1/12 Scale Hetzer

[HERMAN BIX]

I had the same image in mind too
Theres a give away

[Spinnetti]

Working some of the tedious details between other projects. I finished up the race car rebuild today, so on to hinges, handles, hatches, and hatch stops along with many little detail corrections. Need to quit stalling and work on the gun mantlet, but not sure how to model that yet. I'm good at hard angles, but not organic shapes!

[Spinnetti]

Bunch more details and corrections, bunch more to go!

[Will01Capri]

Perfection takes time, keep going, its going really well

Got any pictures of the race car?
Been a while since i was able to work on my own or other peoples

[Spinnetti]

Perfection takes time, keep going, its going really well

Got any pictures of the race car?
Been a while since i was able to work on my own or other peoples

I've had several, but currently race in the spoof series "24hrs of Lemons"... This is my beater...

This is how folks experience us from the view of another cars cam (30 sec watch): https://youtu.be/OxKUz1u8ZDg?t=876 (ours isn't the camera car, its the one passing it)

[Spinnetti]

Getting lots done this weekend. Gun internals not done, and plenty of little stuff, but finish line finally in sight!

[HERMAN BIX]

Magical work.
Every home needs a Hetzer !!

[Spinnetti]

More details such as the tool box and brake light along with various tweaks... About ready to print the whole thing again, though I still have various gun emplacement work to do.

[43rdRecceReg]

Well, thinking of the Hetzer's snout, that's certainly one 'organic shape' you mastered with ease .
Just out of curiosity, what tech are you using to separate or excise the model image from the background? Photoshop, perhaps? Whatever it is, it certainly enhances the dynamics of the model If it doesn't cost a fortune, I'd like to try it

[Spinnetti]

'Recce, I really struggled making the mantlet, but thankfully got it "good enough for who its for" (me). I'm still struggling with the barrel shroud. I'm using Solidworks 3D cad, and then "rendered" which is just a fancy way of saying colored, shaded and shadowed on a background of your choosing (the gray parts are real pictures of my 3D printed model, and the green ones are CAD renders). You can do it in Solidworks, or use a 3d party visualization tool like Keyshot or many others. Solidworks has a very inexpensive hobbiest/Maker non-commercial license, though mine came free with my membership to the EAA (Experimental Aircraft Association). Like all good 3D software, it takes a while to master and its not super stable - I get pretty regular crashes. I found Autodesk Inventor the easiest of all to use with best-in-the-software-industry help system - taught myself enough functions for a project like this in the first weekend of use but haven't used it in years. That said, Solidworks is more powerful, but takes longer to learn and its help system stinks compared to Inventor.