I'm sure there are some guys out there who're absolutely apoplectic over the way you painted and marked your 88... decals from a Kubelwagen!! I'm not one of them. I think it looks great - artistic license is what makes the model yours, and unique. I agree; trying to make something that's overall grey interesting to look at isn't the easiest thing, and I think you've done a great job here. Great vid, thanks for sharing.

@HalidonDioramas

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you my friend, much appreciated. It was really fun to paint and once you have played the artistic licenses card it becomes very relaxing as you can't really get anything wrong 😜😜😜

@beaukayson929

2 жыл бұрын

I guess Im asking randomly but does any of you know of a trick to log back into an instagram account..? I somehow forgot my account password. I would appreciate any help you can give me.

@chrisbilly5632

2 жыл бұрын

@Beau Kayson Instablaster =)

@beaukayson929

2 жыл бұрын

@Chris Billy i really appreciate your reply. I got to the site through google and Im waiting for the hacking stuff atm. I see it takes quite some time so I will get back to you later when my account password hopefully is recovered.

@beaukayson929

2 жыл бұрын

@Chris Billy it did the trick and I actually got access to my account again. I'm so happy:D Thank you so much, you saved my account !

Just finished the Cycle and Gun. I was concerned about how I would weather an all German Grey subject. I got some great insights from you Bro. Thanks for posting the video. ✊🏾

@HalidonDioramas

5 ай бұрын

Thanks Joseph, glad you found the video helpful mate. Cheers 👍

I empathise on becoming nostalgic Glen, so many of the models I choose to buy have been bought for me before along time ago by those who have gone. It's a bitter sweet.

@HalidonDioramas

4 жыл бұрын

The Jagdpanther and the 88mm were the earliest kits i can recall building, certainly as i was working on the 88mm i was often transported back to the kitchen table in my grandparents house just a short 50 year trip back in time 😄

What great job and great taste in the music added

I've got one of those suckers still in the box waiting for me to get started on it. Fantastic job! Thanks for all the ideas and inspiration!

@HalidonDioramas

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Sergio, I really enjoyed building it, i hope you get the same enjoyment too. 👍

You have brought to life in a simple and strightfold way an icon kit, Well done!!!!!!

@HalidonDioramas

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks LZ 👍

Well done, son! 👍👊

No rage when you are looking at a MASTERPIECE. Congrats!

@HalidonDioramas

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Manuel, that's very kind of you to say 👍👍👍

Very nice job Glen. Just one point that I feel you should be aware of. The reels on the bogeys carried electrical cables, not hose or rope. Their purpose was when a battery of several 88mm guns were in position, they had a fire control centre. The cables were laid out to the centre and the officer in charge would communicate with each gun leader via the cables to aim at whatever height and direction he deemed to be effective. A little while ago I bought the Deutsch Africa Corps version off the internet but didn't realise that it doesn't come with the bogeys, :- (

@HalidonDioramas

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Roger, i sort of knew that but it fell into the catagory of i cant be bothered figuring out what else to use so i just went with the tubing provided in the kit 😬

I recently picked up an 88 to work on after my current projects, and I’ll be watching this again when it’s time.

@HalidonDioramas

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Jeff, I hope it will be helpful 👍

Cracking build Glen love the colour choices and the added details look after yourself marra ! Regards Gav.

@HalidonDioramas

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Gav, i enjoyed painting it once i decided it wasn't going to be "just" grey 😜

It's looking really good, Glen.....great touches with the extra bits of paint....definitely took away the all grey look and made the model (as they say in the USA) "pop"! Will be awaiting the final diorama to come....thanks for keeping us, who are hunkered down at home, entertained with the visuals and your commentary. See you on the next one.

@HalidonDioramas

4 жыл бұрын

Robbo Thanks Robbo, much appreciated mate, I hope what I put up helps to fill in a bit of the time during lockdown 👍👍👍. Take care.

Love it, fantastic paint and weathering job.

@HalidonDioramas

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Kim 👍

I ordered this kit today, thank you for the videos!

@HalidonDioramas

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks M, Hope you enjoy it! its a great kit to build 👍

Always enjoy your work!

@HalidonDioramas

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Marty, much appreciated mate 👍

Great technique, impressive and splendid job!

@HalidonDioramas

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Phil, much appreciated mate 👍👍👍

The dials and placards are a great idea - one I shall shamelessly pinch! I look forward to seeing it finished. I'm all for the artistic license as well - I love the covered wagon kill mark. I saw one with a flying saucer on somewhere! Top job. Cheers.

@HalidonDioramas

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Andrew, thanks mate. Pinch away, its a small thing but it made it a bit more fun livening up the model with a few things like that 👍👍👍

This looks amazing, thanks for the inspiration!

@HalidonDioramas

Жыл бұрын

Thank yo, im glad you like it!

