Tamiya jsu-152 with et value pack

gustavlekstal · Post by **gustavlekstal** » Fri May 01, 2015 8:15 pm

Intro
Hi! Starting a new build with the tamiya jsu-152.
Got some real candy to go with it.
The et model value pack
Rb barrel that is just stunning
Fruili tracks

More to come! Take care

Lego · Post by **Lego** » Fri May 01, 2015 11:03 pm

gustavlekstal · Post by **gustavlekstal** » Sat May 02, 2015 9:46 am

Diorama reference

gustavlekstal · Post by **gustavlekstal** » Sun May 03, 2015 1:48 pm

Update 1 thoughts
The tamiya plastic is fantastic to work with! The et model pe is easy to work with and the instructions are quite good. So happy little camper here! The barrel is dreamy.

Nice extra with the fruili. Sides are prep for fenders. There are rough casting marks in the plastic but I'm gonna add my own with mr surfacer. So not so specific with the sanding.

Casting numbers

+ the frests are protected with a layer of plastic. Great work et

Coen · Post by **Coen** » Sun May 03, 2015 3:16 pm

Looks fantastic so far Gustav.
I love that metal barrel bud. Totally agree. Superb looking,

gustavlekstal · Post by **gustavlekstal** » Sun May 10, 2015 9:53 am

Coen wrote:Looks fantastic so far Gustav.
I love that metal barrel bud. Totally agree. Superb looking,

Lego wrote:

Thanks you!

Update 2 slow build and happy build. Third big fret build for me. Anyone who looking to start working with pe, go for tamiya base with et model frets. Have done voyager and griffon before. Buuuut what I missed in the et frets was rods. Wished that were some ammo for the DshK
Trying to deliver some popcorn action.

Casting nr and added rough casting

The top of superstructure is done

some mistakes but nothing to cry about.

Coen · Post by **Coen** » Sun May 10, 2015 11:34 am

Excellent touches Gustav. That PE is making the difference.
Are you planning an interior or are you adding crew to the model?

gustavlekstal · Post by **gustavlekstal** » Sun May 10, 2015 12:16 pm

Coen wrote:Excellent touches Gustav. That PE is making the difference.
Are you planning an interior or are you adding crew to the model?

Love the pe.
Planing to add figures. The ones in the kit with some addons like new heads and these two figures. Doing a city diorama. Thinking of names like the new masters or something like that.

Nige1940 · Post by **Nige1940** » Sun May 10, 2015 6:26 pm

looking sweet mate !
are you soldering the etch or just CA ? great progress looking forward to seeing more .

gustavlekstal · Post by **gustavlekstal** » Mon May 11, 2015 7:49 am

Nige1940 wrote:looking sweet mate !
are you soldering the etch or just CA ? great progress looking forward to seeing more .

Thank you nige.

If you see any burnmarks, thats from me glueing something together that isn't surposed to be glued

so just ca. Gonna use some soldering to create some battle damage later on. Gonna be a banged up little tank from a long fight from bagration to Berlin. Just hope my skill level can create that.
Take care buddy

Nige1940 · Post by **Nige1940** » Mon May 11, 2015 12:22 pm

gustavlekstal wrote:
Nige1940 wrote:looking sweet mate !
are you soldering the etch or just CA ? great progress looking forward to seeing more .
Gonna be a banged up little tank from a long fight from bagration to Berlin. Just hope my skill level can create that.
Take care buddy

I'm sure it can !

localjedi · Post by **localjedi** » Wed May 13, 2015 11:21 pm

Great work, Gustav. I like the PE on your model. I wish I was at that stage. My head wants to use PE but my hands aren't ready yet...

gustavlekstal · Post by **gustavlekstal** » Sat May 16, 2015 12:56 pm

localjedi wrote:Great work, Gustav. I like the PE on your model. I wish I was at that stage. My head wants to use PE but my hands aren't ready yet...

Cheers Buddy. If I would do my first again I would start with tamiya kit and et model frets. Go for it

gustavlekstal · Post by **gustavlekstal** » Sat May 16, 2015 1:01 pm

Happy update again! Amazing?! Just one complain! The plastic to protect the fenders had melt?! Fricking hard to get off. Otherwise just some glue on the wrong place but nothing I can't cover up. The build is going quite fast due lack of hinges on the tank. So this is a great first big fret starting tank.

