Custom Panzer crews

General Blasto · Post by **General Blasto** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 10:50 pm

I just finished the last figure of the first 6 custom tankers.
A BUNCH of work is required to convert DAK dudes into panzer crew members

But I got the first 2 tanks worth done

Here are some pictures of my custom crews.

I used my E2 and E4 version Jagdpanthers I got from the Hun

Meet Tore Johanstien, he's the next best thing to Jocheim Piper(sp?).
Single handedly he and his crew destroyed 1/2 a division of tanks in the SUCCESSFUL second battle of Arden campain. Now he's making ready to retake Paris, then set his sights on the channel and London

Da General

Rogue 01 · Post by **Rogue 01** » Sun Jan 25, 2009 11:39 pm

Nice painting I love the cap

holensock · Post by **holensock** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 5:06 am

WOW! Great job!!!
Love the background and the work you did on the tanks!!

flyboy_fx · Post by **flyboy_fx** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 11:57 am

nice

Light.Inf.Scout · Post by **Light.Inf.Scout** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 12:04 pm

Great Work!

General Blasto · Post by **General Blasto** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 12:22 pm

Thanks guys

Now it's time to get to work on the next ones

Da General

normandy · Post by **normandy** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 3:30 pm

GB, these tankers look Great! You used DAK figures? I couldn't tell at all, Nice work and Your Hun Jagdpanthers are Very cool.

Rogue 01 · Post by **Rogue 01** » Mon Jan 26, 2009 10:36 pm

If any one want to make the crew they can use the ss set for 9.95 in Monkey depot.com

less paint to use already black

blaster_e11 · Post by **blaster_e11** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 2:03 am

neat painting especially the red piping

thehun · Post by **thehun** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 4:57 am

Hey Blasto,
Those guys look great----Rock on----
Hun

normandy · Post by **normandy** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 5:07 am

Pink piping is Panzer, Red would Artillery.

General Blasto · Post by **General Blasto** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 8:18 am

Pink IS the color of the panzer crews. but I like the red color better and they don't make a ultra fine pink pen either. Yet light red isn't too far from pink, so it works for me

As for using the black SS set, you'll need to do the same work on them as you do for the DAK guys. First thing you HAVE to do is cut off all the straps that go over the shoulders. Next you need to cut off the ammo pouches on the belt. If your using the SS guys, you'll have to sand off the arm band too as well as - correction, you can keep the collar ranking IF your modeling the SS tank crews, but I think you will still need to do the pink or red stripe edging on the ranking on the collar as well as on the cap or hat. Next time I do the tankers, I'll take a few "in production" pictures to post

Da General

Tambo · Post by **Tambo** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 9:29 am

Those rock Blasto...damm fine job sir.

ostketten · Post by **ostketten** » Tue Jan 27, 2009 9:56 am

They look very nice, but I would suggest some kind of flat clearcoat for those boys... they seem to be a bit on the shiney side, just a suggestion though, and look great anyway.

immeww2 · Post by **immeww2** » Wed Jan 28, 2009 12:34 pm

Those guys look

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Fritzkrieg · Post by **Fritzkrieg** » Wed Jan 28, 2009 8:12 pm

Nice, Job. I've been trying to come up with a good panzer crew recipe, but the only figure, that I have found wearing anything close to a Panzer wrap is GI joe's Cobra Commander, and there is just too much going on with that figure, to be easily modified.

How do you make all the little medals. They look like they are actually metal?

General Blasto · Post by **General Blasto** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 11:45 am

Ok, here we go

I started another group of tankers and am going to do the step by step on
how to make them out of DAK figures. Here is the first two steps.

First off, you have to cut off all the straps and cut off the ammo pouches from the belt. To do this, I use a pair of cutical(sp?) nippers to cut with and a nail file to smooth out the cutting areas. I also use a dovetail type track saw to cut/smooth the areas in grooves. Here is a few pictures of these first two steps

Da General

flyboy_fx · Post by **flyboy_fx** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 12:22 pm

LOOKS SOOOOOOOOOOO FAMILIAR. I did that with my italian i made, but i made new pockets and stuff. LOOKS GREAT

General Blasto · Post by **General Blasto** » Thu Jan 29, 2009 12:49 pm

I forgot to mention the badges are pre-made etiched on brass.
I bought them at my local hobby shop that carries models. I think we had to order them. Same goes for the ranking shoulder boards. The collar tags are dry and wet transfer decals

Da General

V2 MAN · Post by **V2 MAN** » Sun Feb 01, 2009 1:19 pm

as always blasto excellent work

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