WW2/Armored Models/Dioramas/Busts I want to show you my way of scale modeling, always trying to archive the best possible result through learning from the best. I really appreciate your feedback and constructive criticism and looking forward to chat with you over the hobby we love. For more regular content visit my Instagram.
I am sorry, but I have no plans to do modern figures any time soon as my focus is on ww2 themed models. But thank you for your interest, who knows what will happen in the future🙏
@@biberhunter_scale_models I do enjoy WWll but have a lot of modern models too. I look forward to more tutorials as I’m trying to get back into the hobby again
You have a good sense of colors . During the built I felt the need for more volume on the bricks and roof tiles, but the final result doesn't look bad at all. Looks awesome ! Not many modelers have this colors touch.
It truly is a masterpiece.......by an obvious MASTER! You're step by step instructions were invaluable! You insights were spot on and very helpful! Thank you for sharing your obvious talents! GREAT VIDEO! Sincerely, Andy, Annmarie's husband.
This isn't a diorama, it's a work of art........a MASTERPIECE! Thank you for sharing your techniques with the world! Regards, Andy, Annmarie's husband.
I like your Panther build very much! It definitely looks as though it could be in either a field workshop (a Hide) or stopped for emergency work! I love builds like this, they can be a standalone small diorama or part of something bigger. The sheer amount of parts, new and damaged, plus other things suggest a Hide rather than an emergency repair. 6 months is about average for me because in order to make something like this that is definitely interesting from all angles takes time and sometimes working on some part of a build like this that does not come out correctly, you just have to start over and do it again, as many times as it takes to make it right. The key is that you have something to show that does not come as a kit or even as an after market part! I spent 3 years (note that in a long build you are definitely free to tackle something else to break up monotony that a long build can become, until you get inspired again and come back to it. Im working on three things now, two long term items, a Churchill 3 that is in camp, requiring many additional pieces and an entire crew doing maintenance and cooking, and a Panther A late, which for some reason I decided to take a Tamiya Panther D and Tamiya Panther G and mate the two to make a decent A. Tamiya's first Panther was an A that was designed to be a motorized toy, so instead of it being accurate in most areas, it had to take into account a battery or two and a motor or two, a drive shaft and vinyl tracks that would grab the sprocket drive wheels and stay on while moving. So, I wanted an accurate Tamiya Panther A and had to make it by combing it. It will eventually end up in a long diorama of three Panthers in Normandy which were defending a small village, all captured in a wartime photo that shows a D, A and G model together. I did a 3 year build of a destroyed Tiger from a photo from one of the Panzerwrecks books. It showed a Tiger, presumably from the 503 Heer Heavy Tank Battalion which had been hit by an RAF bombing by hundreds of bombers at the start of one of Montgomery's long set of short moves forward (Bluecoat, Epsom, etc) There were three photos in the book showing the hull next to the turret which had been blown off and lays on one side; a photo of the interior of the hull and a second of the same. To replicate this I had to know what was inside the hull before it was blown up and then replicate these. I started with the transmission, there was something intriguing about the blown open transmission which showed four (maybe more) cylinders, and went from there. I started off using a Verlinden Tiger E hull made off to show one in the factory, and used a score of parts from Verlinden, Tank Workshop, Tiger Models Designs, Dragon, Attack (which offered a very good Tiger E turret with damaged zimmerit), Fruielmodel tracks, RB models metal barrel and muzzle brake, Eureka towing cables and Aber took attachment items. To get started I bought several books on Tiger interiors. So the three years was in doing research of what an undamaged Tiger interior looked like and then, using the photos from Panzerwrecks and a donor tank (cheap Academy with full interior) I made from scratch the parts in destroyed form using the kit parts from the Academy as a rough guide. Basically, in 2013 this all cost about $200.00 USD, including the books. While I have been finished with the interior since 2016, I have tried various color schemes, all of which I was unhappy with until recently. Now I have to put all of this on a base. Other projects including the Panther and Churchill, I have not done damage with the exception of a few cosmetic parts that usually show up damaged, but I have had to build through the hatch details because I wanted to put in lights. I also did this with an M4A1 which has lights wherever there were lights in the actual vehicle, then on the Churchill, I put lights in close to where they should be and finally with the Panther I did not use lights where the tank had them installed for the interior, but rather illuminated the inside of the radio dials and driver's controls. Yet not one of my exterior builds is as complicated as your Panther here, and I am inspired, so thank you for your long build, I think it shows as a job excellently executed!
