Red Storm on the Reich GB - Sept. 8, 2008 - May 9, 2009

I have some WIP shots of my T-34/85.The tank is pretty much done,maybe a little touch up and weathering,the final step will be adding the PE bedspring armor,hopefully that goes well or this will pretty much be it,so I will get back to you with the finished product.

thanks for looking

Remember to put holes in the bed spring armour!

Hey kids.... checking in to see what's going on in here.  Great work in the GB.  Moose, Steve, Paul... well done.

anthony2779: Nicely done, I especially like the dust washes and the white stripes on the turret.  Everything is well executed...all around...nice attention to all levels of detail! 

That headlight is a bit clean, you may want to dull that down a bit

I'm doing a T34/85 for this GB too..the old Tamiya kit..it will be a lot more beat-up than you version though...wish me luck 

Tigerman  thanks for the look

Stik + SMJ   good thoughts I will remember those points    thanks

I got my Berlin Street Fighter done today.It was a faily simple kit.It was my first use of magic tracks,they were OK ,I got them together but I didn't see the magic,of course I like Friuls better,but who wants to use them on every kit,too much $$$.but the MT's were ok.The PE screens went OK also,as far as the microscopic PE clams and such are still too small to deal with,maybe on a future kit.I washed and weathered it,didn't bang it up too much,figuredthey didn't last that long.Overall I was fairly satisfied and I enjoyed being part of this build,hope to see a lot more good stuff before it is done.

Anthony.... Very nice job! the spring armour is realy nice.

Great finish on the build, Anthony. Only thing I'm thinking of is maybe some more steel-colored drybrushing on the bedframes? I can see some in one of the pics, maybe it's just really subtle.

Good stuff!!

Nice work Anthony! 

I'm going to steal an idea that Dave (razordws) did with the Weekend Madness GB and post a finished pic of each completed build in the first thread on page one so it will be easy to see a recap of the fantastic work going on here.  I probably won't get around to doing that until this evening though.

Now that the Weekend Madness GB is over and I can come up for some air I'll get back on the JS-2 now. 

Sweet t-34, anthony.  The bed frame add on armor really makes it a beautiful build. 

Keep up the great work.

Dupes.....Scott........Moose................SMJ

thanks for the nice comments,it's nice coming from modelers of your calibre

Finally have some time to actually start building my Panther.  I have been humbled by the quality of workmanship and skill i have seen posted in this group build, but have decided to forge ahead anyways :)

Fresh in the box and my reference material.

 Unsullied sprues, ready for the tender touch of cutter and glue.

 I started with the rear panel, per the instructions, gluing into place the exhaust, jack, and supply boxes.

Back panel in place.

Partial turret completed.  There is a slight seam on the barrel that I will need to clean up.

Essentially I am avoiding working on the road wheels and idlers for a bit and putting together the sub assemblies.  Also still working on a solution for screens for the cooling fans.  Screens I think I can do, but not sure how to handle the frames yet.

Here's an update on the SU-100 the assembaly is finished and it on to the paint both.

And I fixed that huge gap in the back with styreen.

All coments welcome.

Here she is with paint on!

This was my first atempt at pre-shading I did it with Tamiay dark green XF-61 but after the paint is on you can't realy see the pre-shading.

After the pre-shade I painted it in a 70:30 mix of Tamiay Dark Green XF-73 and XF-61.

For the decals I'm going to put the red star decal on each side unles that marking dos'nt work for the GB dos it work??

All coments welcome!

I had my air pressher quite high I think it splatered because my paint mix was a bit liquidy.

tigerman wrote:

I don't think it can be too thinned down.

Oh youed be suprised my paint was realy thin after I had done the preshading I did'nt take it apart and clean evrey bit like I normaly do after every coat I just ran some water and thinner through it since I was going to paint again in like 30 seconds so whene I started spraying not much was coming out so I assumed the paint was to thik so I added tons of water and buy the time I had figured out that it was just a bit of paint dryed on the end of the nosle I only realy had coulored whater left so I added more paint to the mix but not quite enogh and it splatered a bit but it's nothing I can't live with.

I've also started the weathering and I think I'm going to go with the red star decals unles I'm told otherwise soon.  

Lofweir - good start, looks good from here!

stick man - Looks good, I built that one earlier this year. Look up Biffa's (Ron Goins) Russian Armor Weathering tutorial in Armorama, I have the linky:

http://www.armorama.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=1703

I also get that splatter patter out of my AB almost ALL the time, been banging my head (well, figuratively of course) as to why... maybe the amibent air is too cold (I AB in a non-heated attached garage)... I will crank up the psi, see if that helps....