Why did Troy wear a digger slouch hat?
Bill
She’s coming along well! [Y]
I think the rule was that anything able to be seen outside the vehicle was to be painted the exterior colour. Of course anything that SP stated overrides this.
LOL! Well, I don’t know if it was a rule written down, but finding white painted areas visible externally aside from markings is certainly an exception. [;)] It’s can be found here and there in period photos, but not at all commonly.
Well, maybe I shouldn’t say rule but I thought you, or Rob, or Gino, or somebody told me years ago that anything that could be seen outside the vehicle should be painted the exterior colour in a question I had about a M10 tank destroyer I was building.
Dunno now, my memory wasn’t that good to begin with and advancing age hasn’t helped it. [:(DD]
You and me both on that age & memory thing. [;)] But yes, with military vehicles it is a standard practice to paint them in such a manner. Pre WWII you will find some white inner hatch faces. But once the war started, that pretty much went away. And I’m sure that one of the three of us, plus good old Hans vonHammer probably said about that more than once.
so front glacis completed have moved the lights up, added the spare track boxes… started to look at stowage - does anyone have any recommendations for what can simulate the cable - in scale is it 1.5mm thick (with a link?) - the photo I am working form has it draped round the light but obviously not stiff like plastic…
next stop will be to start the side modifications (handles, tarp support brackets, wading armour
Nice work! I really like the added texture to the transmission cover.
I use picture hanging wire for a lot of tow cables. Just cut off the ends and drill out the links to get a better surface for cements to. Or just look at PanzerNoob’s thread for ideas.
Modeling is an art form and many people think to paint the pioneer tools with bare wooden handles make them look more realistic makes the kit look better. I seem to think it does, although I know it would be less realistic since they are over painted OD green.
But, to each their own. Items like tow cables, barrel cleaning rods, etc. tend to stay unpainted. Tow cables are a pain in the butt to deal with so would often be left on the vehicle as it was painted.
Some big items like 5 gallon cans might be removed before painting, but items like spare track blocks might be left in place. It all depends.
Maybe brush some white glue well-thinned with water over it?
15AWG (American Wire Gauge) is right at 1.4mm diameter, if you found braided wire in that size, you could cut it to length. The end eyes would probably want drilling out to fit the metal wire.
Those, to my eye, look like the ends of British tank tow cables. US ones. IIRC. were shorter, a cast eye and a conical, swaged socket.
Your model, your scenario, your pick.
There is a company, or two, that makes wire in-scale tow cables with resin tow loops. I once was sent a set for a German vehicle, and it was quite nice. I think I passed them on to a WW2 German armor builder.
Any way, that company was from Poland. I found a link to a set, but it’s out of stock here, not a lot of money, $5 less than a beer.
thanks all, got some pictire hanging wire which looks a good substitute…
4 hours see the first side done… happy how close to the photo it looks (well still need to add some bolts to the supports)…
She’s lookin’ good, nice work!
thanks…
ready for first round of paint (well primer to check how bad my sanding is)…
Again looks good, looks like you’ve got the biggest part of her together.
interior green done - AK Interactive OD modulation set… might get weathering done this afternoon…
Nice job with the modulation. The AK sets make it so easy!
sure does, do like the sets…
and now it is built… well mostly… need to add rear baskets (not sure if I should try to remake from mesh or just use the plastic with patterned mesh) sort stowage out for the frton, add rear fuel can racks on the rear fenders and consider rear stowage…
of course, some school boy errors have appeared (forgot the seats before I built the superstructure and had the spare track racks on the wrong way round - now removed…
started working on front and rear stowage… not sure if I need to add more to the rear, plus some boxes/fuel cans elsewhere… paper shaped with VMS PaperShaper…
Rob,
I also have a fondness for the Italeri kits. They can be very fun.
Bill