WW2 Panzer Icons

[Dr.Falkenhayn]

hello Chaps

As i won a voucher coupon in the 2013 Painting Comp (thx again Team Pendraken!) i took the plunge and ordered a Bunch of WW2 Tanks.Well,the Plan is to slowly build up a decent Collection of the imho most iconic Vehicles of this Conflict,starting with the Tiger I of course   Need some Decals but overall i'm quite pleased with the outcome,not bad for my first 10mm Panzer i say  

Panzer marsch!




more iconic Things coming  



regards
Daniel

[paulr]

Very impressive 

Please tell me you didn't hand paint those crosses

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Very impressive sir!   

[Techno]

I'll definitely third that !! 
Great job.
Cheers - Phil

[Hertsblue]

Excellent job, Doc. The camouflage is particularly well done. 

[toxicpixie]

Lovely stuff!

[Subedai]

Very tasty. Just goes to prove that painting a tank is not necessarily boring.

[realthing]

Very nice indeed 

[Dr.Falkenhayn]

Cheers Gents 

Please tell me you didn't hand paint those crosses

nah,don't worry i suck at painting Freehands like anybody else 

got the other 2 finished,i might placing another Order very soon,i want a Panther,Tank Riders for my T-34 an KV1 and so on 







Group Shot 


regards
Daniel

[paulr]

Very impressive 

[Duke Speedy of Leighton]

Cool!

My money's on the tigger at the moment (until it runs out of fuel anyway)!

[fred.]

Really nice work - and a really clever idea of collecting the iconic tanks. You will soon find that 'iconic' covers a lot, as you will want early war ones, desert ones, snow ones, etc - don't fight it, that's just the way it is with WWII!!

With the Sherman - the big starts with circles around were nearly always used as air recognition ones - so would be on the top of the turret. You will find this is quite tricky due to all the hatches - Micro Sol solution can help here, as it softens the decal and allows it to follow the 3d shape of the surface. The US did keep stars on the sides of its tanks for a while, but the British got rid of them very early on.
The tools on the Sherman would look great painted like you did on the Tiger (I suspect that as with all US kit olive drab is the official colour, but a bit of artistic licence will make them pop!)

[Techno]

Lovely work again, Doc !
Cheers - Phil

[Dr.Falkenhayn]

thanks again Chaps for your comments 

With the Sherman - the big starts with circles around were nearly always used as air recognition ones - so would be on the top of the turret. You will find this is quite tricky due to all the hatches - Micro Sol solution can help here, as it softens the decal and allows it to follow the 3d shape of the surface. The US did keep stars on the sides of its tanks for a while, but the British got rid of them very early on.
The tools on the Sherman would look great painted like you did on the Tiger (I suspect that as with all US kit olive drab is the official colour, but a bit of artistic licence will make them pop!)

Cheers!  fixed that,Apologies for the crappy Pics though  Will have a Look for that Micro Sol Stuff 



regards
Daniel

[kev1964]

Excellent work Dr, the basing really shows them off,


kev