1/35 88mm L71 Flak 41 Anti-Aircraft Gun w/Sd.AH.202 Trailer W.I.P

[letsgobrowns82]

Man with all those tiny details, cracks and crevices you could takes weeks to weather all this. Looking forward to it.

 

[adampolo13]

A bit of a small update tonight. I kept working on the left side shield.

I did a quick dry fit and found that these pin marks kept the shield from sitting flush:

Used my Squadron scrapper to get ride of them:

All Fitted in place (temporarily):

Then I moved on to the right side.
This, what I think is a range finder, took for freaking ever. It has 12+ pieces in it:

One last shot:

Thanks for following along!

 

[Dusky]

Gotta love cleaning up ejector pin marks!

 

[Eastrock]

the gun looks great, Adam

 

[TRM]

Continuing with some really clean building!!! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

 

[spud]

this thing is just banging with detail. Awesome work so far Adam

 

[adampolo13]

Thank you all for your kind words! Before you get too excited let's see how well I can paint this thing up. Good news is I'll have a little help from some new friends!

 

[scratchmod]

Man that last pic really shows how good a model this is. Get some paint on it already... ;D

 

[adampolo13]

Thanks for the complements guys! Scratch, every time I want to get the paint ready, the box keeps pouring out little pieces of plastic that need to be glued together.... It's not one of those fancy Tamiya kits that build themselves.... hahaha


Progress from tonight:

Thanks for following along!

 

[TRM]

Busy looking piece it is!! I like the details...gonna POP when it's weathered!!!

 

[Jose Luis Lopez]

Looks awesome!

 

[adampolo13]

Haha, I just want to get in built so I can start painting!!!! Not too much to go, three seats, one more box covered in wheels and knobs etc, and then one more blast shield. Then I can paint!!!!!

 

[scratchmod]

wow that is a LOT of parts in the kit. LOL shake and bake Tamiya...

 

[adampolo13]

Yay, well I HAVE to get this one finished!!! That A-10 that I bought on Sunday is calling my name... So much so that I ordered P.E. and a Aires Aces II ejection seat. Uh oh!!!!

SO, I must get this build complete and primed by the end of the weekend!

After our talk Sunday, you guys convinced me to enter the next show, Apple Valley. I'd really like to enter this and the A-10. But no where near 13 like our other friend from up north!

 

[Dusky]

I'm looking forward to mine, but I just realized I should have gotten the cheaper kit without the trailer considering I'll build it in combat configuration.

I need to get the Aires cockpit for my A-10 The Eduard PE was a disappointment.

 

[adampolo13]

Don't discount how cool the trailers are! Even if you are going to display this in combat configuration you can leave the trailers aside as part of the dio! There is so much detail to them you can't leave 'em out.

In terms of the A-10, Did you get the Big Ed set or just the interior set? I only ask because I only got the Ejection Seat not the whole cockpit. What I really like about the Big Ed is it comes allows you to show the Gun Bay open. Such a shame to hide that bad @$$ gun!

 

[Dusky]

I just got the zoom set for the cockpit. The kit actually comes with two gun nozzles so that you can display the gun separately, but I'll just be using the gun nozzle and not building the gun.

 

[adampolo13]

What!!! Not building the gun?????? Your not right!!!

I'm JK!

Did you get A.M. decals for it? Two Bobs is selling them for $3.00 bucks w/ Free shipping on his website.

 

[ScaleModelMadman]

This kit is awesome and the build rocks too.

Awesome job!

 

[Dusky]

I''ll probably just use the kit decals, though I have removed the one series of upgrades that would have been incorrect for one of the schemes.