Sancho Panzer

I replaced the plastic moulded weapons on Boba’s knee armour with brass tube. I then painted the jet pack and more of the armour, adding damage as necessary.

I’ve refitted the rear deck machine gun mount which had become detached. This was made from parts in the PE set and part scratch built from brass tube and copper wire. Bending and soldering the three supporting struts at the base was fiddly but fun. I’m going to make a stock for the MG34 from plastic card as it looks odd without one.

Thanks for your kind words, and yes - the track hooks did break off very easily when they were just superglued directly on to the sides. I removed them all and soldered a copper wire pin onto each hook and drilled corresponding holes in the casemate. This took a long time, although they are now much more secure.

Thanks @FrancisGL for your kind words. The PE was challenging although fun on this scale. I agree that JTs seem to be taking over at the moment😂

Hi Francis, Your JT looks awesome in that colour - fantastic modulation, chipping and I love the streaking effects. looking forward to seeing the next update!

This looks like a very nice build so far 🙂

The orange lines on the left side of the helmet were created by using super fine graphic masking tape and airbrushed using a shade of orange that I mixed to match colour in the images in found. The chips in the armour paint were created by first using a gunmetal grey and then steel. I tried to make sure that chips were painted in line with the various images I had.

Here’s my attempt to make a Bandai Hobby 1/12 figure into less of a toy and more of a display figure. The Bandai kits are excellent; I wanted to create a figure that looked more realistic. The OOB figure - the plastic is self coloured and makes a passable figure. I started by dismantling the pre-built figure and using polystyrene cement during reassembly, filling the moveable joints with modelling putty and green milliput. I airbrushed the various armour parts with Vallejo light green. Boba’s helmet is one of his most distinctive features and I started detailing this as I went along. I used images from the web to make sure the painted chips and scratches were accurate.

After a very long break, I’m finally getting back to completing the Dragon 1/72 Jagdtiger. This was originally started as part of a group build back in 2019 but life got in the way. There’s a lot of photos documenting the build in the completed group builds section - I guess I’m going to be about four years late for the GB but perhaps another one will come along before I finish this little beast?! I restarted working on this a couple of weeks ago - I had problems with the Dragon tracks being too short, which looked unrealistic and they were so tight that they snapped the drive sprockets off. I made new axles from brass rod and spliced in some of the spare tracks from the kit. One side is complete apart from track painting. I also added the decals, gave it a coat of Matt varnish and started the weathering process. I’m going to go easy on this - from what I have read, most JTs saw very little action. Photos from 2019 - Dragon 1/72 kit plus PE from ET Model. And now in 2023, showing recent progress. The kit suffered a bit of minor damage in storage, so some repairs and touching up of previous work is required. The replacement front axle from brass rod. The grey area is the spliced in styrene spare track links. Some of these have been painted and hung on the hooks that I added. More updates to follow - thanks for looking, Andrew

After a very long break, I’m finally getting back to completing the Dragon 1/72 Jagdtiger. I’ve been working on this for a couple of weeks - I had problems with the Dragon tracks being too short, which looked unrealistic and they were so tight that they snapped the drive sprockets off. I made new axles from brass rod and spliced in some of the spare tracks from the kit. One side is complete apart from track painting. I also added the decals, gave it a coat of Matt varnish and started the weathering process. I’m going to go easy on this - from what I have read, most JTs saw very little action.

This is a superb build - the camo, detailing and weathering are awesome. I can almost hear the sound of bullets ricocheting off the sides of this beast as it crashes through a forest in the Ardennes. Love it.

As others have said - this build is excellent and the wheels in particular are superbly done. Nice!

Really nice build of an unusual AFV😀

Great looking model; excellent painting and weathering especially in 1/48 scale - really like the chipping, rust streaks and the mud on the running gear is superb, cheers, Andrew

Very nice clean build and painting - really captures the feeling of a cold winter setting. The figures look good to me - you're right about Tamiya heads though - Hornet Heads (try Historex Agents just down the road in Dover) make excellent heads which makes painting faces almost a pleasure! cheers, Andrew