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.
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
Home Alone … and slotcars to restore
Tuesday, August 25th, 2009OK … my wife had to leave me … but only on family business. What else to do than to go on with one of my projects? Nothing!
So I started masking the cockpit area of the Tamiya kit. It will become flat black with the driver painted in traditional colours. But first there comes some masking … actually quite some of it:
Overall view of the masked cockpit ...
... from both sides.
The King Cobra – slowly getting there …
Wednesday, July 29th, 2009Last Weekend I actually managed to get forward with the painting of the Body. Currently I am quite satisfied with the metallic blue that the body has taken on now.
Metallic blue ... lots of it
And even more from the other side
Metallic blue … and still more sanding
Saturday, July 25th, 2009Is the colour that I have chosen for the King Cobra. The original box art of Tamiya shows the car in a colour scheme which brings it close to Carol Shelby (but we know already, that this was wrong). I found this metallic blue in my local supermarket when I was looking for some heat resistant colour for the Live Steam Locomotive I have and just picket it up.
The driver side ... and again sanded
The driver side, now from the front
Back to square one …
Sunday, February 22nd, 2009Ok … I’ll tell you what happened. After all this sanding, priming and filling a made a “fatal” error. I used the wrong paint for the finish. Have a look:
Faulty Paintjob
Faulty Paintjob Detail