Pz IV Ausf. H

[kaktus]

Hi guys, I'm back in business again. I was having my summer holiday road trip with my gf so no time for modelling or computer. We were two weeks in the northern Finland at my girlfriends summer cottage and drove around north.

I broke my airbrush needle and can't continue my other projects so I guess I have to start another one. This time something bigger than a 1/48 halftrack.
I'm having a few good ideas with panzer IV's so I chose an DML kit with molded zimmerit.

Let's see if I can find something suitable in my am parts box.


Yeap, I found something

[deafpanzer]

Good to have you back! Glad your trip to Finland was good. A friend of mine told me mosquitoes there were as big as birds.

Great choice... Pz IVs are one of my favorites. And plenty of aftermarkets I am fan of. I am interested to learn more about miniature... plant looks pretty good. More pictures please?

[406 Silverado]

Welcome back....and wow what a great kit to start with. A little something he says. Lots of very cool goodies going on this one. Gonna check at the next show for some of those IV goodies, like a metal barrel or two.

Looking forward to seeing this one get built.

[wbill76]

Ought to be a fun project with all those goodies! Looking forward to it.

[kaktus]

Thanks, it's nice to be here again. Yes, mosquitos are big in here and there are LOTS OF them. You slap your feet once and there is ten dead mosquitos.. Also there is lots of blackflys and those things bite a piece of your skin off... So welcome to Finland

I'm planning to do a very worned out vehicle, but no a total wreck. One inspirational photo:

[TRM]

Welcome Back!! Nice choice I might add! LOL...was looking at this pic the other night! Lookign froward to it!

[wbill76]

Now that's a cool photo to work off of...I'd say the crew had an affinity for extra track links!

[kaktus]

Now building is officially started. Griffon fenders are a model kit by itself. There is like fifty parts just for fenders. I think they build up pretty much same way as in real vehicle.


Ther's only seven parts in that small section..

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This will be fun to watch Kaktus!

[wbill76]

Wow, that's a lot of PE! Off to a great start with it though Kaktus.

[kaktus]

It´s been a very productive modelling sunday. Almost completed the other fender half. Other half will be much easier to do now.

Dry-fitting upper hull



Pending tool is a really usefull when pending long parts.




And almost completed fender. Hardest part was gluing those plates. They needed to be exactly right place to get it right.




Don´t mind that askew plate, its fixed now

[wbill76]

Very nice job on the fender. Looks like they virtually replicated the entire structure just like on the real vehicle. Impressive!

[TRM]

I am digging this all the way!! Fun type of labor intensive!! I have one of these sets for the J...only need the kit...LOL!! Will be following with interest!

[Leon]

Awesome work on the fenders Jukka.Really looks good.

[kaktus]

Thank you guys I found more interesting photos when searching photos of battle damaged fenders. They can be in pretty bad shape. And so much details to add..





More track link armour

[modelfreak72]

Wow another PZ IV?! And with lots of shinny stuff! Lookin forward to the show! Love the pics what book are they out of by chance?

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nice work on the etch

[kaktus]

Thanks

Modelfreak: I found those pics with google image search Couple of those seems to be bundesarchiv photos. This is good site for browsing them jtrowbridge5.smugmug.com/

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Mui DeNaros riding on this build!

[kaktus]

Almost done. It took about 15 hours to build these, but result is very rewarding.


 
Notice that little horse shoe

[deafpanzer]

Fenders look freakin' awesome!! Keep it coming...

[Leon]

Awesome work on the PE fenders Jukka,very nicely done.

[TRM]

Nicely executed!!! Worth every minute of the time put into them!!

[406 Silverado]

Some fantastic pe work on the fenders. LOVE that first ref pic. I have that one and some similar and have been dying to model one of them. Looks like I may have to get that pe set for my H version.

This is gonna be soooo cool.

[wbill76]

Sharp work on the fenders, definitely worth the time/effort to produce them.

[kaktus]

It has been a very productive weekend again. Got fenders done and started adding tools and building turret. Stil LOTS of work to do.


Fender detail.


Barrel parts.


And the headless commander

[wbill76]

Nice progress, got to love the look of that barrel and the crewman with the puppy is too cute.

[kaktus]

It starts to look like a tank. Took those tool clamps from aber set because it was a way more detailed than griffon set. Tool clamps are always quite tricky part, but I think that those look ok.. Left some of them empty for extra detail.






 

[Leon]

Awesome PE work Jukka,Very nicely done.

[kaktus]

Thank you!

Today's session got me this far. Almost done the building part. Next I try to do some damage on zimmerit but thats a way harder to do on molded zimmerit. Also bought a new airbrush needle and nozzle today What a great way to spent a day off.