I actually went along and did some assembly and painting on the Type 166 Schwimmwagen. For now, just some pictures:
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Over 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

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On 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.

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Having 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

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I started the Brits from Tamiya already, like I wrote. Here are at least some images.

Frontside of the figures

Backside of the figures

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I 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

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… 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

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The pre-assembly of the model is finished, no it is waiting for a decent paint job.

Left side of the tank

front view

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You 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

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When 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

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