Ian M Faun Tank transporter with a PhZ 2000 as the load

Ian M

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Well its about that time when people are stating to get itchy for the next GB. So I will start the ball rolling.

Remember You can start the THREAD with a title that includes who you are and what you are building. The First post can contain a description of what you have planed, the box top and sprue shots. (or at least a peak in the box).

Remember that building starts the first of April!!!

Any how, here are my box shots. I will add the in side the boxes in a little while.

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Just off to take a few snap sots of the sprues

Ian M

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Back again.

The first piccies in the dark green plastic are for the PhZ.

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The next ones in the olive plastic and still bagged is the Faun and trailer.

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I just dare not start opening the bags until I have to. There are Three bags of tyres! A small PE fret and some rope/wire.

The Light plastic are the tracks for the PhZ. these are just 2 of 8 sprues. I feel a mental break down on the way!!!

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Finally are the PE frets from Eduard. Inside and Outside detail, and masks.

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What Have I let myself in for?!?!?!?

Ian M

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You asked .......

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What Have I let myself in for?!?!?!?
Our survey said .............

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a mental break down
:smiling3: :smiling3: :smiling3: Looks like a lot to get together, but i'm sure it'll be a cracking model when finished.

Had a quick look on t'interweb at these models and they're full of detail, there's fiddly bits and bobs (technical term :smiling3: ) a plenty !!

anyway, good luck mate..(i know i'll need it to compete with a build like this)
 

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Hi Ian,

I'm just finishing off a Faun (Revell Germany - 1/72 Faun SLT 50-3 Elefant/SaAnh.52t)

Not an easy one for a noob like me but I'm enjoying the final result so far!

Looking forward to see yours with all the bits and pieces I am not able to add to mine due to (the lack of) experience :smiling:

Cheers and good luck

AC
 
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This looks like it's going to be a good un ian can't wait to see work in progress.

scott
 

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I have just been having a nose through the PhZ 2000 and found some photos on the net. It looks like I have a few things that could be better, but all in all the kits not to bad. Its the usual things that have suffered. Grills and grates, handles and the like.

The same site had loads of photos of the Faun and the 59 ton trailer, so that will be useful there too!

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That is MASSIVE, where are you going to display it, do you have your own private aircraft hangar :cheeseygrin:

i know i'll need it to compete with a build like this
I don't look at it as a competition, just a fun way of stretching my abilities
 

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That is MASSIVE, where are you going to display it, do you have your own private aircraft hangar :cheeseygrin:
I have a nice long empty shelf above the work desk.

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I don't look at it as a competition, just a fun way of stretching my abilities
And that is a very health attitude! Its all just for fun and even a well built and painted 1/72 kit can be far more rewarding than one in 1/35. ( they are just a bit easier to see/build).

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Well I was expecting a stampede of posts here over the week end. Maybe not.

I came home from work Friday and got stuck into the PhZ 2000. Things I least like with tanks are the wheels and belts so being me I attacked them first! The tracks where a long drawn affair 96 links each side, three parts to a link, thats errr, emmmm loads of links! just took one sprue at a time, built them, coffee, smoke, on to the next. One thing that helped a lot was a new pair of sprue side cutters. If you don't have some get some.

Just be sure they are the kind that has the cut flat against the side so you can get right up to the edge of the part. The only clean up needed after that was a quick rub with a fine sanding stick. Liquid poly on a very fine brush was used to glue all the bits together. ONLY TWO links got glued up all the others are fully mobile and I can highly recommend the Bronco link sets.

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The wheels where a simple enough thing and after assembling them they got a random attack from a scalpel to take out a few chuncks and nicks from the rubber on the road wheels.

We are well into Saturday now and my attentions are turned to the hull of the tank. The whole of the surface of the hull and turret is covered in moulded on detail. Including handles and lifting rings! Out with that scalpel again). likewise a large grill in the middle of the hull was nothing but a (badly) moulded square. That went to and I built a box to go under it and added a few bits which I believe are cooling radiators.

Finding a fine mesh to put over the hole was a bind. Then I had a cup of tea. Bonus. the "Liptons" new improved tea bag is mad of a VERY fine mesh. Problem solved. How ever I still have one problem. I forgot to paint the inner frame! here and now I am stumped as I can not see that box coming out in one part to paint the insides!

Spent an hour or two making handles and lifting rings out of brass wire.

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I was just in the process of glueing the top and bottom of the hull together, when I saw a problem. The Drive wheel and tracks would not be able to go on once the hull was together. Out with the paint! The wheels got a coat of Vallejo Yellow Olive as did the lower hull sides. Tyres got a go with black and pale greyblue (I think it was). The digs and cracks will get a dab of pure black later.

The tracks!!! OH DEER. I think these would have painted so mush better on the sprue. Live and learn! The inner surface got Alclad II Steel and was left over night. Today, Sunday (and raining like mad), the contact area between the rubber tyres and the steel tracks was masked off and the rest of the tracks sprayed with Manifold, then gunmetal then pale burned metal, all from Alclad II. The last two being randomly dusted hist and pist! They look better in real than in the pictures. The wonder of modern armour means that I also have a million rubber tread blocks on the tracks to paint. I think I might cheat and just paint the ones that will be seen.

