S-65 ChTZ Stalinietz - Wespe Model - GALLERY

Let me show you finished diorama with my S65 Tractor. It's 1/72 scale.

To sum up it's resin kit from Wespe Model.

The Pz.kpfw I Ausf. A is plastic kit produced by First to Fight. It was upgraded with resin Modell Trans conversion, metal barrels and my own scratch. Figures are from Preiser sets and some resin.

S-65 Stalinietz - Wespe Model

The painting and weathering phase of S65 tractor is finished. Now, I need to end diorama making.

S-65 Stalinietz - Wespe Model

After short break let me show you small update of Stalinitz project. The same process was made on both of my models. Weathering stage was continued by adding wash, and stains and rains effect. I put final chips and scratches using fine brush and acrylics. The whole surface was protected by matt varnish. Then I could prepared light lenses in both vehicles. I used white glue"Micro Kristal Klear" from Microscale, which is perfect for that purposes. When it dried first dust appeared. 

Now both kits are ready for mud effects.

What is more, I made sand road on my diorama. The texture came from acrylic glue for terracotta. I addes many tiny Stones to keep effect more real. Diorama was sprayed with Prime Surfacer.

S-65 Stalinietz - Wespe Model

Preparing for the chipping & scratches making.

Concept checking.

S-65 Stalinietz - diorama

I was looking for some vignette or diorama ideas. I spent a lot of time reviewing archive pics and finally found it. This photo inspired me to build the scene below:

for discussion only

The scene presents S-65 towing Pz.kpfw I Ausf.A in russialand. I decided to create similar scene. 

Sometime ago I bought resin building from "Reality in Scale" producer. The set was named "Russian House" 72-004 and it's perfect for my diorama. I put some figure from Preiser and one from resin.

The Panzer I comes from First to Fight kit. It's great kit, but it needs some additional aftermarktes sets. The suspension and tracks was upgraded with Modell Trans resin conversion. I also used MiniWorld barrel of machine guns (thank you Hubert :) ) and some scracth to improve model construction. 

S-65 Stalinietz - Wespe Model

Some scratch from polystyrene sheet was made. The tractor is ready for the painting stage. Time to start thinking about diorama or vigniette. Any ideas? Feel free to share it.

S-65 Stalinietz - Wespe Model

This time I would like to present resin model of very popular russian tractor - S65 ChTZ Stalinitez. The old resin kit with nice detailed parts. The worst is the assembly instruction, which isn't helpful and I needed some reference pics to put parts in right place.

Few of scratch should be prepared to get minimum satisfied result.