Agreed,awesome work Michel!

Two months since the last post...
Too much going on in real life but in between, I was thinking how to best add the ammo bunker doors to the model. The gun is finished, apart from some leftover painting. The dilemma with the doors was:

1. I did not see how to build the frame in a circle without painting components first
2. If already painted, the fixing of components would hamper setting of glue, so in fact, I was stuck

This week, I thought of a solution: Fix the U-rails below in place using thumbnails and then glue the supports in place while working only with naked (=unpainted) styrene. This would - if feasible - solve the setting problem and allow for painting the entire arc of doors ex-situ (away from the already finished model).

Here is how it should look like:

Here is the frame in place from different corners:



Here the interior doors were added already:


Hope you like it, glad to be back!
Happy modeling!
Michel.

Glad to have you back! Imaginative solution as we have come to expect from you 🙂

All looking great, Michel! I find most dios have one or two stumbling blocks but once you find solutions the mojo comes back and you move forward. Again...looking good.

Good to see progress on your Flakturm again, Michel @michel-verschuere
And the progress does look great.

Looks 1:1, my friend @michel-verschuere!
Spectacular painting!

Here is an update: Weathered the doors using dots of oil paint and then streaked it down with a flat brush doped in lighter fluid (kind of a pin wash that is). Looking ok, I left one bunker open and made a shell storage rack from scratch, will continue tomorrow.

Happy modeling!