Great job on the carrier!!!
The groundwork fits the carrier and the soldiers too!!!
Nice build on a cool base!!
Peter: Nice job … give us some more pix soon ! Interesting machine there, universal carrier . Never heard of that before . Got to get my allied chops going here sometime ![8D] But one side at a time for me ! Can’t wait to see that Panther .
Very nice Peter. Thanks for the pictures.
mark956
awsome job may be alittle more weathering after all the vehicles used in the afraca campeign were subjected to the elements all the time and wer’nt serviced as well.
Very nice Pet. Love the groundwork. Thanks for sharing!
Cheers
Rob
Thanks for the kind words people.
Hattals. It was painted in Humbrol Enamels but the weathering was done with so many shades that I couldn’t suggest what colours now. I think the base was mid stone and then lightened with a little yellow instead of white (white changes the colour not the shade) as a shade coat and for dry brushing. As to the camo net, the result is from a heavier wash in the crevasses, follwed by several lighter drybrush shades. Each dry brush session was started a little closer to the middle of the net and not touching the outer areas, giving a better 3d effect.
This is the old Tamiya kit (re-released since then as a European vehicle with some (slightly) better figures and decals). It was built OOB with just a bit of extra stowage added including the Boys (nice pick up Chris aka M1) from the old Italeri weapons kit. I really enjoyed building it back then. The vehicle is so small that I felt it needed a simple dio base to do it justice. I hope I achieved that.
Looking at it now, I cringe a little bit - The eyes on the figure (the kit figures had no definition to guide you), lack of sand deposit in the tracks, a little more wear around the hull and running gear (as suggested above), aerial andcabling for the radio, etc, just to name a few things. It’s funny how you pick up things you missed before.
I gave many of my completed kits away to nephews, etc when I stopped modelling for a while. I only kept a few that had a sentimental attachment like a M4A4 that I built when my wife was pregnant with my first born (now nearly 16), a Churchill Crocodile (the first allied vehicle I built), a Stug 4 with the first scratch built building ruin, etc. The M4A4 was never quite finished and is in my ‘to do’ box (I can post a few pics but you would have to turn a [X-)] eye to the rubber tracks that have come free of the track skids over the years, etc).
What the heck. I might post a few as a ‘see what should be improved/what not to do’ session for some newer modellers. Ha, ha.