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1:72 Sd.Kfz. 251 Half track collection - completed!

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  • Member since
    May 2009
  • From: Poland
Posted by Pawel on Monday, February 5, 2018 3:34 PM

Hello!

Gamera - thanks a lot for your kind words! This kit sure has a level of detail that 1/35 models once used to have. I'm glad you like it!

RX7850 - Those Dragon 1:72 half tracks are really nice, so it was a good decision to stash them. I really had to look hard to find my kit and it was hidden in a dark corner of a warehouse somewhere in the rural Germany! I mean literally!

Have a nice day

Paweł

All comments and critique welcomed. Thanks for your honest opinions!

www.vietnam.net.pl

  • Member since
    May 2009
  • From: Poland
Posted by Pawel on Sunday, April 22, 2018 11:57 AM

Hello!

Took a lot of time, but I tried to paint camo on my D Ausf. Hanomag. Setting up my airbrush for such a thin line took a lot of tweaking, but here are the results:

1:72 Dragon Sd. Kfz. 251/1 Ausf. D by Pawel

1:72 Dragon Sd. Kfz. 251/1 Ausf. D by Pawel

1:72 Dragon Sd. Kfz. 251/1 Ausf. D by Pawel

I hope you like them - thanks for reading and have a nice day

Paweł

All comments and critique welcomed. Thanks for your honest opinions!

www.vietnam.net.pl

  • Member since
    August 2012
  • From: Parker City, IN.
Posted by Rambo on Sunday, April 22, 2018 12:05 PM
Looks great to me Pawel

Clint

  • Member since
    May 2009
  • From: Poland
Posted by Pawel on Sunday, April 22, 2018 5:02 PM

Hello!

Thanks a lot for your kind words! I'm glad you like it. Meanwhile, on the Polish forum I got comments like "Tragedy!", "You'd been better off leaving it Dunkelgelb" and "Should be repainted ASAP". Just goes to show you different points of view...

While I see the faults of this paint job I rather like it, so I'm really glad I'm not alone!

Best greetings and have a nice day

Paweł

All comments and critique welcomed. Thanks for your honest opinions!

www.vietnam.net.pl

  • Member since
    August 2012
  • From: Parker City, IN.
Posted by Rambo on Sunday, April 22, 2018 6:02 PM
It's a small scale that makes it harder to begin with plus most of the real ones was painted in the field by 20 year olds in a hurry with things like a rag on a stick or a mop if lucky maybe close to a panzer IV or a tiger with a air compressor and spray gun.

Clint

  • Member since
    November 2009
  • From: SW Virginia
Posted by Gamera on Monday, April 23, 2018 11:49 AM

Rambo
It's a small scale that makes it harder to begin with plus most of the real ones was painted in the field by 20 year olds in a hurry with things like a rag on a stick or a mop if lucky maybe close to a panzer IV or a tiger with a air compressor and spray gun.
 

 

Yeah, I wouldn't worry about it too much. Nice work! 

"I dream in fire but work in clay." -Arthur Machen

 

  • Member since
    May 2009
  • From: Poland
Posted by Pawel on Tuesday, April 24, 2018 2:12 PM

Clint, Gamera - thanks a lot for your kind words! While I see the faults of my paint job and I'll try to do even better next time, the aura of negativity on the Polish forum bothers me a bit. I for myself am quite satisfied with what I've got and I don't think I could easily repaint it to be better this time. Like I wrote, that's not to say it's perfect now -there's still room for improvement and I'll try to improve - some day.

Thanks for reading and have a nice day

Paweł

All comments and critique welcomed. Thanks for your honest opinions!

www.vietnam.net.pl

  • Member since
    March 2007
  • From: Northeast WA State
Posted by armornut on Tuesday, April 24, 2018 2:34 PM

Pawel, "lather, rinse, repeat" the only way to master something is to continue to do the work and learn from the boo boos. I don't see anything that can't be fixed, or left as is because YOU like it.

    I applaud folks who use an airbrush on 1/72 stuff, I muff up 35th and bigger, I would LOVE to hear the trash talk about my 72nd attempt LOL.

