JeroenPeters

Pretty amazing stuff! Hope to see one built soon. Awesome review too!

Managed to get some done. Almost finished the jigs. Just need to add some oil stains and more scratches to the edges and sorts. Sprayed my first ever Mr. Paint RLM 71 on the engine gondola. Wow..... A dream to work with.

Heads up guys! Schatton Modellbau has just informed LSM of their imminent release of this beast of a model. A huge amount of photo-etch makes up the dish. Just imagine the diorama possibilities with this subject. Here's a look at the box-art: And here's a look at the photo-etch: I know of one surviving example in the Liberty museum in the Netherlands (Overloon) which is undergoing restoration at the moment: Stay 'tuned' for more info!

Cool beans Ralph!

Nice one! Nice and dark. Cheers, Jeroen

Lovely! Love the stand too. Now go assemble a prop.

some good old scratching going on here! Nice work so far! Loving it!

Well anyhoooo .. i went from spraying the mat to smudging, chipping and oiling the rigs! Much more layers, pigments, etc.. to be added to the wood.

First paint! Looks smooth!

It's one of my special powers!

First paint on the jigs. First base with Matt black. Then Freshly cut wood by AK. This will be further built up with several wood colors from the AK range.

Saw it on his FB page. Super cool... He dropped the model during construction but managed to whip it back into shape! Respect..

Nice! Have this in tge stash and will have it pull a Captured Rumpler fuselage. Very nice!

Wow! Another stock of Green card going to a good cause!

Tanker Extra Armour Techniques Magazine Issue 02 Publisher: AK Interactive Chief Editor: Kristof Pulinckx Available here from AK Interactive for € 9,- What we have here is a mix between the typical modelling magazine and a ‘how-to’ book, bounded by a niche concept amongst armour modelling subjects: Added Armour. AK Interactive are really bringing these magazine technique titles to a higher level, by means of well known and respected authors that contribute, appealing topics and well executed design and printing quality. They’re easier to pull out when starting a certain project, instead of rummaging through a thick bible and trying to place it somewhere on the bench. Added Armour Exotic Armour Conversions are a thing of all times, but lately we see a rise in apocalyptic subjects, fluently blending in with WW2 and modern subjects. Perhaps spurred on by series like ‘The Walking Dead’ and movies like ‘Mad Max’. Figure brands like MAIM, Not-Yet-Dead and even Master Box are jumping on the wagon and provide us with half rotting plastic and resin figures. But zombie apocalypse field modified vehicles are not the only armour that apparently needed added armour. This title also features modern and WW2 vehicles with bolted and welded on plates of steel. This magazine teaches us how to work the surface of these plates in order to make it look rugged and life-like, how to paint and weather it and how to add some convincing battle damage. The magazine: Let’s take a look at this title article by article and see if it’s worth getting (and worth the 9 euro’s). The first thing I check when flipping through a magazine in the local hobby shop is how much of the paper is wasted by adverts… Well, these are kept to a bare minimum in this case. 8,5 out of 102 pages are used up with ads for mostly AK Interactive products. So all is fine in that department. Another thing to look at is the paper it’s printed on. This is a glossy, heavy paper magazine with a glue bound back. Definitely not something to shove in the kitty litter box when through with reading. And it will survive a couple of builds on the bench, which is a good thing, since that’s actually what it’s designed around. The introduction is written by well known modeller Kristof Pulinckx who has some wise words about the theme J. The next pages add a little more history to the topic and elaborates on the beginnings and development of added armour. This issue has no less than 18 articles varying from Mad Max, Zombie, Ukranian, modern and ww2 armour. All with one thing in common: Heavily used and battered and all upgraded with extra steel. The first article is written and modelled by Lukasz Orczyc-Musialek who build an Ukranian BMP-2 in diorama setting. This vehicle has added armour in the form of tree trunks and side impact armour covering the road wheels. Most of the modelling steps are covered. From primer, chipping medium, pigments, dry brush, oils, punch and die, and so on… Of course mostly AK products are shown in these steps, but I appreciate the fact that these are not used exclusively, as everyone knows modellers almost never use just one brand. Glad to see Lukasz in keeping it real . The same goes for 2 builds down the mag. Martin Red Kovac builds a very heavily up-armoured Jackson and paints and builds it with MIG, AK, Tamiya, Life Color and Wilder Pigments. Almost every step in his painting and building process is photographed elegantly and the result is hard to beat. I guess the best result a magazine like this can obtain is letting us use and experiment with new materials. Stepping out of our comfort zone. Contents: As said this magazine offers 18 articles: • Battlefield Taxi BMP-2 (by Lukasz Orczyc-Musialek) • Up Armored Krupp Protze (by Kristof Pulinckx) • Serbian Jackson (by Martin Red Kovac) • Lebanese M-113 Field mod during “Nahr El Bared” Battle (background info by Samer Kassis, model by Imad Bouantoun) • Zombie Slayer , diorama with Hummer and Zombies (by Kristof Pulinckx and Roberto Ramirez) • Buick Max Apocalypse (by Ricardo Chust Roig) • Marder on Steroids (by Sven Frisch) • Uparmoured Vehicles Refences. Photographic reference for modern US softskins (by Ralph Zwilling) • Painting Impact. A how-to tutorial on how to create convincing battle damage. • Sandbags with Magic Sculpt. Another tutorial on how to create your own sandbags. • School of techniques. This chapter continues to teach us how to create impact, cast turret textures, solder large pieces of brass and how to create your tool to replicate screws in the armour texture. But also how to modify your plastic cement in order to fill small gaps and create weld seams with putty. • Gallery: The magazine closes with a 5 page photo gallery with amazing up armoured models to spark the modellers mojo if that hasn’t happened already. Very cool stuff. Last but not least The final pages of the magazine are taken up by no other than David Parker. He shows us his bench and talks about his passion. A pretty neat insight into this skilled and prolific modeller. Verdict If you’re into armour or just dipping your toes into the ‘dark side’, then this might come in handy. As said before, these magazines tend to pull you out of your comfort zone and make you experiment with new materials. It’s not just a shopwindow for AK Products, and I think that’s a good thing. A magazine worth keeping at hand and it should proof a 9 euros well spent. A big thank you to AK Interactive for the review sample. Jeroen Peters

