You certainly keep raising the bar on your projects! I think three parts are great and needed to convey all of the new material you have brought to the table. At times the weathering process can be tedious, but seeing you move through it keeps our mojo intact. Thanks again!!
Thank you Mike. Three parts were nessesary on this one, but at same time the maximum I like to do before I either rum out of things to show or get bored myself : ) The Vk 3601 will be split in two sub projects (Turret installed in a Ringstand and VK Sport vehicle) with the Disc-Camo Hetzer in between. Otherwise we would spend more than a mounth looking at it ; ) It's a pitty that there is little general interesst in guns/pak/flak, they are such nice one-day builds while doing the boring parts on bigger builds xD
It would be pretty redundant to keep building just tanks or assault guns. Maybe you could do a three part series on a halftrack pulling a PaK gun. Kinda sneak one in there. There are sooo many big cat builds, so I have enjoyed your variety. Maybe you could do a PaK build and a diorama base? Just some ideas...The 288th Sonderverband stug has been nice so far!
Excellent job done on the lower hull weathering my friend. Easy and straight forward techniques, lots of useful information. Thanks for sharing, take care and keep up the good work.
Very well done! I like that you show your mistakes and I find the advice you gave about being prepared to fix errors to be spot on.Also I feel you are a better modeler than you give yourself credit for.Keep up the great work!
Excellent. Thanks - And I agree with your point that we must be comfortable going back and repairing or touching up our errors, or improving aspects, late in the build. Very good.
Really nice work my friend and lovely scratch building. Its always nice to try things new I try to on almost all my builds like yourself and trying to get better modellers with each build. Will look forward to the next update
Thank you Greg. The worst build is the one we do not learn something from it and improve nothing, I wish us both having only good ones ; ) Watching your Pz III, you stepped it up greatly over the time. See you next time my friend!
Die Verschmutzung und die Weathering Effekte an der Unterwanne machen sich sehr gut. Dein StuG III läuft gut und wird ein sehr schönes Modell werden! Die zusätzliche Möglichkeit der Detaillierung und Veränderung mittels des 3D-Druckers tun ein Übriges. Passt. Wünsche Dir ein schönes Wochenende. Wetter stimmt, passt auch! Grüße, Joachim
I got mine this morning so will remember about the pipes for the tropical filters before hand and get that sorted out! Still need to query rhe insignia if red or green like the one on the restoration build from UK I've been in it and had a ride so great to get to build the model.
Hi Steve, sry I missed to answer your comment somehow. I could not get any reference on how this pipe on that version looks like, only the lowered version unfortunatly.
I went for the scratch built right angle tube into the air duct. If you need any more reference photos let me know and I will see if I still have it on my system
Excellent! The Stug looks great, and I know that there is more goodness to come! 👍👍 I'm looking forward to your next episode. ☺ I did want to comment on your statements regarding the tank fighting in an arid environment. I'm not sure where it was located during all of the action, but if it was in Tunisia, then there is more moisture available than many people realize. First, while a desert (by definition) receives less than 10 inches of rain per year, it is still possible for levels of humidity that are higher thaan one may expect, especially closer to the ocean. Second, because cloud cover is rare & the land is dry, the temperature at night can plumment 20 or 30 degrees C lower than typical daytime temperature, which will raise the humidity levels and allow the dusty, dry surface of the tank to absorb some of that moisure. Third, Tunisia has a lot more vegetation than the absolutely barren stretches of desert to the East, aand, aat night, that vegetation will need to convert some of the glucose/starches it made during photosynthesis into heat energy to stay warm, thereby producing water vapour as a product of 'burning' its 'fuel'. Consequently, even more water vapour is added to the tank's environment. Furthermore, the tank's combustion of gasoline produces water vapour, which could be absorbed by dust near the exhaust. Last, Tunisia has a lot of hills and valleys, so if your tank is parked in low ground, the first two processes could be enhanced. Bottom line, assuming that the Stug is in Tunnisia, it may be in a relatively dry region, but it's not impossible for it to had a bit of mud adhering to it, even in the absence of rainfall. Ok...mini lecture over....I hope this was helpful...test next Friday. 😉😆😆😆
Hi and thanks mate. This one was more in Lybia and has seen some desert. Panzermeister36 gave me a refference with that one driving down a dune. Nevertheless I totaly agree with what you wrote and that's why I did choose to do the texture with more "profile" instead of pure dry pigment and sand dust. I hope it captures my intension well enough. Last part will be online next "Friday" ; ) +- 24h xD Looking forward to fix my schedule, every time I anounce a date, life jumps in ,,nope, not today" ; )
About stretching videos into 3 episodes - I like this idea because of the amount of weathering (not the only example) you do. Every minute of a video helps us new guys.
