PZ4 paintjob
Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2009 6:30 pm
Hi Guys.....
I started this PZ4 while my pc was being repaired and so far I have collected a pile of parts and a hole in me wallet!
The paint job has proved a headache for me. I just can not get it rite..... but I think this version is where I will stop. When I saw the versions of this style of cammo posted here I thought....that looks pretty easy...just a few sqiddly lines and Bob's yer Uncle so to speak.....NOT!
Important point for those of you who have not stripped a PZ4 to bits...this tank commanders turret cupola was not glued to the turret like my Tiger and PZ3, it turned easily through a few degrees and un-clipped just like a bulb from a holder. Also just about every solder connexion in the tank fell off, so watch out when you move wires...not a big poroblem cos everyone here probably has had this happen to them so you learn to fotograph everything before you dissassemble anything.
Anyway...attached are a few fotos for the piccy pervs. It is just a shell at the moment cos I have not decided which battle unit to fit, so if you have any comments or advice it will be welcome rite now cos I can correct anything at this stage.
Many thanks to all of you who sent me teriffic info and diagrams for the turret armour, I hope that I have interpreted it properly.
My local model shop sells 2 mm thickness ally sheet so I bought some for the armour plates. I made a Kellogs Cornflake box card template as was suggested, marked and cut the ally with scissors and it formed to shape really easily. I then cut a second sheet, laid it over the top with a sandwich of epoxy glue between. I have made an ally ply sheet in effect and I am surprised at it's strength. The "stand offs" are made from brass strip and are probably the most difficult thing to bend into the correct shape. All is held in place with minute cross head screws. I had a few miniature dolls house door hinges spare so these are glued to the armour hatch doors for effect.
"acid etch primer" was used on the ally, and "Curust" on the brass before the acid primer was applied, as I find that paint does not stick too well to brass no matter what I do....I hope that this method holds the paint.
This is my first effort at "rust" on the exhaust, and I used a dirt kit from my local model train shop on the body paintwork, I know that I need more "dirt" but don't want to spoil what I have done so far.
Hope you enjoy the fotos......I am begining to think you lot like seeing things in bits!!!!!!
Have a great weekend....Mike
I started this PZ4 while my pc was being repaired and so far I have collected a pile of parts and a hole in me wallet!
The paint job has proved a headache for me. I just can not get it rite..... but I think this version is where I will stop. When I saw the versions of this style of cammo posted here I thought....that looks pretty easy...just a few sqiddly lines and Bob's yer Uncle so to speak.....NOT!
Important point for those of you who have not stripped a PZ4 to bits...this tank commanders turret cupola was not glued to the turret like my Tiger and PZ3, it turned easily through a few degrees and un-clipped just like a bulb from a holder. Also just about every solder connexion in the tank fell off, so watch out when you move wires...not a big poroblem cos everyone here probably has had this happen to them so you learn to fotograph everything before you dissassemble anything.
Anyway...attached are a few fotos for the piccy pervs. It is just a shell at the moment cos I have not decided which battle unit to fit, so if you have any comments or advice it will be welcome rite now cos I can correct anything at this stage.
Many thanks to all of you who sent me teriffic info and diagrams for the turret armour, I hope that I have interpreted it properly.
My local model shop sells 2 mm thickness ally sheet so I bought some for the armour plates. I made a Kellogs Cornflake box card template as was suggested, marked and cut the ally with scissors and it formed to shape really easily. I then cut a second sheet, laid it over the top with a sandwich of epoxy glue between. I have made an ally ply sheet in effect and I am surprised at it's strength. The "stand offs" are made from brass strip and are probably the most difficult thing to bend into the correct shape. All is held in place with minute cross head screws. I had a few miniature dolls house door hinges spare so these are glued to the armour hatch doors for effect.
"acid etch primer" was used on the ally, and "Curust" on the brass before the acid primer was applied, as I find that paint does not stick too well to brass no matter what I do....I hope that this method holds the paint.
This is my first effort at "rust" on the exhaust, and I used a dirt kit from my local model train shop on the body paintwork, I know that I need more "dirt" but don't want to spoil what I have done so far.
Hope you enjoy the fotos......I am begining to think you lot like seeing things in bits!!!!!!
Have a great weekend....Mike
