Ubi Caritas! FINISHED!

Laura, you MUST show it in person, when we meet next time!

Hi Laura..

Fantastic work!!!!! Love the detailing and weathering.. Very realistic!!!!!!

P.Crow

sorry for my late comment
but growing old makes me impatient so i decided to let you do lots of work before i added mine
unfortunately mine is short
I LOVE IT
ALEX

j.d.w. - i'll take the marder and bring it to our next meeting!

peter, alex - thank you for your encouraging words!

update tomorrow - marder finished, figures next (continuing and starting the new ones )

Dear Laura.


...very nice job... it´s better and better.... I don´t have this one yet...seeing your Marder I think that is a great idea to get one of this!

Regards!

Luiz.

thank you luiz

do yourself a favor and get you this kit, it's wonderful - basic in some aspects but typical tamiya quality!



soooo ... as promised here the (so far) finished marder:









for the first time i tried to simulate the glass in visor blocks and am quite satisfied with the outcome:



the jack block still needs some attention but this has time - now the kit is stored away to protect it from dust and after the base is finished i will blend it into the dio

on to the figures!

I really love it ! I love how you did the periscopes !

The shiny bits on the roadwheels is awesome , so what brand of shiny do you use ?

I love the mud effects too , your exhaust pipe looks nice too ! Even the cordite on the end of the spent cases.

I do not know what you have been putting on the top of each entry , all I see is a big box with a small square inside it & in the small square is a red square, a green circle & a blue triangle in it !

Jenny

Jenny Croft wrote:I really love it ! I love how you did the periscopes !

The shiny bits on the roadwheels is awesome , so what brand of shiny do you use ?

gunze chrome silver! i used that chrome silver on the roadwheels and as a base for the periscopes (followed by gunze clear green!)

Jenny Croft wrote:I love the mud effects too , your exhaust pipe looks nice too ! Even the cordite on the end of the spent cases.

real rust is unbeatable and sooo easy to work with ... adding such details like the cordite is to be thanked to your attention to details as i asked myself "what would jenny do here and there?"

Jenny Croft wrote:I do not know what you have been putting on the top of each entry , all I see is a big box with a small square inside it & in the small square is a red square, a green circle & a blue triangle in it !

... my usual music entry ... since a few days i embed all the youtube links instead of just writing the link ... in this update it was: Dioxyde - Geist

Laura-
That's looking sooo cool!
I like the music, too.
Can't wait to see it all finished!

Shaggy

thanks bob!

yesterday i started with the new figures that richie has sent me! some i had to alter considerably! (altered equipment, cut away spats, added different weapons, added straps on kar98's, swapped some heads, exchanged boots etc.etc.)

still some work on a few of those and two are still not assembled!

diva destruction - the broken ones is a song that fits quite good to the figures



they will be another group of germans surrounding a second fuel drum with fire:

Looking very cool Laura .

The third bloke looks like he is about to break into some knee slapping Haka !

Personally I think the Verlinden gas mask canisters are far too big .

Jenny

Jenny Croft wrote:The third bloke looks like he is about to break into some knee slapping Haka !

ROFL! that cracked me up!

Jenny Croft wrote:Personally I think the Verlinden gas mask canisters are far too big .

i had the same feeling! glad you share this impression - i'll exchange that one maybe (or cut it to size!)

Very well done. I can't wait until it is all done.

Sherman 18 wrote:Very well done. I can't wait until it is all done.

Hehehehe , you are in for a real treat ! I know what the diorama will consist of & I cannot wait !

Jenny

thank you jeff! finishing will take some time, i'm sorry!

well, i finished the haka-bloke (LOL) with paper + DML equipment and worked on a bad-mood-dude again using a different head, a DML 2ndGen MG42 and this time tristar equipment! the gas mas container of verlinden is really ridiculously oversized jenny!

only one figure left!

for watching this update here's a jenny compatible video of music not so jenny compatible

Ah , now I see , he is not doing a haka , he is explaining to the guy with the MG how to operate a forklift !

Jenny

Looking really good Laura!!!! Love the use of paper....

P.Crow

Yes, Laura, now the equipment parts look much better.

Right - this is an old mistake, Verlinden´s gas mask cans are in about 1/32.

since i am no angel (matthew should like that video!) i cheated a little bit with the last figure - to easen the task up i depicted him as another tank forces member and no infantry this time:







and this is how i want to arrange them in the dio:



the infantry pfcs royally freezing their a** off and the infantry nco together with the tank forces member having a chitchat with the MP discussing important matters (soccer results for instance!!!)

Hey they look real cool together ! The guy says "so I drove the fork lift like this ! "

All six work really well together !

Jenny

I missed this post!!!

I like the way you´ve weathered the lower part of the vehicle. As you know, there are always details in other kits that you like to copy in your own kits.

In this case, I´ve got two details I´d like to ask you about.

1.- Spent shells. How did you get such a nice colour?
2.- Periscopes. Did you add gloss varnish?

I also like figures ... it´ll be a nice vignette

Laura,

That is really cool! I really wish I could get something going like this. I look forward to seeing more of it.

Joe

Jenny Croft wrote:Hey they look real cool together ! The guy says "so I drove the fork lift like this ! "

or he is explaining "well guys! a haka starts like this, very similar to a bavarian schuhplattler! i bet ivan will poop his pant when we do this before our next attack!"

Jose Luis Lopez wrote:In this case, I´ve got two details I´d like to ask you about.

1.- Spent shells. How did you get such a nice colour?
2.- Periscopes. Did you add gloss varnish?

thank you jose!

to answer your questions:

1. - i used revell enamel gold! that's all!
2. - no gloss varnish on the periscopes ... gunze chrome silver as a base covered with gunze clear green makes them shiny already! no gloss needed!

i hope this helps!

joe - you surely can with your figure painting skills! the tank construction is no challenge at all! jump in and start, the rest comes from alone!

Well....Laura...... your figure idea is similar to what I had in mind for my Wespe!!!!

I like the figures..... and...... good photography!

Regards
Noel

Oooh. That was fun. I just read the entire thread start to...present. Including all the teeny tiny text about the secret secret that I never mentioned here. :-)

You did a magnificent job on the Marder. That was no shake and bake build, but you busted out a winner. Those figures will compliment it nicely.

And I loved the Evangelion AMV. LMAO I have to admit I haven't seen the series yet but now I can't wait to start. So much anime so little time.

Keep a good thing going girl!

Matt