German Horse-drawn Wagon with Zwillinglaffette 36

[Duke Maddog]

Okay, here is my start pics for this campaign. I'm building the German German Horse-drawn Wagon with Zwillinglaffette 36 IF-5 (Boy is that a mouthful!)

Here's the shot of the kit with the date/time stamp:

And a closeup of the date/time stamp so you an see it more clearly:

Okay, the first thing I did was to assemble the horses... well, try to assemble the horses. The fit was outrageous, it was amazing to get some seams to actually meet! Here's what I had to deal with:

You've heard of the Headless Horseman? Well, here's his horse.....

After getting the horses together with their heads, I assembled the two parts of the cart what hauls the gun and crew:

You can see they went together quite well. Nice job Alexey!

Later on, I went back and filled in and sanded the main gaps and holes in the horses.. They are starting to look pretty good right now:

That's as far as I got to this point. Stay tuned for more!

 

[AndyFettes]

Nice job

 

[Bagge]

To bad i can't send you some more spackel but i send you some :zen :zen :zen :zen
Interesting model and i think you done a great job so far!
Always nice to see something elses than tanks and planes and boats
//Mats

 

[razordws]

Cool subject!

 

[Duke Maddog]

Thanks guys! This has been a fun little project, although I'm kinda dreading the machine gun assembly. I'll get it done though.

Thanks for the offer for more Spackle Mats, but it looks like I had just enough for those horses. You gotta love Mr. Surfacer 500!

 

[Sherman 18]

Looking good!

 

[Phil]

Always nice to see something else than tanks and planes and boats
//Mats

sure does! and a neat kit to see when finished, Duke!

 

[Duke Maddog]

Thanks guys! I hope to get this painted soon.

 

[Duke Maddog]

Well, here is my latest progress on this little model for this Campaign. Not too much was done, but then again, I was working on seven other models along with this one.

I assembled the twin guns and carriage for the horse-drawn cart. I also added some other detail parts to the two carts. The gun carriage was a tricky assembly; it was a bear trying to get it all lined up right:

Here it is dry-fit to the pedestal inside the trailer:

I see the one horse has lost his tail. Gonna have to try and fabricate one.

And that completes my update for these past three days. It ain't much, but I'm trying to improve a little while still having fun. Hopefully this weekend I'll be able to get some paint done on this.

Until then, thanks all for looking in, comments are welcome.

 

[reconron]

You could use hair from a wig to do the tail,Mark.Or use a piece of sprue and work it into shape:
https://www.modelersalliance.com/forum/fettes-figure-forum/86005-of-boy-and-horse?start=36#97949

Looking forward to the next steps.


Greetings,Ron.

 

[moon puppy]

Some miliput would do well for replacing that tail Mark. .

 

[Duke Maddog]

Thanks for these great suggestions guys! I think I'll try the sprue idea first since I haven't any milliput. I've got it on the list of things to get though.

Thanks for the link Ron, that will help alot.

 

[dewertus]

I can not wait how will come out paint

 

[Duke Maddog]

Thanks Hubert! I hope to get this painted soon.

 

[Duke Maddog]

So here is my latest progress on my "First Blood" Campaign project.

Last time I was working on this; I lost one horse's tail. So, the first thing I did was to shoot a coat of grey over the wagon parts and set them aside to dry:

I realized I used the wrong color grey on this. I need to shoot a new coat of the Panzer dark Grey, then use this grey to modularize the color. I'll get on that soon.

Next, while the paint was drying on the wagon; I pondered what to do about the horse's missing tail. Then I found a piece of sprue that had a bent piece where the corner was at the end. So, I carved that down to a more slender piece at the bend and down the sprue a bit. I then dipped the carved section in some Tamiya Extra Thin cement for a minute or three until the surface was soft enough. Meanwhile, I found a Dremel bit that would work well at what I wanted to do. After pulling the softened plastic
out of the glue; I ran the serrated edge of the bit down the softened part of the sprue to make wavy grooves. Here is a pic of the result with the glue, sprue and Dremel bit:

A closer look at the new 'tail'. It's kind of hard to see given the white plastic, but I think it looks pretty good:

Later I drilled a new 'arsehole' for the horse to make the tail fit more firmly:

After adding the new tail, I did some preliminary painting of the horses; adding some detail and experimenting with their coats a bit. Here is a shot of the two horses; the one showing off his new tail:

And for fun, here is a mock-up of the machine gun wagon and hitch with the two horses:

This one is coming along well and will hopefully be finished soon. I did some more painting of the horses and have noticed a few shrink marks that need to be filled before I can do the final painting; but at least I have an idea of what to do now.

And that concludes my update for this week. Thanks all for stopping in to check this out. Feel free to leave comments; they are always welcome.

 

[moon puppy]

the only thing I would suggest is change the colors of one of the horses, they look like clones.

 

[Duke Maddog]

Sounds like some good advice MP. I'll do that. I was practicing on them and just got carried away with the same colors! LOL!

 

[Phil]

Have you seen this product Duke?

http://www.bnamodelworld.com/treemendus/tree-canopy

 

[Duke Maddog]

I think someone had posted that or something else from that company as well. It isn't particularly available locally, so I used what I could find on my bench. Thank you though; I shall keep them in mind in case money starts coming in again.

 

[moon puppy]

Have you seen this product Duke?

http://www.bnamodelworld.com/treemendus/tree-canopy

Ant (owner of Treemendus) is one of our Masters.

https://www.modelersalliance.com/list-of-the-masters/46-anthony-reeves/81-how-to-build-a-tree