G, day, fantastic work mate, love it. Its made me think of something do with my 88. Hope your all OK, stay safe buddy

@HalidonDioramas

4 жыл бұрын

Mottys Military Models Thanks brother, I really enjoyed painting this a lot 👍

Great work Glen! I have this kit in the stash somewhere, it's one I've wanted to build since I was a wee laddie. Take care, -scott

@HalidonDioramas

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Scott, I found it to be a really fun kit to build and paint 👍

Great kit I plan on watching more of your video’s

@HalidonDioramas

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Matthew, i hope you enjoy them 👍

Great work. Thank you.

@HalidonDioramas

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you too! 👍👍👍

Looks fab. Just subscribed. Having just built the same kit I wasn't sure if I should do grey or dark yellow. Went for yellow but seeing how yours has worked out think i should have gone down the grey route. Brilliant job, can't wait to see the diorama. Keep safe pal, best wishes from England.

@HalidonDioramas

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Malcolm, much appreciated. I wouldn't mind building it again as an Africa Corps unit, take care 👍👍👍

Thank's bros🤝. Helped me alot, again! Almost done with weathering my 88. Soon, on to the figs! So long bros 👋

@HalidonDioramas

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Vincent, glad it was helpful mate. Nice work! 👍

Amazing man 🤩

@HalidonDioramas

6 ай бұрын

Thank you so much 😀

@Maltese.Oscar.B

6 ай бұрын

@@HalidonDioramasit’s alr ❤

Very nice work as usual

@HalidonDioramas

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Chris, much appreciate mate 👍👍👍

Great video, I really liked the grey modulations, looks very lifelike. I thought the brown seat covering looked a bit like a burnt pizza :-). I am going to attempt a British 25pdr and will try the same type of modulations in green, so thanks for the demo. Keep safe.

@HalidonDioramas

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks PMR, lets just say i am glad that two plastic butts are going to be covering those seat covers because the vision i had in my mind didn't really appear in the execution

Amazingly detailed kit for its age - the tooling is from 1973 and I am seriously contemplating getting one. I have a Lancaster nose kit in 1/32 and I reckon they would look kind of cool together.

@HalidonDioramas

Жыл бұрын

That sounds like the ingredients for what could be an action backed dio, imagine the nose section just about to come crashing down of the 88 that had just shot it down!!! Lots of potential in that combo for sure 👍

Awesome job and vid, thanks!

@HalidonDioramas

4 жыл бұрын

backdraft57 Thanks Backdraft, much appreciated 👍

@backdraft57

4 жыл бұрын

@@HalidonDioramas great narration voice dude

Fantastic job! Very envious of it. I am trying a North African version

@HalidonDioramas

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks David, an Africa Corps version would be very cool 👍👍👍

Good job on this old kit! 👍

@HalidonDioramas

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Cheers!

Good evening, you have completed a grezt looking subject, and to a certain degree this hobby is all about artisic lecence or adding detail that may or may not have been seen or usec, keep safe ib these troubled times.

@HalidonDioramas

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Les, much appreciated 👍👍👍

Great build Glen👍👍 your the only other one I know who makes their own decals. Its very limited but a creative mind and you can be pulled off. Really enjoy your videos. Looking forward to the diorama. I need someone here to help me do videos i like how yours go.👍

@HalidonDioramas

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Clay, still some work to do on the decal front, they aren't exactly where i would like them to be, i need to do some custom tweaking of the printer, but that's somewhat beyond my IT skills :) The videos are for me an unexpected joy I've found in coming back to the hobby, so not a choir at all, i love the process, I'm slow but i like the creative side of it all 👍👍👍

@claytonmcclain182

4 жыл бұрын

@@HalidonDioramas I'll just say I don't have $5,000 dollars for an all color printer. 😁 look forward to your next update 👍

Are you suggesting there were greay 88s coming out of the factory in the late war period? After feb. 18 1943 all german military vehicles and weapons were factory painted either RAL 7028 dark yellow, or a factory camo scheme using the tritonal scheme of yellow, redbrown and green, or the tropentarn schemes of 8000/7008 or 8020/7027. Not grey. Nothing late war was grey unleas it had lasted that long and somehow fallen through the repaint orders in early 43.

@HalidonDioramas

Жыл бұрын

Hahaha I defer to your expert knowledge Adam. I am not necessarily all that committed to that degree of accuracy, some times I actually forget about things like that and get fixated on other perhaps less important things like sculpting a miniature 1/35 dick 😇

Very nice!👍👍👍

@HalidonDioramas

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Ralle, cheers 👍

Hey Glen great video - I’ve just started putting this kit together.

@HalidonDioramas

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Liam, it is a ripper kit for sure 👍

Lovely

@HalidonDioramas

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks M 😎😎😎

verry fine Job !

@HalidonDioramas

6 ай бұрын

Thanks for the feedback, much appreciated 👍

Hey, alittle artistic licenceing is what makes for a great model.

