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

Good job for the figures Chris, they will look great with the Nashorn.

Question:  Is there supposed to be a vision block of some sort in these covers?  (see the circle in red in the picuture.)

If so, what color do you paint them?  Flat black?  Clear Green??

Jester75 wrote:

Did we ever determine if any of the AM barrels would fit the Tamiya Jagdpanzer??

Jester,

I never figured it out.  I just sanded and puttied the heck out of the one that I had, and then made sure that I put camo on the barrel to make it visually confusing. 

And finally, to ensure coverage of one pesky seam, I added the decal kill rings over the top of the seam.  And Voila!  A halfway decent barrel.   (though not a decent picture!)

Well, that's the hard way out of it :) Nothing wrong with hard work!

It looks good, too. Did you rifle the barrel?

DerOberst wrote:

Question:  Is there supposed to be a vision block of some sort in these covers?  (see the circle in red in the picuture.) If so, what color do you paint them?  Flat black?  Clear Green??

Brews wrote:

Is anybody doing this?

If anyone is thinking about doing the Jagdpanzer Kanone, it might be an idea to wait until later in the year. Revell Germany are spposed to be bringing out a new-mould kit in 1/35.

Meanwhile back on the Nashorn, things are beginning to come together. I've dry-brushed light brown and pale tan colours to give it a 'used' look, and graphite powder to areas where the paint has worn off. I've also dry-brushed the areas of the tracks which would receive most wear with dull metallic colours, and gone over the tips of the guide horns with a silver gel pen. It looks a bit bright at the moment, but I'm expecting that further weathering will tone this down.

Earlier this morning I cemented the major sub-assemblies together. Here are piccies of the interior of the fighting comparment:

and gun breech detail:

Assembling the fighting compartment front armour after installing the gun showed poor fit (probably my fault) so I filled the gaps with white glue, so as not to damage the existing paintwork:

When this has dried, I'll spray the seams with Mattcote, and dry-brush the surrounding area with suitable colours so as to blend everything in. Thenit'll be on to weathering, which I'll be restricting to light mud and earth oversprays of the lower hull and running gear, and then some weathering powders in suitable places.

Cheers,

Chris.

Chris,

I really like the weathered look you have achived. Also as you allready stated, those shells came out very nice.
Will be interesting to see how that white glue fix turnes out, I have never used it but it looks very promising! 

Thank You for posting :)
Johan

Brews wrote:

It looks good, too. Did you rifle the barrel?

Brews,

Of course.   I used some 60 grit sandpaper rolled up tight. Then I removed pieces of grit at small intervals around this ersatz sanding stick. I turned the paper in and out of the barrel at exactly the same angle.  After about 18 hours of this I had managed to bore out the barrel to a depth of 3.175".  Then I realized that as a lefty I was turning my hand the wrong way and all the grooves and lands run the wrong way!

So I filled it in with putty and just painted it flat black.

..Or maybe I just made that up and just painted it black in the first place. I forget which.

You should have a periscope in there, http://tiger1.info/EN/VerticalPeriscope.html gives you an idea about how this looked on a Tiger.
The interesting thing here is that the periscope housing actually was brown Bakelite.

Hope this helps
Johan

Geist wrote:

Tigerman, mind if I join the build? I've got a DML Hornisse I just picked up at a show today.

Absolutely. I think this pushes our number to 42 members. Wow. I'd like to get some work done, but have been distacted by a leak in the main waterline. Fortunately it was outside near the meter box. A teeny little hole leaked like a seave. It now appears fixed. Hope to be back in action Monday or Tuesday. So far work has been slow.

Excellent work so far Chris. Love the weathering.

Specter, whose Jagdpanther did you get?

tigerman wrote:

Geist wrote: Tigerman, mind if I join the build? I've got a DML Hornisse I just picked up at a show today. Absolutely. I think this pushes our number to 42 members. Wow. I'd like to get some work done, but have been distacted by a leak in the main waterline. Fortunately it was outside near the meter box. A teeny little hole leaked like a seave. It now appears fixed. Hope to be back in action Monday or Tuesday. So far work has been slow.   Specter, whose Jagdpanther did you get?

Thanks Tigerman. I've been working on the Hornisse so much it may be ready for paint tomorrow. Spectre got the DML from the mid 90's. He got it at the same show I was at.

mg42gunner wrote:

I think around march when I go buy my next batch of models a TD will be in there, mayby an M10 or a jagdpanzer IV. So Id like to join this GB sometime in the future. Also, I figured I might ask just for the heck of it, but can I join in with my DML JSU-122? Its a bit late in the process, mostly all of the construction is finished (just need to attach the tools and small boxes) and everything;s been given the russian green basecoat, and I have to glue together the hull halfves. I think its probably too late in the process, but I figured I would ask anyways just in case. Great job to all of the other builds here, they all look fantastic!

Yeah, it sounds a bit too progressed. You still have plenty of time to get either of the other two kits.

mg42gunner wrote:

Alrighty, thats cool. Ill try to pick one of the other two up soon. Every group build you seem to make tigerman turns out really well!

Awe shucks. It's the participants that make it all worth it.

I figured I would show some progress on my Marder.....

I hope that ya'll can see this as I am painting and weathering it as I go alone ....Digger

Slow progress, but I've been sick with the flu.

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PANZERJEAGER 

  Got some work done on my Marder III over the past week inspite of this flu bug.

    I had planned on doing this oob but the kit was missing a few detail's so I added some using some thin brass sheet and wire.

    This is the deck mounted mp40 rack that I also made from brass. The kit one was molded to the mp and since I plan on having it hanging from one of the seat's I had to make another one.Still need to add the snap clamp's.

     One of the reason's I do'nt like band track's is that the guide teeth are alway's solid. I drilled the's out then using a new #11 blade very carefully carved them out.

   I've got about eight hour's into this so far, I'll be starting on the gun and sheild this week.I'll keep ya posted.  Later, Panz.

Some great looking progress here, everyone!

Construction on my Jagdpanzer was done until the cat got into my modeling room and knocked the fenders off. So now I have a little more work to do before I start with paint

Well, folks, I am close to calling this one complete.   Here are some close-to-final pictures.

(this means, of course, I think I am done, but will have to fix whatever glaring errors and hacks that you guys point out!!)

As usual, comments and critiques very welcome.

Thanks for looking!! 

Wow DerOberst, I've barely finished the lower hull on my Jagdpanzer IV and you finished. Granted every piece of mine is an ordeal to clean. I just need to work continuously on her.

I really like the tow-cable and the faded camoflauge. You've made a case to put on the schurzen on my Jagd.

Panzerguy, nice work on the PE. Small stuff.

 here are a few of my Hetzer, it not gotten a wash, decals, dry brushing, or pastels yet 1/48th scale