Just love the menacing front.

One fender done! Sides I wait until the last. Otherwise I know I'm gonna destroy em.

Back done!

Coen · Post by **Coen** » Sat May 16, 2015 1:14 pm

That is some magnificent work dude!!!!

Nige1940 · Post by **Nige1940** » Sat May 16, 2015 7:02 pm

That's great work G! The ISU does look very purposeful doesn't it ?. Big heavy and honkin all the right qualities of an attractive AFV !

E.T.'s fenders look great I may have to find myself a set before starting mine

gustavlekstal · Post by **gustavlekstal** » Wed May 27, 2015 7:07 pm

Update pe done!!!! Last tiny things was hard to motivate myself

but great pe set! Thank you et modeller! Now stowage! Next step is a little bath for the beast then metal primer from tamiya.

I've added battle damage with soldering iron and BENDING! Surface texture is mr surfacer and true earth "rough casting" I've replaced the shackles with tiger metal ones and the horrible rope with metal.

Thanks for watching!

demarcation · Post by **demarcation** » Wed May 27, 2015 8:11 pm

Brilliant PE work mate! Looking forward to your diorama as well.

localjedi · Post by **localjedi** » Sun May 31, 2015 10:29 am

This is looking sooo awesome already. Can't wait to see some paint on it.

gustavlekstal · Post by **gustavlekstal** » Mon Jun 08, 2015 7:52 pm

demarcation wrote:Brilliant PE work mate! Looking forward to your diorama as well.

Tnx Buddy!

localjedi wrote:This is looking sooo awesome already. Can't wait to see some paint on it.

Some paint is on! This is how I like to do my basework. Its preweathered and preshade with black and white paint. Then ultimate shadows to ultimate highlights. Now it looks a bit like a spaceship! But its the way I like it. Base is tamiya mix and ultimate highlights are vallejo yellow olive mixed with ice yellow

It's drying with matt varnish.
Next step it's filter to unify the paintwork and then it's decal work. I'm using stencils so that's why I wait with the markings until the filter is dried.

The back hatch seams to have melted on the left side... The right grill caught some dirt and then paint so I've covered it up with stowage.

gustavlekstal · Post by **gustavlekstal** » Tue Jun 09, 2015 7:03 pm

To make it look less like a spaceship and unify the paintwork

I gave it a filter mig production "green for allied tanks". The markings are stencils. My markings my space ship

AcrylicBob · Post by **AcrylicBob** » Tue Jun 09, 2015 9:16 pm

Impressive work!

I 'll be following this.

AlansModelMaking · Post by **AlansModelMaking** » Wed Jun 10, 2015 2:05 am

This beast is looking better and better with each post!

EasyEight96 · Post by **EasyEight96** » Fri Jun 12, 2015 9:00 am

NIce job cant wait to finish mine when the tracks you sent arrive

gustavlekstal · Post by **gustavlekstal** » Tue Jul 07, 2015 9:09 am

AcrylicBob wrote:Impressive work!

I 'll be following this.

Tackar! Thank you.

AlansModelMaking wrote:This beast is looking better and better with each post!

Hope this still tickles your fancy.

EasyEight96 wrote:NIce job cant wait to finish mine when the tracks you sent arrive

Did you get em? I did send em 1 week ago.

gustavlekstal · Post by **gustavlekstal** » Tue Jul 07, 2015 9:14 am

Update dio start.
From bagration to Berlin and it looks the part.

The tank is almost done. Heavy weathering. But I find the rust to be to much. I'm gonna find a way to hide it.

The diorama base is done with white and blue foam. The blue foam is so I can sculp out curbs, pavement and so on. It's slanting to create a more dramatic look.

