Quick and Dirty finish for my buddy's Marklin HO scale layout, as another flatcar load - probably representing battlefield salvage headed to the smelters or perhaps a museum piece being shuffled around. [This build went to the same recipient http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=9803.msg184610#msg184610 (http://beyondthesprues.com/Forum/index.php?topic=9803.msg184610#msg184610) ]
Found a NOS model that'd make an ideal stocking stuffer his wife can give him.
(https://i.imgur.com/TXqE40U.jpg?1)(https://i.imgur.com/Qck7jKN.jpg)
For those unfamiliar with the ROCO MINITANK series, they're dated and are more highly-detailed-toys than models requiring assembly. Don't think Scalemates has done the JagdTiger but this gives you the jist of the series.
https://www.scalemates.com/cs/kits/roco-minitanks-z-134-tiger-ii-h-koenigstiger--966673 (https://www.scalemates.com/cs/kits/roco-minitanks-z-134-tiger-ii-h-koenigstiger--966673)
Pretty obvious how they manufactured the derivative. (https://i.imgur.com/f5tOe0q.jpg)
I wanted a late-war look, but rusted. (https://i.imgur.com/YmSuuQj.jpg?1)
Gave it a rattle can base coat of primer, then a gentle wafting of rattle can 'tan' with some flat grey dry-brushed over the roadwheels and tracks with a finger. Finally, a sprinkling of brown/green flecking.
I don't *do* Nazi tanks and had none of their markings in my pile of transfers (certainly not in that small a scale), so a trio of American stars (from a Hasegawa M3 Honey tank) went on to indicate it's captured status.
(https://i.imgur.com/s06xnzq.jpg)(https://i.imgur.com/U0VIQm0.jpg)
The funnest part was replacing it in it's original box, using the original copper staples. The folks at Langley would be so proud.
(https://i.imgur.com/OWCHtlJ.jpg?1)
Not The Santa's Workshop You Were Expecting
(https://assets3.thrillist.com/v1/image/1833344/792x446/flatten;scale;webp=auto;jpeg_quality=70)