Tanks are a favorite subject for scale modelers, sculptors, and other artists. Today we’re gonna share five scale model “tankers” whose work we admire.
Many of these are in 1/35 scale; several or are not. Now, in no particular order, five amazingly good artists whose ability to build, paint, and weather scale model tanks and scale model dioramas can only be marveled at. We don’t know a lot about most of these guys, we just admire their work and follow them on social media to watch for their latest efforts. All listed names are actually monikers on Instagram.
👉 Individual images are portals to tank-related stuffs on Amazon.
1. Scale Model Tanker @mrspache.
Two giants in miniature – a Tiger tank and Panzerkampfwagen behind a set of spectacles.
A selection of tanks built by 1/35 scale and miniature scale model @mrspache.
Patton and Sherman at 1/35 scale.
A Sherman M4A3E8 named “Fury.” Recognize her?
Detail on tank treads. Check out the detail on that rust and damage.
2. Scale Model Tanker @mariofarezlewandowski.
See his site, http://www.miniaturstahl.de/.
Panzerkampfwagen E-100 (Gerät 383, TG-01) super heavy tank, imagined here in 1946.
1/35 scale winter diorama: German troops in late 1943/early 1944.
“This is the first time [with…] wet mud and ice together. I am still thinking about how to realize the wet shine in-between on the ground. To make icy noses on vehicles I decided to use a transparent glue which was already dried out.”
Same small scale, just a little more modern.
Elefant tank destroyer Sd. Kfz. 184 Panzerjäger Tiger (P)
A street in Iraq, built in 1/35 scale with an M1 Abrams tank and LAV.
3. From Japan, @tetsuo_horikawa.
He builds dioramas of mostly US forces and is a collector of US naval aviation patches.
An M24 Chaffee named “Gunslinger”; A Company, 37th Tank Battalion, 4th Armored Division. Vegetation in the diorama is made from dried flowers.
Thunderbolt VI (a Sherman tank); model by Asuka. This is a close-up of the stowage at the back of the tank.
A diorama with the M25 Chaffee light tank.
A diorama of the Sherman tank “Cobra King.” Cobra King was an M4A3E2 Sherman, the first one to break through to Bastogne during the Battle of the Bulge.
A 1/35 M4A3E8. scale “Army Mule” of the 15th Tank Battalion. 6th Armored Division.
4. The following images are from scale model tanker @90analog.
Sherman tanks, a WIP (Work In Progress) with plastic model kit directions behind them.
Panzerkampfwagen IV, crew taking their ease (or perhaps waiting on the order to move).
Detail of tank treads, wheels and bogies from an M4A3 Sherman tank work in progress.
Soviet T-35 tank model (we’re not sure what the name is).
More of that M4A3 Sherman from above, in progress.
and lastly (but hardly leastly),
5. Scale model tanker @lewisgtturbo.
A 1/35 scale British armor Sherman Firefly, Irish Guards.
Various pieces of his work, individually and in dioramas.
The Sherman Firefly from earlier, now worked into a “Hells Highway” diorama (Operation Market Garden, Holland.)
An M8A1 75mm Scott Gun Carriage, Normandy. This is prior to touch-up work done to create an Ardennes diorama.
It seems only too fitting to end with this specific tank and tank crew…
Oddball, from “Kelly’s Heroes.” Certainly one of the most famous Sherman tanks from the movies!
Hope you enjoyed checking these out. Go to the individual accounts – there are lots more where these came from.
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