I’m building this kit for the "Panzerjaeger Group Build " of Erics . I already have about a months worth of work into this so this will be a catch up thred to get to where i am as of now , which is just getting into the exterior painting .
Its an old kit with some pit falls , like sink holes right where you dont want them !
The interior needed some help and correction so i did some basic scratch building .The kit provides a table like gun stand but i didnt find that in my research so i changed it . I failed to get a picture of the kit part before i hacked it apart but here is a picture of it in the instructions .
I used variouse shapes of Evergreen styrene to rebuild the stand .
There was a storage compartment under the gun stand that was missing from the kit so i made mine from some scrap phone system push bottons as a starting point and went from there .
I’ll stop here for now so i dont burn anyone out trying to look at to many pictures . i’ll be back tomorrow.
Well …this will probably open up a can of worms . I researched and with the info i found it looked like the interior/exterior was painted a red primer and then the exterior and the area inside the upper side panels and sometimes the gun breach assembly painted Dunkelgelb .
Ok , thats my answer and i’m sticking to it …until convinced other wise .[prte]
I’m basing my paint scheme on a late 1944 vehicle that was painted primer red at the factory with a overspray of Dunkelgelb and some Olivgrun and Rotbraun sprayed over that for a good looking camo scheme , imo .
I picked up this kit for $5 a while back, but have yet to build it… I’ll definitely keep watchin this thread to see what else ye do, as I really like your scratchbuilding on the sub-parr interior… can’t wait to see the rest of this build!
Looks like you’re dressing up the older kit nicely Carl! While the Italeri offering has been superseded by the DML kit in terms of modern molding quality and level of detail, the older kit will still build up with some TLC. Looking forward to the next round of updates! [B]
Thanks Bill ! I didnt start this project with the idea of spending much time on it but the interior was so far off i decided to add to it .
I added some detail to the gun and shield .
There is a shelf for the radio on the left of the gun mount and a compartment on the right side of the mount that were missing .No gear shift levers were provided so i made mine from copper wire with a couple of dabs of CA on the tip of each lever to form the knob .The interior is painted red primer .
Of course there was no radio so i scratced one and added a microphone . .
The finders on and wheels on temporary .I know the interior looks brown …must be my lighting .The top and bottom hull halves were a bad fit and had to be glued one side at a time to get everything lined up . I used CA (super glue) to speed up the process.
coming out nice, Shell… also checked over at the GB… I’m confused… 2 different vehicles or one vehicle at 2 different levels of completeness?.. in any case, nice.
I would also be very hesitant to spray an over all dusting on any model i may have built… just not my style…you got guts !
You’re a man of many talents Carl…you’ve managed to change a WW2 German armored car into a Cold War Russian jet using only your airbrush! [proplr] Like the direction you’re headed in with the three-tone pattern, very nice. [B]
