Pz III Ausf M *FINISHED - FINALLY*

[wouter]

Hi dudes and dudettes

I'm here -AGAIN - with some blog.

In April this year Robin Buckland of MilMod forum sent me a freshly released Dragon kit of the PzIII Ausf M and asked me if I wanted to blog it. Initially I intended to keep the blog solely for the MilMod forum...but I was thinking now...Can't keep my stuff hidden for my MSC buddies

I started the build in May of this year and went fairly fast. Paintwork came on as well but then things went wrong. When I wanted to do the decals I was going too fast...brushed on the varnish and it looked very very very bad. Lost the Mojo for this one

But a couple of weeks ago I decided to try to strip the paint of the turret using a flat brush and Vallejo Airbrush Cleaner. It went well, but I lost the wiring for the smoke dischargers and wasn't able to put some new ones decently in place . Nevertheless, gave the turret a new sprayjob yesterday and added the decals today. It's depicting a PzIII Ausf M of the Totenkopf Division at Kursk. My first Pz III.

Photos now
















what a mess ey?




I set the ISO setting on my camera to 800 this time and photos are less dark, still do a little bit of processing though.

Hope you guys like it

Cheerio

[TRM]

Love it Wouts!!! Nice resurrection!! Count me in!!!

PM coming your way!!

[danb.]

Ooooooo Wouts you kept this quiet looks good buddy i have just finished building my DML Pz III cant decide on painting it for DAK or Russia :/ nice save with the decs issue sometimes things just dont go as to plan

Dan B

[wouter]

T!!! Thanks dude, glad you like the Jesus Tank ;D , and thanks for the PM ^^

Dickster, thanks mate...sure you got that right, arrrrgh

Dan, yeah, a bit quiet anyway ;D Glad you like it...I was lucky to have a fellow modeller (Grant Vanhall - people looking at Armorama might know him) sent me some spare decs ^^). I'd say - go for the Russian paintwork mate, extra grimey and dirty weathering ...love DAK as well, but it seems that's too popular lately ;D

Cheers

[Deleted]

Looks sharp Wouts . ISO 800 .... pics look really good .

[deafpanzer]

Hey Wout!!! I have been eyeing at that very kit every time I stop by LHS. But I end up getting other kits. Maybe you will have some kind of bad influence on me to change my mind...

Looking real good so far! Were you kidding us about it being your first Pz III build?

[armorguy]

You sneaky Belgian fella modeller, hiding this eye candy in the making from us LOL !!!

Serious now, great build and paint work so far my friend ! I look forward to a new update of it !

[spud]

What is it with you and Decals

this is a Fantastic looking Kit and i want one and i want one even more after seeing this

[eastrock]

fantastic work, wouts

[wbill76]

Got to love a good Pz III build! Looking forward to the makeover on this one Wouts!

[wing_nut]

I like it. Never built one of those. Lowest Pz was a IV

[406 Silverado]

Well I wasn't expecting htis, but happy to see it. Nice clean build and paint looks great too.

[bbd468]

Hey brother Wouts, Man you got that nice and clean before paint, which looks FANTASTIC BTW! Airbrush cleaner to strip? Note too self....... Keep it comin' Man!

Gary

[Deleted]

Wouts , is Belgium there ?

[fightnjoe]

holy crap.

no i mean it


HOLY CRAP

thats good stuff right there.



joe

[wouter]

Shellback, thanks a lot dude!

Andy, thanks bro, and defo a kit to be recommended, it practically falls together. My first PzIII indeed bro...in fact, it's my second small panzer (first one is a 38t still to be finished)

Guy, sneaky I am yeah ;D And thanks!

Spud, dunno, usually I don't have decalissues mate ;D, this time it was mainly a varnish problem...or shall I say, I was the problem, that's what you get when I want to go too fast

ER and Mister Bill, thanks fellas!

wingnut...nuthing lowah? oh man, you should go down ;D

Boss, yeah well, thought I'd go and surprise you guys ;D. Thanks!

Gary, thanks bro!!! Mind with the AB cleaner btw, I think the Vallejo cleaner only works on Vallejo paints

Shellback, Belgium is still there...but I was sleeping at work...errrm, working, kind off ;D

Joe...thanks for liking my crap dude ;D errrrm ;D

Cheers

[Hinksy]

Hey Wouts,

I love my Pz III's and variants - I've built plenty of StuG III's but need to build more standard III's.

The box art caughtmy eye when this first came out and it might have to be my next Pz. III build. Looks like a cracking kit and well rescued - she turned out great.

Great job on the sagging Magics btw!

Ben

[deafpanzer]

Wouter, where have you been? I have built three of them already and I love them. Fewer wheels the better for me! LOL Now get back to work and finish your first Pz III so I can send you a bottle of champagne...

[fightnjoe]

Dec 21, 2012 0:13:16 GMT -5 wouter said:

Joe...thanks for liking my crap dude ;D errrrm ;D

i meant it in the most respectful way i assure you. i really love the paint work.


joe

[wouter]

Ho Ho Ho

Ben, thanks dude. And glad you like the sag as well!!

Champagne ey Andy? Sounds good bro . Fewer wheels is a good thing indeed...pitty those SoB's got rubber tyres though

Joe, oh, I thought so mate, thanks again

well, bit of a progress. Allthough I think I might have done it a bit too early in the weathering stage, I did some chipping. Used Vallejo Deck tan for the lighter areas and Iraqi Sand for the lower areas...bit of a CM style chipping so to speak.

I'm still experimenting with the camera btw...found a good setting to get proper lighting by altering the shutter speed...but somehow in that setting I can't alter the Field of Depth to get the panzer fully in focus...will need to do some reading I guess










Cheers

[Deleted]

I Like that chipping Wouts .
I've been doing the same experimenting with my camera . I thought i had a handle on the setting and then i bouhgt some led lamps for my photo booth . Great white light but i still need to re adjust my setting .

[brembo--Rest In Peace]

nice work wouts

i will be followin along on this one too!

[wbill76]

Nice progress there Wouts! Just remember each camera is temperamental and you have to find the right settings that it 'likes' to get what you want! You might want to play with the white balance settings instead of the shutter speed as well if you can't get the depth of field you're looking for.

[deafpanzer]

Great update!!! Looks like that new jacket of yours is really helping you...

[armorguy]

Wouter, I like the quality of the pics and the modulation effects come out well. The chipping looks realistic mate. This thread is as it should be, good text, good pics, love it.

[danb.]

Nice chipping buddy have you got the latest AK weathering mag it shows some good ideas for chipping a good read if your interested nice work chap carry on we are all watching

Dan B

[fightnjoe]

the chipping looks fantastic to me.



joe

[bbd468]

Hey Wouter,

Fantatsic chipping work and the camera seems to be sorted out as the pics look great my man! Well done on both accounts!

Gary

[bullardino]

Wouts, I agree with Gary. Perfect chipping work, my friend

[ogrejohn]

Nice work on the chipping Wouts and the pics look fine to me.