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Evening Gents,

for reasons beyond my understanding I found myself compelled to continue on another ancient build of mine instead of finishing some of the more recent business. Also a reminder to all that we have a permanent shelf queen group build

This is Dragon's old Panzer III kit with Eduard etch and spare Tamiya parts, as well as Master Box figures. According to the photo timestamps I last worked on this in May 2014...back in the days of Modelarmour

I was trying to replicate a particular tank from the Tankograd Panzer III book, thankfully they have the photo on their website.

Naked it looked like this:




My first paint attempt:


I was completely unhappy with the result, which then led to its banishment...

...until last week, when I picked it up, threw it in a bath of oven cleaner and gave it a fresh start:




For the turret numbers I'll need to resort to printing them myself, I hope my cranky old printer agrees to that plan

Philipp

The paint does look much better the second time.

Shawn

I agree with Shawn. Much better this time. Will you use the same figures Philipp?

Vincent

Thanks everyone!

Vincent, so far I plan to use the figures as planned back then. Thankfully they're still complete.

I'll need to design the turret numbers next, more on that soon.

Philipp

Finally got around to making some numbers:



I'm using Inkscape, which is a free vector graphics programme.

Test print....I could have done the math, but I was lazy and simply made a few different sizes to try on the model



Yeah, my printer is a piece of junk. Hopefully the actual decals will turn out halfway usable.

Philipp

A bit of paint for touch up and all will be well Philipp

Vincent