OK Wayne, I started the Sd Kfz 7/1. It looks like quite a little kit with amazing detail. Anyway here it is.
Steve
I have an update on the halftrack. I have completed everything except the gun. I have to say, I am very impressed with this kit. Who knew? If you are looking for a 1/72 Sd Kfz, don’t overlook the ROG kit. It’s going together like a Hase kit.
Steve
I decided to take a little break from the AA gun and work on the rails, so here it is.
The cork bed.
The ties added.
The ties painted.
The switch.
Steve
I moved the loco and AA gun around. The mortar will have to stay where it is. I really want some suggestions. Which one looks better? Or any other combination.
I like Bish’s idea of a Kubelwagen , it would fill an empty spot. Of course another idea would be to put the AA gun in the background and shave off another couple of inches off the front.
back from a week on holiday and getting caught up on stuff so i will have a more detailed response later. i will be posting closeups of the Silverton locomotive and some cars so you can see how sooty a locomotive gets. MC nice work on the layout. i don’t think 1/35 rails lend themselves to bending easily but will hit CABOOSE HOBBIES in town. there may be flex 1/35ish rails i could use. i would really like to have a switch in a layout in that scale.
Hey Steve
SdKfz 7 is looking good. i have really gptten into OTS scale the past year. They are faster builds but still have a lot of detail.
Durango and Silverton RR. for your weathering details.
did get back on K-5. really big parts after working on OTS SCUD and German 105mm cannon. lots of sanding so the tabs fit in the slots on the inner carriage due to priming and painting. not unexpected. did find 2 more bracers that nee filling, sanding, priming, and painting which broke up my rhythm. expect to have recoil mechanism and breech elevation mechanism installed this weekend. the primary recoil cylinder is larger than the entire OTS 105. rather pleasant working in that size.
think i will work on 3T 4x2 cargo truck in case i upload ammo from truck instead of gondola. would really like to do a 1/35 switch but that will take some serious heating and track bending. my rails aren’t as flexible as HO flrex rails.
This is all looking good. Way to go guys!
I finally have recovered enough from two months of fighting illnesses and can start posting some of my progress again. This is actually work that I got done before I got sick, but never had the chance to post until now.
I’ll start with one of the train cars I started to do before. I got the top and bottom attached and clamped it to dry:
You can also see the two turrets for this car that were assembled and sanding a bit to improve the look on them.
After it dried, I dry-fit the turrets to see how well they looked:
I still have a lot of photo etch to add to this, but first, I taped off the top and added Mr. Surfacer 500 to the joint so I can fill the joint and sand it smooth without losing all the surface detail on the top half of this train car:
And that’s all I was able to get done before I got sick. Once I get my hobby room put back together and my workbench cleared off, I’ll get started back on this project.
Thanks for looking in.
Wayne thanks for those photos, nothing like reference pics of the real thing.
Duke it’s coming along nicely, you arent the only one with setbacks, I just cant get ahead on anything. Still cant get over that green plastic, looks so foreign and Soviet.
Terry
Thanks Jibber! I have more progress to show, now that my Hobby Room is back in shape.
I got the main engine of one of my Russian armored trains finished with all the main parts on it:
This engine is now ready for all the Photo-etch that goes on it. You can see how happy he is to be getting the Photo-etch soon:
Here’s a shot of the rest of the train all ready for the photo etch:
That’s all I have for now. I might be able to get the photo-etch on next week. Stay tuned!
Here’s a small tease of the Morser diorama. I still have to complete the Kublewagen to finish the scene. The group just received orders from the commander and are discussing the plan of action. The dog and guy on the locomotive are engaged in a stair down as another of the loco crew is checking out the loco’s brakes. Although he’s hard to see, the locomotive engineer is standing on the cab platform waiting for the meeting to end.
The Sargent leaning on the halftrack and Private are shooting the breeze as the rest of the halftrack crew are getting ready to move out.
Anyway, that’s how I see it.
Steve
Steve thats looking fantastic, the figures are great. Wow I love the weathering and your the best at tarps, no doubt.
Terry
Nice teaser. May I suggest moving the dog closer to the guy on the train? I almost didn’t see the stare down until you mentioned it. The rest is brilliant and a testament to your skills. Way to go!
Thanks Duke,
I’ll move the dog a little, actually it doesn’t look like the dog is looking at the guy, but looking more to the guy’s left,
Terry,
thanks, I love doing tarps, I started fashioning them after I saw a Shep Payne dio decades ago and was hooked on them. It was the P-61 dio if memory serves.
Here’s my wee little Kublewagen. I built it in about 30 min, but it seems more like a 1/85 scale than a 1/72. Oh well, I’ll get it together and see if it looks out of place in the dio.
Cool tiny kit though.
Steve
Sounds good MC. I’ll be looking forward to seeing the changes.
Good news: I got all these so I could finish my two Russian Armored Trains. These are models I’d ordered some time ago. My friend Dave was holding them until I got paid and then could pay him. These are the basic flatbeds first:
Followed by two cars with AA gun towers on them and two others carrying a truck, a gun and a tank:
Now I can really finish those Russian trains right!
Okay, that’s all I have for today, so stay tuned. I’m hoping to start on a few of those flatbed cars tomorrow.
Today I got to the workbench and got started on those train flatcars like I wanted. Here’s my latest progress on everything today.
First off, I hate when they make the sprue gates so big like this that they fill up the channel where the wheel is supposed to sit on the rails:
I was working on two flatcars; one long and one short. I had to clean eight of those wheels! What a PITA!
After doing all of those and getting the wheels and axles assembled, I built up the rest of the flatcars. These are by no means done; I have a lot of detail parts to add to these, as well as the side rails. However, you can see here the basic look of these little cars.
Here’s the short one:
And this is the long one:
There are four parts to that long flatbed that had to be glued flat. I’m still not sure I succeeded. Oh well, this one is done so far.
After all that, I’d had enough of UM’s trains so I took a break to work on some other stuff.
Okay, that’s all I got done so far today on my trains. Tomorrow promised to be just as open for working on my Hobby so this time, I think I’ll fire up the compressor and start shooting some paint. So stay tuned, more to come.
Meanwhile, comments are always welcome, thanks for looking in.
I finally completed the Mortar diorama last night. I could keep adding more and more, but I have other things to do. I do need to put a label on it still, but that will take a minute.
Lots of pics so be prepared.
As always, comments and critiques welcome.
Steve
Steve as always a fabuous job and one to be proud of. I love it that theres at least a few of us that enjoy RR builds, personally I think it makes for a lot of Diorama subjects and cool bases.
This is a build that we are proud to display on the front page for all to see, and I know I speak for Wayne too but I’m sure he’ll have some words here soon. We may not have had the most entrys but I think I can say we had some very interesting subjects with no shortage of blood, sweat and tears.
Thanks Steve for your efforts,
Terry
Hypertex had a critical issue with his Stephenson Rocket, too bad because that was one I really wanted to see in a kit. So I went out and ordered one to give it a try. I hope to have it done by years end unless I run into those same warpage issues. Its way too cool not to have one included here.
Terry