Jagdpanzer IV --> 99.5%

I love this beast. One of my favourite WWII vehicles with its low profile and dangerous gun. The build is almost ready. Really few parts need to be glued on - spare wheels, convoy light, a few links of spare tracks to the rear deck holder, chains and... and it seems, nothing else. I hope next week it will be primed and painting will start.

Deck OK

It seems that all the shiny PE parts are done and the tools are on the engine deck. Now twentysomething tiny loops remained to be glued for the canvas around the superstructure and I can say that the building phase is finished. Slow build, indeed.

The PE was a mixed selection. The Eduard is not 100% so I used Griffon tool clamps and Aber parts (the jack holder).

 

13 weeks

Exactly one quarter of the year is ahead to finish the Jagdpanzer. For the lucky modellers it takes only a few hours or days but for me even this superb Tamiya "shake and glue" kit is taking far too long time. But still 13 weeks to go - I'd like to finish my first armorama campaign...
On the other hand I open every second day the box of the T-35... what a huge beast. What a job that will be...

Kind of a bad month behind me. I had no time for my favourite free-time activities: modeling and WoT. But one reason to be optimistic: I started to run again, 2-3 times a week - unfortunately this is possible only when the kids are in bed - so I take my shoes at 9:00 PM. That is why no time for other, less healty (physically) activities. But some PE work was made:

Almost ready for priming

Now some minor upgrades (clamps around the roof, etc) and I can prime it. In the background I'm doing some research about the camo schemes for the Jagdpanzer IV... It'll be hard to choose :)

Ammo

No time, lost tempo, lack of motivation. I feel stuck. But spent some money on aftermarket stuff, this time ammunition. Don't know which of them will be used if I use any of them at all. I'm thinking on it. Open hatches would require some minimal interior work (too visible empty interior is not nice) and an ammo loading crew would mean open hatches. Or whatever. Another stuck-point is the paint scheme. Hard edge camo? Soft edge? Disc camo? I need to meditate...

Tools and things

Friuls ready. Now the tools on the rear deck... I clean the kit parts from the moulded-on details to be replaced by PE. The barrel cleaning rod was schratched from plastruct rods and looks nice (though the original kit part looked well, too).

Fire extinguisher was from the stash (some of the Dragon kits had a redundant one) and also looks better than the also good kit part.