Nightmare Bish pure nightmare.

Terry.

Looking very nice there Terry.

By the way, when i start my Maus, i will give you a shout. You will be well practiced at wheels by then.

Thanks Steve forgot this one of theh Breech, terrible piece of kit here.....

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After all the fillling was done it looked great, now for paint this week some time weather permitting.

Terry.

Gonna be gorgeous.....

THanks for all the replies, well appreciated. It's been a kinda slow process getting the howitzer finished/built.

I am almost there and I must confess that while it is a mixed bag of nuts, excellent in parts and almost east european in others, but all in all an excellent kit. Slightly expensive though.

Well on with some pic's.

The whole so far. about 13inches.

Those tracked front pontoons, apparently only used for short trips, a full wheel set replaced them for long hauls and the gun was broken down.

Not too much to comment on the rest.

Ooop's , seams, seams..... days of work sorting out bad fitting seams.

The rifling is photo etch and just slots in after a brief annealing, I mean it fits perfect.....

Two nights fixing the seams on the breech, just terrible.

Want reference just click into primeportal....

http://www.primeportal.net/artillery/yuri_pasholok/203mm_b-4_howitzer_mod.1931/

Thanks for looking,

Terry.

Hey  Killa  :  )

yet still I must ask ... go back to the last ...LSW, where is that task?     Geez I just wrote an armor poem 

Terry, tractor & B4.....  thats why I called you killa.... gonna be outstanding !

yer pal

bill

I dig this B4 howitzer!  So many details... looking forward to your next update!

Well its been a week of working on the Gun. I have the Tractor complete and ready for paint, The tractor is really a shake and bake kit, falls together.

The gun is really a beautiful kit but between bad fitting parts and flash it is slower going. I got the guntube done and was surprised that it took two evenings to get the barrel right, lots of Humbrol filler thinned with humbrol cement.

Well on with the pic's.

The carriage so far, this is a bit fiddly to get straightened, thet locating tabs are very loose so getting everything lined up is touch and go, the easy way out was to assemble the front axle which is in the final stages of constructtion and use it to secure the front of the carriage ensuring proper alignment.  This assembly beside placed behind the tractor gives you a 16 inch model, so it will be bigger with the barrel.

The spade in travel mode.

The bottom of the spade required a lot of filling.

The limber assembly.

Some of the detail on the carriage, there is no shortage of detail so weathering will be a pleasure, even drybrushed lightly to bring up some rivets.

The detail on the ammunition winch, its a beauty.

Thanks to every body who replied and I hope to update ASAP.

P.S. I found this on Prime Portal, a brilliant reference work on the B4

http://www.primeportal.net/artillery/yuri_pasholok/203mm_b-4_howitzer_mod.1931/index.php?Page=1

Terry.

Looks great so far!

And I've loved that huge Soviet gun ever since I saw it in some footage of the Red Army over-running Berlin. Dang what a brute! Am going to have to pick one up eventually no matter how poor the kit may be. Looking forward to seeing you build yours up.

These two monsters together ........cool !

   Howdy  Terry......

             it's

Looks like another interesting project

from the hands of an experienced builder.

So the tractor is strong & the gun not so much eh?

Good to know as the gun sells for around 80$ CDN @ the LHS.

Will look impressive towing the monster, look forward to it Terry!

holy crap terry!  I guess there is a lot more to this build than meets the eye!!

Andy & Karl thanks for the comments. Karl I can honestly say with hand on heart that this is one really super kit.

Well I have an update ready. I'll just go through the photos as  there is no modifications made and no trouble at all.

The paint progress so far I ran out of my rattle can and had to buy two more on thursday.

Those roadwheels

track assembly took about an hour and a half.

I have done some highlighting and some washes, I'm going to hold out on further weathering until all base coating is done and all the weathering may be better done all together.

The tracks were painted with humbrol polished steel from a rattle can.

I must give the story as it happened. I thought all week that this monster needed something to tow and as I was going out to buy paint on thursday at lunchtime I thought that if the shop had a lovely big piece of Russian artillery to pull then I would invest. €50 by the way but worth it.

I have started construction on this gun but have no pics readyy as yet but I will say that it is not of the same quality as the tractor.

So heres the sprues .........

I will try to get updates done ASAP.

Thanks for dropping by.

Regards,

Terry.

I spent the last two nights doing the road wheels for an early Tiger, I thought that was bad... Painting road wheels is to armor what masking canopies is to aircraft, tedious (at least in my opinion).

So many mini wheels .Its so very Russian .

Holy crap!That's a lot of wheels!

Still, I love this vehicle--it reminds me of an old Model A veggie truck that went to war!

I know I have to get one of these!

Nice work so far!

tigerman

I admire your patience to assemble all those road wheels. Yuck. On the other hand, this is a cool subject.

I agree... it will be little too difficult for me with my ADHD!.   Knowing you, it will come out beautiful as usual and I am looking forward to it. 

Always like dropping in on your builds, and they are worth waiting for. Can't wait to see that 251 though, i keep worring that i have missed it.

Greg, Armornut  Eric and Maj Mike thanks for the comments,Bish thanks for dropping by, just to let you know I was working on the 251/20 during the week and I hope to finish it this summer.

Steve, Billp, Billc and Gamer thanks for the comments.

I don't have a photo update yet but to bring you up to speed I have painted the lower hull and all the running gear, I did hand paint all those rubber wheels. Road wheels idlers and return rollers totalling 88 tires. It still only took about 3 hours to edge all the tires in and back for about 20 minutes to finish painting..

Still only at about 12 to 14hours so far and its really enjoyable. I will do some photos tomorrow and hope to post during the week.

Terry.

"What has 64 road wheels?"

I was going to answer: 'Something out of my nightmares' but wow very cool vehicle! Looking forward to seeing you posting more in progress photos of her. Much as I like Panthers, Shemans, and T34s I love off-the-wall stuff like this.

You're in road wheel heaven (or hell depending!). Not a subject you see done often but am sure you'll bring it to life Terry.

william carls

man Terry cool beans ! you can sure pick 'em ...... what happened to the LWS.... did I miss the final pics ?... if I did, please put up a link   :  )

yer pal , 

Gabby ol' bill

Yeah......  we're watching you.

So many wheels,

        but where are the Führers' schleppers........

 Where'd it go?

I just had a terrible thought -- painting the "tires" on those countless road wheels.   Airbrush and template/mask, I guess.

I admire your patience to assemble all those road wheels. Yuck. On the other hand, this is a cool subject.

man Terry cool beans ! you can sure pick 'em ...... what happened to the LWS.... did I miss the final pics ?... if I did, please put up a link   :  )

yer pal , 

Gabby ol' bill

As I said on the other thread, this is going to look soooo good.

When i saw the first pic i thought 64 wheel, what am i missing. But nope, your right, it sure does. Be nice to see another of your builds Terry.