PzKpfW III Ausf. J

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January 9, 2021
Quite surprised by good fit, goes fast and well together.
Just watch out: the plastic is really soft.
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January 9, 2021
Fenders are riddled with pin ejector marks but too nothing horrifiying.

Do not drill the wholes according to the instructions, around 50% are off placed,...
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January 9, 2021
Warning this is the biggest garbage you can buy.
Extremly brittle and breaks. Save yourself the headache.
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January 10, 2021
Take your time with the turret,
mine was not warped or damaged.
Just watch out this styrene does not like being bent or manipulated in any other cruder way.
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February 3, 2021
Miniart does love its sprue gates & microscopic small parts. (Yellow crate: 14 parts each 3 gates...)
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February 3, 2021
After roughly 80h of blood, sweat & tears.
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February 17, 2021
Trying a new approach on coloration. ???? wish me luck.
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February 18, 2021
a bit refined with matt white
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February 20, 2021
Preshading comes pretty handy in paint built up.
Tamiya & Mr. Leveling thinner makes this a walk in the park.
Don't worry about spitters or paint drops just accept the magic of MLT as lord an saviour!
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February 22, 2021
Forgot something,...
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February 26, 2021
... after I forgot some ISO in my Airbrush and like the whole paint of the turret melted away.
I would call this a pretty decent rescue & comeback.
Never ever forget alcohol in your AB!
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February 27, 2021
Attempted to modulate RAL7008 as well.
But tbh its quite complicated so I settled for a simpler solution.
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February 27, 2021
The outlines drawn for the camo pattern using a simple pencil proved to be the wrong approach.
Could not erase or remove them.
Had to strip the paint from the whole turret and parts of the hull.
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March 2, 2021
After 3 mistakes & repaints, airbrush bootcamp is done.
Finally to the funnier parts.
- do not forget ISO in your airbrush
- do not use a pencil to draw the camo sceme
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March 3, 2021
HO shops at least still around, Sand assortments are on point.
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March 3, 2021
So many choices to ruin your built : )
Tritonal filter seems ideal before oils, nice matching brown hue.
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March 9, 2021
Adding some oils after clearcoat settled for 48h.
And again, trash clamps did not fail to disappoint: one of the jack clamps broke and took a flight just to disappear into nirvana. ...

Quiz question:
1. search it like a madmen?
2. break of the other one and settle for the kits part
3. more tarps to cover up
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March 10, 2021
Oddly satisfactory: simple washes
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March 13, 2021
No single rivet remained untouched, at least I hope so.
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March 13, 2021
Applied metallic silver on some welds & wheels prior to wash/ graphite.
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March 13, 2021
rear welds got the full “shiny” appearance, stowage soon to follow.
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March 15, 2021
Chipping the ultimate hand-eye challenger
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March 15, 2021
Barely managed to get the “fake shadows” with oils done.
Either it leaves and ugly stain or gets completely wiped away.
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March 18, 2021
Mapped all chips on the kit.
Mix of acrylic & oil paints to get the effect of quite a lot of fine chips all over the kit.
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March 18, 2021
Not shure about the rust effect on the exhausts, might rework it.
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March 19, 2021
Chipping like a madmen ; )
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March 24, 2021
Entering the stage of “eye bleeding” ?
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March 30, 2021
Spare tracks in the making.
5000 shades of grey + some minor help from
blue.
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April 4, 2021
Soon ; )
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Sooner
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37 9 January 2021, 21:36

Olivier
Ja, gute Brille hast Du... Und jetzt wollen wir mehr Bilder sehen.

21 January 2021, 09:14

Jean-Christophe Zeus
Nice: 3D-printed tool-clamps, they look very good! What it is like to work with them? Easier than PE ones?

25 January 2021, 15:16

mannmitbrille wasd 作者
The clamps are honestly pure trash, they came broke, broke while handling on every occasion and strangly two of them started partially dissolving when using debonder.

Just avoid them to save yourself from headache. They are unfortunately a waste of money & time.

If you can get your hands on some MJ Miniatures clamps use them, way more stable material.

28 January 2021, 07:35

Marder III
like the weld seams
How did you do them ?

28 January 2021, 11:50

mannmitbrille wasd 作者
Hi, thanks Green Stuff/ tubular profile & trusty toothpick.

28 January 2021, 19:30

Vytautas
Very nice rendition!

21 February 2021, 19:10

Bogicevic Vladimir
Really nice work so far. I quit building aircraft models because I got sick of holding airbrush that much, so respect for airbrushing job. Hope all that pre-shading and careful paintig will be visible after weathering.

23 February 2021, 18:29

mannmitbrille wasd 作者
@Vladimir, thank you much appreciated! Its my second tryout.

It is quite tricky with those vehicles and the clusters of small parts.

First round of RAL 8000 done, RAL 7008 will be the real challenge.

26 February 2021, 17:03