Trumpeter Panzer 38t Ausf E/F 17/1/14 100% BUILD FINISHED!

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As I'm close to finishing the Abrams and the Valentine has friking sucked the life out of me it's time for something small and German! The Trumpeter kit fits the bill very nicely and looks a simple trouble free build. Colour wise you get two choices, panzer grey or three colour schemes. I'm thinking three colour just for a change. So panzers march!

[TRM]

Nice one Pete!! Running to the kitchen for a bowl of popcorn now!! Bring it on!!

[panzerjager]

Dec 1, 2013 0:46:18 GMT -5 @snipersmudge said:

...it's time for something small and German!

It could be a small jar of beer

Waiting for the first pics

Darío

[Deano]

Following this one Pete !

Deano

[danb]

Yes Pete im in looks like great subject i really need to do a early panzer will be taking notes from ya

Dan B

[deafpanzer]

Hell yeah!!! Count me in... you know me being a big fan of German panzers. Those rivets would look pretty cool...

[wbill76]

Nice choice, looking forward to this one Pete!

[Leon]

Count me in Pete.

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Cheers guys, the model is almost building it's self! very easy to assemble and it has some really nice detail. The return rollers even have "continental" printed on em! Here it is so far and I'm nearly done! The only thing I don't like are the tracks which have loads of clean up to do on each link. Friulmodel metal tracks will come to the rescue for this as I'm fed up with fighting kit individual tracks

[Mence]

Looking good, clean work.

[Tobi]

Very cool Pete. The MG muzzle is looking great!

Cheers,
Tobi

[deafpanzer]

Love those BIG rivets... great start. Slow down buddy... let me finish my Chally perhaps?

[danb]

That kit looks awesome so far Pete this is going on the future build list for 2014 if the missus starts shouting at me for another kit hitting the doormat im blaming you buddy

Dan B

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I'll take the blame Dan no worries mate! Tobi the barrels are actually molded like that so no pesky drilling needed

[wbill76]

Nice work on the hull Pete, rolling along nicely.

[ogrejohn]

Looks like good progress Pete! I've been wanting to get one of these kits so I'll be following along too.

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Cheers guys well work has progressed at a stellar pace on this one that's for sure. I'm now waiting for the tracks but basically the main construction is complete. I have added some wiring to the horn, antenna mount and rear lights. The horn is a cut down tamiya item. I have also added some handles to the tools on the left fender. Oddly the tools on the other side have them?

The only tricky part was the cupola assembly being made up of nine parts. Getting them all lined up took some test fitting. Strangely pleased with this so far, it must be the simplest model I've built all year but one of the most satisfying.













Right I had best pull my finger out and see what I've got for a crew figure as well!

[wbill76]

Rolling right along with this one Pete, got to love the 38(t) chassis design, it's one of the few that served in one form or another from start to finish throughout the entire conflict.

[Leon]

Nice progress Pete.A lot of nice detail on this.

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Pete , it looks like a good fitting and pleasant to build panzer you have going here my friend ! Nicely completed assembleage .

[deafpanzer]

Your 38t looking clean and great so far!

[detailfreak]

Great lookin 38t ,how does this stack up against the Tri-Star and Dragon offerings?

[craigcole20b]

Nice looking 38

[danb]

Hey Pete awesome update fella seems like a awesome build so far nice and quick too one small thing i would like to point out where you have added surfacer it needs a bit of sanding as it might show when you lay the paint down you probably know about this and will be doing it just i forgot to do it on 1 model and regretted it please dont take this as a bad critisism your doing a awesome job buddy

Dan B

[TRM]

Looking very nice there Pete!! Something about those big wheels that make this appealing to me!! Nice bid going for the Fruils!! Tiny, but worth the effort!!

[wing_nut]

Neato. 38t is a cool chassis. 1/35 detailing in a 1/48 foot print. Have fun pin washing each and every rivet

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Dec 7, 2013 0:30:11 GMT -5 detailfreak said:

Great lookin 38t ,how does this stack up against the Tri-Star and Dragon offerings?

I have no idea mate as I don't have any other 38's to compare with. Dan cheers mate that was on the "to do list honest!"

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You're just blazing right along Pete!

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Tracks are now done, only four hours yesterday and they are done, just love fruil tracks. I find them far easeir to build than plastic tracks. So the build is now complete so it's off for a wash before primer.

[Hinksy]

Hey Pete,

Superb! Alan (my model group head honcho/leader) is currently building 3 Trumpeter kits - 2 WWII Red Army kits (KV-1 & SU-122 iirc) and the visholovets tractor with towed 155mm arty piece). I know the tractor name is spelt totally wrong btw!

He's a superb modeller, apart from several guys on here he's one of my mentors and heroes and when I saw these Trumpy kits I was seriously IMPRESSED by the quality - I have never built Trumpy and wasn't expecting much as they are cheaper kits but they looked great!

This build of your's looks great - anything with a 38(t) chassis kicks butt mainly because it has nice large roadwheels that are a joy to weather and there aren't many of them and all those rivets weather up perfectly!

I've got Tamiya's Marder III (the early one) in the stash. I've built it before about three years ago but want to go to town on this one now I have some skills!

Keep updates coming!

Ben