SimonT - 1/35 Zvezda Stug.IIIB - Bobs StugGB

[Guest]

Simon I thought there was a very large gap behind the gun on mine ! Looks far better with the added detail. Waiting to see what you do with the aerial mount on the left hand side of the upper structure.

[Jim R]

Morning Simon
As always most impressive attention to detail.

I just had to try and correct a few bits on mine as usual

.... somewhat of an understatement perhaps :smiling:
John's trees were excellent weren't they :thumb2:
Jim

[SimonT]

John - they didn't try very hard with this bit! Not got to the aerial yet

Jim - ta. Very nice trees


track guard edges made from pewter then track guards installed on vehicle

side panels then added to the superstructure after a little fettling to get a good fit


front tow brackets added - these each comprised two badly fitting parts and lots of flash


track guard ends folded ready for installation

[Steven000]

Nice details Simon :thumb2:

[Allen Dewire]

Morn Simon,

I should have commented earlier, but your builds are so interesting and so much fun to watch. They are better than cable TV any day and this one is also a cracker Sir!

Deep down, like Mr. Benson, I knew you couldn't just let all the quirks in the kit pass without correcting them. Tops as always!!!

Prost
Allen

[Guest]

Hi Simon you had your work cut out on this one but you've not knock it into shape as usual, great work yet again, keep up the magic.
Pete.

[Graeme C.]

Excellent work as usual Simon.:thumb2:

[BattleshipBob]

Good god Simon

Its almost a new kit!!! Fantastic work. Superb skills Simon

[SimonT]

Thanks Steven

Allen - you must have some very boring TV where you live! First look it appeared not too bad but the more I looked the more I found that needed work - cheers

Pete - thanks

Graeme - thanks

Bob - haha, nothing special just normal modelling stuff


a few bits added at the rear end



I then spent about two hours making the headlights - needed considerable fettling to remove flash and flared edges and to get the etch to fit

used Grandt Line wing nuts rather than the wafer thin etch ones

Also cleaned up the rest of the suspension arms and made a start on the dampers

The damper tubes are badly moulded with a huge step between front and back - if I clean them up to get rid of the step this will result in the tubes being way too thin

I will therefore replace the dampers - the top and bottom mounts cleaned up ok so I only need to replace the tube part

[SimonT]

added a few etch brackets on the front track guards

managed to damage the dot pattern on the left side which is rather annoying - will have to try and replicate the dots to disguise the blank area



made the new dampers and fitted the kit top and bottom mounts to them

added all the suspension arms - for some reason I have eight spare ones :thinking:

None of the road wheels fitted onto the stub axles so I had to drill all the wheels out until they did


all the arms and dampers in place - damper top mounts also got the four missing bolt heads


made a start on an axe and the etch holder


HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE

[Lee Drennen]

Happy New Year Simon nice work as always but one thing I haven’t seen so much mud since I’ve own pigs lol but you have taking care of the imperfections very well

[Guest]

So many corrections and so much added detail, that's dedication for you.

[Guest]

added all the suspension arms - for some reason I have eight spare ones :thinking:

None of the road wheels fitted onto the stub axles so I had to drill all the wheels out until they did

Those two taken together make me wonder whether you put on the wrong arms? Very easy thing to do with these (ex-)Dragon kits that have unused duplicates of all sorts of parts.

[tr1ckey66]

Lovely work Simon. This is turning into one very detailed little Stug!
Cheers by-the-way, have a very happy 2020!
Paul

[Allen Dewire]

Wow, Didn't know there was an Iron Maiden Brewery in Cheshire Simon! Wish you all the best in 2020.....Oh, and love the dampers too!!!

Prost
Allen