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Pierantonio


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My last work is a Mk IV Female named Marie Chen belonging to the German Freikorps in 1920 during the red revolution in the Ruhr valley

 

She comes from Takom mostly OOTB with some minor works:

- new escape hatch on the drive cab floor,

- new side rail support,

- new observation hatch, a resin copy of Tamiya kit

- rear weater filler cup for envelope radiator

 

 

 

All decals were drawn in Adobe Illustrator and printed by a professional printer in Verona (IT)

The rear skull is airbrushed with a laser cut template

 

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for watching.

 



-- Edited by Pierantonio on Monday 9th of November 2015 05:55:34 PM

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Very nice work :)

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You did great on that one!



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Lovely piece!



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Small point fyi: It's "MARIECHEN", not "MARIE CHEN." The former is a diminutive of "Marie". The latter is an American doctor of Chinese extraction.

The model is excellent.



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Very nice!



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L - 16 41?



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Hello Pierantonio,

my compliments to your excellent work!
Did you ever contemplate marketing the custom-made decals for Mariechen?
I would very much like to purchase a set of these. Most likely the files must be still available?

Best regards,
Herwig

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Hedi: the L-16416 was a personal choice after looking at Beute Panzer Vol. 2 but a later view suggested me 416 was wrong because most probably it was only a two-digit number (may be 41 or something like this).
Unfortunatly that happened after decal application was it became impossible to change that dacal without heavy demage to the camuoflage paint.

herwigwstrauss: decals are not for sale but feel free to download their files below for personal use.

www.ferreamole.it/images/modelli/mariechen.zip

You will find:
- a dxf file for the rear skull's profile. It was laser cut by a very cheap Italian server on 1mm perspex sheet.
- an Adobe Illustrator file (AI) with decals I printed for the following tanks: Mk IV Supply, Mk IV Female Mariechen and S. Chamond #62467 "MIN P'TIT QUIN QUIN" (now at my painting station).



-- Edited by Pierantonio on Monday 23rd of November 2015 12:00:31 AM

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Hello Pierantonio!

That is a very nice model you made! So much detail.

Nice to see the sign on the front: Strasse Frei! Just like the real thing.

Best regards,

Willem



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And a question for Pierantonio.

I Always thought that the Germans used Lewis guns that were adapted to take German ammo.

What German machineguns were put in the sponsons?

I know about the antitank rifle that was fitted in the front during the last months of the war but never heard about German machineguns in the sponsons.

Could you let me know where I can find more info?

 

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Rainer Strasheim in the Tankograd book "Beute-Tanks" says that trials to adapt the MG08 to the British sponson proved abortive

so the original Lewis guns were modified to accept German 7.92mm ammunition.

Regards,

Charlie

 



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Nevertheless, MAERIECHEN carried German MG 08 in the sponsons, but had a Lewis MG fitted on the prow.

 

 

Cheers, Peter T



-- Edited by Peter T on Sunday 30th of October 2016 09:37:22 AM

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Frontal view reveals that one could look straight through the sponsons. That implies that the mounts for the Lewis guns had been removed in MARIECHEN's sponsons - and the 08 type (or 08/15 type) machine guns were lacking proper mounts. (One field solution was to use a sandbag for mount of a 08/15, although more elaborate makeshift mounts can be observed as well.)

I can find no indication, however, that MARIECHEN had a cab escape hatch.



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Looking at MARIECHEN's cab, does anybody have a clue what device has been mounted here? - Peter T's picture shows the mounting pin still, but the device is gone.



-- Edited by mad zeppelin on Sunday 30th of October 2016 02:40:02 PM

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Hi Pierantonio

First of all I wanted to congratulate you to your modeling effords. I like your Mk. IV a lot, especially the camo. In general theoretically many things are possible, as we do not have color photos of that vehicle. But I don't like that almost frankophone artillery gray as proposed from Takom. Ok, it looks pretty sexy, but your job seems more realistic to me.

@ madzeppelin

I can not make out what belongs to the tank and what eventually to the background. Looks likte there is somethin hanging down in front of the cab or from the side. And what about the rails? Mmmh...

 



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I'm not sure about the left side either. What is on the tank and what is background? But on the right side, you have that massive horizontal device fixed to the upright pin. What could that be? I suppose it's not a public address device. 



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It's a joy to see such workmanship, as for painting the camouflage pattern do you paint the camouflage patches first and the black lines afterwards or the other way round, love to be able to paint like this.

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mad zeppelin wrote:

I'm not sure about the left side either. What is on the tank and what is background? But on the right side, you have that massive horizontal device fixed to the upright pin. What could that be? I suppose it's not a public address device. 

 

 

Unbiased view: It looks to me as a rolled up tarpaulin on the right side and the same mounting without tarpulin on the left side. But would that make sense? No!



-- Edited by Peter T on Monday 31st of October 2016 08:53:16 PM

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BC312 wrote:

It's a joy to see such workmanship, as for painting the camouflage pattern do you paint the camouflage patches first and the black lines afterwards or the other way round, love to be able to paint like this.

You are wellcomed.

I painted the camouflage patches first starting from yellow (the lighter color given on all model) and then each color masking with fluid each patter.

So paint the first color and mask, paint the second mask and then go so on. 

The sequence of darker color is not important but given the lighter color first is.

Base color were the same from the Russian modeller but they were hardly reworked with oil color. All color were airbrushed.

I made the outline wit a pen like this 

http://www.faber-castell.com/technical-drawing/products/ecco-pigment

I choose the 0.6mm pen but I used also the 0.4 for the interior of vision slot.

Working with this pen is very easy. Simply keep it perpendicular to the surface and slowly follow the border between color. Near the rivets the line is hard to do but when finished use a small brush to retouch line.

Bye 

Pierantonio



-- Edited by Pierantonio on Tuesday 1st of November 2016 08:21:39 AM

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... MG 08/15 without butt stock, fixed on the right cabin side!

http://world.guns.ru/userfiles/images/machine/mg57/mg08-15_2.jpg



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Yes, it may be a 08/15, most probably set to fire blank ammunition in psychologic warfare. We know that Abt. 13 used 08 or 08/15 MGs in the prow position (after removing the Lewis mount and its fixing ring) for firing blanks at the Lieu St.Amand training ground. - I suppose the captured Lewis guns came without device for firing blanks. - And MARIECHEN's real MGs had to be kept ready for the real purpose...



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