@@Dontwlookatthis thanks a lot, happy you like it. And as it seems when I thought it was taking me long to finish a project, you showed me that I was way quicker than I thought 😁 your projects sound amazing, and I think I even know the pictures from the book of the schwere Panzerabteilung 503👍
@@biberhunter_scale_models Oddly enough there is not a picture of this particular Tiger that is featured in Panzerwrecks. Interestingly enough, this was the brigade in which Kurt Knipsel was a member. He was not in Normandy, being attached to a company which was receiving the new Royal Tiger near Paris. I have a book about him but it is written in German. I was able to use Google Translate to determine that when his company was in Normandy weeks before Operation Cobra, they were stationed near St. Lo and had no direct contact with the Americans. They were withdrawn to receive their new Tigers and Panzer Lehr, which was armed primarily with Panthers and had 8 Tigers at their disposal at one point when they still faced the British. To show the ineffectiveness of open country tanks like the Panther in the bocage country, the Americans responded well to the attack by Lehr and managed to destroy a majority of the Panthers which broken into the American lines forcing the Lehr to retreat and withdraw to lines which were all but eradicated by the air bombardment prior to the Americans breaking out of bocage territory.
Well, I see your point. But I don't know if a tree stump would make it look a lot better compared to the flowers considering the small area. And I guess the eye catching scene is taking place in front of the building, so this small area wount distract from it in one way or the other.🤔
Can anyone tell me where I can find the video of the Panther D that is attached to the diorama where the Panther is being repaired? I would very much appreciate it.
I just finished a build where I mated a Tamiya D with a Tamiya G to make an A model and I can both feel your "pain" as well as your satisfaction! I used a few parts from a Dragon A model that is an excellent kit in itself, and have been left with enough parts where I plan to build a very destroyed Panther. Mainly I used the rear exhaust parts because the A calls for the two small and two large exhausts as well as the side skirts. I put lights in the turret, as well as the driver's controls and the radio. Both of these are barely seen through the hatch but well worth the trouble. You have more courage than I do, I used zimmerit from Atak and did make my own zimmerit to make the zimmerit pieces where the sheets fit or rather did not fit together. That was because I used zimmerit for another brand A model. Rather than try to make my own clean rod holder, I used Heavy Hobby's 3D printed set and for the track holders I used Tiger Model Design's track holder with Trex Studio tracks with cleats. For those tiny chains and pins I used very small chains and bent thin copper wire. One comment, the track holders were mastered by Karl VanSweden for Tiger Model Designs and has several parts which are not included in any other holder sets. Karl is a master researcher and included what he found in his master. If you do a Panther in the future, please see if you can find a set of Tiger Model Designs! At the end of the build and painting, I used foliage from AK Interactive and an Italian company which I do not have the name for right now. If I find it I will look this video up again and edit it to include the name.
Well that sounds also like a very time consuming project, but very cool details like the light in the turret👍 thanks for the hint with the parts brand, I will check them out👌 the Italian diorama company is most likely Diorama Presepe, they have a lot great products like the ones you mentioned👌
Hello. I took some pictures of this house, now restored, on June 5th 2024 This house is situated in Baudienville, between Ravenoville and Saint-Mère-Eglise. Regards.
This has been an amazing tutorial on scratchbuilding and I have learned so much. Thank you for sharing you expert skills with us all, it is very much appreciated.
Hi mate crackin model , here’s a top tip for sticking xps to anything use tacky glue like Eileen’s on both surfaces and let it go clear on both surfaces then press together it’s a contact adhesive now so make sure there lined up together cos you’ll never move it after that , wood glue never dries on xps it’s a thermal foam so keeps the wood glue liquid , it’ll dry at the edges but won’t in the middle 😊
Well that's interesting. Never heard of that or experienced that the glue isn't driving completely. At least I never had problems that something comes loose after gluing it together. I will give it a closer look next time I am using wood glue and foam if I can watch something like that👌
Vielen Dank🙏 puh, ich zähle aus gutem Grund die Stunden nicht😅 werde aber so um die fünf Wochen dran gesessen haben, halt immer hier und da in der Freizeit.
