T-34/85 Factory No.183 from Trumpeter static kit

Post by **HERMAN BIX** » Mon Oct 03, 2022 12:57 pm

Kaczor wrote:I ran out of adjectives

I just grinned, shock my head

and pooped me self

Shotek · Post by **Shotek** » Mon Oct 03, 2022 10:41 pm

let' s get some scratches...

as well as a bit of rust...

Post by **HERMAN BIX** » Tue Oct 04, 2022 10:40 am

just..................

Shotek · Post by **Shotek** » Tue Oct 04, 2022 8:56 pm

thanks Mr. Bix!

in the meantime I started to make minor modifications and paint a few figures of tank riders

but the first thing to do was to improve the resin cast of the PPSh-41 submachine gun...

...and immediately an young and promising comrade Sasha took it up to evaluate it...

the second was a modification of the standard Mosin-Nagant rifle to a sniper version by adding scope, bolt handle was replaced with a longer bent version not to interfere with the scope above the chamber during reloading and also the barrel was replaced with a metal one...

here already painted

and here are the individual boys in color...

and this last poor fellow hasn't got a gun yet, he's only got two magazines...
so according to the instructions he has to follow a comrade who already has a rifle and shoots, and when this one gets killed, he grabs his rifle and shoots...

Herr Dr. Professor · Post by **Herr Dr. Professor** » Tue Oct 04, 2022 11:45 pm

And your wizardry continues! When I saw the first photo of the cooling sleeve for the PPSh-41, still flat, I though it was the target at which the submachine gun was fired.

And then I saw various weapons with hands! Wow! Modeling creates some bizarre worlds.
Laughs aside, you certainly do impressive work, and the figures will be such a great addition to your amazing T-34/85.

Shotek · Post by **Shotek** » Thu Oct 06, 2022 7:23 pm

thanks Herr Doc, glad you like it

I decided to give a try to my first sculpting attempt.
Apart from the hands and the tanker helmet used from another figure, the rest is my attempt to achieve the goal...

a small skull to start with...

some flesh..

body part

positioning to the hatch

a personal weapon..

Herr Dr. Professor · Post by **Herr Dr. Professor** » Fri Oct 07, 2022 5:03 pm

Is there anything you can't do? Wow! Your new commander looks angry: Grrrrr! He may become a Hero of the Soviet Union.

Shotek · Post by **Shotek** » Fri Oct 07, 2022 5:12 pm

and here already almost finished figure...
still some additional sanding here and there to correct surface imperfections needed IMO

So that's for my first figure.. what do you think?

Shotek · Post by **Shotek** » Fri Oct 07, 2022 5:19 pm

Herr Dr. Professor wrote: ↑Fri Oct 07, 2022 5:03 pm Is there anything you can't do? Wow! Your new commander looks angry: Grrrrr! He may become a Hero of the Soviet Union.

thanks Herr Doc
that's definitely his main goal, he revealed it to me personally yesterday....
...

Shotek · Post by **Shotek** » Fri Oct 07, 2022 6:23 pm

And here is the current state of T' after some weathering...

The time to hang up some of the obligatory junk will yet to come I believe, but I'm still not sure what exactly I'm going to choose...

Hopefully I'll be able to stuff the driver's torso under the opening hatch, and I'd like to cast a copy of the commander before I start painting. But I lack the experience and equipment for that yet, so it will probably take forever.

Hope you like it..

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