Jagdtiger, Tiger I, Tiger II, soldiers
ALCON -
Lots of activity besides model hobby stuff these days. Well, I did get a chance to take a few snaps of my projects today - just showing where they are "in process".
The tanks and the figures are in primered form, waiting for more detail work such as flash removal/sanding/adjustments/casting marks and joints puttying/etc.
The Tiger I has an amateurish application of zimmerit sheet, left over from a stash of faux zimmerit from who knows when. Yes, it is an incomplete "coat" of zimmerit; but I only had a small bit of sheet left. I will still need to get the turret sides and the rear armor done; might not even do it just get the thing done without - who knows. This one is a Tamiya.
The Tiger II is sans zimmerit; I'm calling it a late-war example anyway so they didn't have a universal application anyway. This one is a Dragon. The figures in both of these are older Tamiya that I dug out of the spares box....although I think the guy in the Tiger II was really from the Tiger I Tamiya kit.
The Jagdtiger is about done, it's just got some fender work I want to add. I took all the fenders and cut them out individually, and I will see how many of them I will reinstall. Maybe none, I don't know.
None of these tanks have been significantly "worn down", I'm going to go over them further and do some more detail work on the exhaust guards, the pipes, the fenders, maybe more zimmerit, etc.
The troops are meant to be part of the mini-dioramas that these tanks are going to "participate" in. One group of soldiers are set for a late-war, east Prussia or such scene with the Tiger II and the Tiger I. That's why the 2 guys I made so far for that one have PPSh-41 tommy guns instead of MP-40's.
The other guys are going to be part of a scene set in the Ruhr pocket in April, '45. One of the guys (these are meant to be a mix of paras and panzergrenadiers) has a Kar43 in homage to the Kar43 I used to own - built in the Ruhrgebiet, I believe. For that scene, I am in the process of building a nicely detailed CCKW from either Italieri or Humbrol, which I bought many years ago in the late 80's or early 90's. The scene is going to basically have the CCKW as a "captured" supply truck offloading gear at the locale where the Jagdtiger is set up as a crossroads roadblock - those tanks hardly ever did any mobile campaigning anyway. I wanted to include POW American troops "helping" offload supplies from the CCKW. Not sure if I will ever get this far, but you gotta have some sort of goal in mind.
Primer makes everything kind of stand out....which is why it's a helpful process. The other thing I've learned about myself in this "getting back to my old hobby" thing is the need for reading glasses. Guess I need some bifocals! I am really falling apart.
