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Karl,

You keep on inspiring me and amazing me with your attention to detail and all the work you do to give back to your craft.

Very cool my Friend,

Well Karl, I'm outta words describing this one so I'm just gonna settle for a couple.

As always TRULY AMAZING and grrreat attention to detail!

The airbrush trick on the front hull, did you use just paint for the splatters or did you use pigments mixed with fixer too, like I did on my Shermie?

Per-Erik

Thanks, Schnobs, and Per-Erik!

Per-Erik, I only used two different shades of paint for the splattering. One lighter shade first,and then a darker shade on top. Practice this technique though before attempting it--it's VERY easy to ruin your paint job by overdoing it!

Karl

I'm a little behind the power curve checking in here, but I wanted to echo all the kudos you have received.  What an outstanding build.  Beautiful and impressive all at the same time.

Don't quote me on it, but I am pretty sure (85%-ish) that the green rounds with the yellow are HEAT (High Explosive Anti-Tank) rounds and the grey/black ones are AP (Armor-piercing). 

Nice job!

Thanks, Boyd!I appreciate the comments!

And thanks for the info on the shells--I knew that the info was out there somewhere, I just didn't want to post the wrong info!

the doog wrote:

Thanks, Boyd!I appreciate the comments! And thanks for the info on the shells--I knew that the info was out there somewhere, I just didn't want to post the wrong info!

No problem.  Now, please understand, I'm not sure I would stand by those id's under cross-examination or anything ...  But it was the conclusion I reached on some limited research...

Very nice work Doog... All the junk in the fighting compartment really make it look lived in. Well done!

KC

Ramseur wrote:

utterly fantastic; I love it. You did a fantastic job on this build. The interior detail is amazing, but, I believe my favorite part of this build is the muffler. It is just great.

Man, I went round-n-round with that muffer before getting it to look like that. I was pretty happy in the end with it. I have found that if you look at real pics of German PzII-IV tanks, a lot of them are not so completely rusted as many modelers portray them. It's almost "easy" to comletely rust-out a muffler, but I tried todo something a little different here.

Thanks for noticin'!

Specter wrote:

Doog that Nashorn is phenominal!! The interior blows me away. how did you paint the bottles?

The bottles are actually clear plastic--to paint them, all I did was to use Clear Red from Model Master (a car taillight color) That's all! The green bottles were just painted in green and then gloss--coated!