LionRoar Nebelwerfer 42 Rocket Launcher 1:35

[Mike]

This older kit from LionRoar before they began their GWH brand has long been one I was a leetle bit scared of, due to its multi-media nature. It's about 50% brass, and quite intimidating. Anyway, with some new paints & primer to try out, it got pulled from the shelves and started. The build was quite quick but fiddly, and it was the painting and weathering that took the time. It was primed with Ultimate Primer and painted with True-Earth's new SDW Shading colours, which were very useful and easy to spray finely - let down only by my lack of skill in using them! After painting the model was chipped with Panzer Grey and a lightened version of the Dark Yellow base, then had some True-Earth Ageing Fluid dabbled about here & there. Some Mig Pigment soot was applied around the barrels, with various shades of mud around the wheels & undersides, plus a little bit of metallic used here and there where the paint had been well and truly worn away.

It was an enjoyable build, with lots of new things and all I need to do now is paint up the rockets, then find some crew to man it. The backdrop is just a sheet of Model Scene Late Summer with stones that I picked up from the man himself a while back during a visit to a Czech model show

The first pic shows it after the rockets were painted, the rest before. Confused? Welcome to my world

You can see the short build thread here if you're interested. Thanks for watching

[Dads203]

That's nice mate, like that a lot. just needs a few figures.

Dan

[Mike]

Thanks matey I've got my eye on a set from Trumpy for the s.fH18 (00426), as I'm sure they can be adapted to carry the big rounds

[FrancisGL]

NIce Little boy, pretty rounds ammo... cheers Mike

[Housesparrow]

Haha I can't get over the look of this ammo. I guess I expected the munition for this rocket weapon to look like something else.

[Andy Moore]

That's a fantastic build Mike. Looks right at home on that Model Scene base too

Andy

[HL-10]

Oooh! Like that!

Very nice

[batcode]

superb work, fantastic job on the paint and weathering looks very nice....

[Roberto]

Very good build and painting.

[Mike]

Thanks muchly fellas I'm actually working on the grenates now. I'm going with a mid grey base tone for the body, which will be heavily weathered due to handling. Most of the pics on the web are of the smaller "lollipop" style ones though. All the pics of the 210mm ones tend to just look grotty. Is that a colour?

[Gremlin56]

Nice build, the final result looks excellent. The "shading colours" would seem to do the job nicely too, will have to try them.

[KAYELL]

Outstanding!

Build, painting, weathering setting the lot, love it.

Cheers

K

[stringbag]

Nice one Mike.

Looks rather good on that base.

Chris.

[Reini78]

excellent work! good painting and weathering

[Mike]

Thanks chaps

[Mike]

Updated to add a pic of the painted rockets

[Mr Modeller]

Very nice indeed, beautifully built and painted with perfect weathering and I love your groundwork Mike, very impressive!!

Kev

[Mike]

Thanks Kev - the groundwork isn't my work as it were Is that right? it's direct from Model-Scene in the Czech Republic. really really good stuff, but I wish they did A3 sized mats too

[Head in the clouds.]

Not sure what you are fretting about Mike, it all looks good to my eyes and a good all round display with the Diorama.

[Mike]

Cheers chap I've just finished scratch-building and painting some rocket containers, and have a couple of figures puttied and setting up on the workbench.