E-75/4

I started the work on a little groundwork for my E-75 and added some more details to the tank itself as a few missing weld seams, tracks etc.
Still a long way to go as I don't have a lot of time and motivation for modelling but I hope to finish the project at least in 2012 ;)

2012

E-75/3

Just a quick sign of life...

E-75/2

Just a quick update with some more detail work on the turret and hull. Sorry for the crappy picture quality.

E-75

After a long time building only 1/72 and 1/48 models I decided to start a new one in 1/35.
I chose Trumpeter's E-75 as it gives me a lot of freedom in details and camouflage. I will add some details from my spare box, mostly from Panther and Tiger II kits. The new turret is scratchbuilt using some parts from Trumpeter.
More progress to follow soon (hopefully).

10,000

Tiger II update

Finally I'm back with a new computer as my old one crashed.
I'm really happy to show you some more pics of my Tiger II during the weathering process. Again still a long way until calling it done.
Besides the Tiger you can see my following project, DML's Sd.Kfz. 251/22 "Pakwagen". It received a turned gunbarrel from RB and I tried to add a few details using plastic card and copper wire.

Tiger II production turret - painting stage

Long time no speak but I'm back with a little update on my Tiger II production turret. As you can see I started to paint the model. The yellow basecoat was applied with an airbrush, the camoflage by brush (my first brush-camo since I started modelling years and years ago). I'm quite happy with the result and will continue to weather my Tiger within the next days.

I also started a little diorama but I'm not sure wether I should use it or not as I'm not completely satisfied with it right now but I think I will finish it first and will decide it then. A rather large spruce tree is still missing (I still wait for my order) and will be placed in the rear left corner. Still a lot of work to do...

Tiger II production turret

For some reasons I'm not that much into modelling lately but I managed it to build a small and easy kit over the last few days: Revell's 1/72 Tiger II with Henschel turret. I also used a pe-set from Voyager and added some details here and there, mostly from scratch. Sadly the kit's tracks are about half of a link too short (or maybe I'm just too stupid to assemble them correctly) and I will have to think of a solution for this problem. The Tiger will receive a three tone hard edged camouflage inspired by Mirko Bayerl's well-known and great rendition of a Tiger of s.SS.Pz.Abt. 501 in Hungary.

assassin

Well, as it seems I've forgotten to post some pics of my finished E-25.

So, as the last blog-update of the year, I decided to share the model with you, I hope you like it a bit ;)

Some words about ther model:

The E-25 is a slightly converted version of the Trumpeter plastic model.

I scratched a completly new roof from plastic card and parts from my spare box, replaced the tracks with T-55 tracks from Friul, added a Jordi Rubio barrel and replaced some of the tools with Tamiya ones. I also reworked most of the welding seams as I wanted the model to have a lot thicker armor plates than the original Trumpeter version has. You can see most of the changed and altered parts on the unpainted model. The wooden "skirts" (not installed on the WIP-pic) were also made from plastic card, the starantenna is from Schatton Modellbau, the normal 2m antenna is from Armorscale.

At first I had a hard edged 3 tone camouflage in mind but then I decided to go for green only as I think it would be easier and faster to apply by the factories (and by me too ;)) and it's also not often seen on german tanks from WW2.
Weathering was done with pigments, Vallejo acrylics and artist oils, business as usual.