“Dick in East” ... Modelcollect 1/72 German Railway Schwere Platformwagen Type SSYS w/ Trumpeter Dicker Max (by Baran Çakmak)

Hi dear modellers.

This is my new vignette work

Everything is started with a buy 1/72 scale Modelcollect German Railway Schwerer Plattformwagen Type SSYS 1+1 and the idea developed one after another.

Firstly  I don’t like the plastic floor of the wagon so replace the wagon floor with the real wood; one mm thick and two mm wide balsa stripes that left over from glider production many years before in my junkyard. After aplying finished I sanded the floor gently and painted the every balsa stripe one by one with different shades of aqrylic valejo paints. Then vagon is painted with german grey on upper side and different shades of rust at the bottom side, washed and whethered with pigments.

The wagon model comes with the rail road but the details are very sparse so I need to improve it. First I filled the dents on the railroad planks and sanded, then give them wood texture and cracks with a sharp hobby blade. There is also no rail road nails that attach the iron railroad and the planks, so I scratchbuilt them and added. After all, railroad’s wooden planks are also painted in different shades of wood with acrylics. Steel roads are always rusty but the upper parts are always shinny because of friction so painted like that.

The Modelcollect SSYS wagon  has two axle on every boogy so this means that I need a vehicle less than 50 tons of weight  as a model, so I choose Trumpeter 1/72 scale Dicker Max model as logically (at first I thought to use a kingtiger but then I realized that will be wrong for realism for that platform)

Trumpeter’s Dicker Max was moulded good and very enjoyable to built. But painting options are very limited because Dicker Max produced by the number of just two (an one was burned by itself on a fire while firing accident) so the color was german gray. First I applied shades by pre-shading and then painted)

The iron bridge on the vignette is scratch built. I first downloaded some drawings and pictures from internet and built one from scratch by leftover evergreen plates and profiles. The rivets on the bridge are a little bit time consuming but I have to add it. They are made from sprue, their heads are shaped like mushroom by a lighter. I will talk about it later. İron bridge is painted first in rust colors, and later two coats of different colors to achive contrast. The old paint effect made by the help of heavy chipping fluid, then washed and wheathering applied.

Figures are from Aliexpress, painted in SPG crew clothing colors. Their quality is not too good but ok, can save the day.

The sides of the river on the vignette made by the foam coated with modelling paste, after all is shaped and dried, natural soil from my garden sprinkelled to the ground and fixed by diluted white glue. I also added some rocks to the view those are made from rough parts of cat litter. After all, whole ground covered with filler coat, then all black. Then painted in earth colors.

The leftover T34/76 turret is (I think) UM or Italeri model (I got it from junkyard of Erhan Atalay, thanks for the help) cut in the bottom of turret to get proper fit to the ground of the river, the turret also painted in rust shades and chipped.

The water on the river is made by two component acrylic clear resin colored by a few drop of green color. I firstly made a mold/barrier around  the vignette by acetate sheet. To avoid the leak of resin I sealed the gap between ground and the asetate sheet, I used liquid masking fluid as a seal, then pour the resin and left all for whole night to cure. One day later I tear off the asetate sheet. While curing time the resin shrinks so the sides of poured resin curls upwards like a wave so I trim it with a sharp hobby knife to optain a flat surface. After that I applied Vallejo Extra Heavy gel all of to the surface  by the help of a paintbrush creating some waves and waited to dry. After gel dried it become clear. Then I drybrushed the surface with vallejo snow effect to create white foams of waves.

It was a pleasure for me to create that vignette so I hope you like it…

Baran Çakmak..

 

Modelcollect E-100 Ausf B. German Heavy Tank / By K.K.Kerimoğlu & Hakan Karlı)

 

Hello friends,

Today's model was completed by two modelers.

Turret by Hakan 'the Magnificent' Karlı, Hull by Kürşat Kaan Kerimoğlu. 

The hull of the tank was previously used in another model. Click please: http://miniafv...v1-missile-launcher.html

Well done guys, nice job…

Erhan... 

With a PzIII..

With a old model... same hull used

Modelcollect 1/72 Russian T-80 BVD Mbt by Özgür Aydın

Hi, 

A beautiful vignette of our dear friend Özgür Aydın. 

The camouflage application on the T80 BVD is very successful. Congratulations Özgür ..

Erhan... 

Modelcollect 1/72 Bulgarian E-100 Stug Gun / by Kürşat Kaan Kerimoğlu

 

Hello everyone, 

Kürşat's Bulgarian tanks project continues with a What-if vehicle. The E-100 Stug was completed as a Bulgarian tank.  

A successful model with a nice weathering application. Congratulations Kürşat..

Erhan…

Bulgarian markings
A smaller white cross was used from 1941 in Armoured Regiments for air identification and a larger black diagonal cross was supposed to be shown within a white square for assault gun detachments although in practice it was usually just highlighted in white around the edges of the cross. This diagonal cross can be found liberally applied to the fronts, sides, and rear of tank and turrets and on the roof of a variety of tanks. Some crosses were very carefully painted on and highlighted and others rather hastily applied either individually or in conjunction with various slogans.Not all vehicles have used this diagonal cross however and some can be seen with large red communist stars outlined in white instead as recognizable symbols.

W-Model 1/72 40V6 MAST with 76N6 Radar **Turkish Army** / first page (By Burak Özdil)

 

Hello dear modeller,

In April 2022, I shared Burak Özdil's Turkish Army S-400 model. (http://miniafv....S-400-air-defense-system.html) The S-400 is an air defense system and shouldinclude vehicles such as radar. Below are the details of the system in the picture.

Burak modeled the 40V6 Mast with 76N6 radar in this system for Turkish Army.

There is only W-Model brand resin kit in the market for this model. He used the Modelcollect Maz-7410 tow truckas the carrier..

Today I am sharing the construction stages. A really difficult model and for master modelers. So for Burak Özdil. Congratulations my friend…

Erhan...

system.

kit resin parts..

PE parts..

costruction..

MAZ-7410 truck..from Modelcollect

paiting..

Click please for the completed model:https://miniafv….w-model-172-40v6-mast-with-76n6-radar.html?m=1