Pz 1b - Befehlswagen - finished pics

Modeling Subjects Armor
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This is Italeri’s Kommando - Panzer1b (as they call it) It’s a Pz 1b Befehlswagen. It’s a command tank variation on a Pz 1b

It’s a rebox of a Zvezda kit. The kit went together pretty easily - no PE. The molding was good - no blobs and good detail.
It’s a small little thing - I put a figure in one picture to give some scale. It was kind of like doing a 1/72 only with bigger tools.

I pre-shaded in flat black, painted it like aircraft panels - (dark color outside with lighter colors moving toward the center. Started w/ Tamiya’s German gray, lightened it as I went.

I did do a wash w/ flat black and some artist oils to finish
Drybrush as usual




Was a nice little tank to do.
Jim

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Very nice Jim … you’ve done a great job on this little fella !!!

You’re finish is great, nice drybrushing, really picked the details out.

Just have one question … you state this is a rebox of a Zvezda kit. IIRC, Italeri is the original manufacturer of this kit and Zvezda sells reboxed kits of it.

Thanks for sharing.

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Really nice job Jim, thanks for sharing.

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Well done job on the little guy!

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Tis a cutie! Great job with it too!

Glenn

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Jim, nice work. I especially like the frozen German soldier next to the vehicle![:D][:D][;)]

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Outstanding work, truly a beautiful model! Rather an odd looking duck in real life though! Excellent job on the shading. Looks great!

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HOLY COW
I think that is the coolest little thing ever!

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Looks really good, Jim…!

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Look at that little thing, I thought it was 1/35 til’ that frozen soldier came up, a very good job on this one[tup]

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very nice, to small for my poor eye’s but you did it right:-)

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That is one A1 paint job [bow]

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Nice job …very well done ![8D]

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Excellent work Build22! Very impressive for a brail scale especially!

Eric

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Very nice little tank Jim. Thank you for posting the pictures.
mark956

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Jim,
i just want to be clear on this, because either i am confused, or some of the other folks are.
the tank is in 1/35 scale, and so is the soldier.
it’s just that the early German armor was not much bigger than an armored car or tankette, right?

i think when you said it was like 1/72, some of the gang thought it was 1/72.

in any case, outstanding work!
ed.

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Very nice weathering…excellent subject too…

Regards, Dan

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Yes it is 1/35,

Sorry for the confusion - I just said it was like building a 1/72

Sherm - thanks and thanks for clearing that up who’ s kit is made by who

Tigerman, Latch and 53Ryder - thanks it’ appreciated

Keyworth - yeah, he’s looking a little white - he’s also an acrobat - see how he balances that machine gun on his back without any means of support

Leopold - it does look odd - kinda looks like the pope-mobile when there is somebody sticking out of the hatch

http://www.panzerone.com/jpgcommand1.html

Thanks - Beav, DJ, beans, Miller, box1, spector, Erush, Mark, Wild William, and boybuddho. Alot of good modelers in there and your comments are appreciated.

Wildwilliam - thanks for trying to clear that up

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really nice job jim

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Excellent job, Jim. Very impressive weathering too. Looks like that infantryman figure is going along well, too. Thanks for sharing.