1/35 88mm L71 Flak 41 Anti-Aircraft Gun w/Sd.AH.20

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Hey guys, this is another one I've been working on over at SMA. Hope you guys enjoy.



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Beginning of the platform.


The kit gives you the option to display this in transport or combat mode. This is a pic of how the stakes are stored when transporting. Great detail included in this kit.


Here are the hooks used to attach the gun to the trailer.



Another detail shot.


Here is the base. Yup, that is 19 little pieces of P.E. glued on there.


On to the next sub assembly.



Next it is on to the cannon itself. The kit came with a single, that is right, a single barrel. Meaning I did not have to glue two pieces of plastic together. I did do a little light seam sanding though. Def not bad at all!



Continued work on the gun itself. Check out the details!




And that leaves me in the middle of page eight! Only 22.5 more pages to go.

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Here are some pics.

Main Gun:



A detail shot:

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Here are some in progress pics.







I saw these as I was building and almost flipped out!

Then I decided to look at the instructions. Bronco did a great job hiding these later on. No work required!


So many parts! They have the handles separate.


Then comes one of the seats, this was 4 pieces!


More progress:





I tried out some new stuff on the camera. Here are some more detail shots. I decided to go ahead and display this in transport mode so I went ahead and glued the base and the gun in their respective positions.












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As always, thanks for taking a look.

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I was able to get a little bit more done and I couldn't resist moving a little forward in the directions and started work on the trailers. Good thing to because I figured out that since I am going to display this in transport mode I am going to need to attach the trailers before painting the base. I didn't get a lot done on the trailer but I did dry fit everything and it sure does look pretty sweet!








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I started the night buy adding the inner wheel drum, the level of detail in here is pretty wild, they included the detail for the drum breaks!!! What I didn't realize at the time that I glued these on was that I put it them on backwards. Good thing I noticed tonight and not tomorrow morning.



Here are a few pics of the in trailer in progress:







Here's the pic of the inner wheel things fixed up.


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I did get some work done on the second trailer but I haven't had a chance to take pictures of that yet. I should get some up this weekend.

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In terms of building tonight I got the rest of the work on the trailers done:






Then I got to working on the wheels, they are only temporarily in place for now:



I then put the gun on the trailer to see how it looks:




Then I got around to starting work on the shields:



It was at this point that the P.E. parts started to get a little blurry and I had to call it a night.

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I did a quick dry fit and found that these pin marks kept the shield from sitting flush:

Used my Squadron scrapper to get ride of them:

All Fitted in place (temporarily):




Then I moved on to the right side.
This, what I think is a range finder, took for freaking ever. It has 12+ pieces in it:



One last shot:



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Progress from tonight:






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Two more seats and the blast shield and the build is complete. Only a few more hours of building to go...




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ey, T you ready for delivery???

Well, after hours a few hours of fighting with P.E. on the right hand blast shield I am finally complete with the building phase!!!!

Here are some pictures. I hope you like them.

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PRIMER!!!!

Wheels:



Trailers and Base:






Gun:







I'm going to give it a few more hours to cure up a bit more, then I was thinking about laying down dark yellow as a base coat. What do you guys think?

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Who wants to see this bad boy with its base color???















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So I set out this morning to get the squiggly green line camo scheme painted on the blast shields and gun. Well the modeling God's had a very different plan. They decided I would struggle all day!!!! Ever have one of those days?

I tried so hard to get the paint thinned right, the p.s.i. right, I even tried both airbrushes. I either got the paint so thin that it didn't "stick" or the paint too think that I couldn't get the lines thin enough. That and I had a hard time with the scale aspect of the lines...

So, I had to repaint the blast shields and try something else. The pattern that I decided to go with came from the instructions. I hope that they are accurate because I'm not painting them again! After the blast shields were dry enough I started masking out the scheme below and then set out to painting. Well, I started taking up the masking tape and all was looking good. That is until I realized that when I pulled up the masking tape on the right side blast shield I took up two pieces of P.E. and I only found one... So, from there I had to scratch build the missing P.E., re-glue it, mask it off and then repaint it. And then I noticed that in handling the shield I managed to chip it. Well, I tried to brush paint it which didn't work cause the dark yellow didn't match what had gone through the A.B. So I had to try and make it off and paint it all over again. Ugggh.

So, after many hours of fighting with the blast shields, here is the result:







I feel like I just went 10 rounds with a heavy weight, and am waiting for the judges decision.

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Thanks guys!!! I did a little bit more tonight. Painted some of the tools and the chair. I need to figure out how to brush paint better.... But I'm hoping it will all blend it, look better after weathering processes...






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I decided to take a shot at the wheels. I tried Ken Abrams method of painting and holy smokes it worked! I didn't screw it up once! haha. I did four outside wheels. They all came out like these.

Front:


Back:


Also, I took Scratchmod's advice from Sunday and didn't paint the tires strait flat black. It's is lighted up with flat white. It looks shiny in the pic because its still wet.

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Alright guys, middle of the week bench time for me is tough but I got a few minutes to get a little bit of work done. I threw some dark grey on the A-10 cockpit and then did a little bit of work on this bad boy!!! And by a little bit, all I did was paint the breach and rails. Then I couldn't hold myself back, I had to dry fit it with the wheels on.












I hope you guys like!

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Here are some pics of the 88 with the future on it:




(The cool thing is you can actually see the effects of my pre-shading in this one)




Here's what I'm going to start playing with now...
I started trying to lay down a pin wash.




I didn't take pictures, but I also put a filter on the blast shields.
My plan is to continue with the pin wash process. What do you guys think?

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Anyway, I've been having fun with the AK products.




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Anyways, I did get some more done. Not a lot, but I've gone back in places where I missed some spots or the pin wash wasn't very thick. Here's some pics as she sits now.






I hope you guys like!!!
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Alrighty folks, its official, I love weathering!!! I have no idea if it's coming out good or not but I'm having fun messing around with the AK stuff. I also did some Chipping for the first time and messed around with trying to get the blast shield to show some wear down to the steel...

Anyways, here are some pics:







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Update time for this one, hope you guys like it. I think I'm almost done weathering this side of the gun and the wheels.









Still lots more to do.

;D

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It's an impressive kit detail-wise, Bronco has upped their game lately in that department with the artillery pieces. Lookin good so far!

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Beautiful details and man thats a lot of pics . How did you get them all posted in 15 minutes ?

[johnt]

Hi Adam, looking very impressive !

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Hey guys,

The weathering on this is taking me forever. It's only because I am playing around a lot with the AK stuff. Different washes, pigments, effects etc. I'm just having a lot of fun with the whole thing. I have a feeling its going to be a dirty mess when I'm done but that's what I'm kinda going for. ;D

Here's where I was at the beginning of the night. (I did a lot more to it after these pictures but everything was still kinda wet so I'll wait til tomorrow to take more pictures.)






Hope you guys enjoy!

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Man this one is really looking cool I like your weathering . ;D

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Do you feel like you got your monies worth with this kit Adam? ;D

Lordy
Tony

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HOLY SMOKES! I missed your posts earlier. It really looks GREAT! Like its details too. Now you have my attention...