SS Deutschland, France 1940 - Finally Done

Finally added the finishing touches to this figure and photographed it against a scenic backdrop.

Took a trip down to the M Workshop this afternoon to snap some pictures of KG Lim's (aka Chef Lim) latest masterpiece; Tiger E, 502 PzAbt,Russia 1943, inspired by a 1/16 build from the Osprey Modelling title Modelling the Tiger I.

It's a Tamiya base kit enhanced with some minor detailing (no over the top excessive super detailing here) with a hand rendered green camouflage pattern in Vallejo acrylics. Hope that you will enjoy the pictures as much I had taking them.

cheers,

Calvin

SS Deutschland, France 1940 - Almost Done....

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Just a quick snapshot of yesterday's progress. I've finally survived the ordeal of attaching the rifle sling and horizontal straps of the Tragestell 39 and what largely remains to be refined apart from the sloppy areas is the SS-VT Plane-tree zeltbahn. Hopfully all will be completed by this weekend and on to another overdued commission.

cheers,

Calvin

More Adventures in 1/35 Scale Garderning

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Spent the last weekend tidying up the sloppy paintwork on the figure as well as rearranging the botanical arrangement of the groundwork. Spent the whole Sunday afternoon individually attaching the Fimo Deko Gel leaves to recreate the low lying shrubs. My only comfort is that I don't have to do this under the blazing sun. I'm pretty satisfied with the results for now and should be back working on the figure this week. Maybe someday I'll use this tedious method to recreate a section of the Normany bocage!

Calvin

...and finally back again to SS Deutschland, France 1940.

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I've finally got the move on this long overdued project last week with the groundwork and the Fimo Deko Gel vegetation .

Result of last weekend's painting session...

..and today's progress.

The back is still in a mess which explains why there are no pictures of it yet.

Here are some excerpts of yesterday's photo session of Dinesh's outstanding Panzer III J. Incredibly hard to imagine that it's a DML 'Imperial Series' Pz III J judging from from the photos.

 

 

cheers,

Calvin

SS Deutschland, France 1940

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Almost finally done with the sculpting. The Tragegestell 39 was really a pain to construct but I'm glad it's almost over. (Almost as there are still a pair of horizontal straps missing on the vertical sides of the frame). Looking forward to the painting this weekend.

Calvin

SS Deutschland, France 1940

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Finally got more work done on the figure from the September 13 post. It's a very straightforward "me and my weapon" pose of another SS Grenadier from the early part of WW2.

cheers,

Calvin

Here we go again......

...another 1/35 WW2 German figure for a collector friend of mine which I promised from a long while back. As usual, Hornet head (cut slightly above the brows to accommodate the Stahlhelm) upon an epoxy putty armature. The only difference is that I'm using the Super Sculpey Firm for the first time to model in such a scale. The clay has not set as I've yet to bake them which also means that the rough spots could be smoothen out at my own leisure pace. Calvin