I actually went along and did some assembly and painting on the Type 166 Schwimmwagen. For now, just some pictures:
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The Type 166 … more assembly
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009Interior of a Schwimmwagen
Saturday, October 3rd, 2009Over the last couple of days since I was at home (more on the toilet or sleeping, but that’s a different story) I worked a bit on the Schwimmwagen interior … this is what I got
Typ 166 Schwimmwagen Interior 1
Typ 166 Schwimmwagen Interior 2
Tamiya Typ 166 “Schwimmwagen” in 1:35
Saturday, October 3rd, 2009On E-Bay I got this kit some time ago for about a third of it’s original price, completely unused. So I started building it.
The Schwimmwagen Type 128 was Ferdinand Porsche’s development based on the Type 82 “Kübelwagen”. It featured all wheel drive, a complete hull (!), a retractable propeller and was able to do 10km/h on water. Notable is, that the cars, although able to swim where rarely used in the water but where mainly used as ATVs.
Focke Wulf Fw 190 A-8
Thursday, September 10th, 2009Having received the colours (see previous post) I started building the FW190. The cockpit was straight forward and easy to build, as base colour I chose RLM “dark gray”. The Highlights where done with a flat white from Citadell Colours. I didn’t do a lot more here.
Body and Wings mockup
Body and Wings seperate
British infantry on Patrol … assembly started
Sunday, September 6th, 2009I started the Brits from Tamiya already, like I wrote. Here are at least some images.
Frontside of the figures
Backside of the figures
British infantry on Patrol … in 1:35
Sunday, September 6th, 2009I bought this Tamiya set while we where on a visit in Italy. And, since our neighbours had a long house-warming party I started assembling the figures. The kit consists of 2 bags. The first bag contains the figures themselves. The parts are grouped together by figure. That means no long search for parts. The second bag consists of 2 sprue of the same kind, the accessories. Cool, we will have some leftovers for the spare parts box.
The front of the box
The back serves also the instruction sheet
It’s undressing time …
Saturday, August 29th, 2009… for the King Cobra of Tamiya. The cockpit has been painted a Tamiya black (fitting, no?). The colour I got a while ago on the infamous flea market. together with it some fitting blue as well, but to late for the base colour.
Here you go with some pictures:
The black painted cockpit 1
The black painted cockpit 2
Waiting for paint: Sd.Kfz. 167 “Sturmgeschütz IV”
Sunday, August 23rd, 2009The pre-assembly of the model is finished, no it is waiting for a decent paint job.
Left side of the tank
front view
Sd.Kfz. 167 “Sturmgeschütz IV” in 1:72 by Trumpeter
Saturday, August 22nd, 2009You have seen the box art already in my previous post, here you’ll find just a little round up of the different part sprues. For ease of production it seems that Trumpeter is giving you more parts than needed, see for example the wheels. During the build you need 18 but 24 are supplied. Additionally you’ll find that there are a couple of parts defined as “unused parts” by Trumpeter already in the instructions.
All the parts together on one pile
The loose parts
New Aquisitions – Trumpeter Triplets in 1:72
Friday, August 21st, 2009When I saw the prices of these three 1:72 scale Trumpeter kits I just had to get them. That’s why I call them the “Trumpeter Triplets”. As first one I have a M2A2 Bradley Infantry Fighting Vehicle, then a Sd.Kfz. 182 “King Tiger” with Porsche Turret and a Sd.Kfz. 167 “Sturmgeschütz IV”
All 3 of the Trumpeter Triplets
M2A2 "Bradley" IFV