Hi, Steven!

There's no such thing as "perfect", not even in real life...

Don't give yourself a nervous breakdown over a few "spots". Anyone who is going to count the spots or criticize their shape, color or their placement on your figures' camo clothing, needs to get THEIR heads examined...

Enough lurking, time to de-cloak – it’s a beauty Steve! Great PE work too & I don’t care if the odd spot’s out of place on the camo jacket, you’ve got that authentic hunch on the guy which is far more important, quite Rutmanesque. Although that MG34, are you sure the barrel’s aligned - it looks like it’s pointing slightly north of true? Any decisions on the dio yet?

Really shaping up nicely! Great detail for this scale.
J

Nice work Doc , fig is cool man don't sweat it , gotta agree with Tim about the long dog look on the mg tho .....

To me, the barrel looks like it's aligned okay; it's the fact the whole gun is mounted at a slight angle to the cradle that creates that appearance, I think. The back end of the gun is sitting just a tiny bit low in the cradle. My $0.02...

Yep after exhaustive laser/satellite triangulations I can now report that the MG…looks #$^*4&!! excellent! Nice figs too Steve, what’s the prep on the faces made of, am I seeing texture or should I go back to Specsavers again?

Yep after exhaustive laser/satellite triangulations I can now report that the MG…looks #$^*4&!! excellent! Nice figs too Steve, what’s the prep on the faces made of, am I seeing texture or should I go back to Specsavers again?

The poor guy suffered from a pretty bad case of smallpox when younger. Was not uncommon in Europe at the time....

The build and figures are looking good. Where did you get the seated figure?

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Nice! Was it this kit, or the earlier release?

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It was the Testors/Italeri kit released in about 1980.

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Tim

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Oh nice, Revell still sell that kit!

I've had a decent weekend of work, and am nearly ready for paint!









I'm pretty pleased with the dented effect on the muffler, just done with a round file.

The shurzen are just barely hanging on from some small rods drilled into the side, but when glued into place should sit flush against the hull.

The wheels have been super-glued into place so can be easily snapped off for paint, but will hold strong enough to get the tracks done. I've kept the hull in 2 separate parts to make the track assembly easier:



I've added a small power conduit to the notek light and assembled it to look like it has been knocked slightly to the left as can be seen in many pictures:



The jackblock supplied with the kit seems to have the metal straps indented, with the wood swollen up over them. I have seen this in some pictures caused perhaps by moisture getting into the block but it looks very wrong to me. I used the PE upgrades and some balsa to make a new one:





I've left a few of the small details off for painting:



I've also put the tool box together, opting for the PE option and I wanted it to be partially open and Tamiya doesn't give that option:





Thanks for looking, hopefully with have some paint on it soon!

~ Steve

If I may Add my 2 cents worth,Your paint has a fighting chance. With a light over-spray of lighter colors & an overall wash of the battlefield, oils & stains it would look killer. No armor I ever saw was perfect. 4 years in the marines 76/81