WIP

 

1/35, 1/48, 1/72.  

 

 

 

Seamlines and pain. 

 

Almost like in 1/35, but less parts  

 

And almost no visuability 

Main crane section is growing 

Looks similar 

 

One column finished 

 

 

Incorrect details in plastic. Actually, one column should have all bars, the other - none. It was a built-in ladder for maintenance. 

 

 

I used plastic cement to fix decals
 

 

 

 

 

I added some pipes and roughly depicted fan shafts, because I was annoyed by the presence of holes for them in the side walls of the armored hull 

Shots before gluing engine in place 

 

 

 

 

All subassemblies except projectile tips
 

 

 

Magnets for hull  

Magnets for busket and new support for commander`s cupola to make it openable and not falling 

How to place 4x1mm magnets for adaptor and turret  

Added thin cable  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And that`s all for now! Much fun to build, lot`s of details to glue, time to rest now, lol  

Finally tried to spray Tamiya Surface Primer. Could skipped this step to have more crisp details, but whatever. Did a test with small leftover decals beforehand, but it would be easier if they actually provided spare pattern parts, not just logo.  

Wheels are not glued, but almost all the interior is. Still think it`ll be easier that way than dealing with scratches later. Ammo racks and hatches were fixed with patafix while priming so I won`t have additional layer of primer between parts.  

Not much progress this week. Base tone for Cremeweiss. Mr Color C69 + C39 

And highlights for it. C69 + GX1 + C318 

 

Probably not contact enough, will see after red. 

Lots of masking.... 

 

Grey color will be done with brush. Will be much faster. 

So for base color I used mix of C131, C318, GX1, GX3. Hard to tell the proportions. 

And for highlights a.k.a. main color it was mostly C318, GX3 and C526. And few drops of GX1. The Tiger is for comparison with Ammo Mig's red from interior set. Interesting choice, but too orange I guess. 

Hoped to paint grey for engine with airbrush fast. Worked, but still need some fixes with brush. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Next step is to paint details with a brush! The transmission, radios, green and black parts. And also ammo racks with airbrush (no masks this time!). And some effects! 

Black, grey and green. 

They say you can paint anything you can see on miniatures. Guess this is true: you can paint all visible torsion bars. 

More black, more grey, a little of green, silver and gunmetal. Also fixed red and white. 

 

 

 

 

Only ammo and radiators are left for airbrushing. Optics and machine guns also need some finishing touches. Probably I won't add chipping to the interior because of high density of details, but at least I'll add some dust later. 

Start of the worst part: ammo. Was it worth time masking at the end? Ehhh 

Some problems with silver, but not bad! 

Ehhh, the central ammo rack didn't receive enough orange clear 

Tips and their guiding rings. Probably those should be of steel color, but I have no intentions to redo them. 

What`s left here is to add decals and some dust 

I don't know how Ammo Mig continues making small mistakes with those color guides. They did them for lots of panther and tiger kits, but still... Even front and behind renders are not exactly matched (if you look at transmission colors, some parts are grey or red on front shot, and not those colors on behind shot) 

The problems with this particular guide are at least those:
1) You don't have clear views of transmission colors from both angles, what are red mountings and control rods, and what are not
2) How do the radios look?
3) Where are the med kits?
4) How does the turret look from below? 2 shots and no angle with stuff under seats!
5) Does engine cooling all red? Won't fans be sprayed with dark yellow with the hull?
6) What are those black boxes on the sides near front? Another periscopes?
7) How exactly does the ammo look? Did you notice that there are 3 types of ammo tips here? 

 

 

 

 

Dark yellow C39, highlights: C39+C69 + GX1 

Magnets still work