@Carlos: Welcome onboard with another allied tank buster. You are giving those Panzers a hard time I know how it can be almost impossible to resist cool colour schemes, markings or specific planes. Now both of us are going for the oakleaves to our ribbons I guess

@Serdar: Welcome on board. Good to see you are participating in both this and the Vietnam campaign. Great to have you on board and looking forward to see your birds.

Hi all!

My "Panzer-knacker" finally got it´s colors;

After painting and masking all white areas, I painted the underside RLM65 Light Blue and the top RLM79 Sand Brown.



The spots was painted RLM71 Dark Green;



One of the biggest thrills on a masked paintjob is removing the masks, are there any runs or ripoffs, have I missed something?

On this one everything worked like a charm, the masking was perfect (this time! )







Soon comes my favourite modelling task, dressing her up (with decals)!

Cheers!

Stefan E

Stefan, Awesome paintjob mate !!

Looks great, Stefan. Very nice paint job. I will make the same aircraft in a Kursk scheme so we will have this baby in two very different camouflage schemes for this campaign.

Looking forward to see more

Sorry guys. I've been swamped lately and have just now been able to get back into working on my Typhoon. She IS coming along quite nicely though.

Looking good, Todd

Looking forward to see more

Okay, after a while with just my nick hanging in the participants' list, I got started on my entry, Eduard's 1:48 scale P-39Q, which I'll be building as the 'Devastating Devil' featured on the box art.
I don't have anything significant done yet, just some of the cockpit floor/nosegear well assembled. Visible in the pic are also the quickboost resin exhaust I'll be using (perhaps a bit of unneeded luxury I admit, since the holes are round and wouldn't be hard to drill in the kit-parts anyway, but a little luxury's never killed anyone, right? )
In addition to that, I'll be adding details with Eduard's PE set (bought it separetely, my kit's the regular version), plus resin mg's in the cockpit (plain PE boxes vs. resin parts, which one's the winner?), and fuselage mg barrels from tthe same Aires set.
Well, nothing much to see now, but it's a start.

Started my 1/32 Hurricane IID yesterday.Hopefully won't be too long.

Jesper,

Is it OK if I participate in this compaign?
I also got Stuka G-2 flown by Rudel. In 48 scale by Hasegawa.

Andy

Sure, that would be a great entry Welcome on board. Looking forward to see your bird take to the skies to hunt some Russian panzers

@Eetu and Rick: Good to hear you are getting started and air support is coming up for the allies

I have started my Hs 129 B2 as well. It is moving forward very well. I will go for the Kursk version with splinter camo and those cool Infantry assault badges on the side of the fuselage.

Hi tank busters

I began to build my Revell's P-47 in 1/72. Decal sheet has two options; USAF and Armee de L'air, France. I decided to build it in French scheme.

Here, a few progress pics:

Late to the party... Can I still play?

Russian Front Hs 129B-2 Panzer cracker (1/48 Revell of Germany boxing of Hasegawa kit):

Cockpit with some scratchbuilt seatbelts and other details:





Painted, pre-decal stage:

Here is my entry

I used Eduard set for the Stuka exept for the flap links... Those I made from styrene. Also I added armor plates on the side of the cockpit.




Andy

Looks great, Andy. It will be a cool bird. Always liked those Stukas

Rian, very nice bird. I am building this model myself for the campaign. I doubt my cockpit will look as good as yours. Now there will be three Hs 129s in the campaign including a desert version. Those T-34s are going to have a hard time.

Sarbas, looks like that build is coming along nicely. Looking forward to see more.

The campaign is really picking up speed now. That is great to see

I've been doing some improvements to the kit-parts.

The small guide plates next to the shell ejection chutes on the under-wing machine gun gondolas were solid, so I filed them thinner before gluing the halves together. The holes for mounting the MG barrels were too large, resulting in a sloppy fit, so I filled the holes with styrene rod and drilled smaller holes for a tighter fit.
The fuselage machine gun openings have also been opened with a drill. The openings aren't 100% done yet, some refining is still to be done.
The solid plug depicting the cannon and it's barrel shroud just had to go.
First I tried to drill out the plug, which didn't work. Even getting the hole centered was tricky, so I had to think of something else. Dragon's new Stug.III has used smoke launchers, which made a great cannon barrel shroud. The cannon barrel was made from brass tube.

I made some progress on my P-47.
I think a little bit pre-shading will do no harm



And i decided not to use yellow stripe decals, i painted them instead...





That's all for now, have a happy weekend...

A little bit of my progress too.

Flaps links in Hasegawa kit are definitly the weakest part of the kit. I cut them off and substitute them with styrene.




Andy

@Eetu, Serdar, Andy: Good to see progress, gentlemen It will really be some awesome campaign builds we will have in this campaign.

Hi all!

When I left off last time I had the airframe painted in the basic colors.

As soon as the paints had cured I gave it a coat of Humbrol 35, Clear Gloss to prepare for the decals.



Then It was off to the decalling;



Revells´ decals went on without any hitches, they are matt and quite stiff but conforms very well to the surface, even If they don´t react at all on Micro-set or -sol!
When dry, they had snuggled down and looked like painted-on.



When dry, I noticed that some decals had silvered despite a very hard and glossy surface.
Another (bigger!) annoyance was when I discovered that the blue "O" was slightly misprinted so the white undercoat showed trough!



I let this dry for a couple of days before I gave the modell a overall satin clear coat.
Finally I mixed 90% thinner with 10% sand brown (It looked like dishwater) and top coated all over the model, even the underside!
This was to "brake off" the too fresh colors in the decals, and to blend everything together.

Next day I could demask the model!
This Is a really exciting step, had it worked as It should?
Yes, nice and clean overall!



Well, then came the landing gears and all those small and fiddly parts that was left in the box and before I knew It, she was finished!

Yes, I can call the "Panzer-Knacker" finished!



Heavy MK101 Gun;



Landing gear with added brake lines (0.3mm steel wire);



Nose with gun sight;



Only minor fit issue are at the exhausts.
If you leave them off to be added after painting is done (as I did), you have to cut off the locating pin and sand them a bit thinner so you can slide them in under the cowl.
It´s a very snug fit here, I did´nt use any glue to fix them in place, just some gentle(!) pressure.







Overall, this was a relaxing and enjoyable build from the very beginning to the end!

One of the best and easiest kits I have built.

One thing is clear, the Hs-129 is a small aircraft, but it has a lot of MEAN ATTITUDE!



Cheers!

Stefan E

@Stefan--Beautiful Bird--makes you want to jump in and knock out some T-34's. Maybe you should build up a diorama around it now!!

Hi All

Here is my finished entry.





Cheers

@Stefan: What a great build! Great details and very good job on the desert camo. I agree with you: this bird has a lot of attitude.

@Peter: very cool Stuka - it looks like it is ready for business. Those T-34s are going to have a run for it This is the mount for Udet at Kursk is it not?

Thanks for participating, guys. You really two fantastic builds to this campaign.

Hi Stefan and Peter!

Congratulations to both of you for your fine entries!

These finished entries remind me that I have to created the Campaign galleries!

Jesper, thanks for running such a great Campaign. It seems to run very well...

Jean-Luc

I PM'd you last week to remind you but I assumed you got caught up building your latest masterpiece

Hi Allen!

That's quite right! How did you knew that!

Jean-Luc

P.S. Sorry for not answering your PM...