The Thaw of '46

[Ballardian]

Whoops, that should have said 14, not .14 (senior moment there) - or even a 13 if they've got one (fairly light for a wound third but they do exist).
 As to cutting them, while they're certainly tougher & springier than an Ethernet cable, a standard pair of hardware shop wire cutters should manage without trouble.

[Wyrmalla]

Ah well, buying the wire from Black Cat Bases was the excuse to spend way too much money on their random accessory sets.

Here's the state of the E-100. No paint yet, just making the thing ready.




With the model I've gone ahead and sanded every surface along with using millput to smooth out all the stepping on the underside (which was pretty bad). The plastic's super hard, so I wasn't willing to replace all of the details that I wanted - particularly in adding a rim around the driver's hatches.

The exhausts are now off of Warlord's Tiger II, along with details from Die Waffenkammer's being used on the engine deck (spare from giving the original vehicles gas turbine engines - something I'm seriously considering giving the second E-100). The barrel also needed replacing, both due to stepping on the underside and being completely solid.

I went ahead and added some spare T-55 fuel barrels to the rear (courtesy of the T-44 project) which personally I think look really good. Stowage is maybe a little overboard, and well based on when that Black Cat Bases order shows up I may add even more (mostly just scatter stuff like loose beer bottles I mean). Anything for a bit more detail. Most of the tools come again from the Warlord Tiger II plastic kit.

The plan formulating for the second turreted E-100 is to modernise the vehicle. I'll give it a Tiger II style turret with a fancy rangefinder and maybe telescoping periscope (like the Paper Panzer models have). As I said the gas turbine engine's likely, though I'll probably give the Alligator/ Crocodile the same engine as this one - just with extra armour.

Then I need to work out what to do with two spare E-100 turrets... Heh, for the detail level in these models I could probably just scratch build another too (without the damn moulded on side skirts...).

[Ballardian]

 Nice job, the added detailing on the rear deck makes a world of difference

[Wyrmalla]

I've started on the paint job now. Predictably I've run out of white paint.  

When search for some bits for another build (never found them), I came across a child's toy which I'd picked up years ago for Post-Apocalyptic conversion fodder. 
 


It was initially dismissed then for all its weird angles. Tearing off the tracks helped a bit; replaced with spare 1/48th scale Panther ones, before I then set about obliterating the oversized details. 

With its sloped casement (if you can call it that) I was reminded of the Jagdpanther a tad. Extending this out with some plasticard and sticking dual 128mms in turned the toy into this. 




I'm calling the the Flakkanonpanzer at the moment, after the post-war tank series. Specifically its tangentially related to later German prototypes of a dual gunned main battle tank (the VT series, which predictably went nowhere). I imagine this is maybe something similar; a competing project to whatever mainline battle tank was being used, though predictably impractical.

Its pretty much an E-100 Flak turret jammed onto a set of tracks. Working out where all the vents, hatches and vision slits would go was a right pain in the arse... 

Yeah, you get this instead of that Panzer III/IV thing which I couldn't find the right road wheels for.

[Predatorpt]

Damn, I've got a couple of those in my stash 

[Wyrmalla]

Damn, I've had it so long that I threw away the box and forgot what it actually originally looked like. A Games Workshop Vindicator knock off with a realistic  amount of pressure on the front of the vehicle for such a massive gun.

[Ballardian]

 Another very cool kitbash I notice Amusing Hobby's just come out with a Pz38D range (in 1/35 sadly), but the 38D with the PzIV turret & PAW800 looks like it has to be done
 (Oddly, AH have listed it as having a PAW600, while the relevant Doyle Panzertracts lists it as the 800.)

 

[Wyrmalla]

Aye, something to make one day. Too much on my plate.

Its the PAW 600. If Doyle's calling it the 800 then that's a misprint or lack of research as every other source I'm aware of calls it the 600. Yes though, I'd be arming any tanks which typically came with short 75mms with PAW 600 post 1944.

[Ballardian]

 My mistake, checking back with the book reveals it to indeed be the 600, that'll teach me to go off the top of my head.

[Wyrmalla]

I think if I looked back enough in these pages someone's called it the PAW 800 before.

[Slayer]

that E100 is looking just.....

[rabenga]

Do I hear paw700?

[Rich H]

The PAW is a hi-low weapon like a modern baton gun or grenade launcher. 
They flung large HEAT warheads and were built but not deployed as AT artillery.

That E-100 looks great - it would look great as a last levy style Berlin defence covered in kit and battered paint

[Wyrmalla]

I'm distracted right now with restarting my modern stuff (3 buildings thrown together in one week...). The first E-100's mostly painted, though its already had one repaint as it is after I went overboard with the weathering.

We'll see where my priorities lie, though my track record is one which errs on the distractions winning out.

[Slayer]

No finish the E100...... u must