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Prost, what a nice blog, and the detailing and all your explanations. Awesome! Thanks for sharing this. /Stefan

Pah, amazing as always and a true pleasure to read through your blogs. You are definitely nothing of a modelling demimonde! 3 days in and the hull is almost halfway done... lol. Prost, /Stefan

13 days, wow . How many arms and hands have you got? Kraken released? This should be a joyful build then. These 1/16 kits are awesome. /Stefan

Good paint job so far. /Stefan

I hope the "evil cat" will not find a new toy in this awesome Waffenträger. Amazing progress Andy.

Great one there and all that PE! I am in! That gun is huge

Lovely 8 wheel version of the 234. I like your depiction of the storage bins and the addition of the binos and other little extras!

Great first tank there. I'd second the dust thing, the tracks are a bit too tidy I'd say.

Spectacular! These LED's are just an additional treat, as Julian stated. This is museum quality!

Yes, finally an update of this impressive build blog. Good progress.

Interesting vehicle and that's a pretty empty calendar in the backghround^^.

One thought regarding the snow and stuff: If the tank has been moved recently, there would be more snow at the rear than on the front of the tracks, as the shaking and all the touching of the return rollers would gradually reduce mud and snow as the track "moves back to the front". Just a thought.... <- I have read (can't remember where and how good of a source it was) that this "mud reduction effect" was also a reason why the drive sprockets of German tanks were mostly located in the front. Will see what some pros will say.

Wow, super detailing on this scale. Love the modifications and the effort you put in here. This is an excellent diorama you mastered there so far.

Will give it a try. If it melts, no harm done as the parts are useless as of now... Thanks for the interesting suggestion.

That Gunbarrel, truly epic! Best thing I have seen in a while. Great idea!

Good evening,I finally managed to do sth for this build again (Cut some more train parts, but thought I'd give you a break). My hand is recovered now, so I could dare getting back at it. The added interior parts received the first paint coats... I have actually spilt paint on the one lever on the door... No person will see it, so I might leave it or fix it.... Added some more blood into the fighting compartment (goats blood from the butcher). Will rework the base around the shells to the right, some of the brass colour went to wrong places, but then again, all invisible later and I am not such a good painter. How do these figure painters do all this tiny stuff????I bow to them. The engine room needs some more cleaning and paint, but all parts are in there now. The front of the vehicle is also almost done. Added another cable for the turret electricity (light). The searchlight for the roof is under construction.This is, as discussed earlier, a special modification of the rail versions.Needs lots of sanding once solid and dry. It is 5mm in diameter. I will add a rim once done for the outer layer, I guess from paper dipped in CA glue. Prostiprost, /Stefan

The camo preparation is looking good. Will surely lead to an awesome result. Amazing job so far! Waiting with interest...

Nice progress so far. It is always interesting seeing these truck parts come together. The kit's frame details do look very good as does your finishing. The cabin will be a treat once finished, I bet.

Stix, Bookmarked for future track assembly help! Great thread, getting better every day. Keep these informative and long posts coming, there can never be enough smart input. The snow effects are building up nicely!

So true. Does not matter if we reach the skills of our role models, but the fun in our hobby is what counts! It's nothing fancy so far. These round shapes are a pain, however. I need to build or buy a rig for future stuff. You can laugh your bottom off, once I start painting^^. The whole cabin parts got warped... (Do they often warp (once taken from the sprue and being left for 8 months...)? I need to redo them all I think, I cannot get them in the right shape again, even once heating them, as I had tried it last night... They are warped convexly by 26 degrees, with massive pressure. Any suggestions or ideas? /Stefan

Great job here. You made this ugly vehicle thing look good in the end, very impressive! Good mud effects also. Prost!

A very nice diorama, with a great model. As has been said before, the last photos do look like ones of the real thing...

Very nice model, especially the paint scheme is very distinctive and superb. /Stefan

Good day all together, The frame is starting to have almost all parts ready to be bolted. Some 15 more are missing, then I will need to take some parts off the old one and I can assemble it. The newest member is the partially finished coupling support block, this is where ONE steel bar (there were two safety ones on the BR50, but to save weight no safety measures were included with the BR52 design and they were omitted) will connect the tender to the engine and the whole weight of the train will be pulled and held by this one bolt (we are talking about 1,200tons being pulled at 65km/h)!!! The one centre hole will hold the steel rod with a massive bolt, the two other holes were the ones for the safety ones... they will simply. be left empty. It will receive a 3D texture and thickness of up to 4mm with Milliput. Trying to finish it today as we received so much snow, our business is shut today, happy modelling. Have a good day. /Stefan

That is a quite prominent roadwheel party going on there... Awesome!