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Spending much of today drilling out the holes in the cargo box on the turret. Photos of the real thing show that it is made from hole plate. The kit part just has pits in the surface. I might paint up but I will drill them out. Like wise there are two fold down steps are the rear of the hull. These in real life are made of open grates. I'm not to good at drilling square holes so I might have a go at scratch building those!

More later!!

Ian M

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Ian nice work so far mate like the little bit of scratch building there as well keep up the good work.

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Wow. Looking real good Ian, got your work cut out for you there but im sure it will turn into another one of your master pieces. Keep up the good work mate.

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Can't wait to see more pics of this build Ian, I too have built the 1/72nd scale version of the Faun and trailer, that was certainly a nerve stretcher on its own. I have put a combat excavator on my trailer made from an M-60 hull with dozer blade, and the excavator is scratch built. Keep up the great work Ian will certainly be worth it.

Cheers,

Chris.
 

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More fiddling with the PhZ 2000.

A rather crudely moulded part at the back of the turret, I must admit that I have no idea as to what it is, is about to get the chop and be replaced with brass wire.

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Not perfect, I will give you that, but a bit more work and it will do- I hope!

The tow wire was nothing more than a smooth round bent to shape. I cut the ends off and drilled them out. The new one is made from copper thread. I took four strands and twisted them up to form a basic wire, made one more the same. These were spun clock wise. I then put both in the drill and span them together, anti-clockwise. Instant hawser!

A few thin strips of evergreen was used for the retainer clamps.

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Looks a lot better already!

I added a bit of tea-bag mesh to the turrets pneumatics compressor intakes and framed it off with more evergreen strip.

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Rear view mirrors! The ones in the kit are one part and posed out, as in ready to use. Under transport they would be folded in and down. So the part was cut in to three bits, The attachment the mirror and the arm. The arm was bind and a new one made in brass wire, the mirror and attachment where drilled out to take the wire and the whole lot rebuilt as folded and flattened!

I forgot the before pictures, but this is how they ended up. Added bonus, I dont have to paint mirrors!

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Thats it for this evening!

Ian M

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Ian mate this is lookin real nice so far, what scale did you say this is as it looks huge.

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Thanks Scott. Its in 1/35. The PhZ is about 14 inches from muzzle to rear. The hull its self is 9" as is the barrel (11" if you count the 2" that are pushed into the turret! So it ain't little no.

The Transporter is just shy of 28"!!! Hmm! think I'm going to need a new shelf!

Just a few finishing touches to the PhZ and I will be starting on the Faun.

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Wow what a monster you have on your hands,looking excellent so far Ian!
 

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One Phz 2000 ready for action!

Well I think that I can call the Phz done. I might find little bits along the way.

Anyway, here it is. I Hope that you will like it and if there are any real goofs that I have missed now is the time to say so.

Here are some of it before the dirt got at it:

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All dirty and Decaled and varnished. It looks shinier in the photos than it actually is. In the flesh it is a nice silky soft matt.

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Now I just have the Faun and trailer to do. I have been looking at the instruction booklet, all 39 pages! and also looking at the instructions from Eduard, trying to mark the Trumpeter instructions with where the Eduard PE should be remembered!!! Not an easy task.

I have made a start on the cab and things seem to fit rather nicely.

Ian M

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Ian mate iam very impressed this is the dogs dinglies mate very nice keep up the good work.

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Well I have spent since Monday getting on with the Faun. Five days and I have not even got the cab sorted!

As mentioned at the start I got the Big Ed PE set to go with this part of the project. One set for the cab interior, one for the outside of the lorry and trailer, a set for all the diamond plate. Yet another set that is just the wire screens for the windows, but I will not be using those. There are also masks for the windows.

The long and the short of it is that You have the instructions from the kit AND three sets of instructions from Eduard. The trick is to look at them all at the same time so not to miss any of the PE that has to be used!

So here is the result of a weeks work:

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The first three photos show the PE parts that line the inside of the cab. Before these where added, it was just a smooth plastic ceiling and rear wall. The last of the four shows a start on the outside of the cab. The louvre panel is just that, a panel of louvres that all needed to be pressed out!

Her is most of the inside of the cab. I have scratch built a new safty rail by the dash as the one in the kit even with the PE wrap was nothing like the one in the reference I have. The kits one was just one long bar. In the photos I have it is divided up into three padded sections. The kits Instructions also called out for all the seats to be brown. Again the photos showed that the driver and far side passenger seat had cloth covered seats in black and grey. There are still about 15 bits of PE to go in yet so will be a while before the lid goes on. The windows to will need doing before that happens!

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Oh! did I say that the work bench looks like a direct hit with a 50 lb bomb?

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Catch you all later

Ian M

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Wow, thats a LOT Of PE!!! I like that first shot of the cap interior, it looks very realistic.
 
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