Strato50

Hey guys! So lately I've been involved in this Panzer IV build!

Clark TK22
Spektrum AR400
Speaker from Freakydude @ immortal hobbies


My first HD video, enjoy!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-t0wwg1P2Qs[/youtube]

ausf

Sweet!

She moves good around those concrete hedgerows. Are you driving and filming at the same time?

Glen B

Looks good , two questions;

Will it be at the June Can Am meet?

Does the tune come with the Clark?

Strato50

I asked my father to 'direct' the video, he was following it around the yard I'm VERY happy with how this tank navigates what is essentially fairly thick grass.. my Tiger or KV-2 would be having severe issues. It's a fairly light 'stock' HL at about 5 pounds!

Glen I'll bring this to the June meet, for sure. I wish the Clark came with music

Glen B

Excellent, is it all IR capable and able to smoke Capt. Action's Pantiger?

Strato50

Soon, just waiting on parts for the IR cable and it'll be good to go. Hopefully I'll get some metal parts and tracks too

Strato50

Added some turret Schurzen today... I wasn't sure if I'd like it or if I'd even build them, but you know what they actually look good to me!!

Airbrushler

looks good to me to nice job

Strato50

Turret schurzen painted

Just have to add little details like door latches and hinges and they should be done...

Buckeye36

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Looks sweet, nice work!

Strato50

So this is the decal sheet I ordered with some other parts for this build...

Question is, other than the " Y ''' " insignia, what units / divisions are the others?

I'd like to use the most 'proper' one for a PnzIv G in mid 1943 through to mid '44 including Normandy.

Anyone know the proper units?

Buckeye36

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Why not order some proper decals or a stencil set instead of the HL stickers?

Buckeye36

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RCTank.de has an assortment of PIV stencils, I used a set on my Tiger and they work and look great.

MAUS45

You may want to consider some water slide or dry transfer decals instead of the HL Stickers. Maybe make your own stencils or rctank .de has them for purchase. Check out this site as well for decals, http://www.artistichobbies.com/index.html.

yellowshaker

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Nice work. I agree with Buckeye, get some stencils from RCtank.de. The HL stickers look rather silly and will take away from all the nice work you've done.

tomhugill

I think it was dan yhr posted that the HL kv-2 stickers actually work more like dry rub transfers.

Strato50

I just have the decals because they were cheap and readily available ;P More curious than anything about the divisions they chose to print; I might invest in a decent airbrush soon so stencils would work out well, thanks for the links

MAUS45

Strato50,

I found stencils for one of the markings you have on your HL Sticker Decals. They were on the rctank.de site. They represent two different Panzer IV H tanks that belonged to the 35th Panzer Regiment. At least the HL stickers are more accurate than I thought. The schemes look good, but if you wanted to use them it would require a repaint of your tanks camo. I think that it was attached to the 4th Panzer Division? I did a little more digging and the 35th Panzer Regiment was the Armor part of the 4th Panzer Division The black Shield is the Division marking and the Bear, which is the 35th symbol, was the "Grizlibär", a menacing grizzly bear.


Cheers,

Rudy

Strato50

Did some more work, the emitter is now installed as you can see in the picture in the left hand lower part of the manlet.

I received the ausf G barrel from the earlier mentioned eBay vendor along with some tow cables, a metal bucket & some smoke launchers (some G's had them!)

The emitter is from an SLU package but works fine as tested with the Clark board.

Schurzen are detachable by means of magnets, very handy.

Strato50

Barrel LED flash installed, showing off the turret and barrel functions.

Interesting note you can see the violent colour of the IR LED on the side of the mantlet.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaS3nb9spxw[/youtube]

philipat

Looking good.  I must have missed the post...where did you get the G gun tube and the smoke launchers?  Those with smoke launchers were in Italy, France or the Eastern Front. 

Strato50

I ordered them from eBay, this particular vendor http://stores.ebay.ca/Panzer-Command...p2047675.l2563 , in the UK.

I also bought a bucket & cables, hehe.




Anyhoo my tank is now officially 9th Panzer Division

thecommander

Strato be careful with that IR emitter location. You will have a huge IR "Blind-spot" or "dead-zone" to the right of your tank barrel with that configuration. I just wanted to make sure you know about it now and not on the field. If you want to play it safe, make a Tamiya clip on style IR emitter and wire combo to clip onto any tank as a spare. Your P4 looks neet.

Strato50

Thanks commander :P I just took a look at it and compared the the picture I posted it actually sits a little bit forward of the manlet itself, so I think there's a bit of an optical illusion at work here, hehe.

Looking down from the end of the muzzle break down to the emitter it's about a 10-15° arc between the emitter line of sight & the tip of the barrel... I will do some field testing and see if that hinders my shots!

Strato50

Here's photos of the entire build & painting process.

Final metal running gear parts arrive today, so she's ready to roll.

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...1&l=cdd5c476a3