Stug III Ausf B - Finished!

A perfect paint job so far! A nice clean palette for some weathering...

Bryan hello!
beautiful painting of your modulation Stug III!
J ' what kind of effect that adds another dimension to the model you
transcribed so!
of very eager to see more of your work!

friendly gérald

Thanks a lot guys. Means a lot.

Since this isn't my area of expertise, I have couple of questions about color details.
What color should the handles on the wire cutters be? I've been seeing mahogany red on a few builds. Were these handles Bakelite, wood, or painted?
What color should the fire extinguisher be? I've seen these in every color except pink.
Was Panzer Gray standard color for large fuel drums, or does anything go? I've seen B/W photos were these look very light on a PG vehicle.

Yeah John, can't wait to start weathering.

Very impressi e work... Building and painting!
My compliments!
Fabrizio.
My blog

Bryan Krueger wrote:Thanks a lot guys. Means a lot.

Since this isn't my area of expertise, I have couple of questions about color details.
What color should the handles on the wire cutters be? I've been seeing mahogany red on a few builds. Were these handles Bakelite, wood, or painted?
What color should the fire extinguisher be? I've seen these in every color except pink.
Was Panzer Gray standard color for large fuel drums, or does anything go? I've seen B/W photos were these look very light on a PG vehicle.

Yeah John, can't wait to start weathering.

The handles are from bakelite. You can use green for the fire extinguisher, the fuel drums.. Don't know but you can use a lighter grey i gues to make it" pop out" more

Thanks Elco, I got the handles fixed.

weathering and stuff. I want to get the gear glued in place and then start working on the upper surfaces again. If anything jumps out, let me know.

Does anyone have a good source or idea for scale rope for tie-down cord? Most stuff is too "hairy" or coarse.

That's looking very nice! I usually just use cotton sewing thread for rope, with a little white glue if it's too hairy. Brush it on and run it between my fingers to smooth it down while it's sticky.

Cheers
JT

PErfect work Bryan! I love it! I don't have any idea concerning rope... Sorry, but I do love your Stug! Fantastic!
Alex!

Thanks guys.

modulation looks great !!!

The cm looks great, real smooth. You turn a quite boring verhicle in real nice thing to watch!

Hi Brayan
Excellent work ! And Abteilungen 192 choice

These last photos are a little crappy - taken with phone - but you can see I'm just about done until disaster struck. I found a seam on the barrel ring that once I saw it, I could not let it go. I scraped the paint back to the bare plastic to clean up the seam.



I also got the tracks applied and hull sides muddied. Photo is a little dark.

Nice weathering Bryan! Excelent work!
Fabrizio.
My blog

Thanks.

Photo a friend took the other day. Different subjects but similar finish.

Rope is silk thread for necklaces from a craft store. Wonderful stuff, no fuzz and available in several diameters.I stained it with a wash and added a few highlights with paint.



I'm waiting on tow cables and then this will be done.

the dust is perfect

You need to do some more stugs my friend

Elco Elings wrote:You need to do some more stugs my friend

I second that!


rick

Bloody brilliant!

Elco, Rick, Phill - Many thanks. Let's get through this one first.

Another super-contrast-low-quality pic but this is sadly where I work huddled under an Ottlight. Yes that is the dining table and those are candle holders on a table runner behind the thinner and blacken-it. sigh.

Un-ditching beams are a common item on 192 stugs. To build a 192 stug without them is like building an urban diorama without a discarded panzerfaust.



I think I need to rethink the layout or just redo these. The paint didn't sit on the surface like I've had luck with in the past. I'm also not sure if the wire looks correct for scale but I can't think of another means the crew would have attached these without fabricating some brackets.

Comments/critiques welcome.

Bryan,


is this a 1/48 or 1/35? The reason that i am asking is that i also started the same in 1/48 Tamiya (I will also post it shortly).

Your work is brilliant and i will used it as a guide..!!

Thanks. This is the old 1/35 Dragon kit with a lot of rework.