I’ve got another 1:72 model for you - this time, untypically for me, a Hanomag Sd.Kfz.251/6 Ausf. A. It started as a kit from a Polish company called First to Fight (often abreviated as F2F). It brings out 1:72 models of equipment that was used in Poland, in September 1939. Thosekits are cheap (about 5$), designed to be wargamers and easy to assemble, but detailed enough, that with some tinkering can be made into nice models, especially as often it is the first time that the subject appears in styrene in 1:72.
As for the Hanomag - it has some really nice details, like the dash, the radios or the MG34. Then again the tracks are one-piece with the wheels. I have transplanted the tracks from Italeri-ex-ESCI half track and did some minor modifications and detailing (tool handles, the “antennae” on the fenders). Now here’s what my model looks like now:
And that would be it for now - I hope you liked it, thanks for looking and haev a nice day
Oh that’s some nice work Pawel! And you replaced the road wheels and treads too? Wow, oh wow, I imagine in 1/72nd she’d be about 8cm long or so. My hands and eyes can barely handle 1/35th not to mention something that small.
Gamera - thanks a lot! Yeah, it’s a tiny model but was very nice to work with, the transplant wasn’t very hard, although if I were to do it again, I’d take the Revell kit as a donor, much nicer parts. Somehow I like 1:72 very much. Thanks again for your comment and have a nice day
I liked the first half track so well, that I thought I’ll do other variants, too, to show the development of the family. So here’s another. The chassis is from Revell, a very nice kit, and the pioneer version parts are from ESCI/Italeri /7 kit, after some detailing. Inside I have put some generic crates and some “Tellerminen” that I have scratchbuilt.
I got some very critical comments on the camouflage, so if you think it’s shidda, I’d very much like to know it. I have to tell you that I like that camo very much, but I’d just love to know your opinnion, too.
I like that a lot. Can’t say if a vehicle ever carried that pattern, but then i also can say one didn’t. But its perfectly done for a brush painted camo scheme. Its the sort of paint job many avoid because they think it looks silly, but its actually very realistic.
Nice build and well done for trying somthing different.
I don’t know enough to comment on whether or not this is an historical camo scheme, but I certainly think it is possible. “Here’s your brush, there’s the paint. Get to it.”
I think you did a really good job on this. The scratch built mines are very well done. Personally, I like the camo, but I think it is a lot more important that you do.
Sounds like you had fun building this, and that, after all, is the point.
Thanks for posting, and I hope you have a nice day.
Thanks a lot for your comments and for your kind words - they mean a lot to me!
I didn’t write what I wanted to achieve, but I see it comes over, or pretty close.
A hand painted camo - yes. But painted with a local mud and a bunch of rags. I guess that’s why the photos are so hard to come by - if you can’t find paint or a brush, a camera might be as hard to come by. And also such a “hillbilly camo” doesn’t fit well with an image of a superhuman fighter, now does it? But the Italeri model shows something like this in the colour options, and it did look interesting to me, so I went for it.
As for fun - it definitely was a fun build, thank you very much!
RX7850 - thanks a lot! Looks like there are far more box arts showing that kind of thing than there are actual photos. But they are there - look at the top right:
Bish - thanks a lot! I’m glad I was able to show it on the model - it’s no fun having to explain what the model was actually SUPPOSED to represent.
Thanks again for your comments and have a nice day
I know the feeling pawel, but sometimes you feel like you just have to explain it. I am looking to do some of these rough schemes on some of my 251’s just to get away froim the normal camo.
That image you posted, the one on the left is a great example of mud camo. I take it that page is from one of the Squyadron books?
Thanks Pawel. I have the first two of those Squadron books Bish refers to and remember them talking about the mud camo but had forgotten about it at the time. Thanks for clearing that up!
Its just the way the captions are written make me thing Squadron, but its not one i recall from any of the books i have. I am especially interested in that pic because its the Heavy MG version and i have yet to decide what scheme to do my Ausf C HMG vehcile in, so might well do that. So thanks for the inspiration.
