Here it is: my very first 1/72 tank model. It's a Soviet SU100 tank hunter.
Special thanks to Mickey, who sent me a nice tutorial for painting 1/72 vehicles. Which doesn't mean that I have been able to make all these great modelling techniques happen on my tank model.
I know that this is nothing so spectacular. It's - as most Russian WW2 tanks - simply somewhat olive. With numbers on it. The manual said 'paint it brighter in the middle of the fields', which I first did until I found it too harsh in contrast. So I darkened the whole thing down again.
The top hatch is made out of very thick plastic. I would have had to utterly destroy that thing to make it open, so I opened that front hatch and placed a soviet tank driver from the HaT tank rider set inside of the open hatch. Thanks to Kaktus, who sent me that figure sprue. Now you see what I needed it for.
Well. This model is not heavy 'weathered'. I saw all this hairspray-peelitoffnow-brushitwithsteel-stuff and thought: no. Better next time - I want to have that done until Xmas.
Think it the other way 'round: not every tank that rolled into battle stood it the field months before. Some went into fighting coming straight from the factory.
The thing that was most hard to build were the tracks. No matter how hard I tried, it was impossible to have them glued together in the neat way they should have looked like. That's the main problem with that model. I tried to make it as good as possible. At least, I was able to place the small gaps where they aren't that much visible.
Nevertheless - as this is my first (and most probably last) tank model, I hope that you're not too hard with me. And yes, I know that there's an antenna missing. I'll add that at the very end - because I still have to paint some tank riders for that model and make a vignette with it.
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