I’ve been having trouble uploading images to the forum, so rather than show you guys the excellent model of the white box, with a red x in it that some of you may have seen before I deleted it, here’s a link to another model I’m quite proud of.
http://rongeorge.com/modules/Gallery/panzer2ausf
Let me know what you think.
Mike
Here you go Mike … just a little helping hand.
Nice looking little fella’ you got here. Clean work and subtle weathering.
Thanks Robert. I appreciate the help.
Mike
I like it, nice change from Panzer IVs and Tigers.[^]
Lovely job, Mike. One of my favourite subjects. What kit did you use?
Very nice. I love the grilles, bizarrly enough 
Must get me a tank to do the camo on. I really should get my A into G…
I used the Tamiya kit. Pretty much stock. I fabricated a new antennae & mount, the muffler shroud is a piece of mylar that I punched holes in. The underside of the fenders were added. Fabricated a tow cable from 4 pieces of wire twisted up and then a tow loop was soddered with a piece of copper foil. A few extra bolt heads and voila.
Thanks for the commentary guys.
Mike
good job on the camo. i can’t do anything like that until i get rid of my piece o’ crap aztek!
hey, nice model. one ques. , did u use a aftermarket set to improve the kit?
No after market details on this kit. All stock accept some scratch built add ons. For the bolt heads on the hatches and in other places I used some stretched sprue. Rivet heads were sanded round, bolts were left as is. The sections under the fenders were add on evergreen stock. (You could actually see up into the tank from under the fenders. So those were cut to shape and then feathered to match the curves. The antenae was scraped out of the track and a new load coil was made and a piece of wire (actually from a garbage bag tie) used for the antenae. The mg barell was drilled out. The shroud over the muffler was made by taking a piece of heavy mylar and making a grid on the computer. This was run trough my laser printer and then I used a pin to punch holes at the intersection lines of the printed grid. Any “flare” from pushing the pin through was sanded off making a nice clean hole. This was superglued over the existing muffler shroud which was smooth. Tracks are the kit vinyl tracks and I spent some extra time painting and weathering them.
Tow hitch was drilled out and a new pin made and inserted.
Tamiya paints. Shot through an Aztek. 3 color pattern used in Bengasi theatre 1943.
Cader28, don’t give up on the Aztek its really not a bad airbrush.
Wash using black and dark brown acylics and then drybrush weathered with Tamiya paints and pastels chalks. Decals applied over clear. I trim them up and put clear only on the area covered by the decal. Once applied I used clear over the top to seamlessly hide the decal edges. The area is then sprayed with a dulling agent through the airbrush. The result is being able to keep the flat areas flat without having to overspray the whole model.
Mike
cool! sounds like some creative modeling, after all, any guy can go down to his hobby shop and buy every aftermarket part! i especially like the paint sheme. one more ques what kind of aztec do u use?
I have the 430 Aztek, works great. Use it for models and illustration work.
Mike