Thanks for watching

EasyEight96 · Post by **EasyEight96** » Tue Jul 07, 2015 11:11 am

Haven't arrive yet sir still waiting

EasyEight96 · Post by **EasyEight96** » Tue Jul 07, 2015 11:11 am

Very awesome end result from your build there good job

gustavlekstal · Post by **gustavlekstal** » Wed Jul 08, 2015 3:35 pm

EasyEight96 wrote:Haven't arrive yet sir still waiting

Not fast between sweden and malaysia

Hope they get there soon.

gustavlekstal · Post by **gustavlekstal** » Wed Jul 08, 2015 3:35 pm

EasyEight96 wrote:Very awesome end result from your build there good job

Thank you buddy

gustavlekstal · Post by **gustavlekstal** » Wed Jul 08, 2015 3:37 pm

Small update diorama start

Inspiration photos for my diorama
Im gonna make some branches to hide the worst rust on the tank.

The work has started. Wine or beer helps you get through this

Its gonna be the biggest dio ive made so far. Its tilting to create a more dramatic effect with civilians meting the new masters.

EasyEight96 · Post by **EasyEight96** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 2:46 am

gustavlekstal wrote:
EasyEight96 wrote:Haven't arrive yet sir still waiting
Not fast between sweden and malaysia Hope they get there soon.

The tracks have arrived in one piece yesterday thank you so much for the help I can now finish up my oob isu-152

gustavlekstal · Post by **gustavlekstal** » Thu Jul 09, 2015 4:14 pm

EasyEight96 wrote:
gustavlekstal wrote:
EasyEight96 wrote:Haven't arrive yet sir still waiting
Not fast between sweden and malaysia Hope they get there soon.

The tracks have arrived in one piece yesterday thank you so much for the help I can now finish up my oob isu-152

Great stuff hope these don't break on you.

EasyEight96 · Post by **EasyEight96** » Fri Jul 10, 2015 5:28 am

fingers crossed

hansolo · Post by **hansolo** » Fri Jul 10, 2015 10:23 pm

Looks amazing so far, Gustav!
Love how you battered up that ol' 152.
How did you do those cobble stones on the dio? And what kind of material is it made of?
Did you use the bent pipe technique?

cheers

gustavlekstal · Post by **gustavlekstal** » Sat Jul 11, 2015 7:39 am

hansolo wrote:Looks amazing so far, Gustav!
Love how you battered up that ol' 152.
How did you do those cobble stones on the dio? And what kind of material is it made of?
Did you use the bent pipe technique?

cheers

thank you!

It's foam for bathroom floors. That's why it's so much denser than regular foam. It has been used in arts n crafts for quite some time, and can be found in office or hobby stores here in Sweden.Great material! The cobbles are made from 2 broken brushes. Take away the hair and you got a perfect cobble, the just push down a million times and you got a street. I'm gonna give it a coat of vallejo earth thinned with water to finish it off, before primer.

Gonna give this wall bricks next with a razerblade. Easy to identify the right foam is that it's blue in the western world.

hansolo · Post by **hansolo** » Sat Jul 11, 2015 1:48 pm

Thanks for the info, Gustav!
Yeah, looks like great marerial and easy to work with! I'll keep this one in mind for my next dio with streets or walls.

Cheers

TommyKillander · Post by **TommyKillander** » Fri Jul 17, 2015 3:25 pm

That ISU looks fantastic

I'm thinking of building one with the BL-10 gun...

Great progress on the dio aswell

Cheers

gustavlekstal · Post by **gustavlekstal** » Sun Jul 26, 2015 7:00 pm

TommyKillander wrote:That ISU looks fantastic

I'm thinking of building one with the BL-10 gun...

Great progress on the dio aswell

Cheers

Tackar! Well it's a bit over the top but it's the way I like it. It's holiday time and the only modelling now is from carmina hobby fuengirola Spain. Get back into when work is back on. Tack igen!

razzie43 · Post by **razzie43** » Fri Aug 21, 2015 7:18 pm

hi Gusta,

i was just looking to your rust effects u made here.
from above its top notch

but under the gun that's a little sad and those wheels maybe some oil and grease (to many wheels have the same color orange)
u known rust is more then one color and what u made on top of that tank is just SUPER!!!

congratulations Gusta still a masterpiece

Stokesy44 · Post by **Stokesy44** » Fri Aug 21, 2015 8:05 pm

Looks awesome Dude. Great work.