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1/35 Jagdpanzer IV L/70, 3rd PLACE. State IPMS

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  • From: Puebla, Mexico
Posted by garzonh on Thursday, June 18, 2015 7:57 AM

Rbaer, thank you,yes it really modifies the color, very forgiving technique.

feldgrau23, thank you...do you have a post here on that AA gun?

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Posted by feldgrau23 on Wednesday, June 17, 2015 6:07 PM

Great looking build garz!!!! that dot technique is the bomb. I tried it on a quad 20mm AA gun shield and what a difference it made. in the look of the shields. Again great work!!!

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Posted by garzonh on Tuesday, June 16, 2015 9:08 PM

Hi

So, this is weathering stage 1, of about 20...LOL Whistling

So far I added a more faded look and worn out, I need to finish it and then move in to chipping and other damag, dust, oil, diesel stains, figures. Still need to add stowage, and other things I have in mind.

Here so far:

No, thats not the dio setting..hehehe..  Geeked

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Posted by RBaer on Tuesday, June 16, 2015 1:48 PM

Looking suitably nasty, well done.

I still have yet to try oils, but I think the time is coming.....

Apprentice rivet counter.

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  • From: Tumwater, WA.
Posted by M. Brindos on Monday, June 15, 2015 1:25 AM

Good tutorial and that effect is great. This is one of my new favorite techniques as well.  :)

- Mike Brindos "Lost Boy"

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Posted by garzonh on Sunday, June 14, 2015 4:09 PM

Hi guys,

Ok,so finally I fnished the tracks, I still have a lot of issues with individual links, plus trying to put them with the side panel holders glued was nightmare and the tracks started braking into smaller links!! Angry This kits has tons of fitting issues.

OK, so put them on, and added my muddy, slushy recipe...currently is over done, but I will scrap off some of it to level it ou. My mush, has dirt, plaster with enamel color, bits and pieces of dry tall grass and roots. Applied to all the tracks, some darker pigments sprinkled on it and splattered with airbrush.

Finally started my filtering technique.. Not sure if this is the pro and correct way, but it works for me and gives a real sense of dirt and other stains to my model.  Smile

1) Add very small dots of artist oils all over on side. In this case I use some colors similar to the cammo and lighter colors on top and darker on lower parts. I use very few with reds and greens

2) With a small moisted flat brush pull the paint down, colors will mix by themselves. Dont worry, initially looks like a mess.

3) Just clean the brush, and keep pulling down, use some turpentine very lightly. Apply less and less force on the hand when pulling.

4) Not bad!! ehh... Geeked oils are very forigiving, if you dont like it, just clean it up and start over. In my case I wanted more "white" stains and make the German cross look like fading and. So added more white here and there.

5) Now pull down again, I like the different stains..and how it looks like. It has to be subtle, your eye can perceive that the color is not all flat and dirt, dust and even dove poop stained it.

6) Finally I use a clean, dry big flat aribrush and just lighty I mean LIGHTLY even everything by pulling down and sideways, it takes out that "down" painting.

7)  Here it is! 

I did the same on the front of the turret, the left side is treated while the right is just clean. The change in color is subtle but gives some sense of dirt and use.

Hope it is useful for some of you.

Hugo  Yes

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Posted by garzonh on Saturday, June 6, 2015 7:01 PM

Hi Bish!!

Yep, a very artistic license I gave to myself on the cammo.

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Posted by garzonh on Saturday, June 6, 2015 7:01 PM

Thanks Tojo.

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Posted by garzonh on Saturday, June 6, 2015 7:00 PM

Feldgrau23,  thanks for your commetns and appreciation.

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Posted by garzonh on Saturday, June 6, 2015 6:59 PM

Mike B., yes, came out better than I thought, specially since it was freehand, it is nerve wrecking to thing you might get a paint blob or something else.

In fact I have not made any weathering to it.

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Posted by garzonh on Saturday, June 6, 2015 6:54 PM

Thanks Karl, yep, I guess some crews will use whatever they thought would give them that extra luck to survive...

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Posted by Bish on Saturday, June 6, 2015 4:39 PM

That looks good, nice variation of the ambush scheme.

I am a Norfolk man and i glory in being so

 

On the bench: Airfix 1/72nd Harrier GR.3/Fujimi 1/72nd Ju 87D-3

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Posted by Tojo72 on Saturday, June 6, 2015 4:29 PM

Hey real nice work on that camo scheme.

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Posted by feldgrau23 on Saturday, June 6, 2015 10:40 AM

your paint job on this is great. Very nicely done!!

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Posted by M. Brindos on Friday, June 5, 2015 3:22 PM

This is good stuff. The camo is really well done and the weathering is still on the light side ;) lol

- Mike Brindos "Lost Boy"

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Posted by the doog on Friday, June 5, 2015 6:58 AM

That looks nice, Hugo. That scheme is plausible--there were a lot of one-offs and even some weird schemes dreamed up by crews on StuGs and other vehicles that you can catch here and there in photos.

