Those are really nice looking figures. What paint did you use for the skin, because I am working on some figures and the Tamiya stuff is not that good.

Thanks

Alex

Hellcat man wrote:

Those are really nice looking figures. What paint did you use for the skin, because I am working on some figures and the Tamiya stuff is not that good. Thanks Alex

Yeah, I used Tamiya paints for the figures in my German mortar team diorama and they sucked!


Thanks, Jim.

vallejo also has amazing figure oaints. they are really good.

I have heard good things about WalMarts paints.. Sadly, we don't have walmart here in Europe...   What is the manufacturer of the paints? And they are acrylic, right?   I'd kill to try them!

 

And about Tamiya, they aren't good for brushing, no... But I tell you, they're great for airbrushing ;)  That's what I use them for anyways!

For brushpainting, I use Vallejo or Citadel.

There are two different brands but they are the exact same thing, the are called apple barrel or folk art i believe, you should try them theyre just as good as vallejo and i thin them out and can airbrush them

Brian: How on earths name should I get to try them? I got to ask around some americans I know..  Not to worry, I'll get to try them   But could you check the exact name of both brands are, please?

 

Anthony, glad you like it all!!  My update is due a little later tonight... And hour or two

 

-Lasse 

here huxy, there is 21 different pages of colors, the company is i guess called Plaid

http://www.plaidonline.com/productSearchResults.asp?cat1ID=1&cat2ID=1&cat3ID=1

the colors i use for flesh are skin tone burnt umber tiger lilly and cranberry

Brian: Thanks for the link! That's just the paint I've heard so much about.. I will most ceratinly try to give them a try!!

Alex: The M12 is indeed a nice looking vehicle. One of my favorite US vehicles for sure!! And I'm still waiting for a closeup of that camera  

 

Well, here's my very first update! WOHOOO!!  

I spent two hours modelling outdoors. It was purely gorgeous!! First time I ever did that.

The kit is a multi-kit kit. Including a figure that comes in 17(!!!!!) parts. Quite alot, considering the two other figures are in 4 parts each.. It further includes a radio and a tent, and a Kübelwagen, with the worst winter road tyres you can ever imagine...

It's a rather new kit, moulded in 1997, decals printed in 1999 and box printed in 2005. It's a typcal Tamiya kit, being very well moulded, lots of details and not too many parts. Erwin Eugene Johannes Rommel is a little special, consisting of 17 parts. The two other figures are more typical Tamiya figure, 4 parts. It's actually way too little to satisfy me, but will work just fine!

First part was the chassis, or undercarriage, and I cleaned it (Some mouldline going along the edge) and inspected it. Found one ejector pinmark (A circular mark) that I guess will be noticable once completed. I filled and smoothed it as greatly as I could. The filler (putty) is the grey spot:


Here's three parts attached to the underside...


I'll explain. The front axle, and the rearaxle (plus gearbox) and a little cover that goes along the middle of the boyd and cover both axels, are all one part each:


And one very happy outdoor modeler. Photo taken of my dad, who is building a PAK 36 beside me:

 

I attached the steerwingwheel rod, pedals, hanbreak and similar.. Also the detailed engine walls. No engine is provided, however. I believe it is detailed because of the Kübelwagen Engine Set that is sold seperatley that you can buy from the same producer; Tamiya.
The Steeringwheel rod was a little bad. Or, I made it bad. When I was scraping the mouldlines away and removing some STUPIDLY placed ejector pinmark, I made some dents here and there on it. I smeared it with Putty, and sanded it nice and smooth again....

Here you got the sidepanels. Each sidepanel consists of two parts. The top panel is cleaned and assembled, bottom panel is neither:


Here you can see the bonnet, that already was assembled as shown in the other post, the rear panel and the two sidepanels. Those will make the frame of the kübelwagen Typ 82. The parts are all cleaned and ready to be assembled:


After quite some fiddling about with mounting one and one part onto the chassis, I discovered it was just as good and even easier to assemble them seperately.. So here you got the frame:


And the mounting went painlessly:


It's really awsome now, eh? I can't believe how great and awsome this kit is. I will most ceratinly make more of these!!

 

I did encounter some lining up errors, but just very, very, very minor ones. It's probably because I drytouch everything before I even touch the glue!  

 

Questions and comments are very appriciated!

Enjoy!

-Lasse 

 

 

looks good so far, hellcat man and huxy, may i make on suggestion hellcat man,  on the actual dio, you might want to have less open space or have something else to go in the space like open the engines deck on the panther and have some mechanics on there or just take the empty space off

Yea. That was just my rough. All the figures and German vehicles I am building will be going into this. Here is the story. The panther and some Maintenance workers are playing a game of cards while the tanks commanding officers are having there picture taken. At the same time some workers are moving stuff from the back of a truck which I still need to get on to the tank. Or its a workshop and they're rearming the Panther Here are some pics of the card players

 

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