The Empire Strikes Back

[Axel Gnipper]

Hi guys,

Been away for some time now.
being busy with work, some time abroad (work), planning a mariage and the list goes on and on.
Sorry for my abcence, but I had other things on my mind. In between I did some modelling, so that didn't come to a complete standstill

Been busy whit this one for over half a year now (basic work started somewhere in october last year).
The scene depicts a Tiger1 from the 2nd SS PzDiv during the third battle of Kharkov, march 1943, taking cover behind a knocked out SU122.
As the wehrmacht got kicked out of this city twice, the Germans thought it was time to have the waffen SS have a go.
They sent "das Reich" and "Totenkopf" in, in which "das Reich" bore the blunt of the battle.
And there you have it:
THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK

Now it's done, fini, af, fertig.
And what a project this was.
Learned incredably much new things and techniques.
I feel like I'm not gonna do such a big project for a while.

Sorry for the crappy pics, my camera is acting up.
Overview:

The green on the inside of the left idlerwheel from the SU122 is brown now Just noticed that one

Fritz is sticking out his neck for a better view

Shoot please.

Greetz
Axel

 

[Iron Mike]

Wow, Axel! Nice work and excellent pix!

 

[moon puppy]

Love it, everything! Figures, ground work colors used, effects. NAILED IT!

Only one thing, the dents on the lower front armor, one is rusted the other not, that's fine, great effect. But was that armor not slanted going under the tank? For the impact marks to be round like this that would mean the shell hit is perpendicular to the armor. That would mean the shot would have come from an angle that would be downward, as if the tank was cresting a hill or something. Shouldn't the dent be at a slight angle to reflect the angle the round would have impacted? This may be nick picking or even wrong, I don't know, just something that pooped out at me.

 

[Iron Mike]

moon puppy wrote:

Love it, everything! Figures, ground work colors used, effects. NAILED IT!

Only one thing, the dents on the lower front armor, one is rusted the other not, that's fine, great effect. But was that armor not slanted going under the tank? For the impact marks to be round like this that would mean the shell hit is perpendicular to the armor. That would mean the shot would have come from an angle that would be downward, as if the tank was cresting a hill or something. Shouldn't the dent be at a slight angle to reflect the angle the round would have impacted? This may be nick picking or even wrong, I don't know, just something that pooped out at me.

Pooped?? :S

 

[Ken Abrams]

Nice work Axel.

Iron Mike wrote:

Pooped?? :S

LOL!

He's been looking at a particular picture of me on facebook too long. :ermm:

 

[tomwes]

WOW! Axel that is awesome, the whole scene just jumps out at me!


Tom

 

[moon puppy]

Ken Abrams wrote:

Nice work Axel.

Iron Mike wrote:

Pooped?? :S

LOL!

He's been looking at a particular picture of me on facebook too long. :ermm:

LOL!! Poop popped....thought it was gas... :woohoo:

 

[moon puppy]

Another reason I hate photobucket...

 

[Ken Abrams]

moon puppy wrote:

Another reason I hate photobucket...

Aye!

'bandwidth exceeded'

 

[Iron Mike]

Well, it was cool while it lasted!