1/48 Tamiya SS-100 & 88mm Flak 37

[Road of Bones]

Lovely crisp work Jim- you’ve really become a dab-hand with PE, haven’t you?

[scottie3158]

Jim,
Looking good with some great detailing.

[Jim R]

Thanks guys - your kind comments mean a lot
Jakko - that manual is amazing, thanks.

I've done some work on the gun shield. Not all 88mm guns had shields. The shield was much more common on guns used in an anti tank role rather than an anti aircraft role.
Italeri had made an attempt to thin the edges but the kit shield is pretty poor. Ejector marks everywhere.


PE part is much better.


Shame they have the sides separate. I reckon it would have worked just to have the sides being bent into position. First mistake was to bend the itty-bitty brackets on one side the wrong way. Luckily they didn't fall off when bent correctly :smiling: Second error was forgetting that the sides fixed at an angle - I fixed the first at a right angle but luckily realised my mistake straight away. I then used the kit part to establish the angle. All taped down to a piece of glass.





Ran CA along the join so hopefully it will be strong enough. The small white blocks are to locate the gun sides correctly.
A few more bits to add. If it doesn't work it will be easy to scratch a shield from thin styrene sheet :thinking:

Thanks again for looking in.
Jim

[scottie3158]

Jim nice work

[Guest]

Good idea to use the kit’s shield as a support to get the angle right!

[Steve Jones]

Nice work on the shield Jim . I'm sure it will work out fine and dandy.

[Jim R]

Thanks guys
Progress on the PE shield.




and after primer.




I have completed the cable reels. The PE provided the reel sides but they were only detailed on one side so I stuck with the kit parts. The underside of the boxes was moulded hollow and so had to be boxed in with thin sheet.




Thanks to sound advice from some of my fellow mogglers I managed to 'dish' the PE seats. Flat and dished. A real difference :thumb2:


Thanks once again for following along.
Jim

[Road of Bones]

Well done Jim - that seat pan looks pretty spot-on now. Lovely work on the shield and the reels too :thumb2:

[Steve Jones]

Ditto. Wonderful work all round Jim

[shovelhead 1977]

very well done, coming along very nicely, I would have to have a cushion for that seat !

[Guest]

Hi Jim , bit slow in posting so apologies.
Congratulations on the PE, that shield is so much better, neat way you used the kit one as well when gluing up.
Impressed with the photos as well .

[minitnkr]

Some outstanding work. PaulE

[Andy Belsey]

Sorry late to the show as usual! Looking very neat and tidy but not surprised because it's your work. I'm sure the few gremlins can be hidden under some mud. That's my trick anyway!

(Mike Butler has just sent me some progress photos of my figures that he's been 'cleaning up' before painting. I thought I'd gone over them several times to make them ready for paint but his eagle eyes have found bits all over!! - I'm feeling very inadequate. I guess it's why you can blow photos of his work up so much. He's a perfectionist.)
Andy

[rtfoe]

Look whose later than you Andrew. :smiling6: Jim, did some catching up and the 88's looking good for an Italeri mold. Now looking to see how it measures up the the Tamiya tractor and later on some mud slinging.

Cheers,
Richard

[scottie3158]

Jim,
Lovely work on the PE very neat.