Sturer Emil.

[Stef N.]

Just finished this ugly brute, I originally was about to reboot an old Elefant but then I saw a photo of this and wanted to try it. I found Trumpeter's kit at a very cheap price. Not a bad kit for its age, everything fit really well. I swapped the old rubber tracks for their own upgrade set. A bit of Aber etched for clamps and exhaust. I wish I had changed to an upgraded barrel but that was an extra expense that I felt wasn't warranted at the time. Too late now.

 

Tamiya paints Nato Black base, German Grey and Ocean Grey 2 highlights. Tracks AK Chipping Coour as a base and finished with a very dark wash, mixed pastels and a smear of Burnt Sienna oil. Mixture of all sorts of paints for the rest.

 

 

Self critique time. The back door is ill defined. A bit of chipping/wear and tear wouldn't go amiss, espeially te gun. I forgot the aerial. I haven't painted the gun sight and I need a better camera.😀

 

Thanks for looking.

Edited April 19, 2020 by Stef N.

[Lawrence Tierney]

Nice. I like it

[PlaStix]

Impressive looking build. Well done.

Kind regards,

Stix

[Stef N.]

Thank you very much. It was a nice kit to build but it took a while and by the end I was itching to move on to a new project. Now for something different.👍

[Ernst]

Lovely gradients, you've managed to achieve a certain tension in a monochrome vehicle in such a subtle manner, well done. I find german dark grey one of the more difficult colours somehow. I hope you don't mind if I borrow your recipe for future projects. Great job on the wooden tool handles too.👍

[Stef N.]

8 hours ago, Ernst said:

Lovely gradients, you've managed to achieve a certain tension in a monochrome vehicle in such a subtle manner, well done. I find german dark grey one of the more difficult colours somehow. I hope you don't mind if I borrow your recipe for future projects. Great job on the wooden tool handles too.👍

Thanks Ernst. 👍

The colour combo was one of those lucky accidents. Nato Black I bought for something else but as it turned out to be basically charcoal grey so thought it would be a good base for Panzer Grey. And I found an old unused pot of OG2 at the back of my paint shelf so I thought that would be better than just lightening with plain white. Beware as it is quite a 'powerful' colour and it is easy to overdo it.

[diablo rsv]

Lovely job!

You've got the tonal variation just right I think. I often see builds of mono colour schemes where the modulation has been taken too far. 

Regards

Wayne

[Stef N.]

Thanks diablo. It's one area I have been practising on. A few disasters along the way, wrong colour choice, too thick paint, poor airbrush control etc but slowly getting my head around it.

[Buzby061]

Very nice representation of an odd looking vehicle. 
 

Pete

[Stef N.]

Thanks Pete. It certainly lacks the design and finesse of most German armour of the time. Just a massive gun in a box.😀

[phildagreek]

That is a beast, good job!

[Wulfman]

Lovely build and finish on the brute, great stuff !

 

Wulfman