Sunday, 31 March 2013

Warhammer World, Nottingham


Flakvierling #1 / Base & Body /




Assembly of Flakvierling started with laminating with card & cutting out framework and preparing the base. To upgrade my model, I've decided to replace floor panels provided by the kit (which are part of the framework to be cut away in this case), with floor sections made from scratch. I used wooden, flat sticks (eg. coffee mixer from fast food restaurants) cut down to strips of required size. Matches seemed to be a logical choice, but profile of single match is square and too high for my needs here.


Monday, 18 March 2013

Flak 38 / Archive /


Model of Flak 38 AA gun was built last year, just before Sdkfz 234 Puma. Building similar AA gun mounted upon Sdkfz 7 half track made me digging up  archive pics. There is nothing bad that could be said about this kit, it was one of the best models I happened to build. The design is so perfect, that every millimeter counts, thin cutting lines make difference or even card/paper thickness does too. Precision and caution at all times is required, but all parts fit together without any problems (if cut right), at right angle, at right places. I spent around 2 weeks building it, looking for references and trying to cope with large number of details. In fact this model is only details, what makes it even more enjoyable. It comes as two parts - gun itself, shield, body, base and the railer. This is one of the models I would like to build again, with all improvements & extras.

Sunday, 17 March 2013

Sdkfz 7/1 #11 / Cargo Bed Flaps /


My little struggle with cargo bed flaps finally ended and assembly of Sdkfz 7 half track with it. There was not much to do this time, it's just lack of inspiration or will strong enough to get on it and carry on - the fewer details left the longer it takes. Typical. Kit provides an opportunity to make flaps working. I could not resist but to follow... 

Sunday, 3 March 2013

Sdkfz 7/1 #10 / The Rig /


Assembly of fenders turned out to be very challenging task.  Fenders of this vehicle have peculiar "spherical" shape, what in paper modeling may be achieved by fixing edge to edge thin leafs of paper that "merge" in one point. It seems easy when edges are consecutive. This case was a little bit different for more than one bending direction was required...