   Your happy, I think they look great. Keep it up sir.

we're modelers it's what we do

  • Member since
    December 2012
Posted by RX7850 on Tuesday, April 24, 2018 6:52 PM

Pawel

Hello!

Thanks a lot for your kind words! I'm glad you like it. Meanwhile, on the Polish forum I got comments like "Tragedy!", "You'd been better off leaving it Dunkelgelb" and "Should be repainted ASAP". Just goes to show you different points of view...

While I see the faults of this paint job I rather like it, so I'm really glad I'm not alone!

Best greetings and have a nice day

Paweł

 

I like your paint job. And so long as you like it who cares  about those arragant comments from that forum. Those are the type of personalities that annoy me about this hobby. Looking forward to seeing it done .

  • Member since
    August 2012
  • From: Parker City, IN.
Posted by Rambo on Tuesday, April 24, 2018 10:27 PM
Rx is right don't worry about what others say about it if your happy that's all that matters. I stopped posting on another site because of a mostly airplane modeler who use to also be on this site and run his own would not stop harassing me over a tiger I built from a SS division. I guess I should of been ashamed of myself for modeling a SS subject and I wasn't the only one he was harassing too, mods never done anything so I just left that was like 5 years ago. This site has always been very friendly and I only post here now.

Clint

  • Member since
    May 2009
  • From: Poland
Posted by Pawel on Wednesday, May 2, 2018 10:47 AM

RX7850, Clint - thanks a lot for your encouragement. I don't say you should only be nice all the time. I'm aware my camo could be better and it will be, I'm going to work on it. I'm just a bit amazed by this total negativity my fellow Polish modellers have shown me.

In the meantime I have completed the Ausf. D. Here's what it looks like:

1:72 Dragon Sd. Kfz. 251/1 Ausf. D by Pawel

1:72 Dragon Sd. Kfz. 251/1 Ausf. D by Pawel

1:72 Dragon Sd. Kfz. 251/1 Ausf. D by Pawel

1:72 Dragon Sd. Kfz. 251/1 Ausf. D by Pawel

1:72 Dragon Sd. Kfz. 251/1 Ausf. D by Pawel

1:72 Dragon Sd. Kfz. 251/1 Ausf. D by Pawel

1:72 Dragon Sd. Kfz. 251/1 Ausf. D by Pawel

1:72 Dragon Sd. Kfz. 251/1 Ausf. D by Pawel

And this completes my collection - heres how my babies look like together:

1:72  Sd. Kfz. 251 collection  by Pawel

1:72  Sd. Kfz. 251 collection  by Pawel

Thanks for looking, I hope you liked it - have a nice day

Paweł

All comments and critique welcomed. Thanks for your honest opinions!

www.vietnam.net.pl

  • Member since
    November 2009
  • From: SW Virginia
Posted by Gamera on Wednesday, May 2, 2018 11:19 AM

Looks pretty friggin' good to me! 

Nice work!!! 

"I dream in fire but work in clay." -Arthur Machen

 

  • Member since
    August 2012
  • From: Parker City, IN.
Posted by Rambo on Wednesday, May 2, 2018 11:45 AM
She looks right at home with the others. That pioneer is really nice looking I keep wanting to do that camo scheme on something. Also completed? You have about 15 other variants to do for it to be a complete set lol.

Clint

  • Member since
    May 2015
Posted by Griffin25 on Wednesday, May 2, 2018 1:02 PM

Those all look super Pawel. Really nicely done. Great lineup. 

 

 

Griffin

  • Member since
    May 2009
  • From: Poland
Posted by Pawel on Wednesday, May 2, 2018 1:52 PM

Gamera, Clint, Griffin - thanks a lot for your kind words!

Clint - I wasn't building every possible variand as in /something here, I believe that could take a lifetime or more! I only wanted to have a comparison between the Ausf's. And I didn't build the Ausf. B because I thought there just weren't enough differences between it and the Ausf. A. But now I can see and show the progression from A, to C, to D, and that was what I wanted to do!

Thanks again and have a nice day

Paweł

All comments and critique welcomed. Thanks for your honest opinions!

www.vietnam.net.pl

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