Panzergruppe Tarraco scenery: the Panzodrom

[Panzerhun]

Herman- Do not drive a tank if you drunk!

[redlinemoto]

great work were can any one get the brick / stone rollers from thanks

[wibblywobbly]

This is quite simply a work of art. I would love to be able to build a battlefield like this, but land in this part of the UK is high value and anything gets a house squeezed onto it.

Great use of materials to get the effects, out of all of the techniques the only ones that I have used are pva glue mixed with earth to surface a road bridge (it sets like concrete), and waterproof wall tile cement to surface stone walls. Scratch lines for the bricks while it is still wet, and paint with acrylics = Waterproof walls and a waterproof road.

There must be many envious tankers looking at this from around the world??

RobG

[Jussek]

Hello guys

Thank you very much for your comments and tips

Redlinemoto the rollers i got them from an online shop for pastrymaking tools


Best regards

[Jussek]

Hi again

this time i will talk about the 15cm NbW41. We own 3 of these arty pieces. One of them we bought it already build, but it has broken and missing parts.

the nebelwerfer had their 'legs' broken so i had to repair the joint points to the carriage:





it haven't several pieces either, like these tubes or the control box:



nor the connecting wires for fire every rocket located in the tubes:



already primed and on the dio base were it will be installed to be put on the battlefield



and now, and the paint job sequence:

















some weathering













and here, already glued on the dio base, with some crew members and ground cover (still wet)









this one is finished, the rest of the crew with several ammo boxes will be made later in a separate base, to serve the entire battery (we will make 3 separated bases like this one)

now i will post pics from the second nebelwerfer that another member of our club is building











some pieces had to be discarded and made from scratch, because this one it's being made to be towed (the wheels would be later made from rubber, so they could roll over every kind of terrain)















that's all, it's waiting for the paint works to be done


best regards!

[Jussek]

hi chaps

after several weeks of working, I've finished another piece for the Panzodrom, This time I've build a 2cm FlaK38 Vierling gun, and a lot of the components are scratch made (as you will notice ipso facto duet he lack of detail on some of them), the origin of this is that some years ago i brought a flak38 and a turret to build a Wirbelwind (this project is yet unfinished), but as the quality of quite a number of parts was 'poor' (to be gentle), and that i wanted to do it RC, i was left with a lot of 'useless' bits of hardware. But then i decided to build another FlaK position for our scenery, so i used some of these parts and also i scratch build some others.

So here you are several tons of pics…First, I started with the guns themselves, made from scratch except the gun tubes and gun muzzles; these are from the static kit I brought for the Wirbelwind.





Here you are the guns already mounted on the ‘barbettes’ (I do not know how to name these pieces, sorry), these ‘barbettes’ I make them from an old cover of an electrical joint box (these boxes we have on the walls of our houses…), detailing the lower part of these barbettes will come later...





Making two clones from the original seats (i need six, si i've to make some), the way the ‘poor’ people do them, with children’s clay to make the mould and another type of hardening clay to do the seats



Gluing the guns and aligning them on the two ‘barbettes’





Checking several components and the way they interact together to look what to correct. You can see several components from the kit (laffette, main body) and several scratch build parts







The gunner’s seat and his support already put in place, also the elevation and traverse control wheels, and the ‘barbettes’ guides







Making and putting in place the shells ejector





Once I did this part, I was aware that I made an error… the ejector from the kit is for it being used in the Wirbelwind turret, so it’s modified and shortened, I then had to ‘enlarge’ the shells container



The working door for the already fired shells box







Several more components and parts already done and primed put in place to needed check corrections. The flakvisier is the one I did long ago for use in the Wirbelwind (the one that came with the kit was useless), later I will put pics of the flakvisier I will use in this flak









As I did not used putty to close the holes when it was time (my bad) I then had to use very thin plastic film to cover these imperfections





Building up the loaders seats, on the rear you can see the two flakvisiers (one for the Wirbelwind, the other for this flak gun)



Gun sight built and with some (only some) detailing, also the elevation arm











The blocking bar used when the gun was in travel mode







The Wood parts that will be located inside the ammo racks, and the ‘facial’ armour used when the gun was used in ground role







Several other components are visible here, the recuperators (or recoil absorbers), the mounting brackets for the upper armour, etc…





Adding several detailing to the laffette, screws, rivets, towing hooks, levers...







Also the dosennibelle



Here you can see several improvements on the barbette’s detailing



And now the ‘Dumbo’ armour…



I made these parts from 0.5mm copper sheet and 2mm brass tube





Testing how it looks







Folded



Adding some more detailing to the armour shields







Gluing the loops used to attach foliage



I was in lazy mode, and I didn’t wanted to do the deflector box armour, so I make only these loops to anchor the shields open





The fixed guns armour shields themselves. The parts are cut from copper 0.5mm sheet





Soldering the parts





And finally, I call the gun build









The painting process begins


In the previous pics, the ammo racks were not present because i will paint them and the wood parts they had separately, and only i will put them in place on the final stage



After painting several parts in red anti rust paint (these who normally were not covered in the guns normal paint) I made the first layer of dunkelgelb





Painting the guns and components of the ‘barbettes’





I have no current fictional references, but I wanted to do this camo











The real wood parts painted with oils and glued in place



Several weathering days passed, filters, oils, etc…















And now, several final shots on the outside, with an emergency crew selected for the pic, I must modify the figures to fit the gun seats…





This position is designed to be buried on the ground of our Panzodrome, so the walls would be no visible at all, only the sand bags













Without gun crew











































aaaand… that’s all for this gun!

Thanks for watching

Best regards

[silversurfer1947]

Wow, I'm lost for words. Outstanding work

[ALPHA]

HOLY CR@P!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ...Where do you find the time???? ........Somebody has to call Disney or Universal ...Colombia!!...From bridge to AA guns...that's some Outstanding dedication and work


ALPHA

[Jussek]

thank you very much guys! I truly appreciate your kind words

ALPHA... lol! i must say that i seek time around the clock... but bear in mind that this FlaK38 had took three months to be completed from first pic to the last.

again, thanks guys!

best regards

[ALPHA]

I am now wondering just what kind of clock you have ...It'd be a blue moon in August if I would be able to even find an hour to break ground ...What you and your buddies have accomplished is truly Spectacular (for lack of a better term )

ALPHA