Stug IV Vs T-34. Kirovograd 1943.

By Francis Lee

Models:
Academy Stug IV
Tamiya T-34/85
ESCI figures

Happy New Year to everyone!

During Christmas day, I built up this diorama. Without a heater at home, the recent cold weather of 8-10c in Hong Kong. (It is already COLD temp. here.) it brings me the mood to make a winter snow diorama. I try to call back my feeling of snow which was 2009, december. I was in Rovaniemi, Finland.

Start with layers and layers of toilet paper to create the slopes on a base board, I poured a layer of gesso paste (I brought it at art material shop), after it dry out I sprinkled alot of gypsum power and spreaded it smooth by a tiny tea spoon. Finally I place the tanks and figures there.
I try not to sneeze or I will blow my snow away! Please let me know if you have better way to make it! And I am sure you guys have it!

Beside, I this is my first time to use the Tamiya zimmerit coating applicator, my feeling of it is fine, but I guess a pack of handsaw blades may work the same but cheaper than the Tamiya, and this time I try not to use the epoxy putty to make the zimmerit but using a very common office stationary of "Blu tack" or "Bostik ". They are soft enough for me to apply the texture and it gets harden after I painted on it. Although it wont as hard as putty but it is still OK.


Video of this diorama:

T34/76 video tutorial - Warfare in Scale

By Kasper Fischer

"Not by strength but by guile" 1/72 scale diorama by Carlos Costa

I really thought I knew all modelling channels on YouTube but I guess I was wrong and today I found an awesome new Spanish channel, called Warfare In Scale. So far they have uploaded one complete build in nine episodes and it's really looking good for the future. The model is the well known 1/35 Tamiya T34/76 and the modeler is Carlos Costa. Though I have never heard of him, his work really looks amazing. 

I hope you guys will survive a non-English video.

Dragon T-34/76 "Krasnoe Sormovo"

by Hamilkar Barkas


The kit is from Dragon (#6479) and belongs to the Smart Kit series, although it looks more like it is an old kit with some additional parts, so the term Smart Kit is not right in this case. Anyway, the quality of the kit is superb and the kit itself is quite beneficial. I had no problems to assemble the model, just a tiny amount of filler was needed on the gun mantlet.




The base-colour of the tank is a mixture of Revell Aqua Color 39 and 65. To depict a used paintwork on the tank i applied MIG dark wash and several sessions of drybrushing with a light base-colour. Some subtle chipping rounded off the work. The mud was done with a mixture of earth, white glue and MIG pigments.

I hope you like the finished model :)