FineScale Modeler – October 2019

46 FineScale Modeler October 2019

SHOW GALLERY

▲ SANDY MCRORIE

TORONTO,

ONTARIO, CANADA

Sandy built Great Wall Hobby’s

1/35 scale 12.8cm PaK 44 out of

the box, then painted it with

Tamiya acrylics. He weathered the

German antitank gun with

washes and pigments.

▶ FRANK CICCARELLA

OAK LAWN, ILLINOIS

A Soviet OTR-23, known to NATO

as the SS-23 Spider, prepares to

launch a missile in Frank’s Cold

War scene. The 1/35 scale

launcher is a HobbyBoss kit

detailed with photo-etched

clasps, vents, and footholds, plus

DEF.Model resin weighted wheels.

Frank painted it with Vallejo acryl-

ics. The trees were scratchbuilt

using furnace filter material for

foliage.

CHRIS JOHNSON

NEWCASTLE, ONTARIO,

CANADA

After improving Takom’s 1/35 scale

Finnish ItPsv 90 Marksman by add-

ing antennas and antiskid texture

to the upper surfaces, and metal

tracks, Chris painted the anti-air-

craft vehicle with acrylics.