I week or so ago while surfing the web, I stumbled across a B&W jpeg of an undeveloped E-V/4 card model. So far, I haven't been able to find who the designer is. It looked promising, so I thought I'd play around with it and see if I could make a presentable model out of it.
I resized the rivets, colored and weathered it using Photoshop, printed it at 1/45 scale, consistent with my allfrompaper.ru WWI armored cars, and started cutting. Here are a couple of photos of the build to date. I opened up a few of the machine gun ports, and boxed them internally. The turret is fixed. I'll post more photos as the build progresses.
Verrry interesting...I'll be following this. I haven't tried any of the allfrompaper site models yet. I've downloaded some, but not built them. Are you going to post pix of the ones you've made so far?
Thanks for your interest, Wayne. I've built two of the allfrompaper armored cars - the Russo-Balt (see thread in this forum), and the Poplavko-Jeffery, which I repainted to match the "Janosik" armored car - will be posting pictures of that one soon. I have another of the site's offerings all printed out and ready to go. They are really very nice models, although the coloring on the "stock" PDFs are often garish.
I've made more progress on the E-V/4 as you can see. The basic body is done. I still have to create the armored headlight enclosures, and some of the various storage boxes that can be seen in period photos. The jpeg prototype Ehrhardt that I downloaded from the net has very basic 2D wheels, but I'll be layering them for the best possible look.
After a delay due to a vacation and a sliced thumb, I have finished the E-V/4. I'm happy with the way it turned out, although I think the dimensions of the original black and white line drawing are off. Now that it's all done, it appears like it might be too long, and perhaps not tall enough. But, since it's the only paper model of this armored car out there, there's nothing better. I armed it with 3 machine guns - back, one side, and turret. My own additions to the black and white include a reworking of the front end, turret hatch, machine guns, internal boxes for the guns, armored headlight covers, a couple of different style of rear fender storage boxes, mud rings for the front wheels, and simple beam type axles.
I got lazy with the machine guns and just used a rectangular piece of cardboard for the barrels. Looks ok at 1x but terrible in macro.
Now it's on to the next project. A modest repaint of the Frot-Laffly Landship designed by Ct Ertz.
