Pz Kpfw III Ausf. L
I'm not sure which is the best way, should I paint wheels and hubs and tracks before assembly or simply put all together and care about painting later?
Trying to use my fingers to force the track down, so We can have some "hanging" going on...
I think it's going to work in the end of the day.
That's it for today, the left side is done, still have the other side to do, but I think it turns out nicely with the tracks looking natural, I haven't glued the wheels as I internet to remove the entire thing together to paint and weather
my atempt to simulate welding line using stretched sprue
I drilled out the upper cover of the canon, I think the welding is working well, let´s see after the paint and wash how it really looks like!
assembly all done and completly primed in black
I decided to make the antenna in the up position, it is simple stretched sprue, it is looking a bit thick, I´ll try to thin it dow towards the edge...
The welding is looking nice to me, maybe it is not accurate but i like the result, it is my first time doing a tank and attempting this details
My new primer of choice, Badger Stynylrez, silly name but good stuff
here we can see the original cannon barrel from the kit, the track and wheels are glued already in the shape so it will make my life easyer when it comes to paint and weather the hole thing
here all the parts, I am painted the exhaust in separate, will glue it after the base paint and decaling is done, the machine gun also is separate, haven´t done it yet.
Base color: Revell aqua 78 Panzergrau, very dark, nice color!
doing some modulation with Blaugrau 79, the wheels on the right received the lighter tone sprayed from the top, you can compare the efect with the one in the right
now, modulation is all done, maybe it is now too light, my first time doing this thing.
I blended the efect spraying a bit of very thinned base color, I like the result, not bad to my eyes...
I like the way Revell paint behave, they brush paint very well and is very smoth trough the airbrush, as long as you get use to it, I thin it down with Vallejo airbrush thinner with no problems at all.
thinking about what I´m gonna do next...
Loving the model so far, now brush paint the tracks and details, put decals on drybrush all, maybe do some sponge chipping, wash and prepare for winter camo...
Tracks and small details all painted, decals on, I think I´ll live the wash, chipping and striking to do after the winter cammo, I decided to go for a washable white.
for the traks I painted the base color one light brown from vallejo, than washed with tamiya dark brown pannel line accent, than I brushed revell rust pigment and in the end used pencil graphite HB to drybrush the shinny edges, looking good to me.
The model was giving one coat of future gloss to seal de decals and protect the model to ne next step: the winter cammo, but I´m afraid that the tracks lost a bit of the nice efect of the pigments and HB pencil, well, that´s my first time...
Spraying the washable white
After wash it over I have to admit that not much came over, I had to brush really hard, so to create the chipping effect I used sponge technique
Starting to look the way I want it
still have to take care of the wheels
now for the next steps: final decal on the turret, whash, oils, pigments, mud splash ??? what should I do first?
I will use this base from one diecast Elefant that came with one magazine as a display for my model, this also may be a chance for me to use some soldiers from revell that I had for a long time.
The base is a little rough and I want to close the holes in the midle, for that I´m using milliputy
the model hhere after the dark oil wash, it is looking too dark now, I hope that one flat clear coat, and some light pigments can bring the winter camo back a bit, definitly it will hepl to contrast with snow wash that will be the next step
I have a bunch of plastic soldiers, I can use some more here, Don´t know if I am overdoing it... I plan to do some mud with grass, maybe some bushes here or there, and snow from Krycell snow and ice.
maybe the model looking too dark after the oil wash is not a bad thing, it will contrast beautifully with the snow wash from Krycell, that´s what I hope at least...
ok, Trying something else: mud, I am using mat clearcoat from revell as glue and revell pigment dark brown and another lighter pigment tone that I did sanding and scraping down one of my old pastel chalk
The upper one have te pigments already, the lower one not yet
a lot of my previous steps was covered by the mud, so maybe this procedures make sense in the bigger scale, but for 1/72 I could have just moved on to this step and saved time.
A bit of mud to the front lower end
this side is looking cleaner than the other, later I came up with a bit more dirt inside, using Revell Mat Clearcoat as glue turned up living some "frosting" white marks in some areas, it blends well with my winter cammo but I have to keep it in mind.
here I started to prepare the paint for the base and I have done the snow wash from Krycell ice and snow, wen I was aplying I could now imagine how white it whould look once is dry, it certainly looks like snow to me but I´m affraid to have overdone it.
I will try to remove some of this snow and do some wet efects here and there to try to blend more maybe some oil and fuel leaks and stains here and there to dark it up a bit back...
Comments
2 23 November 2016, 14:36
Christian BruerSomething different – will follow and await your conclusion about assemble first or paint first 😉
28 November 2016, 17:54
Cesar MunizIrving, Thanks a lot for the link! it gave me many ideas, Christian, I am priming black the parts that looks like I will have a hard time to reach with my airbrush later as I assemble it, I hope to have it all in pure black before atempt modulation and than paint, the idea is that anything the paint can´t reach will remain black and simulate shadow, well, it is the first time I will atempt that, by the way the wheels and tracks are already assembled as one element but it is not glued to the hull, pretty much like the table top gamming ones, I hope that this will help me in the painting and weathering.
10 December 2016, 22:27
Stefan SchachtHi Cesar. That sounds good, I do it that way. You can find my Panzer III here Pz.Kpfw.III Ausf. L | Album by Echo 8 (1:72)
Cheers Stefan
10 December 2016, 22:42
Cesar MunizStefan, amazing job on that Panzer III , the dragon model looks better than the revell, are the tracks is ruber / vinil ? what paint do you use for that? I am thinking now about that antena in the side, do I make it lowered? I´m thinking in put it up, is it accurate?
11 December 2016, 11:07
Stefan SchachtHi Cesar, i use Vallejo colour for the vinil track. The base is a dark brown or rust. Then the chains are drybrushed with steelcolour. After that they get a washing with black and various brown tones and i apply some pigments. The antenna is movable and both positions are possible. Cheers Stefan
11 December 2016, 18:01
Bart Goesaertthat's looking good... need to keep this build in mind when I do start painting my Sturer Emil
13 December 2016, 10:34
Łukasz GlińskiIt already looks grand on the 27th pic, do you still plan "the next steps"?😉
10 January 2017, 21:21
Cesar MunizHi!thanks all for the comments, Christian, I expect to come to the meeting next month, the last time I was traveling in vacation, hopefully see you there!
12 January 2017, 21:16
Christian BruerNice, I plan to be there hopefully with a nearly finished model kit😉
13 January 2017, 20:53
Cesar MunizHello, A small update in the project, I feel like I am messing up with a kit that I was already happy with, and I can´t see exatly what I will achieve, but as it's my first tank, and firsts everything involved, let´s try everything out to get some experience. maybe the end result will be a mess but at least let's try to have fun by doing it. 😉
29 January 2017, 12:13
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As I was looking at my stash I saw this kit there forgoten, it look simple to do so I decided to give it a go, my first tank, a little one, let´s see what I can du with that, I know no much about tanks but it looks like fun to make...
