"The Hunters GB" (2/1/08 to 6/1/08)

Panzerguy - that there Marder is pretty awesome! Wish I had been able to abduct you to get this one in Winter Warriors, but Tigerman got his claws in you first... Heheheheh.

The figs came out great, REALLY digging the exhaust - how'd you get the "textured" appearance on it?

Superb!

Superb, the figures really do convey a sense of sub zero with nasty wind chill.

Cheers 

Mike

Panzerguy

Love the white wash on your Marder.  Your figures are an inspiration.  They really convey the climate.  I should now it's still cold here

   Well I had all day to myself so I was able to get a bit of work done on my Marder.It's pretty much done, a few touch ups some crew equipment and replace the kit track's and it'll be ready for a small dio I have in mind.

      "Have you seen Hanz and Franz?"

Here is the latest update of my M10.  Got the interior done and weathered.  I used just he AFv PE set in this build so far.  Will be using the Armoscale brass shells for on the ready racks.  At least when I get that far.  Other than those two sets I am building OTB.  I really hate injector pin marks.  I also finished most of the lower hull.  Only have to put the suspension on.  Waiting for painting on that step. 

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Your Marder is looking great panzerguy but more then that your figurines are soo cool!
Or maybe cold
I agree with a previoues post;
Makes you shiver and feel realy sorry for the dudes

Everyone, all looking good!
Keep the progress reports and postings coming, thank You for sharing!

I have contacted Dragoncare on three occasions so far and been possitvely surprised every time.
New drawings, new parts and they even offered to replace my track set for my T1 early.
That is excellent customer care!

Svenne

Well, no pics as yet. But I got the base green on the little 1:72 Su-100. A gem of a kit.

Next up, some panel work to pop out detail.

Not much of an update with out images, sorry.

Cheers

Mike 

panzer88 wrote:

Scroll down to the bottom of the main Dragon site page, there should a link there. They are a customer service site, they help with problems like missing parts, damaged or deformed parts, etc. I've used them a couple of times in the past for issues with a couple of my kits and they were great at helping me out.

Good to know. That be cool if you could order certain parts like Magic-Tracks.

panzer88 wrote:

panzerguy- Your Marder is stunning,a real great job so far. Bummer about the tracks though.  Also awesome job on the figures, looking at them makes me feel cold.BRRRRRRRRRRRR!!! Did you try Dragoncare for the magictracks or just Dragon direct?

     Tried the Dragon site but did'nt get much, info could you tell me more about Dragoncare,is there a web site ? If all else fails looks like I might be going with Friul.

   Just found out that the model kasten track's I ordered are out of stock and the company has no idea when the'll be getting more in so I cancelled the order, real bummer would have been done by the end of the week.Been looking all over for them but it look's like everyone's out of stock even tried to see if Dragon might sell just their magic link's.If anybody know's were to get some it would be a big help.

     Bob- Thank's, glad you like it.

      panzer88-Looking real good,have you thought about an ambush pattern would look pretty good on this beast.

panzer88 wrote:

Here's the progress that I've made so far. The tracks are next. I don't know if I should stay with the single color camo or add some red brown also, what do you guys think? As I've already said before , everyone's builds are looking GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!

My opinion is not to put on the redbrown.  I like how it looks w/just the green

bobbaily wrote:

panzerguy-your Marder is OUTSTANDING.  Looking forward to the finished product. panzer88-looks great.  Very nice work. To everyone's work that I've failed to comment on-a lot of first rate builds here.  You guys are all setting the standards. Tigerman-My Marder remains unstarted.  I've managed to paint myself into a corner with three previous committments that are coming due soon.  The Tamiya kit looks to be a pain free build, but with a lot of detail and potential of doing more detailing.  It's a kit that I would like to take at least 4-5 months to work on to try to do it justice. And check out the May FSM & the article on detailing a Marder M III.  Therefore, with your permission, I would like to withdrawl the Marder and substitue a 1/48th Tamiya Hetzer (assuming that my LHS still has one sitting on the shelf ).  I'll update you with the status of my shopping adventure tomorrow. If it's not ok, then I'll revisit after I complete the 3 open builds and advise. Thanks

Sure Bob, no problem. At my pace I might be done by Christmas. LOL

panzerguy-your Marder is OUTSTANDING.  Looking forward to the finished product.

panzer88-looks great.  Very nice work.

To everyone's work that I've failed to comment on-a lot of first rate builds here.  You guys are all setting the standards.

Tigerman-My Marder remains unstarted.  I've managed to paint myself into a corner with three previous committments that are coming due soon.  The Tamiya kit looks to be a pain free build, but with a lot of detail and potential of doing more detailing.  It's a kit that I would like to take at least 4-5 months to work on to try to do it justice. And check out the May FSM & the article on detailing a Marder M III.  Therefore, with your permission, I would like to withdrawl the Marder and substitue a 1/48th Tamiya Hetzer (assuming that my LHS still has one sitting on the shelf ).  I'll update you with the status of my shopping adventure tomorrow. If it's not ok, then I'll revisit after I complete the 3 open builds and advise.

Thanks 

Geist wrote:

tigerman wrote:   Geist, looking forward to more of your excellent Hornisse.   TG, I think you're confusing me with Chris Hall and his Nashron.

Haha, whoops, my bad. Your right. Well, I look forward to yours then.

Panzer88, tough call, but I think you ought to add the red-brown. I love what you've done so far. Excellent work. Did you hard-edge?

Here's the progress that I've made so far. The tracks are next. I don't know if I should stay with the single color camo or add some red brown also, what do you guys think? As I've already said before , everyone's builds are looking GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!

NucMedTech

That'd be sweet if you could do that.  The weekend is fine, I'm not ready for exterior paint yet.  I have more parts I have to glue on first.  I also have a turrent I need to assemble.

tigerman wrote:

Geist, looking forward to more of your excellent Hornisse.

TG, I think you're confusing me with Chris Hall and his Nashron.

Superb figures, Panzerguy - the expressions especially. One day, maybe, I'll get even half as good as that.

Cheers,

Chris. 

fantacmet wrote:

This also halts another project dead in it's tracks.  I can't do the camo scheme without that gravity feed.  Unless I can find someone to loan me their gravity feed, but I ain't holding my breath.

Bummer! Mind you, some brands of airbrush, such as Badger, have side-feed cups, which, in effect, convert syphon-feeds to gravity feeds. They also have the advantage of making cleaning easier, especially between colours, and wasting less paint. Can you get a side-feed cup for your brush?

Cheers,

Chris.

Panzerguy, great figures. They will really compliment your build.

Geist, looking forward to more of your excellent Hornisse.

     Was looking at some drawing's of my Marder in one of my book's and noticed something I had'nt seen before. The travel lock has what look's like a shock absorber on it do'nt know how I missed it.The kit do'snt include this part so more scratch building.

      A couple of  pic's before and after

         Since the paint needed to set for a couple of day's and still waiting for my track's I spent some time on my fig's.

Hey Brews - hopefully this helps!