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Well, it is ages since I had the pleasure of frequenting this forum which is wrong as this was the first forum I settled into when I returned to the hobby a few years back. Life has got in the way and I have been building loads of stuff that, frankly, I was not interested in for reviews etc. I have decided that I want to get back into modelling for the right reasons and I well remember one of Ron's old sayings 'have fun' so I have packed up what I was doing, been out and bought myself a new stash of German (not entirely German to be honest) WWII armour and, new to me, artillery. So, let the fun begin.
First up is a simply gorgeous little model from AFV Club of the heaviest Infantry artillery piece of the war, the sIG 33 15cm. This will be picture heavy as I have built this upto and including the priming so apologies for that.
The Kit.
This is the usual AFV Club quality moulding with quite a high part count for such a small piece. It comes with a small but useful photo etch fret but most needed and beautifully done, a turned aluminium barrel which is not only bored all the way through but is rifled along the whole length to. Admittedly it is a short barrel but it is simply gorgeous.
First up is the carriage and wheels with brakes.
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All the undercarriage done it is time to make it look like a gun. A nice touch is that the gun slides side to side on the carriage as does the real thing.
Next up is the spade. This is the only part that has ejector pin marks that need to be dealt with if the spade is going to be mounted on the carriage in the towing position, I am having it as a firing piece but a bit of Deluxe Materials Perfect Plastic Putty soon sorts it out.
This is the towed position
This gun also fired a muzzle loading fin stabilised demolition charge which is well depicted in the kit
Now a coat of Vallejo Grey Acrylic Polyurethane primer
It is now ready for colour painting and weathering. Trouble is, I am not sure if to do it grey or dark yellow, although dark yellow as per box art is becoming a firm choice.
First up is a simply gorgeous little model from AFV Club of the heaviest Infantry artillery piece of the war, the sIG 33 15cm. This will be picture heavy as I have built this upto and including the priming so apologies for that.
The Kit.
This is the usual AFV Club quality moulding with quite a high part count for such a small piece. It comes with a small but useful photo etch fret but most needed and beautifully done, a turned aluminium barrel which is not only bored all the way through but is rifled along the whole length to. Admittedly it is a short barrel but it is simply gorgeous.
First up is the carriage and wheels with brakes.
IMG_6386 by Fen_tog, on Flickr"][/url]
All the undercarriage done it is time to make it look like a gun. A nice touch is that the gun slides side to side on the carriage as does the real thing.
Next up is the spade. This is the only part that has ejector pin marks that need to be dealt with if the spade is going to be mounted on the carriage in the towing position, I am having it as a firing piece but a bit of Deluxe Materials Perfect Plastic Putty soon sorts it out.
This is the towed position
This gun also fired a muzzle loading fin stabilised demolition charge which is well depicted in the kit
Now a coat of Vallejo Grey Acrylic Polyurethane primer
It is now ready for colour painting and weathering. Trouble is, I am not sure if to do it grey or dark yellow, although dark yellow as per box art is becoming a firm choice.
