Sturer Emil Finished

Modeling Subjects Armor
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After letting this model sit on the shelf for a while, I finally took it out and finished it up, making this model #5 for me. The slow pace is due to alot of school work lately, and I havent had much time to work on models. Overall, I liked the kit alot, it was well worth the 20$ price, and there were no fit problems for me. I also really liked how trumpeter made the sub-assemblies in this kit, and I was able to leave them all seperarte untill the very end, which allowed me to weather all of the interior and gun without having to glue it down. The weathering on this model was done again all with Tamiya weathering master sets, and I did the whitewash by rubbing in the white powder onto the model. The mud was made by shaving off bits of rust, black, and mud colors, then mixed together, add water, and slopped on with an old brush. I put some spent shells into the rear of the crew compartment, but I couldnt figure out where they would be in the tank, so I pushed them into the breech insert, and tipped the model slightly so they fell out, and glued them in place, and I think it gave them a very natural placement. Now onto the pictures:

Here are some detail shots of the mud and rust:

And some interior shots:

I also took some pictures next to my sherman just to show how big this thing is:

The Sherman is about as long as the barrel of the Sturer Emil!

Thank you for looking, and any comments are greatly appreciated!

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Superb job Mg42! I really like the whitewash, and the detail of the fighting compartment. Bravo.[tup]

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Looks awesome! I love the weathering! Good work!

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[#toast] That’s a really good looking build. The rust and mud on pics #4 & 5
is great. [tup] I especially like the effect on the spare tracks.
The interior seems to have a good used appearance [^] and the shells look super.
It looks like you might need a little more track-sag (#6) and some mold line
clean up on #7.
Overall it looks really fine to me.

(that Sherman looks nice too)

Steve

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Very well done. Your paint finish and weathering are superb. Thats the sort of thing I’d like to do. Thanks for the pics.

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Nicely done, nothing to add to what’s already been pointed out. thanks for sharing with us.

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mg 42,

Very nice. That’s what I call one very worn whitewash job. [tup][tup]

Regards,

Joe [:D] [:D]

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That looks great! [tup]

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The weathering is outstanding. Nice job.

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Your Sturer Emil looks great to me! I like it! [:)]

Shermans though, make me comatose! zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

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Thank you everyone for all of the comments, I really appreciate it. About the track sag, I only read that you can make the sag with pins after I glued the hull together, so I am not sure how I could make the sag now? Also the seam on one of the outside tools will be cleaned up shortly. And yes, Shermans are pretty boring, but if your starting out its a good way to start a collection.

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Man that comparison is crazy. Really gives definition to the 75 mm gun of the Sherman as a so called Peashooter.

I really like the interior weathering and overall I like it alot.

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What a fine build.

The mud on the tracks is just right, and the interior is the best. It looks buzy with all the gears and empty shells lying around.

Good work !

Ben

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Great Job! And that’s some good looking rust!

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"Shermans though, make me comatose! zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz "

Blasphemy!!!

SHAME, SHAME, SHAME

Joe [soapbox]

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Have you tried CA glue. I used that on my Tamiya tracks. Seemed to work.

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very nice job here i really like the whitewash and the weathering all together blends well and looks great.

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Looks good enough to be real, very fine work!

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That looks great… one of the best worn whitewashes I’ve seen… but could you explain how you got it to look so nice using the Tamiya weathering powder? I’ve got them all myself, and wouldn’t mind trying that method for a whitewash…

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She’s a beauty. Wonderfully executed weathering.