Ferdinand and stalingrad gun spg thing.

[Jim R]

Hi Dave
That is a great finish and as others have said it looks 1/35 in the photos.
Jim

[David Lovell]

Well what a too do sprayed the gun barrel how I forgot god knows ,put out some of the stuff I use as a filter/wash to try and bring it in line with the rest using one of thoes round pallet things I thought ooh look a clean bit/hole thing to put your paint/wash stuff in ,set about the job only to think why the swear word is it al metallicy ah that will be the aluminium paint that made that bit of the pallet look empty , I was already loosing intrest in this build this didn't help ,so forced to strip it back to the plastic I snapped the barrel trying to remove it bloody great , drill and pin that now sod it out came the ca lined it all up best as poss left it resting in the gun cradle, anyway out with the hairy stick not setting up a airbrush just for that did my best end product not quite the same as the rest of the vehicle but this has been caused by heat transference of the gun firing ,before some of you put finger to keyboard I dont care its my excuses and I'm sticking to it.

Thanks for your help and encouragement along the way I'll put the rest of the pic's in the finished vehicles bit. Dave
As a little foot note £8.80 these little snap fit kits from Zvezda leave a lot of others breathing in their dust nothing moulded on even the tow cables are molded pre shaped so as to fit naturally ive said it before the way the tracks are done is something else ,if everybody starts doing 35th kits like it fruil will go out of bissiness.

[minitnkr]

Or it could have been a replacement barrel touched up by the crew. Beautiful job altogether regardless.

[scottie3158]

Dave,
That is a cracking result mate. Beautifully finished.

[JR]

Nothing wrong Dave ok to me:thumb2::thumb2::thumb2::thumb2::thumb2: The fact that you managed a repair and completed it is great.

[JayCee]

Excellent job Dave. Nothing wrong with any of it.
John.

[Tim Marlow]

Looks great Dave. great finish on a small beastie….
The barrel could actually have been painted grey and been classed as a replacement. I seem to remember that the heatproof paint barrels were finished in before the tank etc got it’s paint jobs was a mid grey…..