spacewolf Posted October 19, 2019 Share Posted October 19, 2019 Hey all. We are off on an adventure... I'm going to do armor !!... The last time I did a tank was... 43 years ago !! Now before you get worried and think I've gone 'normal' ... This is NOT your normal tank... We are talkin' Luft 46 stuff here.. or as I like to call it, Blitzkrieg 47 !! A good modeling buddy on a FB modeling forum got me hooked on these.. he picked up 3 of these Dust Studio table top gaming miniatures and watching him build them got me all hot & bothered. They reminded me of the Bandai 1/48 armor I built wayyy back. They come mostly assembled and in Panzer Grey... The detail is quite good !! I immediately went looking and found this beauty... Imagine.. a walking heavy Panzer.. with quad magazine fed 88's !! So follow along if you dare.. vee ist goink to get silly !! Vandy 1 VX 4, LSP_Kevin and scvrobeson 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacewolf Posted October 19, 2019 Author Share Posted October 19, 2019 The Dust game has several sides, Allied, Axis... and Zombies !! You can pick up figures and wrecked buildings, ect.. Me, I like the German stuff. This thing comes in 5 parts. The plastic is odd.. need 'hot' glues and super glue.. it's both brittle and soft at the same time but can be worked quite well with regular model tools. As I said.. the detail is quite nice.. It is obviously injection molded and just slapped together... Gonna need lots of cleanup.. The glues they used were not the best... Thankfully I was able to pop the two top hatches off without problem.. and some other parts as well.. LSP_Kevin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacewolf Posted October 19, 2019 Author Share Posted October 19, 2019 I grabbed one of the game figures.. nicely molded in one piece. But to my eye he seemed a bit big.. so I dug out one of my old Bandai kits and ... yup.. he's too big... scaled out to 1/46.. amazing what 2 points difference looks like ! So... with the scale firmly established as 1/48 It was time to start cleaning this puppy up, fixing and adding detail.. and seeing what trouble I can get into !! More in a few days !! LSP_Kevin, Vandy 1 VX 4, TorbenD and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSP_K2 Posted October 19, 2019 Share Posted October 19, 2019 A walking Flak gun, I love it. The base looks like a Jagdtiger hatch too. spacewolf 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ringleheim Posted October 20, 2019 Share Posted October 20, 2019 Cool project! Reminds me of this Kv-2 inspired creation I have seen around the 'net. spacewolf, Gazzas and LSP_K2 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scvrobeson Posted October 21, 2019 Share Posted October 21, 2019 Looks like the "Fist of War" stuff that Modelcollect has been coming out with in the last few years. Matt spacewolf 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacewolf Posted October 27, 2019 Author Share Posted October 27, 2019 Well, after a very busy week and my laptop dying ...it's update time !! Lots of putty and seam work... Had to add a thin bit of sheet to bring this side up to match the other side appearance .. Sanding and using extra thin glue to 'melt' some raised seams.. It's all worth it though.. primer coat.. this looks sooo good !! LSP_Kevin 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spacewolf Posted October 27, 2019 Author Share Posted October 27, 2019 I had pulled out some of my old Bandai armor kits for figures... the kits are great, the figures, not so much... So off to the model shop and got some Tamyia figures... I haven't done a lot of figure painting in the last decade or two.. much less in this scale.. but the old skills came through. Man the detail on these figures !!! All Vallejo acrylics... Things are coming along well... gotta tackle the bottom/ walker section next. Cheers for now, more in a few days Gazzas, LSP_Kevin and BiggTim 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ringleheim Posted October 28, 2019 Share Posted October 28, 2019 Looking good! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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