by a friend/coworker that I had not built this kit:

I received it as a gift from same coworker back in 2012 and just never got around to building it.  She gently reminded me that I promised to build it and send them pics when done, so there you are!  Please enter this as my build for the GB. 

Progress will be slow at first as I will be working out of town this week, but I'm bringing the kit with me to start the tedious work on those far too many roadwheels!

That looks amazing AA!!! Great job there, I love the foliage camo! Sorry it took me a week to congradulate you, I didn't even notice you'd updated.... 

Ernest: That looks cool! 

Oh cool thanks! I picked up one of those leaf punches but haven't gotten a chance to use it yet. Hoping to on my M1A2 Abrams. 

Are you going to post her over on the armour forum?? 

Welp, sat down Sat. and did a marathon painting session with the new airbrush. One of the things I got done was the base coat on the Leopard 2. Did some pre-shading and just a little colour modulation. Not sure if you can tell from the photo, it was overcast all Sunday. 

Hoping I'll still be able to hit the end-date or at least reasonably close. So next couple of days I'll be applying the Silly Putty as mask for the camo pattern. 

Armor_Aficionado

I'd like to add another entry to this GB, a kit I've started working on from Revell, a 1/35 scale Pzkw. 35(t). However, I notice my second completed entry, the Revell King Tiger, has not made it to the Completed Entries gallery; can you add it to the Gallery, please? Thanks!

 

I think Sailing Dutchman said something about moving to the Netherlands or a long extended vacation/holiday there and not having any internet access. I didn't quite get the whole thing but I don't think he's updating this GB anymore.

Hello everyone, I was on a vacation in the Netherlands for the past four months and am now living there. I am getting settled in and just finished my SSGB M41(my first model in this country). I have been catching up with the past few months of posts and I think that everything is as it should be. However, my only computer is now a phone so I may have missed something. If your model did not make it onto the roster or gallery please point it out and I will remedy it as soon as possible.

Sailing_Dutchman

Hello everyone, I was on a vacation in the Netherlands for the past four months and am now living there. I am getting settled in and just finished my SSGB M41(my first model in this country). I have been catching up with the past few months of posts and I think that everything is as it should be. However, my only computer is now a phone so I may have missed something. If your model did not make it onto the roster or gallery please point it out and I will remedy it as soon as possible.

 

Sorry friend! I don't like speaking for others but just wanted to give AA a head's up for what I thought was going on. Thanks for checking in and giving us the real story. 

Work on the latest entry, the Pzkw. 35(t), is progressing nicely:

That looks good AA. 

Dunno if I'll finish in time or not. I finished the black camo on my Leopard 2 but still need to add the brown splotches. And I'm going on vacation/holiday for two weeks so I won't be able to get back to her until late November.