@HalidonDioramas

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Mitch, much appreciated 👍

There's a different vibe with your videos. A more relaxed and experienced kind of myeah look to it which I personally adore. Im a new model maker and right now as I comment this im building sd. Kfz. 251/1 Ausf. A I like the ausf A better than the cheaper late war versions I think its the doors. But watching and listening, learning with your video in the background makes it alot more enjoyable. I appreciate your videos imma go see if you have a video of a half track build right now

@HalidonDioramas

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much, i really appreciate your feedback. I havent built a german halftrack just yet, but i have the classic Tamiya 251/1 Ausf D in the stash and do have plans for its use in a diorama in the future, send me through some pics of your build when it is finished. 👍👍👍

Wanderful job! Rememeber that model... about 3800 pieces with the truck and the personnel!

@HalidonDioramas

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, much appreciated 👍

Great job !!! Here a new subscriber.

@HalidonDioramas

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you, and thanks for the sub! 👍

You're an artist, and you make it look so straightforward. What's the music? It's lovely.

@HalidonDioramas

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you, very kind of you to say that. I'm really sorry but I have no idea what the music is, it will have been some royalty free KZread music 👍

My missus bought me one today, I'm undecided between the grey finish, or a white washed dark yellow gun... your video is swaying me towards grey...

@HalidonDioramas

Жыл бұрын

Now that's a one in a million missus brother, hang onto her for sure!!!!! If I build another one, I think I would be tempted to go eastern front deep in winter, gun covered in snow and ice and crew trying to just keep warm and stay alive. It is a great kit, a true classic I believe for sure, enjoy the build mate. 👍

@Wavey1988

Жыл бұрын

@HalidonDioramas hell yeah mate. Been having a shitty time of it and she surprised me with a Tamiya 1/48 Corsair, ICM Spitifre mk.IX, Airfix dambuster Lancaster, Airfix B17-G and the 88mm!

@HalidonDioramas

Жыл бұрын

@@Wavey1988 I have passed this information on to my wife and cautiously suggested she needs to lift 🤪

Nice

@HalidonDioramas

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks

definitely a difficult kit, adds to the quality

@HalidonDioramas

4 жыл бұрын

SirShakesworde Thank you 👍

Great tutorial, Glen but a lot of grey areas!

@HalidonDioramas

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Mark, yes it's a time of much ambiguity plus colour blindness isn't helpful either 🤓🤓🤓

What are the hoses actually used for on the real thing? I've only been modeling for a short time so my knowledge of how these guns worked is very limited along with what markings go with what regiments etc. That said, I think most people would never know if it was the correct markings or the correct colour paint or not. Its art not a restoration job and is open to interpretation. It looks great , if mine turn out as good I'll be very happy thanks for sharing

@HalidonDioramas

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Allan, much appreciated. I believe that they were something to do with communications, perhaps like a telephone cable system? But i am sure if that's not right someone will quickly comment correcting me, which i would be happy about 😄

@rogermullins7877

3 жыл бұрын

@@HalidonDioramas I can't give you accurate facts regarding the 'hoses' but as I understand it. Many of these guns would be gathered together for Anti-Aircraft cover of a strategic area. Within the battery of guns, a Control Centre would be located, which arranged for a blanket of flak to be put up. This needed to be co-ordinated. The cables from each gun were connected to the control centre, who in turn issued co-ordinates to each gun, so they all knew what height to set fuses and direction to aim, thus achieving optimum coverage to protect the chosen location. A couple of guys on each gun would have headsets on, so they could receive the lastest instructions and make adjustments to the gun and shells.

@HalidonDioramas

3 жыл бұрын

@@rogermullins7877 Thanks Roger, i think that you have nailed it mate, that sounds spot on.

@rogermullins7877

3 жыл бұрын

@@HalidonDioramas Further to the discussion on communications between guns, I have just come across the following video that explains it well. Approx. half way through the video is the relevant content. kzread.info/dash/bejne/doyiqsVyaNWXZc4.html

I'm trying to fix the gunner provided to the model but the figure wont line up only one foot sits on the foot rest and sits on half of the seat. Also the hands don't line up. Did you have the same problem ? I am making a diorama for this.

@HalidonDioramas

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, the guy on the left side was a real pain, i gave up in the end and that's why he is sitting on one of the bogies having a drink, i just couldn't get him to ft properly at all :(

how long is this models barrel? thanks

@HalidonDioramas

3 жыл бұрын

From the end of the breach to the end of the barrel it is 14cm

Very nice model to look at with a lot of artistic freedom. Only one thing made me cringe, as an ex gunner you would never, ever see rust on a working gun but after all this is only a model and it's open to your interpretation. Enjoy

@HalidonDioramas

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks Max, i tried to keep the rust to a minimum, but it is hard to resist splashing some around 😋😋😋