Austro Daimler ADGZ (Fu)

By: jörg fiedler

Manufacturer(s): MARS

Modifications: none

After-market parts: additional parts from Mars (jerry can, packs)

Description: Vehicle of the 7.SS Division Prinz Eugen 7 Balkan 1942/43, painted in vallejo black grey. In my homecountry it is not legal to add any SS marking on a model so I have to leave them away. Model was filtered with MIG Filters and weathers with MMP powders.

Judge 1
A very competent build of an elegant, but rather fragile looking kit. It would have been useful to see a little more detail of the build process. The stowage, while a nice extra detail, looks a little precarious in its positioning. Paintwork looks OK but is perhaps a little pale and rather flat. More prominent use of filters and a stronger wash would add interest. More use might also have been made of careful drybrushing to enhance the raised detail and edges of the model. Detail painting does look quite good especially on the stowed tools and cans. The weathering effects are rather mixed, the dried mud and general grime is quite convincingly done. The texture on the exhaust pipe is splendid, but the colour is too monotone, giving the appearance of a terracotta pipe rather than burned metal, some carefully applied soot effects would help it a lot.
Judge 2
A good building clean and wothout problem. Beautiful kit, very thiny. Regarding paint, base one is good with a lovely grey tone but I think that is too flat; some pinwash and drybrush could improve this work. Weathering is good and, personally, I have put some more dust on the flat surface. I would have use a different grey tone (darker) on the rubber wheel. Also drybrush could improve this model.
Judge 3
The build looks very good and the grey camo has been applied well (but the photos look a bit too compressed as there are some noticeable compression "artifacts" that distort the details slightly). The weathering is restrained, but perhaps a bit too restrained as the finish is a bit flat looking. Stronger detail washes and possibly more filters would help with this. Some more dust on the horizontal surfaces would also be beneficial.