Very impressive work! Love the mix of 3D printed parts and total old school scratch building...

EXACTLY!

Thats pretty amazing for a first-back-into-the-hobby-build!

That no look like a quackish slammer to me!

Not stalled, just slow going. I tore the Aires DB605 engine from an older Bf109 build and moved the turbocharger to the other side (as per Jumo211). Then I changed a few other bits and bobs to make it look more like a Jumo211. After all: in the end you will only see a glimpse of it. Added the wires as seen in the previous posted drawings. Halfway down the block I cut out a big trench in the resin to accommodate my home made engine bearers. The whole thing fits the jig like a glove. Primed the whole thing black. Ready to receive my first ever Mr. Paint

That is MOST impressive... Cant believe the rivets in that body. Very very cool.

Almost thought it was Frank Whittle...

Very cool. I have the RPM kit. Pretty basic and crude but OK. Hope this is better!

Profimodeller Bf110 External Fuel Tank Sn# 32271 Available here for 18,49 euro’s directly from Profimodeller What we have here is a set that will definitely give your Bf 110 some range! To be precise: This set should give your Bf110D some range. And that would be the Dragon Wingtech kit, review here. The Bf-110D Zerstörer version had a few different ways to carry additional fuel. The least loved version by pilots and crew-members was the Dackelbauch version, which carried a large lumb under it’s nose/belly that was not detachable. This had a large negative influence to the flight characteristics, speed and added dangers to emergency landings… The Bf110D1/R1 carried one of these bellies, but also had the capability to carry an additional 2 x 900L wing droptanks (as featured in this review). This kit is also offered by Dragon. The Bf110D1/R2 carried an 85L droptank under it’s fuselage and the additional 900L tanks under it’s wings (like the D1/R1). The Bf110D4 Recon version had it’s teeth (MGFF’s) removed and a camera installed. It had the capability to carry either 300L or 900L droptanks under it’s wings. The set What we get is the typical sturdy white cardboard box we are accustomed to by Profimodeller. Inside we find a single sheet of photo etch, instructions and 6 resin castings. All in yellow resin. Hardly any flash or cleanup necessary. The 900L droptanks are huge and heavy, so you might want to contemplate additional strengthening when attaching these to the wings. To be honest: what I would do is replace the resin fuel lines with bended copper rods. I would drill a hole in the resin, through the PE plate that covers the wing and the wing itself. That should do the trick! Big chunks! The vertical fins are done in resin, and scale thickness wise I believe this to be more precise. PE could well be too thin. They should fit the body perfectly after sanding the droptank tail a bit. The photo-etch adds great detail to the fuel ports and hatches on the droptank. This isn’t your: let me slap a Quickboost resin upgrade against my model, but rather a model in itself. Just look at all the PE parts that cover these parts! Careful alignment, measuring the holes that need to be made in the underside of the wing and checking reference to see if your version carried these is needed beforehand. The instructions: Verdict Dragon offers a series of nice Bf110’s. Yes, they need some TLC and can be a bit of a let down in terms of fit and detail, but they are here and need to be built! This set lets you extend your Luftwaffe collection with some cool Zerstörer / Recon schemes and you don’t need to have a great deal of experience with resin to do so. It’s well researched, accurate and detailed. The casting is clean and needs minimal clean-up. The only thing I’d love to have seen on the box-top is a listing of types that carried these. I think it would be good marketing to add the types to the box or product description (on the site). A special thanks to Profimodeller for the review sample. To order directly from Profimodeller, click here. Kind regards, Jeroen Peters

That is clean and sweet!