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Modeller Build Logs
Building the Tristar Panzer IV D Tauchpanzer |
| By Glenn Bartolotti | | Started: | Dec 8, 2006 | | Updated: | Feb 10, 2007 |
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I will be building in this Blog the very nice Tristar Panzer IV Ausf. D "Tauch". I will be using Saul Garcia's review found here: http://www.track-link.net/reviews/k1757 I will use this review as my guide and I will be referring to it as I build if needed. The instructions are much easier to follow and read than the DML Panzer IV Ausf. E kit which are very confusing.
My plan is to build the kit as a Ausf. D, not the Tauchanzer version. I will build the kit in the 15 steps the instructions show. I will show a scan of the assembly step from the instructions and a photograph of the assembled parts for that step. |
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| Weathering Starts | Feb 7, 2007 |
The decals have been applied and now covered with Testors Lusterless flat finish and left to dry a few days.
With a burnt umber wash of artist oil thinned with turpenoid it is used as a spot washes around all the raised surfaces and inseams (photo top).
I made a wood beam out of balsa and glued it in place. While the mixture of burnt umber artist oil thinned with turpenoid is still out the wood beam is given a wash to act as a stain (bottom photo).
...more weathering to follow |
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