T-34 with Flakvierling

[Finnmodeler]

Now this is a project I ditched for some reason. Perhaps PE tracks were more challenging than I hoped for. Or maybe gun itself is a bit challenging. I'll try to finish this soon as it will build a nice model.
I used Eastern Express T-34 instead of Revell first intended. EE is more suitable with earlier round mud guards. Model is quite nice thou some details are a bit softer than in Revell. I was tempted to use Part PE for this but decided to use in another project. EE tracks were so bad that I've tried Part PE tracks. Those are easy to glue together but a bit hard to bend into right positions.
http://www.kitpic.com/is.php?i=10476&img=FlakPanzer_T-34.JPG
http://www.kitpic.com/is.php?i=10475&img=FlakPanzer_T-34_2.JPG

Armo conversion is quite straight forward with PE and resin bits. Turret is folded from one PE piece which glued together. Maybe soldering would have been a better solution but my skills aren't that good. Armo set is nice but instructions leave a lot to desire as no part location are told, only pics of a finished model. Especially Flakvireling is difficult to build as you can't tell from pics or even from parts what goes where. I've been using Tamiya Wirbelwind as reference :lol:
I will paint turret interior and gun separate. Gun barrels have to glue in place last or I won't be able to put things together :lol:
http://www.kitpic.com/is.php?i=10477&img=FlakPanzer_turret.JPG
http://www.kitpic.com/is.php?i=10478&img=Flakvierling.JPG

Any suggestions to paint scheme are welcome as well as any comments.

More to this later,

Niko

[Evan August]

Looks good so far Niko. Is this small scale? I didn't know there were such things as PE tracks, how do they compare with metal?

[Finnmodeler]

Hi,
yes it is 1/72 scale. PE tracks are solely for small scale as in 35th scale those would be way too thin.

Cheers,
Niko

[Finnmodeler]

Here is an update to this project. I have been hesitant to paint this for some reason. I gave it a go after some thinking. First a coat of green to simulate Russian Green. German DunkelGelb over that as a base color. I left some parts green. I don't think that Germans would have painted all from underside with DG. As there wasn't much info regarding camo, I used my only refs from http://beute.narod.ru and http://www.achtungpanzer.com. As a matter of fact, from Beutenarod I found out that Armo's conversion is quite wrong:( There is no rear wall in turret!

Well, I didn't bother to change this so I just experimented with Lifecolors to paint camo. Green came out quite ok, I blended some white into it. German Tank Brown was a disappointment as it turned out almost pink as blended with white. I repainted it with Tamiya Red Brown. I'm not happy with the result.


http://www.kolumbus.fi/niko.asposalo/T-34%20Flak/Flak_painted_1.jpg
http://www.kolumbus.fi/niko.asposalo/T-34%20Flak/Flak_painted_2.jpg
http://www.kolumbus.fi/niko.asposalo/T-34%20Flak/Flak_painted_3.jpg

I will paint ammo cans with some color, not sure if with German grey and DG, as a mix of different ammo cans.

Any comments are welcome,

Niko

[James Tainton]

looks good so far- keep on keepin' on.