Hi chaps, I would like to show you my E100 build that took in Trumpeter’s E-100 and E-100 Jagdpanzer.
both use the kit guns as I couldn’t find an AM aluminium replacement and the E-100 has Friul tracks while the E-100 Jagdpanzer has the rubber band style kit tracks.
Friul tracks. They have a base that you buld small sections on.
E-100 turret. Ready to go back into the paint shop. This is my first build using an airbrush!!!
This is the completed Jagdpanzer. I sprayed all over with Tamiya TS3 Dark Yellow
Jagdpanzer and E100 upper hull. You can see the difference between the Tamiya and the Vallejo. The Vallejo is the After Pattern dark yellow. Tamiya’s TS2 is more of the initial 1943 dark yellow.
Running gear done
Tracks built and fitted! Phew! lots of work, but look good!
Mesh screens added.
looking more like a tank
Time to go outside and do some photos in proper natural light.
Ok, back into the paint shop fir final paint job and finishing.
Final photos taken outside on a nice bright clear day.
And now a final photo showing just why you should never trust anyone who can tell colours from a black and white period photo.
The photo has been altered in photoshop to accurately recreate a properly taken WWII photo using filters to recreate the greyscale used in German film. We all know that the colours varied from batch to batch and manufacturer and also with the medium used to thin down the paste prior to application. IMHO anyone who can look at the photo and then at a chip card and say that this one is the yellow is telling a big whopper!
I found the metal barrel for my E100 on line at SpruBrpthers made by Barrel Depot as far as I can tell it’s the same barrel the Maus uses. I hope mine comes together as good as yours good job. ACESES5[2cnts]
The first thing that hits me is that I would definitely have painted the silvery tracks on the E100. They just don’t look realistic. You should at least try to hit them with a good strong wash of raw umber to darken and weather them. Same as the ones on the turret. They would be a dark brown or light rust color, without question.
Also, these are such large tanks that you would really do them justice by weathering them. In this plain paint, they can look a little “toy like”. I would recommend at least some pin washes in raw umber, and some streaks perhaps. I"d also dirty up the suspension and tracks----behemoths like this didn’t exactly “ride high” on the ground.
Also, the Jagdpanzer is more accurate as far as they DY goes. There are well-known color shots of tanks in DY from early and late periods, and they show that DY usually always appeared as a light tan. That Vallejo paint is really way too yellowish for my tastes. If anything, I’d mix that with some gray for a truer tone.
I haven’t got a clue about washes and things like that and am only just getting into airbrushing with a cheap one.
This is my attempt with an airbrush and as I slowly gain experience I can’t see why I didn’t make the transition ages ago!!! silly me!!!
The Dark Yellow on the E-100 is actually the Vallejo Primer one and I will be getting the Vallejo Model air one shortly. I have the Model Colour Dunkelgelb 1943 in my box (71081) and will be using that on my next build.
Incidentally, the Vallejo primer does match the Dunkelgelb Nach Muster original chip reference and Vallejo’s Panzer Ochre 1943 matches the original 1943 Chip refeference!
I am currently fighting with Academy’s TIger I early with interior which is being painted with Afrika Corps RAL 8020 and disruptive pattern RAL 7027 (HM 1942, Nr. 315 of 25.03.1942)
This is getting fruil tracks and RB barrel and I will be painting the tracks with a primer and then just a plain steel colour, to mimic the abraisiveness of the sand.