Hi and thanks for your feedback. On my side it is a ballance between what the viewers retension statistics show and what level of finish I can get with my current skills -> low end finish, ppl don't watch it -> not worth the time on both sides ; ) Atm we a are getting there were 3 episodes as standard on larger builds are to be justified bot on your side as viewer and mine as hobbist. For now it's practicing getting the information better and more useful across to you guys : )
Loved this kit gonna do another soon! I've got Rommels mammoth Dorchester to build and mega boxs Rommel and crew to go with it on a diorama with an sdk 222 armour car and a Hobby boss panzer 1 with full interior and engine detail that was a lovely build!
It was very nice to build, it has a few little issues like the front plate around the drivers visor is wrong. but otherwise, I ordered some more bronco kits. That hobby boss Panzer I is a tristar kit, building the Flak version atm, nice kit and given its age still fun to build.
@@Tankbrusher yes i know I love the Ex tri star kits I have a few of them I just got the panzer 4 with the wadding covers over the mantlet and mG in front plate I've built there panzer 4 ausf c the 38t flakpanzer there marder 3 m and there just away to re release the marder 3 ausf H I have that on back order just now! All the sprues still have tri star on them like it's just the name on the box now detail is brilliant they would be top notch if they just made a simple driver seat area to have a hatch open there but still very nice detail in there suspension and fine detail for the price! I'm finishing off the Trumpeter Brukenleger panzer 4 myself just trying to get original photos of the way the ropes went round as boxart is wrong
tank-photographs.s3-website-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/stug-III-sturmgeschutz-ausf-d-tank-destroyer-jon.html I'm just checking this front plate I'll change on my next build then! It was one of my early builds still wasn't removing seamlines or sprue tabs so my next one should be perfect that way!
@@EMTBonsai There are few more small things, I can't recall atm - for me it was more a fun build than anything I seriously care about doing accuratly. Got some FlaK for it and improved on doing my home work xD The books by Mueller & Zimmermann are a good start to dig into stugs. I do own now all kits from 0 to E and will build them with more focus on thier spezific features.
@@Tankbrusher I have a few stug 3 ausf Gs that new das werk one and the takom blitz and a late Dragon kit without zimmerit I like the later ones with the steel rollers, I have a C/D and an E from Bronco and a couple of miniarts stug 3, 0 series that's a nice kit interesting build same as the panzer 3 D/B I have to build yet I'm just researching the story be5the 5 they converted and sent the chassis off to create the stug Ausf B if I remember correctly of top my head I have loads of books I can get easy enough my friend owns the hobby shop next to me he's very knowledgeable about it all he's my go to for info haha!
Really nice stug ! btw how is your “infinity” airbrush performance compared to the other cheap chinese airbrushes? You have it since a year so do you see any major differences and is it worth a buy?
Hi, the infinity is holding up well and there is no possible comparesion to a cheap china one. That's that "eye opening effect" when switching over... ; ) However I'd not buy the Infinity again, I'd buy a Evolution CR Plus with 0,4 & 0,15 Nozzle/Needle. My Lady has that one for tabletop figures and I don't see a practical difference that would make me buy the infinity over the evolution again. I'm more oriented towards what is practicaly needed, than what could be useful some day... ; )
to be honest I had no issues with the tracks, they are delicate to work with but so are all. My first encounter with such tracks was on my VK30.01(h) - there it was fiddly, done some more on the mini art StuG and this one since than and I got better at dealing with them - had some practice i guess.