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Posted by garzonh on Thursday, June 4, 2015 7:08 PM

Ok, so after some time.... Sleep

I finally have most of the tank built...Im looking to add tons of stuff over and sides of it. Im still working on the tracks, and I will also add figures and of course a dio. So still lot to come.

I painted the cammo free hand and added a lighter, very thinned and sprayed far away to tie everything. I hand painted the "triangles" to break the cammo effect. Not sure if this was actually used but looks cool. Cool

Of course there will be some weathering, hopefully not too much, I always get carried away. I will try to tie my hands... Whistling

Here it is:

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Posted by garzonh on Monday, May 18, 2015 9:24 AM

Reaper420, thank you. Yes, this is nice tank, not the kit, had tons of fitting issues.

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Posted by garzonh on Monday, May 18, 2015 9:23 AM

Bish, I was able to fill in the gaps...so so...but anyway this areas will be filled with mud, or dirt, or something...

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Posted by garzonh on Monday, May 18, 2015 9:22 AM

Jack, you are completely right!!... With StupidBang Head

Anyway I had a nice foundation to put the missing part in...

Thanks again.

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  • From: Bay Area, CA
Posted by Reaper420 on Friday, May 15, 2015 4:51 PM
Looking good so far. I've considered buying either a Jagdpanzer or a Stug III for a tank hunter. I just bought a Tiger VI (P) that's on deck. I love that tank especially the L/70 gun.

Kick the tires and light the fires!

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Posted by Bish on Friday, May 15, 2015 3:09 PM

Some nasty gaps there, but I think your getting the better of it.

I am a Norfolk man and i glory in being so

 

On the bench: Airfix 1/72nd Harrier GR.3/Fujimi 1/72nd Ju 87D-3

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  • From: ON, Canada
Posted by jgeratic on Friday, May 15, 2015 9:58 AM

This kit looks to be the same as the one I recently did.  I too had some gap on the sides by the drive sprockets, but not as bad as you have pictured here.  The rear gap, check your instructions in step 22 for part no.  D7

regards,

Jack

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Posted by garzonh on Friday, May 15, 2015 7:29 AM

Almost forgot...

It seems this tank design was succesful they kept on improving and build it in modern times..here are some pics... of 1992!!!

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  • From: Puebla, Mexico
Posted by garzonh on Friday, May 15, 2015 7:10 AM

Hammer time...Music  sorry...wrong tape...  update time...

Ok, so the fit of this kit is far than perfect. I had tons of trouble "marrying" the uppper and lower hull. As much as I tried there were huge gaps, and I did had to use a lot of my dremmel to sand a lot of the inside walls of the upper hull to make it fit...still had major gaps.Super Angry

I added a lot of putty and it will take me days to sand it out, plus the place I had to add it, makes it more difficult to polish out.Censored

Oh well, so I just had to sand out this and then move to the painting...and dio setting.

Oh yes, and almost forgot...I need to work on the individual links.... which will take me weeks...Confused at my pace.. so yes, a weekend build, is a 2 month project for me...  

Im thinking of a dio...which if and thats a BIG if, should come out nice...have a great idea but still having the squirrell in my head working out the details...so we will see..

As always, thanks for stopping by and above all I appreciate your comments and suggestions.

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Posted by garzonh on Monday, May 11, 2015 2:33 PM

heheh...no trouble I'm actually doinig the long barrel without zimmerit... THANKS!!

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Posted by jgeratic on Monday, May 11, 2015 1:42 PM

It can get confusing, because both the short gun version (L/48) and long gun (L70) had changes incorporated during production that could further classify them into early or late models. The main ones that both shared:


Early:

- zimmerit

- 4 return rollers

- single muffler

Late:

- no zimmerit

- 3 return rollers

- dual mufflers

-  front pair all steel road wheels (L/70 version)

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In the Wydawnictwo Militaria publication, the book deals with just the short gun version, and in chart form presents deliveries of this vehicle.   The 11th Panzer Div. took two separate deliveries in November of 1944, with 14 units arriving on the 11th, and another 6 on the 20th.

So if you want to build the short gun without zim, it is historically possible, and there would be no need to play the 'artistic license' card.

regards,

Jack

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Posted by garzonh on Monday, May 11, 2015 1:29 PM

Fixed the title of the post...thanks again.

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Posted by Bish on Monday, May 11, 2015 1:19 PM

No worries, and there is an easy way to tell which is which. The L/48 and L/70 refer to the length of the barrel. L/70 = longer barrel.

I am a Norfolk man and i glory in being so

 

On the bench: Airfix 1/72nd Harrier GR.3/Fujimi 1/72nd Ju 87D-3

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  • From: Puebla, Mexico
Posted by garzonh on Monday, May 11, 2015 1:17 PM

OOOOhhhhh.... Im then building the later version!.  OopsBang Head

Thank you Bish Bow Down

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