Johns 1/35 Zevzda StuG B for Bobs GB

[Steve Jones]

Nice jig Mr Race. Helps keep everything straight. Nice update

[Guest]

Nice jig Mr Race. Helps keep everything straight. Nice update

Thanks Steve, as I had't any double sided tape thought I would use this, and it was helpful.

[Guest]

Superb John! Coming along very nicely mate. Nice trackage too! :thumb2:
Watching this unfold buddy!

[Guest]

Superb John! Coming along very nicely mate. Nice trackage too! :thumb2:
Watching this unfold buddy!

Thanks James . All coming together .

Now for a few photos .

Primmer on .





Just a spot to on the rear , going to spray some chipping fluid on Friday, so have let this dry fully since Thursday night.

Now to some figures and a few questions.
Liking Hornet head I've decided to use them as both the Mini-art and the Hobby boss kits were quite poor in detail on the faces.
I drilled out the heads after removing from the block and trimming the neck length. Keeping the drill in the center was a little hard.


The drill was a 4mm , unfortunately I've damaged the jacket, suppose a little filler will repair this .



The next one went better.




I want a slight angle of the head, but again there is slight damage.
At this point I decided to drill out the base of the head and body for the next one and use wire, as Neil has been doing.





Sorry about the quality of these photos, I will have to fill the back of the neck but this method gave far less damage to the plastic.

Then the legs themselves had separate boots, no way was the plastic going to stick with such a bad meet, so drilled out and used the wire again .







After trimming the length , they were glued on.


The head looks a little over size to me,might just be the angle.

My question is how would you fit Hornet heads?
Would you drill and with what size ? as some of the necks area lot thinner. or just wire as I have found works better for me.
Thanks .
John.

[adt70hk]

Great work all round John, very impressive.

Andrew

[Guest]

My question is how would you fit Hornet heads?
Would you drill and with what size ?

When using heads like this, I usually either drill out the torso or I cut off the neck on the head to match the torso. For the first, measure the neck diameter and take a drill that size — pre-drill with about a 1 mm drill first, though. For the second, cut it longer than you think it needs to be, check the angle and correct (using a knife) as necessary to get both angle and neck length right.

[Si Benson]

Evening Mr R,
All good at Casa los Benson...actually looking forward to Christmas and 2 straight weeks off :smiling4:

Your certainly motoring your way through this lot....hadnt realised you where doing the whole dio thing
chap number 1 will look great after a bit of a tart up here and there. not sure about old melon head though.....looks a bit on the big side but not sure if it’s the camera angle?

Hooe you and Mrs R are well

[Guest]

Great work all round John, very impressive.

Andrew

Andrew cheers.

When using heads like this, I usually either drill out the torso or I cut off the neck on the head to match the torso. For the first, measure the neck diameter and take a drill that size — pre-drill with about a 1 mm drill first, though. For the second, cut it longer than you think it needs to be, check the angle and correct (using a knife) as necessary to get both angle and neck length right.

Thanks Jakko. Going to need some new drills with some half-sizes as well.:thumb2:

Evening Mr R,
All good at Casa los Benson...actually looking forward to Christmas and 2 straight weeks off :smiling4:

Your certainly motoring your way through this lot....hadnt realised you where doing the whole dio thing
chap number 1 will look great after a bit of a tart up here and there. not sure about old melon head though.....looks a bit on the big side but not sure if it’s the camera angle?

Hooe you and Mrs R are well

Hi Si, yes all good here, Mrs R's was in charge of tree decorations and all done.
Filler on standby, oh I though I had mentioned the dio. Its going to be a group of Russian Officers inspecting the StuG when it was taken for evaluation purposes.
Enjoy your two weeks off

[Lee Drennen]

Looking good John

[Steve Jones]

I don't know about Hornet heads. Maybe try Bee and Wasp instead.

Next time mate ask me a question on golf LOL

Great work on the figures mate. They are certainly looking the bees knees or hornet knees LOL Matron I need some more meds!!

[Guest]

Looking good John

Thanks Lee.

I don't know about Hornet heads. Maybe try Bee and Wasp instead.

Next time mate ask me a question on golf LOL

Great work on the figures mate. They are certainly looking the bees knees or hornet knees LOL Matron I need some more meds!!

thanks Steve .. ok Who won the open in 1948 ?

[Steve Jones]

If you are referring to The Open at Muirfield then it was Henry Cotton

[Guest]

If you are referring to The Open at Muirfield then it was Henry Cotton

Thank you, next question , What Vallejo for the Grey on my StuG ?

[minitnkr]

Way cool. Those tracks came out excellent. The proper tool for the job makes for a proper job. The wire thing w/figs works great on my figs too. PaulE

[Steve Jones]

Thank you, next question , What Vallejo for the Grey on my StuG ?

It won't matter as you will be covering it in a winter white wash LOL

Have a look at Model Air 056