HobbyBoss 1/35 - 152mm ShkH vz.77 DANA

Hello awesome people. 

Right... so I have here another finished kit for you following after the ugly E-100 that I just finished a while ago. 

What we have here is a little gem from HobbyBoss. At the price of £44, this kit comes with rubber tires, clear parts, highly detailed suspensions and chassis, an engine, a sufficient amount of interior details fro the front cab and metal cable ( and of course, photo etch; 3 fret of them to be exact ). The only downsides were the two halves barrel, lack of any details at all inside the turret ( I'd have really enjoy if they put something to fill in the gaping hole where the auto-loaders fetch the round and charge.) and a rather wrongly sized P.E part that serve as a protective barrier for the engine and some poor information on the marking schemes. The downsize are really out-weighted by the great details of this kit. If anybody is thinking of getting this kit, I strongly recommend it. You won't regret it. 

I painted the green and wood brown in Gunze Sanyo, Mr. Hobby Aqueous colours while the black was painted in Tamiya. This was my second time painting Mr. Hobby and boy I really love it. It goes on much better then Tamiya. The scheme is for a vehicle in service with the Polish Army.

For weathering, I kept it rather clean apart from the various shades of dusts and many streakings. I am very very weak in making streakings and since this baby offer a lot of nicely angled surfaces, I though I'd give streakings another try. I used a grey colour streaking wash which I applied following a friend's suggestion; that is to streak them from bottom to up. I let it dry and apply another gloss and put on streakings that go top to bottom using oil; the colour was naples yellow. I am really happy with how all the streakings came out. I couldn't do that well on my Challey2, much less on my E-100. This is just very satisfactory for me. 

After that, another gloss coat and  I bombarded the lower parts of the vehicles with 3 different dust and dirt shade enamels; each layers blended using a brush moisten with white spirit. I followed that up with 3 more different colours of pigments once satisfied. After that, a final matt coat sealed everything. 

The build was enjoyable, one of the best builds I have had. I made a full account of the W.I.P in the previous posts and you are welcome to look over at them if you are curious about how well the kit goes together. Actually, let me make a list here for the Work in Progress posts -

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4 

Part 5 

Well, that's about as much I can sum up about the build. The exact steps can be found in the 5-part W.I.P. 

I'm vary satisfied with what I did, albeit it could look better but still, I'm happy.

It's time for the photos - 

(If you think some are small, just click on them ) 

The Wheels - 

 

Some close ups on the streakings - 

The opening to the engine - 

The Tools - 

And as usual, my show case photos from various angles -

 

 

 

And as usual from me, the Gary Wintin Shot as coined by a friend -

Well, that's all I can say about this. As you all know, my patience is my bane so the usual hiccups are met but nothing I can complain. All in all, this was a GREAT and very enjoyable build and I am more than proud to have this on my shelf. 

I couldn't keep building if not for my supporting friends and comrades. Thank you guys for always supporting me. Thank you dear readers for your patronage as well.

Until Next time.

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W.I.P 1/35 DANA 152 mm - Part 5

Finally.. some update on this baby ... I've ignored this girl for far too long ... 

If everybody can recall- I cut off the last update after I primed everything so let's pick up from that. After priming everything, I painted the engine and the interior of the engine bay as it would be VERY visible from the engine grilles that I have shown before. 

This was my first time painting an engine and I had absolutely no idea what I was doing but I think I managed to pull through. Have a look - 

The ugly black lines you see are my shadings lines that I put on with hand brush as I was too lazy to put them on with airbrush .. 

After that, I put on the remaining pieces of the PE which were the big engine cover hatches and primed it again and painted the base colours; Mr. Hobby Aqueous H303

This was my second time painting this but I thinned it down with methylated spirit and it just came out so smooth. I never had that much fun painting with any other paint.. well, except maybe with Vallejo Air.

The 2nd colour and first camo patches goes on; again I used Mr. Hobby Aqueous. The colour is H37 wood brown.

The third colour and 2nd camo patches went on. As I already had tamiya black, I didn't waste any further money on Mr.Hobby black and just used tamiya black. Lord, I hated tamiya black. ( Black and white are really hard to paint for me ) 

After that, I left if alone for a few days and while trying to put weathering on my T-55 Engima, I decided to dirtied up the chassis and running gear like so -

And after that comes decals- 

The front cab -

and the back -

I'm building a Polish army version and I just realized, I picked up a scheme that has only those four decals on. While relieved of the fact that I don't have to put on too much decals, I was kind disappointed that there was only four.

Moving on, I applied pin wash to the whole thing. I used AK nato vehicle wash ( the black one ) -

After that, I put on a matt varnish and spray some thinned down dirt/earth/dust colour enamels on to prepare for the upcoming weathering stages ... 

Next, I followed up that step with painting of the vision ports and lights -

I have no idea how to make the front light looks realistic.. this looks stupid IMO. I should put on some gloss varnish with brush to build this feel of a glass head light.

Tail lights -

And I also painted the only 3 tools on-board, the tow cable and the straps on the little round thingy and the saw.

and this is how this baby looks now - 

Whew... well, that was a big update... all I need now is to followed up on the weathering and I should be done. I will see if I make enough progress to make an update.. if not, then straight to the finished product..... 

Until the next update....

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