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Nathan Dempsey
That's a beautiful build! Excellent idea to create sagging on the kit supplied tires.

Pascal Van Acker
thx Nathan

Erik Off
Realistic weathering and a great idea for the tires. 👍

Treehugger
I guess in photo 1 for the loaded wheels, the metal rod is first glued to the rubber wheel around the hole in the rubber wheel, and then pushed inwards through the hole in the plastic part, deforming the rubber tyre, and then I guess adding superglue to fix the metal pin in place with (hopefully) the deformed wheel still in same deformed shape. Otherwise, I don't think I understood the explanation there in the text.

Rui S
Great work as usual 👍 The weathering and clean and shine interior on the road whells just wonderfull stuff...
I've also done a Panzer Regiment 8, Panzer II, but in North Afrika. Realy like that Bull Stencil.
Any issues with the kit?

Kristjan Lind
Hey, Rui! Thanks!
About the kit: Getting the lower hull together was somewhat tricky and needed care, patience and attention.
The brackets that support the idler tensioning mechanism on the rear of the hull were wrong for
Ausf.B, and needed to be replaced. And I replaced the commanders cupola with a Dragon one too, because Tristar didn't have any interior details on theirs. Otherwise it's a great kit and a quite fun to build.
You can see the building of it here: britmodeller.com/for..547-panzer-iv-ausfb/

Mathias Decommere
Beautiful job!

Doubtingmango
Excellent work!

Pepe
Great!!!!

Trez
Nice build - I like the figs and the fact that you can see the interior.

Markus Antonius
Great realistic weathering! Finally, a Tank thats just DIRTY, not aged for centuries with excessive paint chipping.

gorby
Scalemates is not a shop – it is a huge database listing all (or near enough all) kits and other modelling items available. Some companies and members use it to sell items but the site itself does not. Go to the kit you are interested in and there may be some on offer - about half way down the page to the 'Marketplace' section.
Alternately, click on the 'brand' name on the page you have seen the item you are interested in and then click on the 'Homepage' link.

Skyhiker
Nice f-16. Which kit did you use? I wasn't aware that the CJ's are covered in 'have glass' or is that artistic license?

A K
I used the tamiya kit w full loadout, and i may have made a mistake with the variant. it is a c.

Skyhiker
Looks good to me 🙂

Treehugger
I already have so many work-in-progress stuff going on, but I need to finish this smaller project to get to try out making custom railings with wire and styrene, instead of doing that on that other heavy cruiser build from before with the USS Guam. Re. the Guam kit, to try re-work all that photo etch railings was a big mistake, just too much work and probably much harder to align than individual pins togehter with wiring for the deck railing.

The 3d printed turrets w. barrels really look nice, however I also have metal barrels in stock. I will try drilling out just a couple of mm's deeper and see if that works out, if it fails I will have to cut off the resin barrels and add the metal barrels. If I end up using the metal barrels, I must remember to make a "jig" to get the barrel alignment as good as possible without the barrels looking weird "not looking straight".

Hmm, maybe the ship ought to be less angled in the photo there? Not parallel with the "white" edges, but not as angled as this I think. Thinking about this now, I think an "angled" ship is all wrong with the mood of the still water, and I will straighten the model a little to avoid the obvious diagonal angle of the hull there in photo #01.

Not sure if I have larger "isopor" material around, will have to look. I just thought, this might work ok, to draw attention to the model itself, and not end up with a large ocean surface acting as a frame.

A photographer once wrote: "Frame what you love" I think what he meant was, to not add other things into the frame other than the stuff you like/love. A "closer framing" I think is also more "intimate and works better, and also makes the model seem taller as opposed to flat.

Hm, I forgot to think about maaaybe having additional models in the ocean. I do have a tug boat of the same era, I could use that. 🙂