Hey guys,
it's time to show that I'm not only buying loads of stuff. With the arrival of the goods a real painting- and modelmaking-mayhem started. Today I'll show you my second Plastic Soldier Company Panzer Kampfwagen IV:
Though these models are not historically correct, it's a pleasure to build them. Few parts, and well thought construction enable you to complete them in no time. Without having a instruction!
Due to the simplicity and the low price of these models (compared to "usual" plastic injection models), they are perfect for putting up masses, in a short time, but also enable you to create highly "personlized" tanks without fearing to turn valuable money into crap.
And thats what I've been doing here. I looked up a lot of pictures and figured out how crews tried to improve their frontal armour, tried to recreate the common loss of "Schürzen", ...
... and scratched a range-extender ;)
On this model I made extensive use of the etched sawblades. They're really perfect for jobs like this :)
And as always: I seem to need makro pictures to detect fails on my models. I need to fix the depression on the idler-wheels and add the machine gun made from wire...
That's it for now, hope you like it!
Greetings to my new followers:
Kris Marquardt (No blog (yet)?)
and
El Repartidor (http://mightylittlemen.blogspot.com/)
Glad to have you here guys! :)
Cheers,
mojo
Great work, Mojo !
ReplyDeleteThe tank looks really nice and I like the detailing work you did. Especially the jerry cans.
I can't wait to get my hands on PSC's kits! But I'm waiting for the British stuff they announced. I just don't need that many PzKpfw. IV. In my cupboard here are three ESCI-kits of this tank to be finished...
Cheers
Monty
Poor Monty. These kits are a pain in the ... You know where.
DeleteI did two of them. Maybe you should consider selling them on ebay/forum and get some PSCs therefore.
These aren't good models for hardliner modelmakers, but the esci ain't either.
If you want pretty correct ones you should have a go for the revells.
Cheers,
Mojo
Excellent conversion work!!
ReplyDeleteNice bodging sir, very nice....
ReplyDeleteThe tanks looks fine and the stuff adds some "life"! I'm kinda jealous because I bought the Armourfast Pz. IV which are totally inferior to the PSC tanks (and PSC has even more alternatives in their boxes).
ReplyDeletecontiniue please :) I'm waiting..
ReplyDeleteNice and personal!
ReplyDeleteT.
These are nice and with time and money being a consideration, not a bad idea. And like you said you can personalize them. Thank you for the follow. I appreciate it. I love the wargame pages and I've followed you back.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Anne!
DeleteI always liked your comments on Frans and Rays blog, so it was aboit time to read more of what you write :) It's good to have you here!
I've been wondering whether to get some of these for a while and I think you might have persuaded me! The camouflage work is very neat, I take it that it was done with an airbrush? I'm always nervous of using one at this scale, but I may have to give it another go judging by this.
ReplyDeleteOh, go and get some, I really love them. I did some Esci before and they were horrible. As said before, they are not historical correct (the esci aint either) and the Schürzen are a bit bulky, but they're a nice build and a good base for conversions. + cheap ;)
DeleteYou are right, I always do camo with the airbrush. I use rather low pressure and go really close with the nozzle therefore. Give it a try!
Cheers, Mojo