Sd.Kfz. 251/1 D

Awarded: Silver

By: Sven-Åke Grufstedt

Manufacturer(s): Dragon

Description: Built striaght OOTB and painted with Vallejo Acrylics and weathered with oils and pigments.

Judge 1: Nicely built (but no in-progress photo). The paint finish is good and the mud / dust around the tracks is very good. The front wheel looks too clean in comparison to the tracks though. The basic finish has some nice variety in tone, but it almost looks too perfect and could benefit from being a little more random.
Judge 2: This is an excellent model but it’s hard to see clearly your good work as the photo’s are not well cropped, there is more base and background than model. The paint work is excellent, smooth, well applied and shows good variation in tone with some nice streaking and it has just the right sheen. The MG’s are the best I’ve seen in this scale. The construction is very good with Just a few things I noticed, the road wheels on both sides don’t sit properly on the tracks, they seem to angle in towards the bottom. The weathering is subtle and the mud is where I’d expect to find it, but the front wheels don’t match the tracks. I can’t see the chips and scratches as the photos aren’t close enough and there is no photo showing the inside.
Judge 3: You have nailed the sdkfz 251/1,But not quite this exact vechicle it just needed the '2533' on the rear doors too. But besides the Historic accuracy,it's perfect lovely tones & wear around the bolt details & mud in the left tyre treads & around the tracks, the right tyre has been missed by any weathering by the looks! Rope around the front tow hooks is good extra detailing & the aerial too. Nice metalic drybrushing on the MG's I think you have got to the top of modeling here & would like to see figures & helmets on the hull sides & the 251 towing a Pak40, just for better accuracy & to you a little further. I still need closer & rear photo views!