The Panzer IV Digital Library - PzIV Ausf H Painted 190816

[ultravanillasmurf]

That also reminds me about turret bins (Osprey have an illustration of a Panzer III or IV with a second turret bin on the rear deck.

[ripley]

That's a WIP , I have the bin left over from my Whirbelwind / Pzr IV turm conversions , so I thought to use it on the Beute 34 . Looking at pictures , the Germans just seemed to weld it on any old way , some are crooked , so glueing it should work out ok

[Rubicon Models]

Not update anything since late March... Some eye candy for you!



Enjoy!

[ultravanillasmurf]

Interesting, how do you intend to attach them to the plastic?

[Rubicon Models]

Interesting, how do you intend to attach them to the plastic?

After evaluation and several test fittings, we tend to decide on a standalone piece being a better solution.  We will try to use a thicker metal piece - either brass or stainless steel.

If fitted on a plastic frame, fitting and assembly would be quite complicated for an average gamer; and a waste of sprue space too!

[ripley]

Looks good , and you included the mesh that goes flat  over the fenders , well done . Most companies forget about those 

[ultravanillasmurf]

Interesting, how do you intend to attach them to the plastic?

After evaluation and several test fittings, we tend to decide on a standalone piece being a better solution.  We will try to use a thicker metal piece - either brass or stainless steel.

If fitted on a plastic frame, fitting and assembly would be quite complicated for an average gamer; and a waste of sprue space too!

Nickel Silver is popular for etched chassis construction for model railway modellers.

[Ballardian]

They look very nice
 

Interesting, how do you intend to attach them to the plastic?

- I suppose that might depend to a degree as to what they're eventually made from - PE on 1/72 & 1/35 models will sometimes be fine using plastic cement - the plastic melts enough to hold the PE in place, but for gaming models it's likely that superglue is going to be necessary & it's still likely to be more fragile than the rest of the kit.

[ripley]

Don't think I would use a kit with these type skirts in a game situation , some guys have real heavy fingers  OOPS !

[Ballardian]

 While acknowledging that it's likely that the attachment points for schurzen in different materials is going to be a little fragile, I'm very happy to see Rubicon having a go at them.
  I think that a strip of plastic card attached to the back of the skirts, matching up with the attachment points on the model could provide a better weld with the kit, holding them on more robustly.

[Chimaera]

Got to call it how I see it and not a fan of mixed material, much prefer the skirts were in plastic.

[ultravanillasmurf]

Don't think I would use a kit with these type skirts in a game situation , some guys have real heavy fingers  OOPS !

Possibly not for long  ^___^.

[Rubicon Models]

After 4 months without a proper update on this Panzer IV project, we are now getting somewhere... after our Q3/17 rush!

This is a Photo-Etched plate that we just got back from the factory this morning!
Probably the "first" PE part ever produced for 1/56 scale in the industry!

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Enjoy!

[ultravanillasmurf]

Looks good.

Certainly for WW2.

Old Crow used photo etched parts for the turret basket and splinter shields for their 25/28mm Hammers Slammers Panzer and Blower models (bodies in resin, other bits in white metal).

Ground Zero Games had etched brass parts on the 25mm Knight Sabres figures (white metal).

[Pinky]

Well, I admire the quality of this, but shudder at the introduction of photo-etched metal parts.  Photo-etched stuff has always bugged me - they're meant to be plastic kits, after all.  And this kind of component does not look very suitable for wargaming.  At some point, providing this kind of level of 'realism' conflicts with the policy of making kits which are robust and relatively easy to assemble.  You can no longer have one-piece tracks because the simplified track detail is too obvious next to finely detailed photo-etched parts.