Syrian T-55

Here is another one for our October club contest. This is a Tokom kit. Out of the box.
The only difference was using Star Decals for the 6 Day War era.


This had the tedious individual track links, but allowed for a much better sag fit on the Russian road wheels.

Also I applied the Jason Cameron technique of dabbing on the undercoat color with the rough out polishing pad.  It provided excellent wear and paint chipping. Since the tan colors were sprayed over the Russian Green, this worked out great.


Vince B. 6-14-18

Stuart Bunker

OK, what is this?  We have all see the German WWII bunkers with Panther or Panzer tank turrets. This is a US Stuart Tank Turret on a makeshift concrete bunker.

I had the leftover Takom MAUS V1 turret shell for the first prototype. Looked a lot like a concrete bunker. It didn't take much effort to find and fit some Tamiya tank parts to fill the opening.



Next it was about making it look feasible, so I scratch built a top hatch with some other spare parts. I think that ladder was a part from SPACE 1999 Eagle.  Anyway, you get the idea. Just leftovers.



After it was painted and weathered, I imbedded it into some sculptamold and covered with groundwork fluff. Not too bad for a quick fun build.

Vince B 6-8-18

'Secret Weapon'

I have been working on this one for about a year now.  This 'DUST Gunther' kit was one of John Ford's collection. As Sci Fi, it seemed totally unlike him, but it did depict German Armor.

 

The kit was OK, not great and the instructions were not entirely coordinated with the actual parts. These were limited run kits as part of some comic book series.



The Walking Panzer II was very articulated, making it tough to get set up as the joints were very loose.  I finally had to glue them as I made the final set up in the working gantry.

 

 

 

The gantry was composed of parts from an old Revell Oil Rig kit. Been using these parts for years. I wanted to do something more than just the kit.  I enhanced it with more details and decided to open some of the hatches and allow the unit to be in a service and re-arm mode. The figures were standard Tamiya service crew.

 

 

I also added a crane assembly from a Berge Tiger kit. I had to modify it to be electrically operated as the crank assembly was not reachable from the work gantry.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I added several work tables, tools and parts including a resin welding set.

 

 

The concrete pad was just sheet plastic that I scribed grooves in painted and weathered.

 

Vince B. June 3, 2018

Jagdpanzer IV 1/72 scale

This was a quick build. Not as easy as it used to be when I could still see 1/72 scale. ESCI kit, was very basic, not a lot of detail.

Tracks are Length and link. Its the individual links around the drive sprocket that get ya.



Pretty much out of the box. except for the tissue paper tarp and fiber optic antenna.

 

Vince B.  June 3, 2018