leIG-18

Silver medal

Awarded: Silver

Users' choice

This gallery has 6.58% of the users' votes.

By: Vladimir Grigoriev

Manufacturer(s): ACE

Modifications: Minor scratch-built and copper wire details.

Description: The model depicts a gun from an unknown German unit on the Eastern front in winter 1942. The model is painted via hairspray technique by Vallejo acrylics and artistic tempera, weathered with W&N products: oils, dry pastels and gloss varnish.

Judge 1
Cute little model, construction is fine & can see you have improved on it too. The gray looks a little light but the pinwashes & whitewash looks great with the Hairspray technique, I would have done less on the gun breach & hand wheels as it would worn off quickly or never have been applied in those areas. I would have also added a metallic drybrush in those areas too. I really like the rusty coloured pinwashes around the bolts & the wet mud is very realistic too, on the lower shirt & wheels, shame Ace did not add tread on the top of the tyres. Being a infantry weapon, I don't think they would have the red & white range finder poles that the bigger Artillery uses.
Judge 2
What a great job you've made of this tiny little kit. The white wash is just fantastic, very realistic. The dark pin wash is just right and brings all the tiny details ACE have included to life. I think the mud is the most impressive part the multi tones are great and the contrast between the wet and dry mud is subtle and realistic. I have to agree with the other judge in that I would not expect to see any white wash on the hand wheel or the gun breach, this would have given you a great opportunity to add more contrast with some nice polished steel finishes here. Overall very good work.
Judge 3
A neat looking build, your 'in-progress' pictures are not massively informative, but it's not a massive model either. Paintwork and weathering are certainly interesting and there is awful lot going on. Some of the chipping on the gunshield looks just a little arbitrary and, as the other judges have mentioned, the whitewash on the controls seems inappropriate.