OK, here's the "Berlin Hedgehog" 
The Vorne is finished....I think....? I may look at it next week and decide that it needs something else, but for now I can't think of anything else to do with it but for the inevitable figure that will come. I wanted to get this up today though, while the weekend is here.
I apologize for not having a lot of "here's how I did this" photos this time. I came back from my trip up North, and was a little reluctant to get back to this build---the interruption of "work" does that to me sometimes. I was intimidated by the sheer pressure to present something awesome. Then one day I just kinda had a vision and got into a whirlwind of activity on it. I had gotten in the barbed wire while I was gone, and figured that a last-stand panzer at the end of the war would have thrown in everything it could to keep off the swarming Russians and maybe just to look intimidating? So without further ado....
I figured that the barbed wire would keep off any nasty swarming hordes of Russian sappers!
The leaves are from Hudson and Allen. I thought they gave a nice colorful touch to the model. Weathering was done with Adam Wilder's new "Gunpowder" line of pigments and other washes, filters and spatter effects. I must report on he total satisfaction that I have in working with these new products. They're easy to use and the results are exactly what I wanted.
The "standing water" effect was made with Woodland Scenics' "Real Water", which is something like a clear silicone or something. I wasn't having the same luck with gloss products, although I didn't try Future. That might've worked, in layers, but this stuff from WS goes on thick and dries that way, so you don't need to build up so many tedious layers in 1/35 scale.
A shot without the turret:
The rear deck was done by putting some pigments on a wide, soft brush, and then tapping it from about 4 inches above the model, resulting in a fine dispersion pattern of pigments on the model, which were then sealed by spraying some sealer from about a foot above. I got this idea from Mike Rinaldi at AAMPS. It gives you a really fine variation in tone of the base coat.
Well, I hope you enjoy this model and this build! Lemme know what you think, honestly, about the concept? I tried to be a little imaginative, and hope that it resonates with you all.
Any questions about specific techniques or how I got this or that effect, please don't hesitate to ask--I'll try to answer all questions in a timely manner.
Thanks for looking in, and for taking time to comment!! 