Sd.Kfz 7 mitt 150mm Sfh 18

Silver medal

Awarded: Silver

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By: philippe bonnet

Manufacturer(s): Ace model for the gun and hasegawa for the tractor

Modifications: Pic will show better than a text what have been improuved or modified on the kit.

After-market parts: Some pieces of a Part set have been used for the tractor

Description: the gun and tractor belong to battery C of 11PZ div art. rgt during the barbarossa opération, summer 1941 in south previous Soviet Union

Judge 1
Lots of nice details like the rivets & tyre tread on the gun & the grab handles on the tractor (But using wire has made the plastic rear basket look way out of scale so would have been worth making out of thinner wire too.) the seam of the track mudguard & the side by the front seats could do with a bit of liquid glue run along the gap. narrowing the bonnet & filling in the over scaled tyre treads on the tractor would have been worth doing with so mauch extra detail added else where. Weathering with the pre/post shading paint work (though the white width markers are not to straight) plus nice chipping & dust pigment application too. Nice one!
Judge 2
Wow a "sleeper" in the sense that the dark grey does not attract the eye as a color, but closer look and this model and it really indeed stands out. Great details added such as grab handles, that are well shown in the in-shots. Excellent weathering that is not overdone, with figures that are in a variety of casual and realistic poses. My only comment would be to add more color to the tarp/canvass as you have done with the grey tones. Also the tarp/canvass in its folded position is too "boxy" and should have more variation in shape. Nice piece with figures that are amazing in face detail! Well done.
Judge 3
You've made a very good job of this tired old Hasegawa kit and the improvements on ACE's gun also stand out and have been well executed. I like the dark grey colour scheme, not easy to reproduce in any scale. The dust on the running gear is good but the roads during that hot dry summer where extrememly dusty and hence I would expect to see alot more dust on the rest of the vehcile. Keep up the good work.