German E-100 Super Heavy Tank - Trumpeter - 00384

Hello everyone!

Its been quite a while since I've posted anything on this blog...sorry!

But a few months ago I painted this E-100 from Trumpeter, because I try to do at least 1 "real" scale model kit a year. Had this on the shelf for some time, so I thought it fitting to paint it and it was a really fun kit to paint (Assembly wasn't too bad either, tracks were shit tho...)

Painted basically the same way as I painted all my Flames of War 1/100 stuff, so nothing fancy there.

  

  

  

  

Short post, but hope you enjoyed :) if you want to see what I'm currently working on I would suggest following me on Instagram @DornsArrow, I paint primarily 28mm stuff, but sometimes a do other things :-p

Until next time! (Hopefully it won't be another year ;) )
Chris

Panther G, Early - Tamiya - 35170 - Finished

Greetings everyone

My Panther Project is now finished, atleast I'm probably not going to add anything else to it or do more work on it, it has taken enough time as it is :-D 

I think it turned out pretty well considering how few 1:35 scale vehicles I have painted for a long time now. The tank and figure is painted and weathered with a combination of Ammo, AK and Vallejo paints and products. The tank it self is build basically out of the box with few additions of after market stuff (The Barrel, Engine grills and Zimmerit). The only thing I can say about the kit is that Tamiya is such a joy to build, sure it might not be as detailed as the newer Dragon kits, but considering that this kit is more than 20 years old I still think it's quite nice, and most importantly it fits together so well and takes no time to build (Think I did it in a few hours, applying the zimmerit took longer than building the entire tank :-p).

Anyway not much else to say except for I hope you enjoy the pictures.

Also here's a few close ups of the commander before he was inserted into the turret. It's a SS Panzer Commander from Alpine Miniatures :)

Hope you liked it, I sure enjoyed building and painting it, even though it took a lot of time... 

Until next time

Chris

Panther G, Early - Tamiya - 35170 - Small Update

Hello everyone

Very short update today!

Some months back I posted about a Panther G in 1/35 scale I was building and just wanted to show what it currently look like :)

Painting the tools at the moment, afterwards I also need to paint the commander and varnish everything somehow without fucking up the pigments :-p


Beside this I'm also doing a Jagdtiger and 2 Elefants for Flames of War, and hopefully I can get a post up about them soon (Just really want to finish this Panther since it's starting in annoy me :-p)



That's  it for now 


Chris

Panther G, Early - Tamiya - 35170 - Assembly

Hello everyone!

Last friday the Panther Campaign over at Armorama began and I've had this old Tamiya kit laying around for quite a while now, so I thought it would be the perfect opportunity to make it.

I did however decide to spice it up with a few aftermarket parts, I have previously build the Panther G late also from Tamiya, so I had a some idea for easy improvements.

I wanted to do a zimmerit coating, get a better barrel and some exhaust wents, and I ended up with the following parts.

• Zimmerit Coating Panther Ausf G 1/35 - Tamiya - B00A46BGGM
• 7.5cm KwK 42 L/70 PzKpfw V - Panther - RBmodels - 35B06
• 1/35 Early Panther G Grills Detailing Parts  - Airwaves - 35048

I could probably have done the zimmerit by hand, but I saw that Tamiya had actually made a kit for it, so I decided to try it out and to be honest it looks quite good. There is a few rough edges here and there, but I think with a decent paintjob you really won't notice :)

Assembly

Since this is a Tamiya kit it only took a few hours to assemble and I honestly have no problem with some lack of details compared to Dragon kits, when it fits together this nicely and still looks good :-p

I haven't glued on the tools, hatches or wheels because I want to be able to paint them separately. I'm still looking for a camouflage pattern to give it and any ideas or suggestions are more than welcome, I really love the look of replacement parts in Red primer or just Dunkelgelb so I might do a bit of that. I'm not going to authenticity just something that will be fun to paint.

Anyways let's have some pictures

I'm still waiting for my Exhaust went in the mail, but that is fine since I need to finish a couple of small FoW builds before I'll begin painting this kitty.

That's for now, stay tuned :-)

Chris

Alternate Future Leopard 2 - Basicly Done!

'Allo 'Allo

So I mounted the commander now and well I guess it's basicly done now, might just give it another matt coat to seal everything in nice and tight, but otherwise I don't really have anything planed.

Oh yes! maybe add the tow cables if I can get them painted properly...(Stupid string shit).

Hope you've enjoyed it :-)


Chris