Knocked out Hetzer in Berlin

[hansolo]

I see it.
Thanks Nev.

Cheers

[PaulAyrey]

Superb painting and weathering! Looks a top quality piece Han, well done!

[hansolo]

Superb painting and weathering! Looks a top quality piece Han, well done!

Thanks Paul!

cheers

[Stokesy44]

Brilliant work. Cant wait to try out these techniques on my STuG. Inspirational.

[Coen]

Ahhhhhhh!!!!!!!!

That's beyond exception Han!
What and incredibly well done piece.

[hansolo]

Ahhhhhhh!!!!!!!!

That's beyond exception Han!
What and incredibly well done piece.

Thanks, Mike!

cheers

[wappynutter]

Beautiful piece as always Han....
You are a "Master" at the hairspray/weathering/Scratchbuilding..
I Bow down in your modelling presence...
lol... Awesome work buddy, love the finish and am looking forward to the dio now..


Continued success my friend..

[TheTroyster]

I have a silly question but did you take the tracks off to paint, or were they on when you painted them?

[demarcation]

Beyond stunning mate, awesome work!!

[hansolo]

I have a silly question but did you take the tracks off to paint, or were they on when you painted them?

They were on. It's tougher that way but I didn't bother taking than off again after assembly and glued them straight in to place.

Cheers

[hansolo]

Thanks for all the positive feedback, all you guys!

Cheers

[TheTroyster]

I was afraid you were going to say that.

[hansolo]

I was afraid you were going to say that.

Why?

cheers

[hansolo]

Hi guys,

Tiny update here.

I decided that the building could use a nice wall mounted lamp.
So I built one. I started of by making the construction layout in Adobe Illustrator.

On the right you see the layout for the glass (transparent plastic) part.
On the left the metal part of the construction to be made out of heavy paper.



I cut the glass part out of a piece of packaging material.





The layout for the metal parts I printed on heavy paper for cutout.



The lamp is made of a leftover clear part.
Here’s the lamp partly assembled.



Here’s the lamp completely assembled and painted black, with the exception of the wall mount part.



I decided to 3D-print the wall mount.







Here’s the completed lamp with wall mount and attached to the wall of my dio building.





I also included a figure to the dio.
It’s a Russian soldier that has climbed the Hetzer to take the machine gun and use it against their former owners.

Painted and weathered.











That’s all for now, folks.
Next up: Rubble time!

Cheers.

[Nev]

I think my brain just melted with all the awesome

So inspiring Han

[TheTroyster]

I was afraid you were going to say that.

Why?

cheers

well I stopped by build because I had accidentally glued my wheels and tracks on - and just figured there is no way I could paint it - then you come along and show that it can be done. Now I should dig this off the shelf and maybe get re-started.

[Paul]

Fantastic work Han, that Hetzer is stunning

[JudgeDredd]

The quality of the work from everyone on this site astounds me

Absolutely stunning work.

I'm so impressed with how some create fantastic pieces of work and others go further and others go even further.

Superb site with fantastic members

[hansolo]

I was afraid you were going to say that.

Why?

cheers

well I stopped by build because I had accidentally glued my wheels and tracks on - and just figured there is no way I could paint it - then you come along and show that it can be done. Now I should dig this off the shelf and maybe get re-started.

You should!

Cheers

[JudgeDredd]

I was afraid you were going to say that.

Why?

cheers

well I stopped by build because I had accidentally glued my wheels and tracks on - and just figured there is no way I could paint it - then you come along and show that it can be done. Now I should dig this off the shelf and maybe get re-started.

This guy here

build the kit and then paints. Not something I've seen before but they seem to turn out very well.

[hansolo]

Hi guys,

More work done on the dio.

Stuff that I used for the debris:

Some balsa wood sticks.



Painted with brown wash.



Some color here and there.



Left over plaster broken up.



Finer crushed plaster.



Bricks that I bought.



Some metal wire.



Barbed wire made from mosquito gauze.



Cut up plastic packaging material for glass.



Composition of the debris.
I started of by using Das clay to get the right volume. And I molded in some basic shapes.



Painted dark grey.



White glue added.



First chunks added.



Small plaster debris and bricks.



Sticks, wires, glass and barbed wire.



Some grey paint.



Pigments. European Earth from Vallejo.



Next up: The writing on the wall and a poster of some kind...

cheers

[Stokesy44]

Man alive, that rubble is just so frikkin AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[hansolo]

Thanks Stokesy!
This build is just so much fun.

Cheers

[hansolo]

Hi guys,

Just one little last update left.

Did a poster and some writing on the wall.

The poster is printed out on paper with a color laserwriter.



The writing on the wall is a slogan often used in the last weeks of the war.
"Berlin bleibt deutsch."
I made my own decal of this slogan.

Taken from this old picture.



I I extracted the type from the picture in photoshop and gave it a different layout.



Printed a couple of different sizes on decal paper.



Cut it to size around the type.



And finally attached it to the wall and made it follow the contours with some Micro sol.



That's it. SiG entry finished!
Check out the final reveals in the reveal section: http://www.intscalemodeller.com/viewtop ... 22&t=15254