Post-Flu update and FINISHED PICS page 5--NeoGrade Bergepanzer III WIP

MM,

Great idea and look with the display cases. Is that $450 for materials and you did the work or did you but BUY them somewhere?

Also, what scale is that B-52?

IBuild148

dupes, I let my brother contact a contractor (owner of glass hardware shop) who came to take a look at the site and my requirements (specifications). The contractor proposed a lumpsum price (materials & labor), when agreed upon he brought materials and labor and the installation began. It took only a day to install the display case on each side of the wall. $450 is Thailand price, in the US this may cost twice or thrice.

Both B-52s are standard 1/72 scale ones. You said you built 1:48?

SMJmodeler wrote:

doog: It just looks tired doog...like an old mechanic who doesn't like his job anymore...is that what you had in mind?  You have outdone yourself on this one!  All the tools (the necessary evils of the job) and the equipment really add to the look, I can only imagine the time it took, but it was WELL worth it!  The road wheels, tracks and lower hull are fantastic.  An all-around "tour-de-force" of modeling techniques and execution! I do have a couple suggestions though (what a shock, huh), #1-based on being used by guys with greasy hands, I suggest dry brushing some grease in multiple hand-hold locations, specifically the top wood rail.  #2- The coiled cable on the back looks too clean, IMO.  The contrast works, but it looks like it could use a dark wash or two.  Oh yeah, one more thing, it looks like you slipped a guide horn on the left side on the middle top return roller...check that! Great job doog!, Will she being going to Syrcon?!

Steve-- thanks, for the kind words, and suggestions! Not sure what you saw in the guide roller? I checked all around, and it's all aligned and sano...The grease suggestion is agood one--perhaps I will add some more before I take this out to SYRCON.

If it beats yours, you have only yourself to blame! LOL! ........

the doog wrote:

First, thanks, Phaisal, for your kind sentiments!

Phaisal...huh...  Have to claim ignorance on that word...the context implies a kind word but a dictionary look-up finds no such word.  Anyway...

the doog wrote:

...Not sure what you saw in the guide roller? I checked all around, and it's all aligned and sano...

It was probably the camera angle and/ or the overlap of the tracks.  I just thought you better double check it.

the doog wrote:

The grease suggestion is agood one--perhaps I will add some more before I take this out to SYRCON. If it beats yours, you have only yourself to blame! LOL! ........

Hey, a real competitor likes to know he's facing his challenger when they're at full strength...a win against a team with half of the best players on the DL is a win with a "what if" question always looming in the back of the mind.