#3 DML Pzkpfw III Ausf N sPzAbt 501 Afrika (W.I.P.)

, Schnobs, looking forward to seeing this progress. I too have the MIG book and think its just brilliant, best modelling tool I ever bought, expensive but worth it.

Good luck with your project, if its anything like your Mk.IV then you have another winner.

Regards,

Terry.

model maniac 96 wrote:

nice, lookin great so far Schnobs! can't wait to see the end result!!! Jim

Thanks Jim!  Good to hear from you again.  This one has been slower due to work and famly committments.  I did loose my first part to the carpet monster in my case the cement monster.

I think my dog ate it!

I am still looking I believe I can remake it easily enough.

wbill76 wrote:

No problem Edmund, just wanted to be sure you weren't copying the incorrect scheme just because I'd done it that way. I'm sure it won't take you long to get comfortable with your airbrush to start doing camo schemes...most people start out the other way around and are deathly afraid of monotone schemes!

Yes I love the challenge of making a Monotone interesting. Color modulation is a cool technique.  I did do the ring around my second base with my AB free handed and I was actualy suprised how easy it was.  I have a Badger 100LK double action with a medium tip and the learning curve was a little steep because I had never even touched an airbrush before but acrylics are forgiving. 

I liked this link and plan to use this technique on this build.

http://www.armorama.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Sections&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=2006

I also find doing road wheels very Zen and I even painted both sides of each wheel.

Also I have become very fond of MIG Productions products and Mig Jinemez techniques and style.  I have both of the Night Vision DVD's which are really excellent.  I had a little scare this afternoon when my wife asked me if I had ordered objectionable materials over the internet and handed me a brown wrapped privacy envelope about the size of a big magazine. It finally came!

I am looking forward to reading and absorbing the techniques.  Back to modeling.  Take care Bill!

Hi Bill,

Thanks for the pics very cool!  I had to stare at them for quite awhile to pick out the two-tone Tropen scheme.  I realy like your PZ.IV F2 but if I tried that scheme right now free handed with my AB skills it would be crap shoot how it would turn out.  Sometimes my Badger feels like a magic wand and other times I feel like I am holding a telephone pole!

I am getting better though.  I have Cyber-Hobby Pz.IV Ausf D "Vorpanzer that I am going to build after this with a montone Panzer Grey and then it's Cammo Time!

I have a Tamiya VI Tiiger1 that my wife gave me for Christmas that will be my first Cammo experiment.  The model itself is large enough for me to get good practice.

Schnobs - looking forward to what you do with this guy. Seems like a terribly sweet kit!

Scratchmod - wow. That's pretty awesome.

scratchmod wrote:

Your off to a good start. I agree with the color choice. I too am going by Bill's F2 build, and will use the same colors on my F2. The sand bag method works great, I've been doing it that way for years. I finished my N a couple of months ago with lots of sandbags.Here's how my bags came out. The Dragon kit is awesome and I'm hooked on them. Rob

Hi Rob,

Thanks for the pic your PZ.III looks awesome and is very close to what is in my head for mine.  I hope you haven't been peeking in there I will have to put my tinfoil hat back on.  DML kits are my only expereince so far but I am really impressed with their quality and detail.

I would really appreciate more pics of yours or if you have it posted somewhere a link. 

What colors did you use on the sandbags and what color wash?  I would guess a Tamiya Buff or lightened Khaki with a burnt umber wash or wash brown.  Also what colors did you use for chipping.  I used a Poly Scale Reefer grey on my last PZ.IV and it looked okay just maybe a little to dark.

I used to dream about girls and now I dream about DML kits!!

wing_nut wrote:

Hey scnobs looks good so far. I missed the finally of the last IV, gotta go look for that one.  Without seeing the other color side by side that looks like a color that will work. And NO i it is not my intention to rekindlke any sort of is that the right color discussions That seems to be the standard sandbag method.  Shaoe it, texture it and add the seams

Thanks Marc,

Yes I was not intending to cause controversy I have only respect for eveyone's opinions and techniques I was just sharing mine.  I like to see all the variations on color that people come up with it is very subjective that's for sure.  I promise I will not paint any German Armor pink though I am not that much of a free spirit!

Edmund,

Ought to be a great project! It's worth pointing out that the color I used for the III-N, Afrika Grunbraun, was incorrect for a N. Afrika vehicle in late '42 early '43. At the time I didn't know that and went with what I thought "looked right" vs. the box art. After I had built this one, I came across a color photo of III-Ns with sPzAbt 501 being delivered in Tunisia and realized that it should've had the two-tone Tropen scheme like what I used on my IV F2.

That photo was a poor quality reproduction on the back of a book...but I was able to find a better quality of the original:

Unfortunately Testors doesn't replicate their full range of Afrika colors in the MM Acryl line, so you would have to mix your own colors for both to try and replicate the two-tone if you wanted to go that route.

Your off to a good start. I agree with the color choice. I too am going by Bill's F2 build, and will use the same colors on my F2.

The sand bag method works great, I've been doing it that way for years. I finished my N a couple of months ago with lots of sandbags.Here's how my bags came out.

The Dragon kit is awesome and I'm hooked on them.

Rob

Hey scnobs looks good so far. I missed the finally of the last IV, gotta go look for that one.  Without seeing the other color side by side that looks like a color that will work. And NO i it is not my intention to rekindlke any sort of is that the right color discussions

That seems to be the standard sandbag method.  Shaoe it, texture it and add the seams